rsp1984

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Show HN: I ported COLMAP (photogrammetry) to the browser in WASM and WebGPU(offlinetools.io)
3 points by rsp1984 2d ago|0 comments
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by rsp1984 6mo ago
You can start with plain language and work your way up towards the math. But it doesn't work the other way round.
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by rsp1984 6mo ago
The problem is that equations give the illusion of conciseness and brevity but in reality always heavily depend on context. You give a physicist an equation of a completely unrelated field in mathematics and it will make zero sense to the
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by rsp1984 6mo ago
Don't despair. The key to becoming proficient in advanced subjects like this one is to first try to understand the fundamentals in plain language and pictures in your mind. Ignore the equations. Ask AI to explain the topic at hand at t
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by rsp1984 6mo ago
It's distribution. Guy's got a brand name now. People and investors recognize his name. It's a lot easier to find an absolute quantity N of investor money for a fraudulent but well-known name than it is for an unknown upstart
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by rsp1984 7mo ago
This is the classic flawed reasoning on the left. Capitalism & free markets =/= lawlessness. A small & focused government would have more resources, not less, to function in one of its core tasks, which is enforcement of law.
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by rsp1984 7mo ago
> you seem to suggest that The Free Market could correct our path to fascism, and that pesky human services and wanton over-regulation are what are really preventing us from reaching our final enlightened form... Not quite. I am merely p
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by rsp1984 8mo ago
The obvious problem with the 5% rule is that voters who don't like any of the established parties are faced with the decision between voting for something they don't like or most likely throwing away their vote. As someone who wri
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by rsp1984 8mo ago
The boring but true answer is that the only thing people should be protesting for is a change of the electoral law. Everything else is downstream of that. In the US, it's a de-facto duopoly on power, held up by a number of "winner
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by rsp1984 9mo ago
> Manus is running $5000 credit for 2000 people. How would this work though? They give out free "credits" and then claim usage of those as ARR? That would be outright fraudulent, no? Who is paying for those "Manus Credits&
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by rsp1984 10mo ago
While I have no issues believing that the outlined strategies are effective, and I sincerely congratulate the author on his journey, there is a flip side to engineering "social normalcy" that IMO the author is missing: Any reasona
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by rsp1984 11mo ago
Excellent, thanks. So basically this is saying: "our pixels-to-token encoding is so efficient (information density in a set of "image tokens" is much higher as compared to a set of text tokens), why even bother representing t
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by rsp1984 11mo ago
Can someone ELI5 to me (someone who doesn't have the time to keep up with all the latest research) what this is and why it's a big deal? It's very hard to guess from the github and paper. For example, there is OCR in the titl
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by rsp1984 11mo ago
Let's not forget this gem here [1]. Tells you everything you need to know about the company and its leadership. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195
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by rsp1984 1y ago
It gets even crazier when compared to other IP law: Engineer makes an invention: Write 30-Page patent application. Multi-year patenting process with USPTO, pay 1000s of $ if DIY, 10x that if using an IP law firm. Multiply by 4x if going int
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by rsp1984 1y ago
I apologize for this extremely dumb question, but how is this a "server"? As far as I'm aware Blender is a local app. It can run without an internet connection. If an LLM wants to call into it, it needs to call its local pyth
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by rsp1984 1y ago
A bit "off topic" but this is called AMA, so why not: To which degree do you see your own profession (law practice) changing with AI? As an outsider it looks like most of the legwork, research work or basically anything a non-seni
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by rsp1984 1y ago
This was of course a calculated move. The founders of Glass are not that stupid. They knew the original author would complain in the loudest way possible and cause a viral outrage, which would give them a ton of eyeballs and exposure. E
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by rsp1984 1y ago
Except that no view-dependent effects that would benefit multi-view consistency are present in your splats. So yes, it's very much like the RGB-D visualizations from 10 years ago, just with splats instead of points.
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Fusor – The Open Source Fusor Research Consortium(fusor.net)
3 points by rsp1984 1y ago|0 comments
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by rsp1984 1y ago
I don't know. All of this smells fishy. Clearly noone has worked 16 years on this. The whole description is odd. Made by a new HN account. The thing barely works. Sometimes you get stuck in the same question loop. Sometimes buttons are
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by rsp1984 1y ago
Shameless plug, but if you own an iPhone pro or iPad Pro (which have Lidar integrated), you should give Dot3D a try. It does everything you describe and we made it very easy to use.
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by rsp1984 1y ago
Should change title. They sold 51% at a valuation of $8.75B, so cash in is ~ $4.29B.
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by rsp1984 1y ago
A bit off-topic but I'm so glad to see skeuomorphic UI make a comeback! Check out the toggle switch in the upper right corner! I hope more designers will follow this example.
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by rsp1984 2y ago
To be honest I don't understand why this is needed. All the leading AI models can already write code that interfaces perfectly with well-known APIs, and for the niche-APIs I can supply the docs of that API and the model will understand
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by rsp1984 2y ago
You're correct. The logarithm produces what's essentially a cross product matrix, 0 on the diagonal and symmetric off-diagonal. The off-diag elements are the 3-vector I was talking about. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by rsp1984 2y ago
If you take the Matrix logarithm of an SO(3) (3x3 rotation matrix) you get a 3-vector that represents the axis of rotation, scaled by the rotation amount (in radians). This is also a cheap operation using the inverse Rodrigues formula [1].
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by rsp1984 2y ago
Always telling this whenever the topic of Kalman Filters come up: If you're learning the Kalman Filter in isolation, you're kind of learning it backwards and missing out on huge "aha" moments that the surrounding theory
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by rsp1984 2y ago
Agree 100%
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by rsp1984 2y ago
The expressing of emotion comes with a lot of side benefits: the other person becomes aware of your feelings (yes, people generally don’t know how you feel about something). They will respect your boundaries better. You can tell they&#x27

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