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Another leading monocular depth estimation model, Marigold [1] is also from ETH. [1] https://marigoldmonodepth.github.io/

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…

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.

> 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 reven…

Clearly you haven’t read a lot of research papers in computer graphics, geometry processing, and shape analysis.

What I never understood is: why did browsers drop RSS support?

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.

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. …

So, is CoreNet the equivalent of Keras, whereas MLX is the Jax/PyTorch equivalent?

What's the meaning of life though, and why is it love?

> 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 continu…

And it appears to be at ~80 GB of RAM via quantisation.

A big portion, maybe even a majority, of my fellow students uses an iPad.

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.

I was in open relationships in Berlin’s polyamorous community for nearly five years and I concur with everything you said.

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…

Please don’t paste chatGPT comments in here. If I wanted to ask chatGPT about this, I’d do it myself.

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…

> 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 owne…

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…

Yes, using the LaTeX source code (or HTML, once that becomes reliable and widely used) should be much more robust than PDF parsing.

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 reall…

> 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 re…

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> 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 i…