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They're using their Depth Pro model for depth estimation, and that seems to do faces really well.

https://github.com/apple/ml-depth-pro

https://learnopencv.com/depth-pro-monocular-metric-depth/


Im not sure how the depth estimation alone translates into the view synthesis, but the current implementation on-device is definitely not convincing for literally any portrait photographs I have seen.

True stereoscopic captures are convincing statically, but don't provide the parallax.


Good monocular depth estimation is crucial if you want to make a 3D representation from a single image. Ordinarily you have images from several camera poses and can create the gaussian splats using triangulation, with a single image you have to guess z position for them.

For selfies, I think iPhones with Face ID use the TrueDepth camera hardware to measure Z position. That’s not full camera resolution, but it will definitely help.

Related:

FCC seek comments on NextNav petition for rulemaking on lower 900MHz ISM band - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41226802

NextNav's Callous Land-Grab to Privatize 900 MHz - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41535994


That's how EU's digital wallet is supposed to work:

> The selective disclosure of attributes will allow you to only share the specific information requested by a service provider, without revealing extra information.

> For example, with the selective disclosure of attributes you could choose to share your date of birth, but without revealing any other identifying details that could be used for profiling.

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/spaces/EU...


You want to know what the global impression of the US is right now? Here's a translated quote from a newspaper today, from a source in our military:

> – The US has the most qualified intelligence organizations in the world at its disposal. Both the CIA and the FBI have been politicized under the current regime. I find it difficult to see how we will be able to maintain the trusting cooperation we have had with the US in the past after this.

The actions of the current administration speaks far louder than any font ever could, and it's tearing down decades of good will and trust.


> Both the CIA and the FBI have been politicized under the current regime.

The CIA and FBI were politicised well before the current regime. If you live in the US you will be aware of the Russiagate hoax.


> AN OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

> What's the biggest brand in the world? If you said Trump, you're not wrong.

This is beyond satire by now, it reminds me of Idi Amin and his official title:

His full self-bestowed title ultimately became: "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular"


5G does not mean shorter waves/higher frequencies, that's just a common deployment. In Sweden we have 5G on the 700 MHz band, 5900 MHz, and several others in between.


Instagib with ASMD shock rifles.


Man after my own heart <3


    ++foo; // Increment value of foo by one

    foo += 1 # Increment value of foo by one


Something more complicated maybe ? Like say parse arguments from a command line ?


Is it the Cuda cores that run the vertex/fragment/etc shaders in normal GPUs? Where does the ray tracing units fit in? How much of a modern Nvidia GPU is general purpose vs specialized to graphics pipelines?


A datacenter GPU has next to nothing left related to graphics. You can't use them to render graphics. It's a pure computational kernel machine.


Qualcomm has confirmed it's coming to Snapdragon phones soon[0], which maybe hints that it's dependent on the SoC drivers? Samsung uses a mix of Snapdragon and their own Exynos, but I can't see them not releasing it to their Snapdragon phones when others do, and then they pretty much have to release it to their Exynos phones too.

[0] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Qualcomm-confirms-Quick-Share-...


An implementation of AWDL on Linux requires a Wi-Fi card that supports "active monitor mode with frame injection". [1] I looked into using it with an Intel Wi-Fi card I had and it appeared mine wasn't supported. I'm guessing the situation is similar on Android in terms of SoC support.

[1]: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/owl?tab=readme-ov-file#require...


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