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Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

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Re: Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

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I find it highly ironic that his is the second article on the main page right after "avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state".

EVERY technology could be used by a police state

It is a question of how adversely empowering the technology is.

Re: Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

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> NOTE: this is a genuine human work, didnt use LLM generation.

I'm sorry, but I don't believe this. The article reads like LLM text post-edited by an AI prompted to "write like a non-native English speaker, replace you for u, make errors, etc".

The other pages on your site are cough, "the smoking gun". For instance, your "Suckless, single binary, zero-dependency CUDA/C++ inference engine for NVIDIA's DVLT. Reconstructs 3D scenes from a handful of images (depth + rays + camera pose => point cloud), no python, no torch, no framework." project.

Re: Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

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> NOTE: this is a genuine human work, didnt use LLM generation. I'm sorry, but I don't believe this. The article reads like LLM text post-edited by an AI prompted to "write like a non-native English speaker, replace you for u, make errors, etc". The other pages on your site are cough, "the smoking gun". For instance, your "Suckless, single binary, zero-dependency CUDA/C++ inference engine for NVIDIA's DVLT. Reconstru…

haha : "write like a non-native English speaker"

man, Im actually non native speaker xDD

"replace you for u" ???? what ?!

Re: Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

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Good article! Off-topic, Is Palantir doing the same thing with its internal software to geolocate?

I have no idea about that particular company, but wouldn't satellite-based synthetic aperture radar datasets make this "super easy?" I would imagine so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic-aperture_radar

https://eos.com/blog/what-is-sar-synthetic-aperture-radar-im...

Re: Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

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> NOTE: this is a genuine human work, didnt use LLM generation. A million upvotes from me.

haha, thanks :D I was hesitant to whether write it or not, but I really really despise llm generated posts and blogs and im glad someone appreciated it

Great content too generally. Without the disclaimer I find myself less engaged with the content knowing it could be an LLM hallucination and am ready to eject at any moment.

btw Micronesia is _not_ a country!

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