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The render resolution is 4K, but the subjective image quality and sharpness is not quite up to what you would expect for 4K.
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The speed with which Luma transitioned their product from being NeRF-based to 3D-Gaussians-based following the release of the 3D Gaussian Splatting paper was really impressive in my opinion. It's one thing to implement a brand new rese
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You beat me to it, I was just about to post this here haha. It's fascinating to me that these models can take advantage of "scratch paper" this way!
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We're extremely proud to announce that ToasterDream has raised $323M in Series A funds, and we look forward to many years of exciting developments ahead. As the CEO I'd like to personally assure our loyal customers that taking th
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If you're interested in learning more about these incredible Turkish archaeological sites, I can't recommend the YouTube channel Miniminuteman [0] enough. Milo is extremely passionate about his field of study and makes highly ente
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Social and institutional inertia is a powerful , *powerful* thing. The longer something's been around, the longer it takes to change. But just because the status quo is the status quo doesn't mean it's the optimal solution!
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My productivity actually tends to scale negatively with the number of tasks on my to-do list :P. The more there is on it, the fewer items I'm likely to complete!
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I am a firm believer that I would get more work done with a 4-day workweek than I currently do with my 5-day workweek. I already spend an embarrassing amount of time slacking off daily, it's not like I'm pressed for time to get
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by mkaic 3y ago
I just completed a few AMD Threadripper-based builds at work and was pleasantly surprised to see that each CPU actually shipped with its own torque-screwdriver tuned to the specific torque needed to install the chip.
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The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific [video](youtube.com)
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I think a very large majority of people would have deemed it unthinkable 100 years ago.
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An Intro to EchoCLIP, a Multimodal Foundation Model for Echocardiography(intentionalintelligence.substack.com)
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(OP) Hey HN. I just finished a big research project at my job and got to write a paper about it. However, I felt frustrated with how academic and stuffy and jargony the paper ended up sounding, so I also wrote this more approachable blog-po
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I would argue that the moon, Venus, Mars, Titan, Enceladus, and others are quite interesting :P But I see what you're saying. Excluding our own solar system, yes, chemical rockets are super limited :)
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One of the features discussed in the keynote for this new app's announcement is that they are adding iCloud syncing as an option, and that all relevant new features coming to Procreate Dreams will also be added to Procreate. To me that
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I bought my iPad Air for the same reason haha! If Dreams turns out to be as good as I'm hoping it will be, I may even end up upgrading to an M2 iPad Pro — though I'd have to really get obsessed with Dreams first for that to happen
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Yeah it's a stupidly good deal from the looks of it. It's very cool of them to resist the industry trend of trying to squeeze recurring revenue out of every product!
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As a loyal and long-time user of the original Procreate app (I bought my iPad basically exclusively to use it), and someone who's been interested in animation for a long time but too intimidated by the software to ever really get into
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This paper mentions Plenoxels in the introduction and beats it.
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I'm a strong opponent of just how large Large Language Models have become. Yeah, they can do some cool stuff, but I really, really think >100B parameters is a rather silly number. In my opinion, the way you organize and train
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Humans are also extensively pretrained by billions of years of evolution, so by starting from scratch GPT is admittedly disadvantaged from the get-go.
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Not endorsing that theory, just offering my best guess at what the person probably meant when they used "Efficient Market Theory" in their comment, based on the context.
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My impression was that they used "Efficient Market Hypothesis" to mean "the theory that free-market competition rapidly drives down prices and breaks up monopolies on its own".
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I'll be seeing him live next month at the Hollywood Bowl and I'm extremely excited. Can't wait to participate in the audience choir at the end of the show.
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Well, assuming spherical cows, I'd guess it's just one :P
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This was my experience as well. I went in fall of last year for four days to attend Blender (the 3D modeling software) Conference, and it was simply delightful. I walked to and from the conference center every day, took the metro a few time
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by mkaic 3y ago
The official blog post from Stability is finally up and would probably be a better URL to link to than the TechCrunch coverage: https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-sdxl-1-announceme...
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Luckily, we have a gigantic fusion reactor in the sky that's not set to be decommissioned any time in the next billion years and which outputs orders of magnitude more energy than is needed by our civilization. Otherwise, we'd be
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I come back to Calvin and Hobbes regularly as an adult and every time I do I'm reminded just how delightful Watterson's work is. Truly a one-of-a-kind comic strip.
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I got diagnosed a year ago after not knowing I had it my whole life, and I can definitely confirm this. I take Adderall, and the way I describe it to people is that while it definitely helps me focus , it doesn't make it any easier fo

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