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Traubenfuchs commented on SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image   apple.github.io/ml-sharp/... · Posted by u/dvrp
drcongo · a day ago
I miss those. Anyone know if it's still possible to get the models etc. needed to generate them?
Traubenfuchs commented on SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image   apple.github.io/ml-sharp/... · Posted by u/dvrp
derleyici · a day ago
Apple's Spatial Scene in the Photos app shows similar behavior, turning a single photo into a small 3D scene that you can view by tilting the phone. Demo here: https://files.catbox.moe/93w7rw.mov
Traubenfuchs · a day ago
It‘s awful and often creates a blurry mess in the imaginated space behind the object.

Photoshop content aware fill could do equally or better many years ago.

Traubenfuchs commented on SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image   apple.github.io/ml-sharp/... · Posted by u/dvrp
superfish · a day ago
"Unsplash > Gen3C > The fly video" is nightmare fuel. View at your own risk: https://apple.github.io/ml-sharp/video_selections/Unsplash/g...
Traubenfuchs · a day ago
Early AI „everything turns into dog heads“ vibes. Beautiful.
Traubenfuchs commented on Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres   andyatkinson.com/avoid-uu... · Posted by u/pil0u
vintermann · 2 days ago
A prime example of premature optimization.

Permanent identifiers should not carry data. This is like the cardinal sin of data management. You always run into situations where the thing you thought, "surely this never changes, so it's safe to squeeze into the ID to save a lookup". Then people suddenly find out they have a new gender identity, and they need a last final digit in their ID numbers too.

Even if nothing changes, you can run into trouble. Norwegian PNs have your birth date (in DDMMYY format) as the first six digits. Surely that doesn't change, right? Well, wrong, since although the date doesn't change, your knowledge of it might. Immigrants who didn't know their exact date of birth got assigned 1. Jan by default... And then people with actual birthdays on 1 Jan got told, "sorry, you can't have that as birth date, we've run out of numbers in that series!"

Librarians in the analog age can be forgiven for cramming data into their identifiers, to save a lookup. When the lookup is in a physical card catalog, that's somewhat understandable (although you bet they could run into trouble over it too). But when you have a powerful database at your fingertips, use it! Don't make decisions you will regret just to shave off a couple of milliseconds!

Traubenfuchs · 2 days ago
> Norwegian PNs have your birth date

Same with Austrian social security numbers, which, in somes cases, don't contain the persons birth date and in some cases don't contain any existing date at all.

Yet many websites enforce a valid date and pull the persons birthdate from it...

Traubenfuchs commented on How well do you know C++ auto type deduction?   volatileint.dev/posts/aut... · Posted by u/volatileint
flakes · 2 days ago
Auto has really made c++ unapproachable to me. It's hard enough to reason about anything templated, and now I frequently see code where every method returns auto. How is any one supposed to do a code review without loading the patch into their IDE?
Traubenfuchs · 2 days ago
Same in Java and Kotlin, but then again, the majority of people who write code wouldn't understand what I mean when I say "whether a collection is returned as List or Set is an important part of the API 'contract'".
Traubenfuchs commented on Rats Play DOOM   ratsplaydoom.com/... · Posted by u/ano-ther
chickenhun · 5 days ago
Good news: Here's a cute video of Todd being habituated to the setup: https://x.com/yolorun_capital/status/1999598643339227564

Bad news: no video of them playing on this setup, just on the previous version. We iterated on v2 too long, our pet rats grew old and couldn't be trained. We open-sourced the hardware and software so others can build upon it. You can TLDR the whole thing in this thread: https://x.com/yolorun_capital/status/1996632980903620886?s=2...

...Also, here's my personal X, dm me if you have any questions, or would want to build it for a lab or for yourself: https://x.com/viktor_thoth

Traubenfuchs · 4 days ago
How can you go through this immense effort and not have and show a video of the rats playing?
Traubenfuchs commented on Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz   forever-wars.com/torture-... · Posted by u/perihelions
4gotunameagain · 8 days ago
What does the orange-utan has to do with this ?

The free rein of the CIA and associated atrocities have been the same under every US president.

Traubenfuchs · 8 days ago
> What does the orange-utan has to do with this ?

Alligator Alcatraz is a Trump original.

> The free rein of the CIA and associated atrocities have been the same under every US president.

You are absolutely right, but not always is this kind of stuff that directly supported by the president.

Traubenfuchs commented on Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz   forever-wars.com/torture-... · Posted by u/perihelions
Traubenfuchs · 8 days ago
>45% of voters would vote for Trump again, today.
Traubenfuchs commented on Berkshire Hathaway Announces Leadership Appointments [pdf]   berkshirehathaway.com/new... · Posted by u/kamaraju
Traubenfuchs · 9 days ago
After a lackluster year the market did NOT like this move at all.
Traubenfuchs commented on The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks   steerlabs.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/steer_dev
keiferski · 9 days ago
The thing that bothers me the most about LLMs is how they never seem to understand "the flow" of an actual conversation between humans. When I ask a person something, I expect them to give me a short reply which includes another question/asks for details/clarification. A conversation is thus an ongoing "dance" where the questioner and answerer gradually arrive to the same shared meaning.

LLMs don't do this. Instead, every question is immediately responded to with extreme confidence with a paragraph or more of text. I know you can minimize this by configuring the settings on your account, but to me it just highlights how it's not operating in a way remotely similar to the human-human one I mentioned above. I constantly find myself saying, "No, I meant [concept] in this way, not that way," and then getting annoyed at the robot because it's masquerading as a human.

Traubenfuchs · 9 days ago
> When I ask a person something, I expect them to give me a short reply which includes another question/asks for details/clarification. A conversation is thus an ongoing "dance" where the questioner and answerer gradually arrive to the same shared meaning.

You obviously never wasted countless hours trying to talk to other people on online dating apps.

u/Traubenfuchs

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