After the a couple of paragraphs that weren't really making any kind of point I started skimming; came to this conclusion before I got bored of even just skimming:
A jaded Grey-Beard rant; overall negative.
Perhaps there was some deeper message I missed due to the boredom.
What I don't understand is why I should pick a 480€ piece of paper over an actual piece of paper. For that price I could get a decent tablet or just type things into a note taking app.
The idea always has been that it's writing on paper with all the convenience of a tablet like syncing your notes. A notebook will feel like paper, but won't sync, an iPad will not feel even close to paper.
I was considering reMarkable when upgrading my ebook reader with note taking capabilities, but it's mostly a notepad with an option for ebooks (and not the other way around) and the subscription model on top of $500 hardware was ridiculous.
One comment and the prerequisites hint at this tool spinning up a docker container which runs a windows VM and pulls the windows out using some remote desktop tool
The answers would be similar to the question "why is Javascript so popular". It was not fast to run, not safe, not optimized and poor in most areas except for being almost universal and having results faster either due to js developers availability, or due to it being a high level language, even if it did try to multiply a "dog" string by 2 sometimes in some spaghetti codebase. It got better, but even before that this formula was "delivery > quality". It's also why almost no one writes assembly for production. Or C, and we get tons of bloated electron apps.
(If it was not clear, I have no love for JS and I never really programmed in it, but you have to admit, it did allow us to have more stuff. Even if 99% of it should be torched by fire if evaluated purely from engineering perspective)
If you have numbers that measure that, it probably will. The closest thing we have is vaccination rates by age group, which shows a lower percentage of younger age groups being vaccinated for covid.
There's a similar but "illegal" other client called eaglercraft. It bumps this up a notch with a much more "recent" version of MC, by compiling java to javascript
What's the use case for putting AI into everything? Pretty much every AI product so far has been and still is subject to hallucinations and inaccuracies and on top of that it's hugely computing intensive. Sure, it's the best we have right now and it allows us to do things that were previously next to impossible with manual programming work, but it's far from being something that's actually viable. And what would be the use case for turning a picture into an approximated 3d mesh that is only really complete from one angle? LIDAR does a stunningly accurate job at that already, reproducibly (although granted that this cannot retroactively be applied to existing photos).
So I agree with you, but to be fair it is neat, and I think academia should be allowed to try things with little to no *immediate* commercial value. Being "neat" is enough IMO if there's enough resources to go around.
In the long run, yeah this *exact* application is sort of pointless. I expected to see the lens parameters factored into the process. It's not. This would mean that everything is not only dimensionally inaccurate since there's no reference measurement, but also proportionally inaccurate to other things in the scene. You can actually see the effect of that on the "flower car" example. (the entire shape of the car is warped) Let alone the fact that the entire scene that can't be seen in the original photo is made up.
Maybe someone would use this to make game assets? But you'd need to fix them up a ton before using them. Other sibling comments make the point that there's no wireframes... so we can assume the polygon count here is insane.
What is not sarcasm, that I once lived in a region in germany where apples are grown. The local government had a project where they created some hiking trails. They wanted to call one of those "Apfelweg" (apple street or s.th. in englisch), because you know, there are apple trees everywhere. They had been sued by apple and had to rename it. Real.
Oh but it's by far not the single instance of fruit related abuse: https://www.popsci.com/technology/apple-swiss-trademark/ No matter how much you like their products, Apple is just another corporation playing the corporate abuse card.
