CV's decade leap: from chihuahua vs muffin to raccoon parking with Snell's-law reflections
korymath · x · 2026-11-09
korymath quips on how far computer vision has come: 10 years ago the bar was whether a convnet could tell a chihuahua from a blueberry muffin at 64x64; today we get upset when a video model can't render a raccoon in a tuxedo parallel parking a 1997 Honda Civic in the rain, with its puddle reflection obeying Snell's law — 'and honestly we're right to be mad.'
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