Needed to reimburse a friend for a coffee. She randomly held a lightning invoice in my face for me to scan. Made my day.

Cool stuff happening in 3D reconstruction: 2.5 years, >7.7k citations. 3D Gaussian Splatting follow-ups are plenty. Our new paper shows how far these works can advance the original by combining them in a refactored, performance-optimized implementation to speed up future research. Paper + code:

Faster-GS: Analyzing and Improving Gaussian Splatting Optimization

A research-friendly Gaussian Splatting framework that integrates and extends existing ideas for significantly improved efficiency.

What’s the best Bitcoin explanation video that I could show to my 89 years old neighbour? He’s bright but not tech savvy and it should be short, catchy and concise. Joe Bryan‘s film is quite long. Anything with a freedom and human rights twist?

Academic here. We’re the second home of bad incentives and clamping down on speech. We’re just the guardians of the ones in power.