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by dharma1 3y ago
that's a full Debevec style light stage but you can do this stuff with a couple of dSLRs and a home lighting setup with polarised light - kind of standard photogrammetry/hq texture/normal map generation techniques. You can se
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what's the score with Epic and Apple Vision btw? I saw Lumen and Nanite now work in UE 5.3 on M2 silicon but not sure if it will be possible to develop apps for Apple Vision with Unreal, they just mention Unity? edit: looks like Epic i
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latest consoles could, it's more about the software. Also easier if you have nothing else to render than a face. https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/metahuman looks pretty good, not many games are using UE5 yet
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cameras on the Quest enough to capture all the facial/eye positions to drive the rigged facial model? impressive. They should open up the Codec avatar creation - lots of people have the hardware and the time/expertise to create th
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by dharma1 3y ago
Could be made whole even? Hasn’t majority of the 8b lost by FTX been recovered by now - maybe this is enough to fill the remaining gap (on some timeframe)
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by dharma1 3y ago
You don’t need to see a doctor regularly with sublingual immunotherapy. It’s just a couple of drops or a tablet once a day for 5 mins. No side effects (it’s effectively microdosing the allergen to desensitise the body)
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by dharma1 3y ago
You might also want to consider immunotherapy - it’s quite effective for most and can offer long term desensitisation. Available both privately and via NHS (for severe pollen allergies) in the UK.
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by dharma1 3y ago
What are the current SOTA open source projects for bot detection?
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by dharma1 3y ago
Fermented/pickled foods can be quite salty (to control bad bacterial growth) but still healthy - but usually eaten in smaller doses as condiments
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by dharma1 3y ago
When anti-antivaccine demonstrations? In all seriousness, fantastic news. There is no cure for autoimmune diseases atm, although some promising research in disease modifying drugs like https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/
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by dharma1 3y ago
I'm surprised Apple is so married to Unity as the main creation tool for their Apple Vision / MR stuff
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We like open sauce
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I agree with you - but I have a feeling it will be done anyway by one state actor or another
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I read somewhere that fine water mist sprayed into the atmosphere may have the same reflective effect as sulphur from the shipping industry without the negatives. I’m fairly certain we will resort to this type of geo engineering soon - cutt
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by dharma1 3y ago
In Burma it’s known as (ohn no) kauk swe - means (coconut) noodles in Burmese. It might actually originally be a Shan word - but yes likely the dish originated from present day Myanmar. One of my favourite dishes!
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by dharma1 3y ago
that's another broken part of publishing revenue - many musicians (esp drummers) rarely get a cut of royalties unless they are put down as one of the writers
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Nice to wake up to a breakbeat thread on HN! I grew up making/listening to funk, hiphop and drum and bass. Crate digging for breaks in old record stores was fun - that was a thing that got started by hip hop DJs/producers state si
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Love trackers! A lot of my friends got their start in music in the mod scene - was a magical time of free original music making and sharing on BBSs/early internet. It’s amazing what people created with 4 channels and 8 bit samples on a
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by dharma1 3y ago
I can send you some example images of Foveon Merrill sensor if you want. The cameras are slow by today’s standards, but the images are delightfully detailed. Sigma is still working on a new full frame Foveon camera, I am waiting patiently.
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I have noticed it takes my body 12h+ to metabolise a single cup of coffee - if I haven’t had it for a while. This trait shows up in genetic tests https://www.23andme.com/en-gb/topics/wellness/caffeine-consu...
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Schmidhuber lab on fire again
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by dharma1 3y ago
The 13Fs are filed quarterly so there’s always a lag. AFAIK he spent 2% of the fund AUM on these so downside pretty capped, it’s an asymmetric bet on indices heading lower. Anyone know what strike price / expiration date on the puts?
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One of my favourite fruits. Now more widely available in Europe thanks to farmers starting to produce them in Southern Spain - you can find them in the UK at Asian food shops for ~£2 each. Just leave to ripen until soft, otherwise won’t be
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You can build your own and you don’t need 6 GPUs unless you’re training
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For inference? Mobile phones (unless you need it always on). Kind of works already with 7B weights, will keep getting better
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I test rode a folding Brompton e-bike in London and am tempted. I heard they are working on a version with slightly larger wheels which would be great, but no word on launch date - could be a while.
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maybe Tesla could finally do FSD with a bunch of rats neuralinked to the car
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Feels like this (and the drivers, as recently rediscovered by geohot) should be their #1 priority to be frank. Or should have been for the last few years but better late than never. The most bang for buck they could do to improve their comp
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Interesting, can you tell more? I’ve tried oral probiotics without much effect. Did notice a difference for a couple of days after taking antibiotics for a week for something else, but it quickly subsided (my regular micro biome probably qu
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I’ve been thinking about this recently - fluorapatite is stronger than hydroxyapatite when it bonds to enamel, and less soluble by acid. But fluoride doesn’t occur in any natural processes in the body - while hydroxyapatite is a perfect bio

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