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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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Methods for creating motion blur in Stop motion
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_motion
Petroleum jelly
This crude but reasonably effective technique involves smearing petroleum jelly (“Vaseline”) on a plate of glass in front of the camera lens, also known as vaselensing, then cleaning and reapplying it after each shot — a time-consuming process, but one which creates a blur around the model. This technique was used for the endoskeleton in The Terminator. This process was also employed by Jim Danforth to blur the pterodactyl’s wings in Hammer Films’ When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, and by Randal William Cook on the terror dogs sequence in Ghostbusters.[citation needed]Bumping the puppet
Gently bumping or flicking the puppet before taking the frame will produce a slight blur; however, care must be taken when doing this that the puppet does not move too much or that one does not bump or move props or set pieces.Moving the table
Moving the table on which the model is standing while the film is being exposed creates a slight, realistic blur. This technique was developed by Ladislas Starevich: when the characters ran, he moved the set in the opposite direction. This is seen in The Little Parade when the ballerina is chased by the devil. Starevich also used this technique on his films The Eyes of the Dragon, The Magical Clock and The Mascot. Aardman Animations used this for the train chase in The Wrong Trousers and again during the lorry chase in A Close Shave. In both cases the cameras were moved physically during a 1-2 second exposure. The technique was revived for the full-length Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.Go motion
The most sophisticated technique was originally developed for the film The Empire Strikes Back and used for some shots of the tauntauns and was later used on films like Dragonslayer and is quite different from traditional stop motion. The model is essentially a rod puppet. The rods are attached to motors which are linked to a computer that can record the movements as the model is traditionally animated. When enough movements have been made, the model is reset to its original position, the camera rolls and the model is moved across the table. Because the model is moving during shots, motion blur is created.A variation of go motion was used in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial to partially animate the children on their bicycles.
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Yasuharu YOSHIZAWA – Comparison of sRGB vs ACREScg in Nuke
Answering the question that is often asked, “Do I need to use ACEScg to display an sRGB monitor in the end?” (Demonstration shown at an in-house seminar)
Comparison of scanlineRender output with extreme color lights on color charts with sRGB/ACREScg in color – OCIO -working space in NukeDownload the Nuke script:
