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New comment by gekoxyz in "Gaussian Splatting 3 Ways"

gekoxyz — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:48:19 +0000

For me this one is (was, apparently it's not working anymore) one of the best ones. Gaussian Splatting SLAM, the best apper of CVPR 2024 https://rmurai.co.uk/projects/GaussianSplattingSLAM/ Also this one is very cool imo (triangle splatting), even if it's not interactive https://trianglesplatting.github.io/

I would really like to work on splat rendering during the PhD i'm hoping to pursue

Santa Claus on delivering 99% Uptime [video]

gekoxyz — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:48:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMoql_RYVBQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391943

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gekoxyz in "The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora"

gekoxyz — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:55:33 +0000

I never thought this could happen, especially after the "Ghibli scandal". OpenAI has pulled a majestic business move. They got to allow people to generate Disney characters without issue AND will give 1 billion dollars to OpenAI?

Now the internet will be flooded by Disney character's videos, and since they don't have to pretend they didn't train on their intellectual property anymore I'm really curious to see where this will bring us.

We should rethink copyright btw.

New comment by gekoxyz in "GPT-5"

gekoxyz — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:04:11 +0000

We already did this for Object/Face recognition, it works but it's not the way to go. It's the way to go only if you don't have enough compute power (and data, I suspect) for a E2E network

New comment by gekoxyz in "GPT-5"

gekoxyz — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:00:39 +0000

And your suspicion is right. The sad reality is that it's just a stochastic parrot, that can produce really good answers in certain occasions.

New comment by gekoxyz in "Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch"

gekoxyz — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:32:27 +0000

In the past month i was also considering to buy a Wii to play some games with friends, but i waited to see if the switch 2 could be worth it. Now i'm seriously considering the Wii.

New comment by gekoxyz in "Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch"

gekoxyz — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:29:36 +0000

449 usd is pretty disappointing. A steam deck is pretty much the same price but is repairable and i don't have to pay for an online subscription. And even the steam deck doesn't appeal to me much since i like FPS games, which are better if played from a proper PC. At this point i'm sticking with my Nintendo 3DS for gaming away from home.

New comment by gekoxyz in "Pixel 9a: The latest A-series phone with Google AI smarts at an unbeatable value"

gekoxyz — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:02:36 +0000

I tried carrying a camera around, but honestly I didn't even remember about it most of the time. Taking the photo with the phone was easier, and they already were synced with my digital photo library. I would really like to carry around a camera and switch to a flip phone... but it's not for me unfortunately.

New comment by gekoxyz in "Pixel 9a: The latest A-series phone with Google AI smarts at an unbeatable value"

gekoxyz — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 14:57:58 +0000

less. you don't know how happy I was when I read about the new Siri was getting delayed.

New comment by gekoxyz in "Pixel 9a: The latest A-series phone with Google AI smarts at an unbeatable value"

gekoxyz — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 14:54:11 +0000

didn't headphone jack removal come also because the DAC (Digital-Analog Converter) made interference with the Cellular Modem? Or is it just propaganda I read about online?

New comment by gekoxyz in "Pixel 9a: The latest A-series phone with Google AI smarts at an unbeatable value"

gekoxyz — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 14:48:59 +0000

why are you considering the switch? just AI features or did Apple's monopoly break it for you?

New comment by gekoxyz in "Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage for shutdown"

gekoxyz — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:39:22 +0000

We got something similar with social interactions during covid lockdowns (if your country had those). Btw i feel like people would go literally MAD, I can see it when just WhatsApp crashses for just a couple hours (doesn't happen often but I remember people's reactions when it happened). You can get a feel of what it would do for yourself by getting a dumbphone and limiting yourself from accessing social media.

New comment by gekoxyz in "macOS Sonoma 14.4 Bug 'Destroys Saved Versions in iCloud Drive'"

gekoxyz — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:02:12 +0000

I would love to have an update like sierra -> high sierra where they focused just on performance and stability, but i really doubt that will happen. They have to catch up with microsoft and google and implement "AI features" in every possible app and OS feature instead of pushing good updates.

Administrator Bill Nelson Announces the End of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter [video]

gekoxyz — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 20:37:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW5akI5Rnyg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39134912

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

All Hail to the Almighty Spreadsheet

gekoxyz — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 00:57:10 +0000

Article URL: https://josvisser.substack.com/p/all-hail-to-the-almighty-spreadsheet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38836882

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

macOS Sonoma Slow USB Transfers (approx 50% slower than Ventura) [video]

gekoxyz — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:44:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DxXu8TV9k4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38625426

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gekoxyz in "More than 600k students and teachers use Z-Library"

gekoxyz — Mon, 22 May 2023 22:09:32 +0000

well, most of that money goes to the publishers not to the researchers, so...

New comment by gekoxyz in "PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]"

gekoxyz — Wed, 10 May 2023 21:06:17 +0000

why don't you just use chatGPT? from what i know it's running GPT3.5 and it's not that different (at least in terms of code quality)

New comment by gekoxyz in "Infinite-Storage-Glitch – Use YouTube as cloud storage for any files"

gekoxyz — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 14:19:18 +0000

how do you manage the encryption/decryption?

New comment by gekoxyz in "I’m taking some time away from Comma"

gekoxyz — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:42:33 +0000

Big respect for this decision. If he feels like it's all planned out and only remains to see if it works or not (it's all about improving the current models and not about big changes in the codebase) I think it's good for him to focus on whatever he feels like, tiny corporation or whatever it will be.