pleurotus (u/pleurotus)

pleurotus commented on Justifying Text-Wrap: Pretty matklad.github.io/2026/02... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

onion2k · 19 days ago

Are hypens no longer acceptable?

Hyphenation will probably lead to people thinking the content is generated by AI, which would be a significant downside for most websites. Users want to believe the site creator put effort in (regardless of whether they did or even if it's appropriate to have done.)

pleurotus · 19 days ago

They're not referring to the m-dash that LLMs are known for, but hyphenation in the middle of a word to split the word over two lines.

The article shows it in the example screenshots, but does not explicitly mention it or how it interacts with the different options discussed

pleurotus commented on I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? mastodon.world/@knowmadd/... · Posted by u/novemp

steveBK123 · a month ago

Or sama is just waiting to premium subscription gate companions in some adult content package as he has hinted something along these lines may be forthcoming. Maybe tie it in with the hardware device Ive is working on. Some sort of hellscape tamogotchi.

Recall: "As part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults," Altman wrote in the Oct.

pleurotus · a month ago

I'm struggling a bit when it comes to wording this with social decorum, but how long do we reckon it takes until there's AI powered adult toys? There's a market opportunity that i do not want to see being fulfilled, ever..

pleurotus commented on Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe wero-wallet.eu... · Posted by u/tilt

pleurotus · a month ago

I think it's important to note—which isn't mentioned on their website at all, stupidly enough—that wero has two parts. The p2p payment, that you can see in the parent article. And the e-commerce functionality, which is based on the dutch iDeal. See https://sowieso.wero-wallet.eu/nl-en/

Kinda odd that their marketing does nothing to clarify this...

pleurotus commented on Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video radiancefields.com/a-ap-r... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect

tel · 2 months ago

Gaussian splatting is a way to record 3-dimensional video. You capture a scene from many angles simultaneously and then combine all of those into a single representation. Ideally, that representation is good enough that you can then, post-production, simulate camera angles you didn't originally record.

For example, the camera orbits around the performers in this music video are difficult to imagine in real space. Even if you could pull it off using robotic motion control arms, it would require that the entire choreography is fixed in place before filming. This video clearly takes advantage of being able to direct whatever camera motion the artist wanted in the 3d virtual space of the final composed scene.

To do this, the representation needs to estimate the radiance field, i.e. the amount and color of light visible at every point in your 3d volume, viewed from every angle. It's not possible to do this at high resolution by breaking that space up into voxels, those scale badly, O(n^3). You could attempt to guess at some mesh geometry and paint textures on to it compatible with the camera views, but that's difficult to automate.

Gaussian splatting estimates these radiance fields by assuming that the radiance is build from millions of fuzzy, colored balls positioned, stretched, and rotated in space. These are the Gaussian splats.

Once you have that representation, constructing a novel camera angle is as simple as positioning and angling your virtual camera and then recording the colors and positions of all the splats that are visible.

It turns out that this approach is pretty amenable to techniques similar to modern deep learning. You basically train the positions/shapes/rotations of the splats via gradient descent. It's mostly been explored in research labs but lately production-oriented tools have been built for popular 3d motion graphics tools like Houdini, making it more available.

pleurotus · 2 months ago

Thanks for the explanation! It makes a lot of sense that voxels would scale as badly as they do, especially if you want to increase resolution. Am I right in assuming that the reason this scales a lot better is because the Gaussian splats, once there's enough "resolution" of them, can provide the estimates for how light works reasonably well at most distances? What I'm getting at is, if I can see Gaussian splats vs voxels similarly to pixels vs vector graphics in images?

pleurotus commented on Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video radiancefields.com/a-ap-r... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect

meindnoch · 2 months ago

1. Create a point cloud from a scene (either via lidar, or via photogrammetry from multiple images)

2. Replace each point of the point cloud with a fuzzy ellipsoid, that has a bunch of parameters for its position + size + orientation + view-dependent color (via spherical harmonics up to some low order)

3. If you render these ellipsoids using a differentiable renderer, then you can subtract the resulting image from the ground truth (i.e. your original photos), and calculate the partial derivatives of the error with respect to each of the millions of ellipsoid parameters that you fed into the renderer.

4. Now you can run gradient descent using the differentiable renderer, which makes your fuzzy ellipsoids converge to something closely reproducing the ground truth images (from multiple angles).

5. Since the ellipsoids started at the 3D point cloud's positions, the 3D structure of the scene will likely be preserved during gradient descent, thus the resulting scene will support novel camera angles with plausible-looking results.

pleurotus · 2 months ago

Thanks for the explanation!

pleurotus commented on Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video radiancefields.com/a-ap-r... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect

pleurotus · 2 months ago

Super cool to read but can someone eli5 what Gaussian splatting is (and/or radiance fields?) specifically to how the article talks about it finally being "mature enough"? What's changed that this is now possible?

pleurotus commented on Scaling long-running autonomous coding cursor.com/blog/scaling-a... · Posted by u/samwillis

qingcharles · 2 months ago

The one nice thing about web browsers is that they have a reasonably formalized specification set and a huge array of tests that can be used. So this makes them a fairly unique proposition ideally suited to AI construction.

pleurotus · 2 months ago

As far as I read on Ladybird's blog updates, the issue is less the formalised specs, and more that other browsers break the specs, so websites adjust, so you need to take the non-compliance to specs into account with your design

pleurotus commented on Claude Cowork exfiltrates files promptarmor.com/resources... · Posted by u/takira

Davidzheng · 2 months ago

I'm being kind of stupid but why does the prompt injection need to POST to anthropic servers at all, does claude cowork have some protections against POST to arbitrary domain but allow POST to anthropic with arbitrary user or something?

pleurotus · 2 months ago

Yeah they mention it in the article, most network connections are restricted. But not connections to anthropic. To spell out the obvious—because Claude needs to talk to its own servers. But here they show you can get it to talk to its own servers, but put some documents in another user's account, using the different API key. All in a way that you, as an end user, wouldn't really see while it's happening.

pleurotus commented on A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green." theguardian.com/science/2... · Posted by u/ColinWright

copypasterepeat · a year ago

Agreed.

Not to mention that a liar doesn't necessarily have to mean someone who tells a falsehood in every single statement. It could just mean someone who frequently tells falsehoods. Or, more deviously, someone who wants to cause maximum uncertainty in his listeners, in which case some mix of true and false statements would probably be the way to go.

pleurotus · a year ago

> Not to mention that a liar doesn't necessarily have to mean someone who tells a falsehood in every single statement.

FTA: >Note: this question was originally set in a maths exam, so the answer assumes some basic assumptions about formal logic. A liar is someone who only says false statements.

I think it's pretty clear how on definitions