I haven't posted for a while. Here is my drone system which calculates GPS coordinates without a signal using a camera + google map.
PS. I am added AI to the mix
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People who turn to demonic shit to be entertained are many horrible things, but most of all they are boring. You have to be incredibly, mind-numbingly boring to not see the infinite wonder and beauty in the neon colors of a sunset, the drawings of a child, the scent of fresh herbs, the way the sunlight makes the ocean sparkle, your lovers’ eyes. Evil is truly banal at every level.
The deal is pretty simple: You're going to be a high integrity, stand-up guy, do great work, have high standards and be an extraordinary positive to people around you.
Bad things will happen, bad people will come around and as long as you keep focusing on these, they won't be able to stay or actually hurt you on the long-term, ever.
You'll find yourself living in a reality tunnel where the lowly, the bad, the mediocre, etc can NOT even come into contact with you. Over time, all of this will compound naturally into a point where your life is unbelievably beautiful on all levels.
Bad things will happen, bad people will keep coming around here and there. That's life ofc. But as long as you hold yourself fully accountable for everything that happens, people around you & where you're going - and never shirk away from the core outlines of the deal, you'll live an exceptional life.
That's pretty much the deal.
Ben Shapiro will say with a straight face that Israel has a claim to Palestinian land based on some shit from 3000 years ago and then tell people they aren't entitled to live in the city they were born in
Wow. Recreating the Shawshank Redemption prison in 3D from a single video, in real time (!)
Just read the MASt3R-SLAM paper and it's pretty neat. These folks basically built a real-time dense SLAM system on top of MASt3R, which is a transformer-based neural network that can do 3d reconstruction and localization from uncalibrated image pairs.
The cool part is they don't need a fixed camera model -- it just works with arbitrary cameras -- think different focal lengths, sensor sizes, even handling zooming in video (FMV drone video anyone?!). If you've done photogrammetry or played with NeRFs you know that is a HUGE deal.
They've solved some tricky problems like efficient point matching and tracking, plus they've figured out how to fuse point clouds and handle loop closures in real-time.
Their system runs at about 15 FPS on a 4090 and produces both camera poses and dense geometry. When they know the camera calibration, they get SOTA results across several benchmarks, but even without calibration, they still perform well.
What's interesting is the approach -- most recent SLAM work has built on DROID-SLAM's architecture, but these folks went a different direction by leveraging a strong 3D reconstruction prior. Seems to give them more coherent geometry, which makes sense since that's what MASt3R was designed for.
For anyone who cares about monocular SLAM and 3D reconstruction, this feels like a significant step toward plug-and-play dense SLAM without calibration headaches -- perfect for drones, robots, AR/VR -- the works!
Apple gets it. Robots are going to be everywhere, but they won’t look like robots. Check out their new paper ELEGNT.
I believe this is the future of everyday objects: helpful and human.
~8 hours sleep: I will function well
~6 hours sleep: 99% chance I will function poorly, 1% chance I will inexplicably solve some big outstanding problem I was thinking about via what feels like divine revelation