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Post by bsenftner »

mountainriver wrote: post #50

No one mentioned machine learning yet so I will. Recent language models are incredibly impressive, I’m really excited to see where we go next.

I quit my principal engineer job in the spring to deep dive on Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Was a 3d production pipeline developer for decades, and then facial recognition dev more recently. Getting a formal education in the area I've been working has been a pure joy, and Machine Learning is so close to low level graphics programming, I'm picking it all up surprisingly easy. I practically have to force myself to bed every night, what I'm learning and doing has my juices gushing.

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Post by bordercases »

Regenerative agriculture as a concept catching on.

Not quite a technology, more of a process but it's related to what are generally considered technological in nature.

Other than the problem of yield, regenerative agriculture practices really do feel like a cake-and-eat-it-to situation – hybridized farms could contribute to carbon capture, biodiversity maintenance, soil quality regeneration, and a more green beautiful world, all in one swoop.

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Post by tmilard »

3D-scanning of, places....

All the trend of VR usually forgets that until now it was very difficult ( & costly) to have the 3D scan. Of shops, malls, indoor homes, cities, so we can get web users to immerse into. This excites me because it is happening now.

Examples : Matterport, Unity, free-visit ( https://bit.ly/3BIMfwl )

Re: Ask HN: What excites you today (technologically speaking)?

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Post by mountainriver »

bsenftner wrote: post #121
mountainriver wrote: post #50

No one mentioned machine learning yet so I will. Recent language models are incredibly impressive, I’m really excited to see where we go next.

I quit my principal engineer job in the spring to deep dive on Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Was a 3d production pipeline developer for decades, and then facial recognition dev more recently. Getting a formal education in the area I've been working has been a pure joy, and Machine Learning is so close to low level graphics programming, I'm picking it all up surprisingly easy. I practically have to force mysel…

Ha I love it, I followed a similar path quitting a staff role to do ML and it is such a fun and interesting field.

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Post by thecityprestige »

filchermcurr wrote: post #108
JohnFen wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The cloud is really just the centralized computing paradigm of the old days with a new coat of paint. This fascinates me because people seem to have forgotten that the reason personal computing was such an incredible thing is that it freed people from that old paradigm. I suspect that, over time, people will lean anew why it was that being freed of it was such a great thing.

Yeah, exactly this! I'm always telling people that "the cloud" is just taking us back to mainframes and dumb terminals. Especially now with things like Chromebooks existing. The most offensive thing of all is that modern dumb terminals don't have keyboards anywhere near as good as the old days.

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