Software engineer at Valve, living in Seattle.
Former Google and Microsoft intern.
RIT alum.
- dag11I'm confused, does it actually generate environments from photographs? I can't view the galleries since I didn't sign up for emails but all of the gallery thumbnails are AI, not photos.
- > X didn't.
> Y did.
> And that might be...
It's just so... AI. If the author wanted to make a pro-AI-writing point, maybe they shouldn't have let the AI start their essay with the exact AI grammar we're all exhausted having to read every day.
- I'm surprised nobody caught this, but both the screenshot for Windows 8.1 is not Windows 8.1, it's Windows Threshold, the development phase of Windows 10.
The specific screenshot they show is the very first start menu they cobbled together for Threshold, which would later be redesigned again before shipping as Windows 10. The screenshot is also showing off early adaptations of Windows 8 apps running in movable windows -- before that, they could only run full- or split-screen!
- Because the brain is really weird, and tinnitus is often a completely internal neurological phenomenon.
The sound machine linked here was really helpful for me when I had some distressing tinnitus due to concerts several years ago. If I listened to this somewhat loudly for several minutes, I'd then get about 2-3 minutes of what felt like pure silence. And for a little while after that as the tinnitus came back, my brain interpreted it as a gentle white noise instead of a continuous high-frequency tone. Then it went back to the tone a little while later. So if I was having trouble sleeping due to hyperfocusing on the tone I'd first pop in some airpods and listen to this for a few mins.
Nowadays my tinnitus is much less bothersome. Probably a combination of objectively getting a little better, and me getting more acclimated to it. Plus I've been using good musician's ear plugs for all my concerts and raves since then which stopped it from getting worse.
- I think the clear implication of the phrase "healthy aging" is a lower-than-average rate of deterioration with respect to increasing years on earth.
It's like, you actually can describe one of two burgers as "healthier" even though they're both unhealthy. One is just less harmful. It's a valid use of language.
- This is z, no?
- Is that a wiki or something? That link just shows a login page with no other info.
- Oh man I forgot all about <frameset> and <frame> tags to create navigation. From the early days before we had dynamic sites or static site generators with templates, we had our browsers do our "templating" for us!
- I had an original Kickstarter Pebble, a Pebble Time, and am probably ordering this new Pebble, but I have to say you have it the other way around. Apple Watch has 10x the functionality in this comparison, but they're both delightful devices and I'm excited to have a Pebble back in my rotation!
- In early 2020 I used a Comma 2 on my Honda Civic for a few weeks.
It had one failure, but the way it failed was so alarming I'm hesitant to ever try them again. It not only failed while engaged, but it froze which meant it still showed the bright green outline indicating "I'm still engaged!" with no alert sounds, visual indication of disengagement, or automatic restart.
I only noticed something was off when my car started to drift outside the lanes during a curve, which took me longer to notice than necessary because it still looked engaged and it looked like a somewhat typical case of understeering until I started exiting the lane. It also never booted back on again, so something went seriously wrong during an otherwise routine drive.
Stock driver assistance systems (e.g. Rivian Driver+, Tesla Autopilot) have redundant computers it can fall back on if the primary fails. If Comma offered a self-contained device that was demonstrably redundant at a hardware level I'd be willing to give it another shot!
- or more easily, just rename the stick figure to Michael Jackson
- More conventional mesh-based photogrammetry options include:
- https://maps.google.com (satellite view)
- https://earth.google.com (also in browser, possibly better camera controls for what you want)
- Bing Maps (3D flyover mode, more stale data in my experience)
- Apple Maps satellite view (only on macOS/iOS)
- Google Earth VR[1] (requires a Windows PC and a VR headset that can connect to it)
- Microsoft Flight Sim 2020/2024 (requires a beefy Windows PC, uses Bing Maps plus a lot of other enhancements and rendering goodness. Most lifelike "feels like I'm there" but not true to earth)
I'm not aware of splat-based city photogrammetry aside from one-offs like this but I'd love to learn if there's any such projects!
[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/348250/Google_Earth_VR/
- For millenials and older gen z yeah, but it's my understanding (and my complete surprise as a millenial) that snapchat is actually big again amongst actual children.
Can anyone who better knows the reality here chime in?
- This entire thread just has me wanting to watch The Prestige one more time.
- It's generating gaussian splats, so not quite 3D worlds. In short, they're pseudo 3D in that there is in fact a 3D point cloud, but the points are elliptical angular-dependent colored splats that get projected into 2D space[1]. They're better for reconstructing source-realistic renderings from a constrained view box, but break down outside of that.
They're a really cool way to capture spatial memories though! Friends and I occasionally use Polycam or Luma Labs apps. But there's not _too much_ you can do with them due to the above limitations.
From a brief look at the OP link, World Labs seems to be generating a 360º gaussian splat (for a limited view box) from a still photo, which is cool as hell! But we still have the same problem of "what do we do with gaussian splats".
[1] This description is hand-wavey as I'm a relative layman when it comes to how these work. I'm sure someone can reply with a more precise answer if this one is bad.
- When can I get this module in VCV? :)
- In a taxi, the passenger is not the liable party.
Teslas aren't approved to operate as taxis, whereas Waymos explicitly are. I think that's the difference here.
- There's a full bodycam video here[1] of an officer in Phoenix pulling over a Waymo. The driver's window gets rolled down and he gets connected via voice to a Waymo agent and they're able to discuss what was going on. Waymo then kept the car parked there and sent someone out.
I'm really curious what the full interaction was like for this SF Waymo. The QR code on the window just links to a couple phone numbers[2] which seems insufficient to me in the case where a car is merely ticketed but not formally pulled over.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1dvso... [2] https://waymo.com/emergency-response/