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A dog wearing a suit, writing a great novel. #veo2

People surround an ancient artifact (with gears and interesting mechanisms) partly buried on the sand. #veo2

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Prompt: "Researchers making a new video model." #veo2

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Prompt: "An astronaut walks through a planet full of colorful and bizarre alien life." #veo2

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More Veo 2 examples Prompt: "A snail wearing pants. The snail is riding a bicycle, and has a large moustache." #veo2 Following a comment by thelokasiffers in Twitter

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Certainly the question of how exactly it's doing this is very interesting

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Prompt: "Bear writing the solution to 2x-1=0. But only the solution!"

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Prompt: Snail riding a bicycle. The snail has a large moustache.

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More Veo 2 examples Prompt: "A cat wearing a suit and a top hat, while driving a tractor. The tractor has lots of hay on top. Cinematic.!"

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A similar example #veo2 Prompt: A tennis ball is on the floor. A bowling ball comes rolling.

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Interesting, would be good to check

More Veo physics #Veo2 Prompt: "A large iron ball falls on top of a cardboard box full of coins."

Action scenes (with realistic physics!) with Veo! #veo2 Prompt: "Car going at top speed through a road, until reaching a waterfall. It gets into the waterfall and jumps off a mountain. Cinematic, 35mm film."

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Physics with Veo! #veo2 Prompt: One ball is in the floor. Another ball comes rolling.

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Prompt: "Soccer of the future, mixing people and robots. This is a fragment from a 2024 cinematic movie!"

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Soccer from the future, according to Veo 2 #veo2

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Example video generated with Veo #Veo2 Prompt: The camera follows an octopus flying through a city with very high skyscrapers. A sign says "Veo". Cinematic, 35mm film released in 2024.

Veo v2 generates a meeting of animals #Veo2 Prompt: A meeting of a lion, a bear and a giraffe, all of them wearing suits. Photorealistic, cinematic.

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Veo is our state-of-the-art video generation model. It creates high quality video clips that match the style and content of a user's prompts, in resolutions up to 4K resolution.

Proud to see the release of Veo V2! deepmind.google/technologies... "Veo has achieved state of the art results in head-to-head comparisons of outputs by human raters over top video generation models"

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Hernan Moraldo @hmoraldo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Veo in the Google DeepMind booth

Hernan Moraldo @hmoraldo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Yeah, I had multiple hardware, driver and miscellaneous issues as well. I haven't moved to Mac yet (for my personal computer), would prefer not to, but who knows

Hernan Moraldo @hmoraldo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Same experience with two Dell Linux laptops so far...

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Jack Parker-Holder @jparkerholder.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Introducing 🧞Genie 2 🧞 - our most capable large-scale foundation world model, which can generate a diverse array of consistent worlds, playable for up to a minute. We believe Genie 2 could unlock the next wave of capabilities for embodied agents 🧠.

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Hernan Moraldo @hmoraldo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Fascinating account of the history of attention, as told by Dzmitry Bahdanau to Andrej Karpathy x.com/karpathy/sta...

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Hernan Moraldo @hmoraldo.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I love the notations and methods people in different fields invent for their work. For example the Megadeth drummer: "I developed a method for, when listening to a song for the first time, just count, name the parts, count the bars, and (...) have the structure" (youtu.be/tbUYVcaF_l0?... at 2:35)

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Megadeth Drummer Hears "Mr. Brightside" For The First Time

YouTube video by Drumeo

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Hernan Moraldo @hmoraldo.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I understand he designed it, at least the visual aspect. Though the time travelling aspect may already be in the novel, I don't know

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Metaprogramming for madmen

There are some posts like fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/m... that describe how it worked. It's super interesting; there was a lot of special tooling, ad-hoc compression and clever use of procedural content

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This post is part of the series “Debris: Opening the box”. Okay, previous posts from this series aimed to actually convey useful technical information: assuming you actually want to wri…

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.kkrieger is one of my favorite feats of engineering. A game released in the same year than Doom 3, with graphics of similar quality, that fits fully into 96kb. youtu.be/DN4Dtio8zKA?...

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.kkrieger - Wikipedia

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I assume so; I haven't verified but it does appear to work as they describe it

Certifiable authenticity, or with some kind of "proof"

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The popular with friends list is a bit close to that idea bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Should be easy to verify by recording a few sessions

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Also storing those stack traces into key variables often allows understanding difficult-to-debug issues, e.g. cases in which an object enters a faulty condition because of how it was setup, with a great delay between the setup and the condition

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I've often used both print-based debugging, and debugger tools in my work. A great middle ground option is printed-out stack traces at key points of a program

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The few indie ones I tried were very interesting and fun

DriveThruRPG - The Largest RPG Download Store!

I don't know about D&D, but there's a very interesting scene of indie role games in multiple genres in www.drivethrurpg.com (including some very original one-page games) - and larger semi-indie games like Troika too

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Your one-stop online shop for new and vintage RPG products from the top publishers, delivered fresh to your desktop in electronic format.

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Maybe the lesson is that after ten years, either a concept is so successful that it is completely commoditized, or it is mostly forgotten

Feed forward and (less so) convo layers. Dropout. And with 9 years: batch norm and distillation.

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Named Tensor NotationNamed Tensor Notation

I always liked Named Tensor Notation, it's a bit unfortunate it isn't used more namedtensor.github.io

namedtensor.github.io

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It was often concluded from emergent behaviors like that of Flocking / Boids (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boids) that real creatures probably followed similarly simple algorithms too. But given enough brain complexity and an RL-like learning process, they couldn't learn such cleanly disentangled rules.

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Boids - Wikipedia

And the same for interviewing as well

That's true, and I think this is the same kind of insight many professors rating exams often miss

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For me that's Matrix. There's a single scene that I don't like, though.