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A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU

https://clad.you/blog/posts/questionnaire-mlp/
33•arkadiuss•2d ago

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rgovostes•1h ago
It takes more like 10 seconds. For a large range of height and weight inputs crossed with all option combinations, you could precompute ~10M measurements and return results basically instantly.
aaclark•59m ago
ai;dr

MLP trained on 8 questions achieves ~0.3cm height error, ~0.3kg weight error, and ~3-4cm for bust/waist/hips measurements.

https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/5/1885 + some hacking => "we want to productize this"

endofreach•7m ago
> ai;dr

Haven't seen that one yet. I like it.

zimpenfish•58m ago
I'm guessing the writing is AI-assisted (there's no fluidity and it has some weirdly placed phrases) but I see they're in Poland and likely not English-language first?
xenonite•10m ago
Well sorry no, because already the torso to leg length ratio is covered by none of their question. (and yes, they list it as a limitation)

Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-ant...
520•elffjs•15h ago•507 comments

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
23•calcifer•1h ago•2 comments

A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU

https://clad.you/blog/posts/questionnaire-mlp/
33•arkadiuss•2d ago•5 comments

Paraloid B-72

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraloid_B-72
148•Ariarule•3d ago•23 comments

Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
85•andsoitis•2h ago•13 comments

Humpback whales are forming super-groups

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260416-the-humpback-super-groups-swarming-the-seas
84•andsoitis•3d ago•39 comments

My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/
220•hhh•11h ago•72 comments

Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

https://github.com/yuvadm/quantumslop/blob/25ad2e76ae58baa96f6219742459407db9dd17f5/URANDOM_DEMO.md
123•pigeons•6h ago•16 comments

"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay." – Unsung

https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/
63•rbanffy•6h ago•8 comments

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
409•alcazar•16h ago•105 comments

Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75877
159•wise_blood•2d ago•46 comments

(Blender) Cosmology with Geometry Nodes

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/cosmology-with-geometry-nodes/
37•shankysingh•6h ago•1 comments

The Classic American Diner

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2026/04/the-classic-american-diner/
202•NaOH•12h ago•122 comments

Education must go beyond the mere production of words

https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/schnell-repairing-the-ruins
51•signor_bosco•7h ago•13 comments

There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21691
204•jamie-simon•13h ago•79 comments

A disabled kea parrot is the alpha male of his circus

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00259-9
27•zdw•2d ago•8 comments

Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-ships-brave-adblock-engine/
164•nreece•5h ago•72 comments

Work with the garage door up (2024)

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Work_with_the_garage_door_up
152•jxmorris12•3d ago•111 comments

PCR Is a (Surprisingly) Near-Optimal Technology

https://nikomc.com/2026/04/22/pcr/
3•mailyk•2d ago•0 comments

MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be

https://craigmod.com/essays/ipad_neo/
253•jen729w•2d ago•140 comments

Email could have been X.400 times better

https://buttondown.com/blog/x400-vs-smtp-email
163•maguay•1d ago•148 comments

Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS

https://lightwhale.asklandd.dk/
106•Zta77•9h ago•43 comments

Reverse-engineering infrared-based electronic shelf labels

https://www.furrtek.org/?a=esl
20•pabs3•3d ago•2 comments

ENIAC's Architects Wove Stories Through Computing

https://spectrum.ieee.org/eniac-80th-anniversary-weaving
7•sohkamyung•3d ago•0 comments

You don't want long-lived keys

https://argemma.com/blog/long-lived-keys/
49•kkl•3d ago•30 comments

DeepSeek v4

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260424
1878•impact_sy•1d ago•1463 comments

The mail sent to a video game publisher

https://www.gamefile.news/p/panic-mail-arco-despelote-time-flies-thank-goodness-teeth
14•colinprince•3d ago•0 comments

Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do

https://alash3al.github.io/stash?_v01
18•alash3al•5h ago•3 comments

Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations

https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20260424-filco-diatec/
112•gslin•14h ago•41 comments

Oxford All Souls College General Examination (2025) [pdf]

https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2025-10/General%202025.pdf
42•gregsadetsky•2h ago•27 comments