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Charlie Munger has died

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MeshGPT: Generating triangle meshes with decoder-only transformers

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We introduce MeshGPT, a new approach for generating triangle meshes that reflects the compactness typical of artist-created meshes, in contrast to dense triangle meshes extracted by iso-surfacing methods from neural fields. Inspired by recent advances in powerful large language models, we adopt a sequence-based approach to autoregressively generate triangle meshes as sequences of triangles. We…

Writing documentation for your house

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Writing documentation for your house

Have you considered writing technical documentation for your house? As a first time homeowner, there have been numerous times where I wish I had some documentation to reference for a whole slew of scenarios. As an engineer, I write documentation all the time to answer these questions and build up a knowledge base other team…

Rust std fs slower than Python? No, it’s hardware

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I’m about to share a lengthy tale that begins with opendal op.read() and concludes with an unexpected twist. This journey was quite enlightening for me, and I hope it will be for you too. I’ll do my best to recreate the experience, complete with the lessons I’ve learned along the way. Let’s dive in!All the…

My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar

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My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar

Late-stage user testing with my toddlerThis is a tale of inspiration, of a vision taking shape, and of rapid feedback from that most discerning of customers: a 2-year-old girl.Keen to skip ahead to the final product? Go ahead and download Aviator — Radar on your Phone from the App Store now!For the HackerNews crowd—please follow…

Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

Your choice of web browser is the crucial link between yourself and the world wide web. When you purchase a new device it typically comes pre-installed with a browser like Microsoft’s Edge, Apple’s Safari, or Google’s Chrome. But these browsers may not fit your personal privacy needs, particularly since Chrome is going to show more…

Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop

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I used to enjoy Translation Party, and over the weekend I realized that we can build the same feedback loop with DALLE-3 and GPT4-Vision. Start with a text prompt, let DALLE-3 generate an image, then GPT-4 Vision turns that image back into a text prompt, DALLE-3 creates another image, and so on.You need to bring…