riotnrrd

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by riotnrrd 3y ago
CVPR submissions were two weeks ago.
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
This is what we did at ILM, with our in-house software package Zeno. The lowest level of complete functionality was the "Sg" namespace (short for Scene Graph). Above that lived user-and-SDK-friendly commandline utilities layer (S
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
I love this game so much. First of all, it's kind of technologically astounding. You can get in your spaceship and take off from a planet and fly to another one and land, all without any loading screens. The planets themselves are sc
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
Not true. According to an article on Rock Paper Shotgun ( https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/stop-blaming-teeth-for-citi... ) the developers "have put out a statement denying this "bizarre story." "Citizen l
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
Micro-Max ( https://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/max-src2.html ) is a chess engine written in C (2000 characters!) and has an ELO of about 1900 and plays only legal moves.
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
If you're curious, you can read the relevant laws yourself. I suggest you start with the STOCK act of 2012 (S. 2038, 126 Stat. 291, enacted April 4, 2012). This law prohibits the use of non-public information for private profit, includ
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
I work as a researcher (ML for robotics) inside a product company so I can speak to this a little. The research I work on generally takes a year between conception and publication (three months of tinkering, six months of refinement and be
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
> one thing about the generative models is that you could in theory get the model to recite copyrighted work, word by word. Only if it's so badly trained as to be considered broken. It's not fair or smart to judge an entire m
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
My main confusion was with the claim that one person did an entire "opening sequence" of a major film. That's simply not possible. It's like claiming a skyscraper was built by one guy.
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
> by someone that had done the opening sequence for a major film I used to work in VFX (tools programming) and this makes no sense. Major films have VFX crews that number in the hundreds; nobody does anything on their own. Even if they
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
Although the simplicity is appealing, this theory isn't supported by the evidence. Read the 'Chemical Hunger' series at that site, starting here: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemi
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
I worked on tools for artists and you're totally right. The fast iteration was so great; it felt more like good ol' fashioned stay-up-all-night hacking for the joy of it than anything else I've ever done professionally.
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
I worked in VFX for almost ten years. It's incredibly fun! I absolutely loved making movies and I worked with some amazing artists. It pays terribly, but it was the most fun I've ever had in a job.
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
No. The VFX industry in the US is not unionized.
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
> To be fair, it's already been torpedoed due to GDPR Not really. I'm a deep learning researcher and my work has to be palatable to the GDPR. You can remove personally identifying information from training datasets with some ef
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
I mostly have experience with Instant NGP, and it should work on older consumer NVIDIA cards. Their github page calls out Pascal cards as working, for example. 6 GB isn't much memory, though, so you may be limited in final resolution
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
Reinforcement learning with a dynamic world model. It's a pretty standard approach to training agents, although there are a lot of problems with this technique as well. People have used it to create agents for Minecraft, racing games,
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
It's not an issue of "alignment." The reward function was poorly written. That's it. It's like claiming the Ariane 5 explosion shows that FORTRAN needs "alignment."
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
Yeah, the Frugal Man's Bullet-time is a DSLR, Instant NGP from NVIDIA, and COLMAP.
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
Shutterstock and Getty are both well positioned to sell pre-trained (on their own data, natch) generative models to customers, who can then fine-tune with their own datasets. I think the market for "pretrained models with guaranteed no
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
It's not related. The Florida move was to be Imagineering; these layoffs do not touch that group.
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
This paper is very good and the results are quite impressive. It's especially good news for smaller labs and hobbyists, as these small language models take significantly fewer resources to train. To quote the paper: "the training
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
The neural network inference (and training) is all done in compiled C libraries called by Python. The inefficiencies you're seeing are because you're doing it on a CPU, probably in one thread, rather than on a GPU with tens of tho
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
Not the OP, but the podcast opens with a pull-quote of sorts (spoken by the host) about how LLMs, for the first time, allow people to program via natural language. This is an exaggeration, but not much of one. I've generated usable Py
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
They are licensed: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/shutterstock-teams-with-n...
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by riotnrrd 4y ago
I've been trying to figure out what system this is or, if it's a homebrew hack, what it's based off. Not Call of Cthulu, as they note in the article. Not GURPS (wrong type of stats and 'Faith' isn't a GURPS sta
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by riotnrrd 4y ago
I'm a deep learning researcher so I can speak to this a little. Until roughly 2010 neural networks were barely used and broadly considered to be less efficient and less accurate than rival techniques (decision trees, support vector mac
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by riotnrrd 4y ago
Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) is a technique to create models of complex 3d geometry from a set of photo/camera pose pairs. The way it usually works is that the 3d geometry you're interested in (a car, a tree, etc.) exists withi
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by riotnrrd 4y ago
Not to get into the unrelated weeds here, I think it's the specificity. We say "nuked" but not "Hiroshima'd."
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by riotnrrd 4y ago
Oh, please. This is such a dismissive, bad faith statement it should be deleted. Nobody at the NYT "loathes" the "average" American. They do not get sexually aroused when reporting tragedy. Be a better person.

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