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Meta’s AI researchers have released a new model that’s trained in a similar way as today’s large language models, but instead of learning from words, as today’s state-of-the-art language models do, it learns from video. Yann LeCun, who leads Meta’s FAIR (foundational AI research) group, has been explaining over the past year that the reason children learn about the world so quickly is because they intake lots of information through their optical nerve and through their ears. They learn what things in the world are called…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain During the 2020–21 school year, the number of Black male students involved in disciplinary outcomes at school was disproportionately high compared to their enrollment numbers in kindergarten through grade 12, according to a report the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights published in November that surveyed student discipline in U.S. public schools. Specifically, the data…

Image: Marvel StudiosIn just 24 hours the Deadpool & Wolverine movie trailer became the most viewed piece of promotional content from Disney with a line about pegging. Bless the Merc with the Mouth played by Ryan Reynolds, whose return to the big screen with the promise of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine rocked the Super Bowl teasers on every available platform by scoring 365 million views in just a day.Being spread out (just like Deadpool likes it) between star Ryan Reynolds and Marvel Studios Youtube channel as well as on…

Boundaries are necessary for any healthy relationship, but they can be pretty hard to put up when it comes to family. After all, our own kin tends to feel a certain entitlement and connection to us, that, often, come with a confusing insistence at overlooking barriers you try to set up.A woman asked the internet for advice after an argument with her MIL that culminated with OP ditching her in a parking lot. Despite communicating a personal rule that she doesn’t want to be around her, the MIL demanded to be driven home…

Some women’s worst nightmare is to go missing. Having the authority “Netflix and chill” instead of trying to find them must come pretty close to the second biggest fear.A woman who had gone missing for half a day after suffering from a mental health crisis was utterly stunned when she discovered that the police, who had been sent to search for her, had spent several hours inside her home streaming shows and “chilling.”A search party had been looking for 21-year-old Abbygail Lawton, in Wigan, UK, with a police helicopter…

The Apple Vision Pro has been on sale for less than a week at this point but it has already turned up in some strange places. We've seen people wearing them while supposedly driving while others have used their Apple Vision Pro while flying an airplane, neither of which seems like a great idea. But not everyone has taken it upon themselves to go meme hunting. Some people have actually taken the Apple Vision Pro and used it in an interesting way. A way that might not be possible without it.One of those people is the…

Creating an animation from geostationary satellite images to dynamically monitor storms in real-time using Python and Google ColabContinue reading on Towards Data Science » Creating an animation from geostationary satellite images to dynamically monitor storms in real-time using Python and Google ColabContinue reading on Towards Data Science » FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the…

Someone has upended the contents of a costume department’s laundry basket on a 10-legged prog-pop band. They are slashing their way out of the corsetry and linens with flutes and keytars. Or at least that’s what it looks like when the Last Dinner Party take the stage of this renowned Bristol shoebox in a swashbuckling blur of flung hair, Napoleonic finery, mandolins and even some 21st-century garb, honouring a rescheduled gig that could easily have been upgraded to a much larger venue.The band are the recently crowned…

Dusty Deevers is a fundamentalist preacher. He’s also a state senator. And he insists he doesn’t see “any firewalls” between his two roles — as he crusades to outlaw porn, end what he decries as the “abortion holocaust,” and abolish no-fault divorce in Oklahoma. He argues that the sole purpose of government is to “promote what is good in accordance with the will of God.” Elected in a special election in December, Deevers represents the town of Elgin, in Oklahoma’s rural southwest, where he grew up and serves as the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBradley Cooper has revealed that watching Vince Vaughn on the set of the raucous 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers “changed me forever”.Cooper appeared opposite Vaughn and Owen Wilson in the R-rated comedy as Sack Lodge, the manipulative boyfriend of Owen Wilson’s love interest Claire (Rachel McAdams)Speaking during a video call with his fellow SAG Award Best Actor nominees, Cooper was…