FoV-NeRF: Foveated Neural Radiance Fields For Virtual Reality
https://www.immersivecomputinglab.org/publication/fov-nerf-foveated-neural-radiance-fields-for-virtual-reality/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ehAvaseawk
@akhaliq Well, that's a strange name for a model :D
@gordon
Egocentric: you are the spider
Egoless: you are the web
@lisyarus
Slightly related, would it be possible to simulate the flow of electricity in a "wire"? Would be interesting to see.
And that leads me to another thought, visualization of fields would be useful, any plans for something like that?
Highly recommend this thread
RT: @glupyan@twitter.com
As a cognitive scientist (trained in the connectionism), I find large language models (LLMs) not just scientifically relevant, but critical to the future of cog sci. Why? Here are two reasons + some "but what about.?"
https://twitter.com/glupyan/status/1604672416201973761?t=lpTMvGesF-Fl48SydDC6Hw&s=19
@gordon Oh I hope not, I won't be able to kill a bug then haha
And interestingly, that pdf is hosted on Peter Watts' website (hard sci-fi author, well his one book has a vampire in a spaceship, so "hard" with a dash of vampires)
Here is an #introduction post so that I can find my people while the #fediverse is having a moment:
Hi, I'm cdata! I'm a former browser #engineer and currently building https://subconscious.network with @gordon . #Subconscious is a networked #notebook and browser for a new kind of #web built on #ContentAddresses and #SelfSovereignIdentity using a protocol we call #Noosphere .
Also: a proud #dad , a #sustainability and #bicycle enthusiast and an avid #TableTop and #BoardGame player.
Manuel Blum and I study #consciousness from a #TheoreticalComputerScience (TCS) perspective.
TCS is a branch of #mathematics concerned with understanding the underlying principles of #computation and #complexity, including the implications and surprising consequences of resource limitations.
For a TCS perspective on #consciousness, see, https://bit.ly/38zAhf6
For a TCS perspective on #FreeWill, see, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.13942.pdf
𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 is one of those terms that is just too semantically challenging. Usually we say that something *emerges from* something but I heard a suggestion that it really should be *emergence in*.
The idea (roughly) is that if you use the standard "from" you're committing to the creation of something "new" that leads to (potentially) all sorts of problems. On the other hand, "emerging in" treats the issue as a multiscale time-evolving system property.
Check here from tons of good discussion with Mark Bickhard:
https://braininspired.castos.com/podcasts/330/episodes/bi-109-mark-bickhard-interactivism
The Game of Life, only recursive. Try zooming in and out! https://oimo.io/works/life/ #CellularAutomata #GameOfLife
@neuralengine We went in a dark direction really quickly hahah
Might be a good idea for a scifi-psychological-horror movie
fictional suicide
#GalacticOnion
"After five decades of asking the same question, I now understand that it is better to not know the answer." suicide note by Dr. Qualion, a cognitive scientist who specialized in the nature of consciousness.
#scifi #horror
mindblowing new discovery in Conway's Game of Life: any buildable pattern in Life can be constructed from the collision of 15 gliders.
https://btm.qva.mybluehost.me/building-arbitrary-life-patterns-in-15-gliders/
the key principle: distance itself can be used to encode information. by determining the correct starting [x,y] coordinate for each glider, any future state of the Life universe can be created, with effectively unbounded complexity. 🤯
(via @OscarCunningham @danstowell)
#GalacticOnion #ChatGPT
Followers of the religion based on the one and only true language model, scriptureGPT, find that their scripture differs depending on the initial seed. The followers are now on the search for the one and only true seed.
@neuralengine Oh that "scifi news" hashtag (#GalacticOnion) is fun, hope it catches on.
Extremely short #scifi stories told in a toot.
A mesmerizing timelapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the SDO spacecraft over the course of a month.
Credit: NASA/SDO
#sun #nasa #space #astronomy
While we are talking about the structure of the cosmos, have a look at this fantastic logarithmic map of the universe by Gott and Juric:
https://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/
The map itself is 639 x 4212, which Mastodon doesn't support. But here is the part with really large distances on it – 10 to 10,000 megaparsecs – that shows the Great Wall.
Image: Gott, Juríc, Schlegel, Hoyle, Vogeley, Tegmark, Bahcall, Brinkmann
Ref: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310571
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