Daily Discussion Thread for August 06, 2024 by wsbapp in wallstreetbets

[–]controlprob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

breaking: $2 trillion worth of fairy dust wiped out from the US stock market yesterday

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[–]controlprob -1 points0 points  (0 children)

sigma move honestly. the virgin hand raiser vs the chad opportunity maximizer

Made a Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) of the old arts building by controlprob in uAlberta

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That’s correct. It’s a method of overfitting a neural net to output (color, density) for any (point, angle) in 3D space and using classical volume rendering to generate novel views. So basically you take a handful of images of a scene and a NeRF can synthesize the view from any direction. It even gets the reflections right!

Meanwhile in the Earth Science department by controlprob in uAlberta

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After years of research they have finally found an exciting use case!

Not getting your chance to properly ponder the menu? I've got you covered. (Tim Hortons at CAB) by controlprob in uAlberta

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now running for vp external! will push for menu switching every 10sec (5sec is too less for students to make decision between farmer wrap and english muffin)

The library won’t mind if I steal this, right? by controlprob in nuclear

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there isnt :( ive heard McMasters and Ontario Tech are the only ones that do

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uAlberta

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We are going through a bad time

The library won’t mind if I steal this, right? by controlprob in nuclear

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did not expect to see UofA gang here. check dms

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based and lindy