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Runway Partners with AMC Networks Across Marketing and TV Development
https://runwayml.com/news/runway-amc-partnership
Runway and AMC Networks, the international entertainment company known for popular and award-winning titles including MAD MEN, BREAKING BAD, BETTER CALL SAUL, THE WALKING DEAD and ANNE RICE’S INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, are partnering to incorporate Runway’s AI models and tools in AMC Networks’ marketing and TV development processes.
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LumaLabs.ai – Introducing Modify Video
https://lumalabs.ai/blog/news/introducing-modify-video
Reimagine any video. Shoot it in post with director-grade control over style, character, and setting. Restyle expressive actions and performances, swap entire worlds, or redesign the frame to your vision.
Shoot once. Shape infinitely.
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Transformer Explainer -Interactive Learning of Text-Generative Models
https://github.com/poloclub/transformer-explainer
Transformer Explainer is an interactive visualization tool designed to help anyone learn how Transformer-based models like GPT work. It runs a live GPT-2 model right in your browser, allowing you to experiment with your own text and observe in real time how internal components and operations of the Transformer work together to predict the next tokens. Try Transformer Explainer at http://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer
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Henry Daubrez – How to generate VR/ 360 videos directly with Google VEO
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/upskydown_vr-googleveo-veo3-activity-7334269406396461059-d8Da
If you prompt for a 360° video in VEO (like literally write “360°” ) it can generate a Monoscopic 360 video, then the next step is to inject the right metadata in your file so you can play it as an actual 360 video.
Once it’s saved with the right Metadata, it will be recognized as an actual 360/VR video, meaning you can just play it in VLC and drag your mouse to look around.
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ChaosGPT: “destroy humanity,” “establish global dominance,” and “attain immortality.”
A user of the new open-source autonomous AI project Auto-GPT asked it to try to “destroy humanity,” “establish global dominance,” and “attain immortality.” The AI, called ChaosGPT, complied and tried to research nuclear weapons, recruit other AI agents to help it do research, and sent tweets trying to influence others.
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Photography basics: Solid Angle measures
http://www.calculator.org/property.aspx?name=solid+angle
A measure of how large the object appears to an observer looking from that point. Thus. A measure for objects in the sky. Useful to retuen the size of the sun and moon… and in perspective, how much of their contribution to lighting. Solid angle can be represented in ‘angular diameter’ as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_angle
http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/steradian.html
A solid angle is expressed in a dimensionless unit called a steradian (symbol: sr). By default in terms of the total celestial sphere and before atmospheric’s scattering, the Sun and the Moon subtend fractional areas of 0.000546% (Sun) and 0.000531% (Moon).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_angle#Sun_and_Moon
On earth the sun is likely closer to 0.00011 solid angle after athmospheric scattering. The sun as perceived from earth has a diameter of 0.53 degrees. This is about 0.000064 solid angle.
http://www.numericana.com/answer/angles.htm
The mean angular diameter of the full moon is 2q = 0.52° (it varies with time around that average, by about 0.009°). This translates into a solid angle of 0.0000647 sr, which means that the whole night sky covers a solid angle roughly one hundred thousand times greater than the full moon.
More info
http://lcogt.net/spacebook/using-angles-describe-positions-and-apparent-sizes-objects
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/glossary/def.php.s=topic_astronomy
Angular Size
The apparent size of an object as seen by an observer; expressed in units of degrees (of arc), arc minutes, or arc seconds. The moon, as viewed from the Earth, has an angular diameter of one-half a degree.
The angle covered by the diameter of the full moon is about 31 arcmin or 1/2°, so astronomers would say the Moon’s angular diameter is 31 arcmin, or the Moon subtends an angle of 31 arcmin.
