Perception

Witnessing the excruciating death of a parent is an indescribable experience, one that pierces the depths of your soul. In my case, it was my beloved dad who was slipping away before my very eyes. Helplessness engulfed me, rendering me motionless like a lifeless specter in the sterile confines of…

Did you ever have one? We all can, but it’s not a choice — Did you ever have an out-of-body experience or OBE? It is a phenomenon in which a person perceives the world from a location outside their physical body. It can be a useful tool for introspection, but it is not something that most people can just summon up. …

Embrace your self-image. Those wild theories and assumptions should not define you. — As human beings, our subconscious minds are hardwired to judge people. They consider us for banters too. But it is based on our wildest sentiment that we think of others. In today’s society, being composed and efficient can sometimes be excessive. Even when highly productive, one may be unfairly labeled…

How many impossible things did you experience today? “During his hospital stay, he endorsed witnessing people morph into other people; he also perceived one physician’s right shoulder and right-handed fingers growing bigger and his left hand shrinking in size.” (4) This quote may sound like a line from a science…

Unveiling the Veil of Perception — Illusion and reality, two contrasting concepts that have captivated the human mind for centuries. From ancient philosophers to modern scientists, the interplay between these two realms has been a subject of deep contemplation and exploration. …

A review of the academic “Occupancy Networks” as of 2023H1 — One critical pain point of existing 3D object detection methods in autonomous driving is that they typically output concise 3D bounding boxes, neglecting finer geometric details and struggling to handle general, out-of-vocabulary objects. This pain point exists for both monocular 3D object detection and BEV multicamera object detection. To address…

I don’t scare easily, but movies and books have made me cry — Once upon a dark age or two ago, a little girl snuck out of bed and hid behind the sofa to watch television. Her parents were watching “The Time Machine”. …

The discrepancy between individual beliefs and perceived consensus fuels societal debates. In a small bustling café on Berkeley’s bustling campus, two old friends, Tom and Ava, engage in an unexpected debate over a seemingly innocuous subject — penguins. Ava insists that penguins are clumsy, stumbling around in their frozen habitats…

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