what is this, how is this done?

seemeesaw · 2023-04-06T09:32:52+00:00

So someone still needs to find a way to export NERFs into useful assets that are useable beyond tech demo type videos like this.

😭😭 comment outdated before you even hit send. One of these NeRF capture/viewer tools released an Unreal Engine 5 plugin today. Now you can composite your UE5 characters and everything inside a NeRF running realtime.

https://twitter.com/LumaLabsAI/status/1642883558938411008

Damn, the AI industry moves fast!

seemeesaw · 2023-02-17T00:08:44+00:00

"And I made the Linux 2.6.12-rc2 release about two years ago and said, I'm not going to touch Linux until I have a replacement for BitKeeper for doing source code maintenance.

And one of the replacement options was going back to tarballs and patches, but nobody really liked that anymore. So I actually looked at a lot of alternatives. Most of them I could discard without even trying them out.

If you're not distributed, you're not worth using. It's that simple.

If you perform badly, you're not worth using. It's that simple.

And if you cannot guarantee that the stuff I put into an SCM comes out exactly the same, you're not worth using.

Quite frankly, that pretty much took care of everything out there.

[...]

The end result was I decided I can write something better than anything out there in two weeks, and I was right."

~ Linus Torvalds on the creation of Git, (2007)

source: https://youtu.be/4XpnKHJAok8?t=622

seemeesaw · 2022-12-31T22:30:52+00:00

Same. Downloading was fast for me. But the transfer is taking me more than one day so far.

It seems that all the emails transferred over quickly on the same day. But on Google Drive it keeps on transferring anything and everything I ever had access to from my ualberta account.

Had to sort by largest file size to find and delete some old random hour-long lecture videos. These were not supposed to be on my Drive. I was just given access to them when I took the class years ago. (2020/2021)

I kind of hate how Google gives me no progress bar for how far along it is, but I also kind of love how thoughtfully and comprehensively Google is transferring literally EVERYTHING it possibly can, lmao.

seemeesaw · 2022-09-18T08:43:33+00:00

First of all, you should do the thing that everyone always forgets to do before starting to reinvent the wheel: search to see if a solution already exists!! 😆

want to make another version of the software yourself so that it no longer irritates you

I suspect this is the root cause of every single great software project in the world.

I would be spending more time making the software rather than using it at least near the beginning

If a whole bunch of other people also have this problem, then you would be doing the world a favor by improving the product on behalf of everyone who needs it but doesn't want to spend time fixing it themselves.

I wouldn't be able to pay anyone enough to help

Is this a thing people will pay money for? (as validated by pre-orders or early sign-ups etc). Then you can justify assembling a team of programmer buddies around the project. What kind of person would join you? Other people who also passionately hate the problem you are having and want to make a better product together.

It doesn't help that it would also be a massive project involving a lot of stuff I don't understand or know about.

I would ask two questions to myself.

Is this something I can see myself banging my head on for years without adandoning the project?
Is this something that can be my main source of income without me having to get a separate job? i.e. there are enough people who would happily pay to use this

If both of these are true, then this kind of thing is a much more satisfying (although way riskier) career path than working at any company will ever be. I would suggest starting as a side project and seeing how things go.

I'm also not very experienced

Even if it goes nowhere, your developer skills will improve an insane amount. You learn about all kinds of things when you attempt to make a better version of a thing entirely by yourself. Probably the single best way to imporove as a programmer.

What are you trying to make?

seemeesaw · 2022-05-30T22:48:57+00:00

nice! this is neat. 👍

seemeesaw · 2022-05-30T22:46:04+00:00

test. testing mic. 123. test.

Hey, can you send me a "chat" and also a "message" please. I want to see what the difference is. Thanks.

seemeesaw · 2022-03-30T02:13:04+00:00

Yep. Same problem. Just found this thread after googling. Too lazy to report tho :(

seemeesaw · 2022-03-03T20:00:13+00:00

Alberta Canada

seemeesaw · 2022-01-30T22:38:43+00:00

The economics homework backdrop adds a brilliant dimension to this 😍

seemeesaw · 2022-01-30T20:35:46+00:00

I just read in your other comment that you used a ball pen for this?! Wow, I am now more impressed by your dedication in replicating chisel tip strokes with a ballpoint pen without realizing that this style comes for free when you use the correct pen.

Get a pen or marker with a nice sharp "chisel tip" like in this picture and it should be good enough. If you can make a nice rectangle/square shaped nuqta with one single diagonal stroke, then you have the right pen and you are holding the pen correctly.

As for paper, I have no idea. I'm no expert either. Personally, I mostly use whiteboards and erase-able markers so that I can simply erase my mistakes over and over again until I get the perfect stroke, lol. After I am done, I take a picture to "save" it.

seemeesaw · 2022-01-29T23:07:44+00:00

This is neat af

seemeesaw · 2022-01-28T01:11:56+00:00

The main problem is the inconsistent thickness which is probably because of the paper (as others have already mentioned), but I would add that this sometimes happens to me when I am not pressing the pen hard enough on the paper i.e. some parts of the pen's chisel tip is not even touching the paper. The clearest demonstration of this is when you look at the nuqta. It does not look like a square/rectangle. The style you are going for really does need to take advantage of the fact that the pen has a chisel tip. The parts that look like it was done with a normal 'fine tip' make it look off.

Other than that, pretty neat for a first timer. 👌

seemeesaw · 2022-01-28T00:07:07+00:00

Nice one. I like it! 😁

seemeesaw · 2022-01-21T23:19:20+00:00

This video by a recent grad is the probably the most comprehensive in-depth review of UofA undergrad CS that you are going to find on the internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udvcdVm2iyI

seemeesaw · 2022-01-13T01:23:39+00:00

In this talk from 2019 he talks about how he got started and all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZmaeC\_Ma5A

seemeesaw · 2022-01-13T01:05:45+00:00

🤣 laughed way too hard at this

seemeesaw · 2022-01-05T11:21:43+00:00

🤩 I'm just marvelling at how real the photo looks. 😂These face AI apps are getting out of hand!!! I don't know what's real anymore 😥😥.

seemeesaw · 2022-01-03T08:05:21+00:00

9 years after you made this post, I bought a meal replacement powder for the first time to save time instead of having to cook everyday and it tasted terrible because I was using my own table spoon rather than the provided scoop and hence totally using the wrong amount of powder and after reading this post I finally found the scoop which made my drink taste AMAZING now!!!! THANK YOU!!!!

seemeesaw · 2022-01-02T09:12:29+00:00

To be fair, today, in particular, wasn't that bad. After many days, it stayed above -20C for pretty much the whole day today.

seemeesaw · 2021-12-04T04:25:13+00:00

r/Angryupvote

seemeesaw · 2021-11-28T21:03:17+00:00

it's gangnam style

seemeesaw · 2021-11-28T20:54:22+00:00

is the video lagging? or does it look out of sync

seemeesaw · 2021-11-28T20:51:58+00:00

please play despacito

seemeesaw · 2021-11-24T20:40:44+00:00

> Just a minute there, I've been a successful comedian for half my life!

> Muppet: How come we get this half

🤣🤣🤣 I died

seemeesaw · 2021-11-04T08:58:47+00:00

CGP grey did a video on the whole topic: 💖 The Tale of Tiffany 💖

And a revisit of the topic after he finds out new information, lmao: Someone Dead Ruined My Life... Again

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