There is no alternative, all financial businesses will freeze accounts under any suspicions. Way to have a degree of mind peace is to have a handful of accounts with funds split across them. If an account gets frozen then it's business as usual pretty much. Takes months for investigations to complete at times.
Exactly the same could be said about several 1st world democratic countries. The point is India level of development is far lower than its neighbor having a similar population size and having come from as far down, or worse than India. The difference is a government that provided (more) benefits to its population.
That's the cost of having people protesting, blocking and badmouthing govt, for example you are doing right now. Try something like this in China against CCP, your account will be blocked within hour and cops will visit you in a day.
Confused here despite the detailed explanation on the user case.
Today generating a static point cloud with gaussians involves:
- offline, far from realtime process to generate spacial information off 2D captures. LiDar captures may help but doesn't drastically cut down the this heavy step.
- "train" generate gaussian information off 2D captures and geospatial data.
Unless I'm already referring to an antique flow, or that my RTX GPU is too consumer grade, how would all of this perform on embedded systems to make fast communication of gaussian relevant ?
There's some algorithms, such as Photo-SLAM and Gaussian Splatting SLAM (although far heavier and slower), that show that it is indeed possible to be able to estimate position and generate Gaussians in real-time. These are definitely still the early days for these techniques tho.
The offline method still generates significantly higher resolution scenes of course, but as time goes on, real-time Gaussian Splatting will become more common and will be close to offline methods.
This means that in the near future, we will be able to generate highly realistic scenes using Gaussian Splats on a smart edge + mobile robot in real-time and pass the splats via ROS onto another device running ROSplat (or other) and perform the visualisation there.
I generate on GPU I can barely fit a large scene on 12GB of memory, and it takes many hours to produce 30k steps gaussians.
I'm sure the tech will evolve, hardware too. We are just 5y away.
I respect you open sourcing your work, it is innovative. Feels like a trophy splash, I suggest putting a link to something substantial, perhaps a page explaining where the tech will land and how this project fits that future, rather than a link to some LinkedIn.
I did not put a LinkedIn link in the post or repo, but I totally get your point about wanting something more substantial to explain the bigger picture.
A lot of the motivation and reasoning behind the project is already included in the technical report PDF attached in the repository, I tried to make it as self-contained as possible for those curious about the background and use cases.
That said, if I find some time, I’ll definitely consider putting together a separate page to outline where I think this kind of tool fits into the broader future of GS and robotics.
Il very curious of that.. My mean training with ~25-30 high quality cameras takes around 20 minutes and some Gb of memory on a single GPU, what is the size of your large scale scenes? I see many possible optimizations to lower that number of Gb and time
I have done a recent proof of concept to generate Gaussian splats from depth cameras in real-time. The intended application is for robotics and teleoperation. I made a post on reddit [1] a while back if you're interested.
I believe the quality of realtime Gaussian splatting will improve with time. The OPs project could help ROS2 users take advantage of those new techniques. Someone might need to make a Gaussian splat video codec to bring down the bandwidth cost of streaming Gaussians.
Another application could be for visualizing your robot inside a pre-built map, or for providing visual models for known objects that the robot needs to interact with. Photometric losses could then be used to optimize the poses of these known objects.
If that's all it took to turn Srilanka off.Even if that country lags behind western Europe, what would it take for a few humans who intentionally cut off power.
Trying to stay on the facts, this incident is likely accidental but some people even the very workers at energy companies could send a message for, I don't know. A pay raise?
Isn't it amazing? In movies, evil terrorists take out the grid all the time (or threaten to), to terrible consequences, and they need genius hackers to do so. In reality, it's easy peasy and still, people hardly ever do it (and nobody (ish) dies if they do). Humans are good!
Yes, you can try to hold the country hostage for your salary by going on strike, but that's the sort of thing that results in very energetic union-busting.
Actually sabotaging the infrastructure would result in terrorism charges, or at the very least the JSO treatment.
I mean i'm pretty sure there are laws in place everywhere to avoid a single pay raise strike doing nation wide catastrophic events. Hospitals for example are usually limited in how they can strike.
That's assuming the people who want to strike care about having a job afterward. I know the state hospitals stop loss people when there's a disaster, so I keep abreast of predictable disasters and tell my wife and friends "hey you're sick, go get a doctor's note for the rest of the week" and then they're not stuck at the hospitals for days during a disaster.
What kind of person fakes illness expressly so they don't have to help out during an actual disaster when their skills are needed? "Whenever I hear there's a fire, I tell my firefighter friends to take the battery out of their pager so they won't have to go fight the fire." I agree we owe these people better treatment than just mandating they work heroic hours, but this only makes things worse on those who comply with the mandate.
My neighborhood and community is more important than the hospital; the friends i mentioned specifically are also radio operators, so they have more important things to do during a disaster than be a warm body at not that type of hospital. A sanitarium.
The low-wage workers can get triple-time and take weeks off "later in the year" for covering the stop-loss, so they also benefit.
I don't call fire fighters, because they are emergency responders. Please note i said what i do, not what i think other people should do. The people i tell this to are free to do with that information what they want, i don't demand it or anything.
Consider this a contextual error on my part. It's more of an "inside baseball" snippet of conversation than anything that requires judgement.
You can embed HTML in an SVG via foreignObject. Seems like that's exactly what the library is doing[0].
Whether that's faster or more reliable, I don't know. Seems likely to render different depending on where you view the SVG (especially out of browsers).
If the system didn't structure it that way, everyone would know the numbers and protest. As it is people pay up for the most part, they even defend the concept of taxing, supposedly going to public services.
The problem with Devin wasn't that it was a black box doing too much. It's that the outcome demo'd were fake and what was inside the box wasn't an "AI engineer."
Transparency? If it worked even unreliably, nobody would care what it does. Problem is stochastic machines aren't engineers, don't reason, are not intelligence.
I find articles attacking Ai but finding excuses in some mouse rather than pointing at the elephant, exhausting.
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