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Bloomberg – Sam Altman on ChatGPT’s First Two Years, Elon Musk and AI Under Trump
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-sam-altman-interview
One of the strengths of that original OpenAI group was recruiting. Somehow you managed to corner the market on a ton of the top AI research talent, often with much less money to offer than your competitors. What was the pitch?
The pitch was just come build AGI. And the reason it worked—I cannot overstate how heretical it was at the time to say we’re gonna build AGI. So you filter out 99% of the world, and you only get the really talented, original thinkers. And that’s really powerful. If you’re doing the same thing everybody else is doing, if you’re building, like, the 10,000th photo-sharing app? Really hard to recruit talent.
OpenAI senior executives at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco on March 13, 2023, from left: Sam Altman, chief executive officer; Mira Murati, chief technology officer; Greg Brockman, president; and Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist. Photographer: Jim Wilson/The New York Times
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LG 45GX990A – The world’s first bendable gaming monitor
The monitor resembles a typical thin flat screen when in its home position, but it can flex its 45-inch body to 900R curvature in the blink of an eye.
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DMesh++ – An Efficient Differentiable Mesh for Complex Shapes
https://sonsang.github.io/dmesh2-project
An efficient differentiable mesh-based method that can effectively handle complex 2D and 3D shapes. For instance, it can be used for reconstructing complex shapes from point clouds and multi-view images.
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Nvidia unveils $3,000 desktop AI computer for home LLM researchers
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/nvidias-first-desktop-pc-can-run-local-ai-models-for-3000
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/project-digits
Some smaller open-weights AI language models (such as Llama 3.1 70B, with 70 billion parameters) and various AI image-synthesis models like Flux.1 dev (12 billion parameters) could probably run comfortably on Project DIGITS, but larger open models like Llama 3.1 405B, with 405 billion parameters, may not. Given the recent explosion of smaller AI models, a creative developer could likely run quite a few interesting models on the unit.
DIGITS’ 128GB of unified RAM is notable because a high-power consumer GPU like the RTX 4090 has only 24GB of VRAM. Memory serves as a hard limit on AI model parameter size, and more memory makes room for running larger local AI models.
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Gaussian Splatting OFX plugin for Nuke
https://radiancefields.com/gaussian-splatting-in-nuke
https://aescripts.com/gaussian-splatting-for-nuke
Features
- Import .ply files in Nuke.
- Support Compressed .ply files from SuperSplat
- Crop with Spherical or Box shape.
- Crop with Y Plane.
- Combine up to 10 models in the scene.
- Colorize with Ramp using Spherical or Box shape.
- Reveal model with Opacity Ramp.
- Animate Splat Scale with Spherical or Box shape.
- Each model can be distorted with Noise.
- Render Depth Pass for 3D compose.
- Color correction for each model.
- Real-time with GPU
- Export scene
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ComfyUI + InstaID SDXL – Face and body swap tutorials
https://github.com/cubiq/ComfyUI_InstantID
https://github.com/cubiq/ComfyUI_InstantID/tree/main/examples
https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface
Unofficial version https://github.com/ZHO-ZHO-ZHO/ComfyUI-InstantID
Installation details under the post
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Laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5X Ultra Macro vs 100mm f/2.8 2x lens
https://gilwizen.com/laowa-25mm-ultra-macro-lens-review/
https://www.cameralabs.com/laowa-25mm-f2-8-2-5-5x-ultra-macro-review/
- Pros:
– Lightweight, small size for a high-magnification macro lens
– Highest magnification lens available for non-Canon users
– Excellent sharpness and image quality
– Consistent working distance
– Narrow lens barrel makes it easy to find and track subject
– Affordable
- Cons:
– Manual, no auto aperture control
– No filter thread (but still customizable with caution)
– Dark viewfinder when closing aperture makes focusing difficult in poor light conditions
– Magnification range is short 2.5-5x compared to the competition
Combining a Laowa 25mm 2.5x lens with a Kenko 12mm extension tube
To find the combined magnification when using a Laowa 25mm 2.5x lens with a 12mm Kenko extension tube, given the magnification of the lens itself, the extension tube length, and the combined setup, you can calculate the total magnification.
First, consider the magnification of the lens itself, which is 2.5x.
Then, to find the total magnification when the extension tube is attached, you can use the formula:
Total Magnification = Magnification of the Lens + (Magnification of the Lens * Extension Tube Length / Focal Length of the Lens)
In this case, the extension tube length is 12mm, and the focal length of the lens is 25mm. Using the values:
Total Magnification with 2.5x = 2.5 + (2.5 * 12 / 25) = 2.5 + (30 / 25) = 2.5 + 1.2 = 3.7x
Total Magnification with 5x = 5 + (5 * 12 / 25) = 5 + (60 / 25) = 5 + 2.4 = 7.4x
- Pros:
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Types of Film Lights and their efficiency – CRI, Color Temperature and Luminous Efficacy
nofilmschool.com/types-of-film-lights
“Not every light performs the same way. Lights and lighting are tricky to handle. You have to plan for every circumstance. But the good news is, lighting can be adjusted. Let’s look at different factors that affect lighting in every scene you shoot. “
Use CRI, Luminous Efficacy and color temperature controls to match your needs.
Color Temperature
Color temperature describes the “color” of white light by a light source radiated by a perfect black body at a given temperature measured in degrees Kelvinhttps://www.pixelsham.com/2019/10/18/color-temperature/
CRI
“The Color Rendering Index is a measurement of how faithfully a light source reveals the colors of whatever it illuminates, it describes the ability of a light source to reveal the color of an object, as compared to the color a natural light source would provide. The highest possible CRI is 100. A CRI of 100 generally refers to a perfect black body, like a tungsten light source or the sun. “https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-color-rendering-index
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