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by joewhatkins 3y ago
I don't think it rigs the models - I think that video is comprised of models generated by Stable Zero123 that were then rigged/animated/postprocessed in Blender.
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by joewhatkins 3y ago
When I had it block the Twitter mobile app, it also blocked twitter.com - I assume the same thing will happen if you block Facebook. The founders have mentioned they're adding support for blocking specific websites soon.
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by joewhatkins 3y ago
The nag/friction that happens every time I try to open the app when I'm under buddget on this has cut down my doomscrolling so much. Really a fan of this approach - Twitter usage is down probably 95%. General stoke on this is real
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by joewhatkins 4y ago
It’s accurate. Google was started out of her parent’s garage, and she became involved around then.
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by joewhatkins 4y ago
Just adding my two cents here - I bought a quest pro hoping to use it as a monitor replacement while traveling for a couple of months. I found it pretty much unworkable after trying to make it work across multiple different virtual desktop
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by joewhatkins 4y ago
We got this working in Three.js - it works great for painting scenery and backgrounds.
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by joewhatkins 4y ago
From my understanding the model in the linked video only stylizes existing meshes from text. There’s plenty of papers that have tried text -> 3D model generation using photogrammetric-esque methods similar to what the parent comment sugg
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by joewhatkins 4y ago
It's very possible they are doing something with them, just not the sort of thing OpenAI is doing. Google could have a model just as capable as Whisper running in their Google Cloud or Assistant transcription service - but they might h
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by joewhatkins 4y ago
Google has models that are at parity with or outperform OpenAIs models at most tasks, they just don’t bring them to market quickly or build their brand around them as strongly as OpenAI does. See Imagen for example - https://imag
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by joewhatkins 4y ago
The common refrain in 2015 was that we were < 5 years away from having self-driving cars operating at scale without the need for a safety driver in most major cities in the US. At this point we have a public robotaxi service in one subur
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by joewhatkins 4y ago
Yeah, I know, I worked at Waymo. My point wasn’t that these systems will never work in some capacity - my point is that they’re taking a lot longer to roll out than people predicted, and that the internals of these systems aren’t end-to-end
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by joewhatkins 4y ago
I’m a little skeptical - at least of the view that we’re a few years away from all animation jobs being dead and ML models producing entire movies or TV episodes e2e from text prompts. What’s likelier is that ML-based tooling becomes a key
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by joewhatkins 4y ago
This is just an off the shelf img2depth model run on top of stable diffusion - I don’t think there’s a novel model or research behind this. People have been doing the same thing in colab for a while.
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by joewhatkins 4y ago
I think this is just created by running a depth prediction model on the output of stable diffusion and then inserting the relevant mesh into a 3D scene. The output of stable diffusion isn’t seamless by default, so those jumps will happen.
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by joewhatkins 4y ago
Haven’t read the paper yet, but based on the videos it likely generates the rotation of each bone in the skeleton, which can then be used to animate a humanoid skeleton. So the videos you see are those poses being applied to a model.
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by joewhatkins 4y ago
Nah - it's going to be wonky as hell, and robotics is much more complex and exacting than this. This is useful for animation or creative stuff.
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by joewhatkins 4y ago
This is par for the course - there have been other instances where an 'anonymous' paper mentioned training on a cluster of TPUs that weren't publicly available yet - dead giveaway it was Google.
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by joewhatkins 4y ago
This is crazy good - most prior text-to-3d models produced weird amorphous blobs that would kind of look like the prompt from some angles, but had no actual spatial consistency. Blown away by how quickly this stuff is advancing, even as som