Would an Apple Vision Pro bought in Germany be usable without restrictions in Switzerland, with a Swiss Apple ID? Unfortunately 🇨🇭 is not among the 28 countries where the Vision Pro launches in July. Would Vision Pro apps simply be unavailable in the Swiss App Store?

#AppleVisionPro #Vision_Pro #AVP #VisionPro #AppleVision

@j Yeah, that's the only reason I still use it. I hope it'll change but if the ML crowd hasn't made the switch by now, I'm not sure what it'll take to convince them. 😕

"To Read”

Microsoft’s Copilot app is now on iOS and it has all the polish and magic you expect from a Microsoft app.

This was the first prompt I tried, to see whether DALL-E 3 works without paying here, unlike in chatGPT where it’s a Pro feature.

#MicrosoftCopilot #LLM #AI #bingchat

Hang this quote on every CV researcher’s wall.

#ComputerVision #ComputerGraphics #MachineLearning #ML #NeRF #GaussianSplatting

@Blender blender continues to be a well run and impactful project. It is great to see @aras recognized. He is a terrific person and a great engineer that I look up to. Also good to see Jason Fielder and his team at Apple making a difference for the blender users.

The funny thing about LLMs is they’re not good for knowledge work because they sometimes make up stuff that doesn’t exist and they’re not good for creative work because they sometimes make up stuff that does exist.

@stewartlynch8 They're still the result of an algorithm. The difference is just that the parameters used in that algorithm are learned from data rather than hand-coded.

Pouring one out for all my poor friends who have birthdays in the Dec 20 - Jan 4 dead zone when everybody's all partied out.

It's frankly just inconsiderate planning by parents. You've heard of no-nut-November, well how about we start No-Mother-March.

@TomF My birthday is on December 24 and it's not the ideal date if, like me, you live in a country where Christmas Eve is a way bigger deal than Christmas Day.

Here's a more clearly visible demonstration of the problem I described previously: https://sigmoid.social/@chrisoffner3d/111591367887994819

On the left we see the progression of cross-attention maps extracted via the CPU, on the right we see the same cross-attention maps extracted via the GPU.

This is using the #Keras implementation of #StableDiffusion on an M3 Max.

#TensorFlow #StableDiffusion #Diffusion #Python #MLEngineering #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #GPU #M3Max

Cross-attention maps of resolution 64x64 in Stable Diffusion's U-Net for time steps t = 1, ..., 1000.

Something I am noticing a lot is how AI image generators have been finetuned to center subjects in the frame. But if you look at art you'll realize that there are so many ways to compose images that make them feel more dynamic. Center-weighted compositions are typically what beginners rely on. So I worry about the loss of variety when datasets are curated by novice artists or people without an appreciation of art and how this likely restricts a model's ability to create dynamic compositions.

@at Haha, not at all – I'm actually very interested to learn more about it once this godforsaken semester is finally behind me. :)

Thank you! 😄

@orsinium Thank you for the hint. I tried autopep8 but I vastly prefer black's style.

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/27/24016212/new-york-times-openai-microsoft-lawsuit-copyright-infringement

#LLMs #GPT4 #chatGPT

This bit is quite shocking
"Despite the flippant observation – often made by European officials – that Russia’s economy is the same size as that of Italy, the Kremlin is producing more shells than all of Nato. "

@guardian

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As part of rewriting my hobby renderer to use Metal, I’ve now written a lot of supporting framework code to allow for easily cross-compiling complex code to both Metal and Cuda. Would this along with some sort of “Cuda programmer’s intro to Metal” be a useful post to anyone?

@BartWronski Agreed, I think the highly idiomatic nature of the Chinese language is in tension with western academic style.