Is it true that he has grown since the draft ?

Really interesting analysis. Thanks.

Very interesting analysis. A fun season awaits.

Language Models in Plato's Cave Why language models succeeded where video models failed, and what that teaches us about AI

Love the insight that language models have been more widely useful than video models.

For Levine, this is because LLMs kind of sneakily and indirectly model the brain. I would be tempted to say instead that shared languages are more powerful than single brains. But either way, it’s a good read!

Take care and wish you a quick and full recovery

Canada’s Role in a Shifting Global Order — with Mark Carney The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · Episode

Today on the podcast, I talk with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

@markcarneyforpm.bsky.social

ACROSS THE FLAME | Paris Couture Week SS ‘25 Gaurav Gupta is another level of otherworldly. Sculptural, elegant, and sets the tone for grace.

Full list of credits via IG/ FB

#beautifulbizarre #runway #wearableart #fashion #coture #fashioninspo #GauravGupta #art

Great read.

A headline reads "Trump Adviser Insists 'Canada Has Been Taken Over by Mexican Cartels'" overtop a screen grab of Sr. White House Counsellor Peter Navarro, pitch a TV show that combines Breaking Bad and Corner Gas.

BREAKING: Mexican Cartels abandon Canada after being forced to conduct business in both English and French

Are you saying you felt like going underground?

Great photo

Perhaps the best takeoff on the Hitler greeting, however, was that of a performer from Paderborn: he taught his trained chimpanzees to extend their arms in Nazi fashion. (According to the performer's son, the chimpanzees enjoyed doing this.) Every time the animals saw someone in uniform, even a postman, they would give the Nazi salute. This dadaistic coup of the Paderborn comic, who was a committed Social Democrat, attracted the ire of his "racial comrades," who reported him to the authorities. A directive was soon issued forbidding apes from using the Hitler greeting, with the penalty for noncompliance being the "slaugh-ter" of the animals. When it came to expressions of respect for their leader, the Nazis did not have much sense of humor.

Fun fact: It was illegal for monkeys to salute Hitler.

Liquid Sky

When you spent billions and destroyed your brand to recreate 1930's Germany and got 1780's France instead.

Tencent releases HunyuanVideo.

Project: aivideo.hunyuan.tencent.com
Repo: github.com/Tencent/Huny...
Paper: github.com/Tencent/Huny...
Model: huggingface.co/tencent/Huny... and huggingface.co/tencent/Huny...

Fish Speech 1.5 🎉 - Making state-of-the-art TTS accessible

- #2 ranked on TTS-Arena (as "Anonymous Sparkle")
- 1M hours of multilingual training data
- 13 languages supported, including English, Chinese, Japanese & more
- <150ms latency with high-quality instant voice cloning

Snowflake’s Arctic Embed 2.0 Goes Multilingual Arctic Embed 2.0 empowers global-scale retrieval with inference efficiency and high-quality retrieval for multilingual search.

Snowflake's Arctic Embed 2.0 embedding models!

2.0 offers high-quality multilingual performance with all the greatness of their prior embedding models (MRL, Apache-2 license, great English retrieval, inference efficiency).

Blog: www.snowflake.com/engineering-...

Now Hear This: World’s Most Flexible Sound Machine Debuts Fugatto generates or transforms any mix of music, voices and sounds described with prompts using any combination of text and audio files.

blogs.nvidia.com/blog/fugatto...

Voilà, the 2025 weblog calendar. This is not the final, but is posted here for comment. The art is all paintings that are tagged "public domain" from the McCord-Stewart museum website. I've added more historical dates. The comments are from late 2022 to the... https://mtlcityweblog.com/?p=125909

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