Mandelmus

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by Mandelmus 1y ago
Another leading monocular depth estimation model, Marigold [1] is also from ETH. [1] https://marigoldmonodepth.github.io/
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by Mandelmus 2y ago
The book "The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century" by Walter Scheidel makes a similar argument: > Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seri
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by Mandelmus 2y ago
Here is a thread of videos from my tests of the recent DIAMOND model: https://x.com/chrisoffner3d/status/1845436198254227590 I really wonder how much more stable Genie 2 is.
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by Mandelmus 2y ago
> Thriving companies like Arc and Linear build an entire aesthetic ecosystem that invites users and advocates to be part of their version of the world. Afaik Arc still has no revenue and no clear path to a business model, so I’m not sure
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by Mandelmus 2y ago
Clearly you haven’t read a lot of research papers in computer graphics, geometry processing, and shape analysis.
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by Mandelmus 2y ago
What I never understood is: why did browsers drop RSS support?
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by Mandelmus 2y ago
It's a beautiful language that's a joy to write. It's safe and ergonomic, and has an extremely powerful type system. I'd say those are good reasons to use Swift.
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by Mandelmus 2y ago
I had to look this up. I'm doing my master's in computer science at ETH Zurich, where it is ranked #5 globally according to THE [1], and I pay 804 CHF (874 USD) per semester, i.e. 1608 CHF (1,748 USD) per year. I just had to check
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by Mandelmus 2y ago
So, is CoreNet the equivalent of Keras, whereas MLX is the Jax/PyTorch equivalent?
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by Mandelmus 2y ago
What's the meaning of life though, and why is it love?
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by Mandelmus 2y ago
> My limited understanding is that Nerfs are compute-heavy because each cloud point is essentially a small neural network There's no point cloud in NeRFs. A NeRF scene is a continuous representation in a neural network, i.e. the sce
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by Mandelmus 2y ago
And it appears to be at ~80 GB of RAM via quantisation.
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by Mandelmus 3y ago
A big portion, maybe even a majority, of my fellow students uses an iPad.
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by Mandelmus 3y ago
Most of these self-help books are basically what happens if you take what could be a decent blog post and just blow up the word count until you can publish it as a book.
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by Mandelmus 3y ago
I was in open relationships in Berlin’s polyamorous community for nearly five years and I concur with everything you said.
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by Mandelmus 3y ago
The Machine Learning community is still overwhelmingly on X, which likely explains your experience. There are other communities, like that of Ape/iOS developers, that have moved to Mastodon, and for which the quality of conversation is
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by Mandelmus 3y ago
Please don’t paste chatGPT comments in here. If I wanted to ask chatGPT about this, I’d do it myself.
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by Mandelmus 3y ago
Same for me. I've been mostly vegan for over ten years now. I "downgrade" to only vegetarian when it really cannot be avoided – which, luckily, has been only when I've travelled to countries where there really weren&#x27
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by Mandelmus 3y ago
> On the other hand, a lot of people who claim animals have thoughts and emotions seem to think that cows have complicated human-level thoughts like "I am an oppressed cog; my owner will send me to the glue factory when I am too old
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by Mandelmus 3y ago
As a current compsci masters student at ETH Zurich: yes, having those explanations is wonderful, but that just means that topics like SVD and PCA are taken for granted now, and the things that we need to chew on are things for which no nice
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by Mandelmus 3y ago
Yes, using the LaTeX source code (or HTML, once that becomes reliable and widely used) should be much more robust than PDF parsing.
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by Mandelmus 3y ago
Can somebody who knows their stuff about voice synthesis explain to me why chatGPT sounds like it's speaking German with an American accent when I speak to it in German? It's really surprising how believably it sounds like a nativ
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by Mandelmus 3y ago
> Neither Paxton nor X argues that Media Matters was falsely claiming to see ads on pro-Nazi content. In fact, the suit confirms that the screenshots the organization posted are real. But it alleges the organization “manipulated” the ser
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by Mandelmus 3y ago
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1726594398098780570
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by Mandelmus 3y ago
> I do wish functional programming were more taught My first CS bachelor's semester in Germany in 2017 taught functional programming using Haskell (as well as C and NASM assembly in another course on computer architecture). OOP usin
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Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence(whitehouse.gov)
241 points by Mandelmus 3y ago|334 comments
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Chinese scientists claim record smashing quantum computing breakthrough(scmp.com)
1 points by Mandelmus 3y ago|0 comments
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by Mandelmus 3y ago
To be honest, as a German I have no idea where this increase in productivity is supposed to have occurred. My experience and intuition is that Germany is suffering from a rise in lethargy and inefficiency ("German efficiency" is a
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Probabilistic Machine Learning – An Introduction (Kevin P. Murphy, 2022)(mitpress.mit.edu)
1 points by Mandelmus 3y ago|0 comments
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Gsplat – 3D Gaussian Splatting WebGL viewer(gsplat.tech)
4 points by Mandelmus 3y ago|0 comments

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