My team at NVIDIA is hiring researcher's working at the intersection of LLMs and Audio! Please reach out to me if you need more details! lnkd.in/gVEEbaK9

In Dreams there's no polygons or pixelated textures.. Instead we have signed distance fields and flecks, tiny splats of texture that can be manipulated and animated to achieve a plethora of wonderful effects! #MadeInDreams #dreamsps5

For any new "world first" announcement that happens in the XR space, I can almost always find a way cooler proof of concept from 5-10 years ago in Ultraleap's Slack. It's certainly a huge compliment of all the awesome Leap devs who were pushing the boundaries in the early days!

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Yann LeCun "Humanoid robots" are the catnip of AI grifters

EYE-TRACKING as an interaction isn't as intuitive as you would think... Our eyes are BIZARRE AS HELL, and the magic and misdirection required to make eye tracking intuitive is very fascinating. A "twitter thread":

Just to remind you: Lee Anderson, the deputy chairman of the party governing this country, has accused the BBC of being ‘a safe haven for perverts.’ Has the level of public discourse ever dropped as low as this in the last century?

Another ML gem on the Hugging Face hub, generative dance moves demo: huggingface.co/spaces/wyysf/G… paper: huggingface.co/papers/2306.00…

Nothing to see but Italy having record breaking heatwave, floods & hail storms - but yeh the political class rage against a few folks for walking in the street not the lunacy of oil giants threatening humanity

A 🧵on why oil companies don't invest in renewables, what the UK Government is now overtly doing to assist big oil, and what it should be doing. 1/

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Over in the day job, the BBC Research & Development Advisory Team has just published a really fascinating piece of research into tech trends, with the great title 'Things are not normal' h/t to Henry Cooke, the main author and cat juggler. bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-1…

Your face during set-up when you realise you can’t afford food or heating for the month cos you spent it all on a VR headset 🙃

Rees Mogg, "The Conservative government is unpopular, the opinion polls show the Conservatives may not remain a majority after election. What is the mandate for the Rwanda scheme?" Bill Cash, "The mandate is that people voted to take back control of their borders. That is

I got BCI tracking now! I was able to directly control the ears on my avatar with my MIND after some training in the mirror! Super cool stuff! Thanks to Lethos🔜FWA for the hardware and Chillout_Charles for the software!

Ben Lang ᯅ this gives definite "police sketch of a prolific, uncaught criminal" vibes. i'm sorry it had to be done

That one EC2 instance you forgot to turn off x.com/LibertyCappy/s…

A warning for anyone standing in the background while Sunak pleads for people to vote for him - if you don't look enthusiastic about what he's saying someone on his team will get a text telling them to block you from view...