accurrent (u/accurrent)

accurrent commented on SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image apple.github.io/ml-sharp/... · Posted by u/dvrp

jijijijij · 4 days ago

I don't see any examples of a 3D scene information usable for simulation. If you want to simulate something hitting a table, you need the whole table (surface) in space, not just some spatial illusion effect extrapolated from an image of a table. I also think modelling the 3D objects for simulation is the least expensive part of an simulation... the simulation is the expensive thing.

I doubt this will be useful for robotics or industrial automation, where you need an actual spatial, or functional understanding of the object/environment.

accurrent · 4 days ago

With research like this you need to start somewhere. The fact we can get 3d information helps. There are people looking into making splats capture collision information [1].

I have worked on simulation and in my day job do a lot of simulation. While physics is oftem hard and expensive you only need to write the code once.

Assets? You need to comission 3d artists and then spend hours wrangling file formats. Its extremely tedious. If we could take a photo and extract meshes Im sure we'd have a much easier time.

[1] https://trianglesplatting.github.io/

accurrent commented on SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image apple.github.io/ml-sharp/... · Posted by u/dvrp

calvinmorrison · 4 days ago

I understand AI for reasoning, knowledge, etc. I haven't figured out how anyone wants to spend money for this visual and video stuff. It just seems like a bad idea.

accurrent · 4 days ago

Simulation. It takes a lot of effort today to bring up simulations in various fields. 3 D programming is very nontrivial and asset development is extremely expensive. If I have a workspace I can take a photo of and just use it to generate a 3d scene I can then use it in simulations to test ideas out. This is particularly useful in robotics and industrial automation already.

accurrent commented on Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break urlahmed.com/2025/11/05/w... · Posted by u/linkregister

GianFabien · a month ago

When you look beyond office jobs, you see many real opportunities.

For example, there is a housing crisis. Not enough trades persons, building supplies, capital to solve that problem.

The unemployment statistics aren't detailed enough to show IBM, MS, Facebook, Amazon, etc laying off tens of thousands of employees a year, each. Last I read, over 500,000 staff have been laid off in the past couple of years.

accurrent · a month ago

Im not American so can't comment on the US situation. However, where I live, CS grads are facing the same problem. However, switching to trades is not an option - the salaries of trade workers are not enough to pay for housing.

I've been working for 5 solid years now at my current company, Im still the youngest hire. While my company continues to compensate me really well, I think that the new grad situation is terrible.

accurrent commented on New lab-grown human embryo model produces blood cells cam.ac.uk/research/news/n... · Posted by u/gmays

frodo8sam · 2 months ago

Perfect blood doping.

Kind of sad that that's the first thing that comes to mind...

accurrent · 2 months ago

I find it ironic that thats the first thing that comes to mind. I know people with rare blood groups, I think this could be huge for them.

accurrent commented on It's just a virus, the E.R. told him – days later, he was dead nytimes.com/2025/10/05/we... · Posted by u/wallflower

m00x · 2 months ago

There aren't enough spots in medical schools. I was a 4.1/4.3 GPA in Canada and I didn't get in med school. My sister got in with a 4.24/4.3 GPA (one single A, all A+).

Doctors in control regularly shut down any attempts at increasing this limit.

accurrent · 2 months ago

While true, it's also true that scaling medical school is not like a CS situation. My school quadrupled the number of CS seats to meet demands over 4 years. I can't see this happening with medical schools. My brother who is currently in a medical school regularly says how hard it is for the faculty to find teachers simply because there aren't enough. To add to it there are bottlenecks like not having enough cadavers.

Medical education is very hands on unlike engineering where we just throw people in the deep end at work. This is with good reason.

I'm absolutely for having more doctors and medical school seats but I think it's important to acknowledge that it maynot be as simple as increasing seats. There needs to be more fundamental reforms. That being said yes there are completely pricks of doctors who enter politics.

accurrent commented on It's just a virus, the E.R. told him – days later, he was dead nytimes.com/2025/10/05/we... · Posted by u/wallflower

deepsun · 2 months ago

Not "we all want", but especially doctors themselves want less competition (even when they say they are overworked).

There were multiple similar stories on that, e.g. "Thousands of doctors in South Korea took to the streets of Seoul on Sunday to protest the government's plans to increase medical school admissions." from 2024. Similar stories from Nepal and Bangladesh.

The most interesting part of that is that population typically sides with the doctors, not the government, for some reason.

accurrent · 2 months ago

My understanding is that in many countries the biggest blocker to increasing number of doctors is the fact that there aren't enough doctors to teach. Unlike CS where we can simply increase the number of seats in. A course with medical school there are real bottlenecks on things like cadavers and mentors.

accurrent commented on Queueing to publish in AI and CS damaru2.github.io/general... · Posted by u/damaru2

accurrent · 3 months ago

My general experience as a PhD student makes me feel that we probably should look at the system as a whole. I get the feeling most universities are abusing publications as a way of assessing their own students. It means people will tend to publish slop for the sake of publication instead of genuinely tackling hard problems. I personally have seen my university get away with forming defence committees with 0 knowledge of the field they're assessing. If the university can't assess its students work then they should not be teaching.

I think both conferences and journals are broken in this regard. It doesn't help that professors primary jobs these days is to be a social media influencer and attract funding. How the funding is used doesn't seem to matter or impact their careers. What we need is more accountability from senior researchers. They should be at the very least assessing their own students work before stamping their name on the work.

On the flip side it isn't untrue that there are major breakthroughs happening daily at this point in many fields. We just don't have the bandwidth to handle all the information overload.

accurrent commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

accurrent · 4 months ago

I knew this was coming thanks to the nincompoops bankers and IMDA together with horny uncles who fall for love/job scams here in Singapore. The reason I use android over iOS is that I can load apps for personal automation. I think the current scenario where bank apps refuse to run on phones with sideloaded apps is far more acceptable. Im not sure scammers will not find a way around this. I can still be able pin web apps.

FWIW I'd rather not use my phone for critical transactions its making authorities lazy. The number of times Ive had to fight thanks to "buggy" payment code that deducts money is not funny and banks are getting worse at customer support day by day.

Also what the fuck are the governments doing with tax payer money, instead of going after criminals, we go after citizens.

accurrent commented on Show HN: From Photos to Positions: Prototyping VLM-Based Indoor Maps arjo129.github.io/blog/5-... · Posted by u/accurrent

rohanrao123 · 5 months ago

Pretty cool! It reminded me of this work from NVIDIA Research - https://nvidia-ai-iot.github.io/remembr where they used VLMs and RAG on top of a real robot to navigate the Voyager campus in Santa Clara. You also might like the new OpenAI o3 models and how well they can play GeoGuessr ;)

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43835044, https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/testing-ais-geoguessr-geniu...

accurrent · 5 months ago

Yep I've seen the NVidia research stuff. It's pretty cool.