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A simple Japanese phrase that people in Tokyo and Osaka take completely differently
let’s look at what iketara iku literally means. Iku is Japanese for “go.” All Japanese verbs end in a “-u,” and changing that to “-etara” adds the meaning to “if I can,”
so iketara iku means “I’ll go if I can go,” or, more naturally, “I’ll be there if I can make it.”
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Tarkovsky Films Now Free Online
http://www.openculture.com/2010/07/tarkovksy.html
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) firmly positioned himself as the finest Soviet director of the post-War period.
Ingmar Bergman went so far as to say, “Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.”
And Akira Kurosawa acknowledged his influence too, adding, “I love all of Tarkovsky’s films. I love his personality and all his works. Every cut from his films is a marvelous image in itself.”
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Apple releases Depth Pro – An open source AI model that rewrites the rules of 3D vision
The model is fast, producing a 2.25-megapixel depth map in 0.3 seconds on a standard GPU.
https://github.com/apple/ml-depth-pro
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.02073
