Flow-matching, the technique they describe is incredibly interesting. I studied it in the context of generative AI and found it fascinating. It’s so fitting that a technique that borrows from thermodynamics and uses Brownian motion would go full circle to solve for protein folding.
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Question related to 3D mesh models in general: has any significant work been done on models oriented towards photogrammetry?
Case in point, I have a series of photos (48) that capture a small statue. The photos are high quality, the object was on a rotating platform. Lighting is consistent. The background is solid black.
These normally are ideal variables for photogrammetry but none of the various common applications and websites do a very good job creating a mesh out of it that isn't super low poly and/or full of holes.
I've been casually scanning huggingface for relevant models to try out but haven't really found anything.
I’m not an expert, only dabbled in photogrammetry, but it seems to me that the crux of that problem is identifying common pixels across images in order to sort of triangulate a point in the 3D space. It doesn’t sound like something an LLM would be good at.
tzumby commented on Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets inferable.ai/blog/posts/p... · Posted by u/lunarcave
Articles like this make me happy to use Phoenix and LiveView every day. My app uses WebSockets and I don’t think about them at all.
I came here to say exactly this! Elixir and OTP (and by extension LiveView) are such a good match for the problem described in the post.
tzumby commented on New Strategy Could Lead to Universal, Long-Lasting Flu Shot today.duke.edu/2024/05/ne... · Posted by u/gumby
Using gene-editing, they created more than 80,000 variations of the hemagglutinin protein with changes in one portion right on the top of the head domain and then tested a vaccine filled with a mixture of these variations on mice and ferrets.
It seems this "new strategy" is basically the brute-force approach.
Maybe a decade or two ago I would've been more optimistic, but it's very much in their economic interests to not have long-lasting immunity.
Brute force is exactly how our immune system works.
tzumby commented on New Strategy Could Lead to Universal, Long-Lasting Flu Shot today.duke.edu/2024/05/ne... · Posted by u/gumby
Maybe im a cynic but queue winter 2024-25 and the bird flue pandemic. Luckily we have this new experimental vaccine.
Crossing my fingers im just a cynic and that im wrong.
I think the word you’re looking for is paranoid, not cynic. And yes, you probably are paranoid
tzumby commented on Justice Department to file antitrust suit against Live Nation wsj.com/business/media/li... · Posted by u/winstonprivacy
Cory Doctorow put this all into perspective so well in a podcast I listen to a while back https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/bonus-cory-doctorow-knows...
This is a very interesting initiative, and fills me with hope. Not only better temperatures, but even better air (PM2.5 levels reduced!)
But I do wonder, what about insects? Are there more insects because there are more places for them to live?
I just checked and the pm2 levels are as bad as they were when I visited pre Covid (50 μg/m^3). I was there for 3 months, in El Poblado neighborhood and the air quality was horrendous, I would never go back. The depression in which the city lays also keeps all the pollution in place for longer.
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Congrats on the lunch Dan and Ustin!
tzumby commented on Show HN: Prototype for ETH Signing for endorsing Wikipedia updates loom.com/share/42e8a049fa... · Posted by u/xinbenlv
This is fake, right? Why would Wikidata touch this with a ten-foot pole?
There is a lot of paid promotion on Wikipedia and highly-motivated vandalism. Just because someone has reserves of ETH, they get to say what a valid edit is? It seems altogether antithetical to the free-knowledge open-source ethic of the WMF.
It is one thing to propose this as an extension for MediaWiki that some rando running a website may use. It's entirely another thing to mock this up as if it's part of Wikidata's own interface.
EDIT: Headline says "Wikipedia" but screenshots are allegedly "Wikidata" which is really different.
This has nothing to do with how much ETH one has. Metamask is a PKI keystone, you’re just signing something using your public key.