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grandpa_yetion WonderHuman: 3D avatars from single-view video

Looking forward to the next paper on this. Hopefully debuting the FaceBack app!

grandpa_yetion Cell-Based Architecture Enhances Modern Distributed Systems

Worked for a large SaaS provider and the cell based architecture was seen as “too cumbersome” and less cost efficient. Ultimately, cell based architectures can be great for the reasons they mentioned, they just need a bit more tooling around them to prevent operational toil.

grandpa_yetion Generate images in one second on your Mac using a latent consistency model

Seeing this kind of image generation limited to M series Macs just goes to show how far ahead Apple is in the notebook GPU game.

grandpa_yetion Fundamentals and Deployment

Yes, but not by choice. Spinnaker is definitely the equivalent of docker-swarm, at best. Okay in some aspects and the idea is there, but it’s clunky and doesn’t scale well with multiple applications and teams.

grandpa_yetion The Dunant subsea cable

You’re spot on. Most of the cables are either laid on the sea floor and up to a beach, or buried underneath beaches. The following link has some good background on what goes into laying cables and how they terminate.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/asia/internet-undersea-cables...

As for physical security, there isn’t much on the sea floor. There are various instances of nation states tapping cables due to the ease of access when it comes to actually “listening” to the data. Obviously the issue there is getting to the undersea cable.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/th...