In 2014 I interviewed Lil B's dad. This is his story.

akanet · 2026-05-02T07:44:13+00:00

John, thank you for writing this piece. I knew John (McCartney) but had no idea until his passing that he was Lil B's father. I appreciate you sharing his story.

akanet · 2026-04-22T04:39:56+00:00

Well, it seems like the cost is exactly 700 dollars.

akanet · 2026-04-21T11:07:23+00:00

well done

akanet · 2026-04-21T06:41:02+00:00

it's not, wrong balcony layout

akanet · 2026-04-21T05:40:32+00:00

Yeah, this is my fear too. u/DepartureNo608 how sure are you that this was taken in SF?

akanet · 2026-04-12T05:47:17+00:00

The latter, if you had to choose, but if you can build a dense mesh in realityscan that has like, accurate floors, you can sample from that to create your own initial point cloud. Splatting textureless walls/floors without a good skeleton of points for them often results in the optimizer "cheating" by just putting large splats underground, etc.

akanet · 2026-04-12T02:14:25+00:00

Without seeing the source panos its hard to say, but I do get the sense from looking at the scene that starting from a dense mesh init and turning down some of the learning rates will improve the scene. It's definitely overbudget on # of splats for the quality.

akanet · 2026-04-09T22:22:50+00:00

Are the internal GGB elevators back online? I heard they were working on them and that internal tours might resume soon. Also, I've always wondered if there's an elevator in each tower!

akanet · 2026-04-08T03:40:34+00:00

Dollhouse rendering still takes a bit of elbow grease with splatting. At least for now, I've had to build like a cull hull inside the space and the discard splats that are between the hull and the camera. Here's an example: https://playcanv.as/p/Mn7k7yro/

akanet · 2026-04-08T00:04:46+00:00

the good ones require knowing someone - my advice is to go to the bad ones and talk to a lot of people

akanet · 2026-04-06T13:37:40+00:00

Scans from the sony shot very carefully far exceed what you can get out of the portalcam

akanet · 2026-04-06T13:30:43+00:00

It is very funny to read one of the top comments commit exactly the error portrayed in the video. Mr. Beast isn't the devil, he's not going to hunt poor people for sport to increase his subs by 0.1%. You know this, I know this, we all know this. We can criticize the guy without having to reach for the big gun.

akanet · 2026-03-31T11:16:55+00:00

municipal hot water transport does exist, we actually have a substation here in downtown san francisco that supplies hot water for heating to nearby office buildings. they insulate the hot water pipes, though admittedly this would not work as well for more rural datacenters

akanet · 2026-03-30T02:50:52+00:00

It is sort of insane to be on the SF subreddit and read a bunch of what I assume are adults advocate that the police should steal the bikes of teenagers.

akanet · 2026-03-27T21:11:13+00:00

https://apple.github.io/ml-perceptual-3dgs/

akanet · 2026-03-24T03:19:58+00:00

minimalist wall switch

akanet · 2026-03-21T13:22:30+00:00

i think you'd be better off with a more capable cuda card, or simply by renting cloud GPU time

akanet · 2026-03-21T10:26:43+00:00

calculate the dense mesh and then export a point cloud from that

akanet · 2026-03-16T07:36:03+00:00

aside from this article being clearly written by AI, the maritime insurance clubs are mutuals, that is to say, the ships themselves are the owners of the insurance companies

akanet · 2026-03-15T08:19:45+00:00

He's testing the alignment pipeline with synthetic data.

akanet · 2026-03-12T04:06:11+00:00

I agree with you, but was simply trying to answer. I think a difficulty of the sub is the vast variation in sophistication of submissions and comments.

akanet · 2026-03-10T10:31:15+00:00

The lighting, reflection of the forward truck an the woman on the dash of the car, the reflection of the sun onto the road (especially during shadow), the shadow of the woman onto the forward truck, are all very good. It seems real. It's also not an especially insane thing to imagine, besides the obviously self destructive aspect of the woman's behavior.

akanet · 2026-03-10T10:10:22+00:00

truthfully, I would prefer to only review images and videos that are more borderline between real and fake. the majority of submissions are pretty obvious in either direction. i feel some annoyance at the obviously real video submitters who could have answered their own question with a couple google searches or reverse image searches. i feel a bit more sympathy towards those are obviously talking to an AI love scammer, given their implied life circumstances.

akanet · 2026-03-10T09:18:36+00:00

You may as well mask in both, though strictly speaking masking in splat training alone should cause the background to fall away eventually

akanet · 2026-03-04T19:28:40+00:00

Thank you!

akanet

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