"built-in" to what?
I mean the PDF reader that is contained in Zotero. Am I using the wrong terminology?
Readit Newsflor1s commented on 3D Gaussian Splatting as Markov Chain Monte Carlo ubc-vision.github.io/3dgs... · Posted by u/smusamashah
flor1s commented on 3D Gaussian Splatting as Markov Chain Monte Carlo ubc-vision.github.io/3dgs... · Posted by u/smusamashah
Yeah, scientific papers are a pain to read. Some have a Latex extension which links you to the paper down in the references but it's not bidirectional - you have to scroll back to your previous position.
Some PDF readers have a Back button (like the built-in Zotero PDF reader).
flor1s commented on Trilinear point splatting for real-time radiance field rendering lfranke.github.io/trips/... · Posted by u/mkaic
I personally think it's a distraction that we're using so many real-world sources as the source data. But arbitrarily detailed synthetic data, e.g. Nanite, Fractals, etc. can provide much more interesting spaces. I'm kind of surprise that nobody isn't just using examples of Mandelbulbs or whatever as standard data sets for these techniques.
On the whole though, this is really interesting and definitely is an improvement over the much older splat techniques.
Well, some people are trying https://hirokatsukataoka16.github.io/Pretraining-without-Nat...
flor1s commented on Trilinear point splatting for real-time radiance field rendering lfranke.github.io/trips/... · Posted by u/mkaic
Could someone explain what splatting is suitable for? I see lots of recreations of photographs. Is this some a kind of compression technique, or is there some other usage?
Novel view synthesis, so based on some images of a scene, rendering views from positions and angles that were not originally recorded. 3D Gaussian Splatting, besides beating the state-of-the-art in terms of visual quality at its time of release, also has some nice physical properties like having the splats associated with actual points in 3D (obtained through feature extraction).
Can someone with expertise explain why this is so difficult?
As an outsider with no knowledge of robotics, I've always been surprised that manipulation tasks (or just smooth robotic movement) are so challenging and seem to progress so slowly, especially when compared to IT.
I think these days we can quite reliably train robots to do single tasks from a few demonstrations. The problem is that "quite reliably" simply is not good enough for the real world. Also a "low-cost" system as presented in this work is still 32k (ignoring hardware and software integration costs).
flor1s commented on CAS 761: Generative Programming (Winter 2024) cas.mcmaster.ca/~carette/... · Posted by u/azhenley
This isn't a course about generative AI if that's what you're getting at.
Mentioning this because I did assume that from the title.
I guess generative AI using copilot or ChatGPT might overtake model-driven engineering as a time-saving technique, which seems worrisome for the "software factory" industry. At the same time, I doubt it will replace MDE as a formal method (i.e. if you need to prove that your software does what it is supposed to do).
flor1s commented on 50 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know (Second Edition) oreilly.com/library/view/... · Posted by u/teleforce
Again. Packt publication books are rarely good. Nothing against the author. But I have been time and again disappointed with their content quality. They go for quantity of books over even the basic quality.
It's weird how mixed quality their books are, and how many overlapping books they have. From Packt I like Sebastian Raschka's books on Python Machine Learning. Other than that from time to time they do have some good "recipes", but hardly any of their books seems worth reading cover to cover.
flor1s commented on ReconFusion: 3D Reconstruction with Diffusion Priors reconfusion.github.io/... · Posted by u/GaggiX
Personally I don't think NeRFs are an elegant way of representing scenes, I'd prefer something more structured than a blob of weights. But maybe it's still a good intermediary to go from images to the final form, I'm far from an expert.
Weights are just numbers, essentially by using a neural network you are telling the system to "find the best way to represent the scene with a budget of X numbers/parameters". Modern NeRFs like instant-ngp also use some grid representations. I guess Gaussian Splatting is slightly more geometrically appealing because you get points around the surfaces that you are trying to model. These points are however not guaranteed to be exactly on the surface, which additional surface losses try to solve (e.g. NeuSG).
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flor1s commented on Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero github.com/windingwind/zo... · Posted by u/mickelsen
Obsidian has replaced all (work, home, mobile) note taking solutions everywhere for me. The last want from my side is removing the friction related to editing markdown tables (e.g. multi-line content in cells) - Obsidian has some plugins that makes things better but it is miles behind what, say, confluence wiki offers for tables.
When tables get too complex (e.g. generated columns using dataview) I switch to embedding subnotes using the ![[]] syntax and "clean embeds" CSS [1].