From 1,000lbs of drives to MacBook: The leap in generating M87* black hole images
k7agar · x · 2026-08-28
The user contrasts the 2019 effort of processing 1,000lbs of hard drives to produce the first M87 black hole image with today's capability: using a MacBook Pro and 1 hour of diffusion model fine-tuning to generate thousands of physically plausible images.
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