A new blog post! I've realized that the idea of applying matrices to RGBA color vectors is not as well-known as I've thought, so I've wrote a comprehensive list of operations that can be represented this way, together with some motivation for doing so:
https://t.co/Jeq0TdAfCl
how software actually works for 99% of engineers: someone way smarter than you solved a really hard problem and now you build on top of their solution like adult legos and think you're a genius
the new ai post from @sequoia is excellent. sharing best screenshots below
here's the tweet:
the opportunity lies at the application layer.
https://t.co/kQ1picTTNU
University of Oxford announces Splatter Image: Ultra-Fast Single-View 3D Reconstruction
paper page: https://t.co/GvogCAV9nL
The Splatter Image is an ultra-fast method for single- and few-view 3D reconstruction. Training is done on 1 GPU, reconstruction is done at 38 FPS and rendering at 588 FPS.
📣"Self-Sampling for Neural Point Cloud Consolidation" ToG 2021 paper. It doesn't require training data 🙌!
TLDR; Training a neural network on the *single* input point cloud gives a sharper, and less noisy version of the input point cloud itself! 1/4
https://t.co/e7ItFR4heC
photopea (in browser, free, photoshop clone) is staggeringly good. super fast/responsive, matches photoshop 'of old', and gets lots of important ergonomic/quality details that others (cough gimp cough) dont. I feel more at home in photopea then eg affinity designer,
First Principles of Computer Vision by Shree Nayar.
In the era of deep learning everything, understanding the fundamentals is more important than ever!
https://t.co/wQvdIXC8TM
Attention is not all you need: pure attention loses rank doubly exponentially with depth
pdf: https://t.co/IJqd9exAub
abs: https://t.co/JkLiNwfGlD
github: https://t.co/dJptKwxcY8
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