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🎥 Introducing Split-then-Merge: A new video composition framework! This approach enables the composition of any foreground video with any background video. Unlike conventional methods that rely on annotated datasets or handcrafted rules, Split-then-Merge (StM) splits a large unlabeled corpus of videos into dynamic foreground and background layers, then merges...

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Aaron Levie

91,863 views • 10 months ago

I've built an AI agent that generates a logline of its choosing, creates text-to-video clips via 'scenes' it prompts with Luma, and then stitches them together automatically—even adding background music if you happen to have some present! At first, I let the model run wild—no direction, just "generate an interesting logline & prompts", basically. The results were quite interesting, but style was a bit all over the place (which was kinda cool in some ways actually). Then, I refined the prompt it was using to create the content—attempting to focus on cinematic feeling, character consistency (age, hair, ethnicity, name), and visual style. The idea is to build it out so that it can (hopefully) stick to genre, director influence, and a cohesive color palette. That will take some time, though. The agent is fully autonomous. It: Writes a story/logline and then the corresponding prompts Generates video clips Downloads them Stitches them into a final video (Optional) Adds background music all in one shot (it just takes ~5-10 minutes, and generates 17 clips or so at this time - I was using 30 as well but shortened it to test). You can upload your own background music to merge seamlessly, too. I'm working on more integrations to refine the output even further. Right now, I want everyone to try it out, but you'll likely need to upload your own API keys (because I'm broke 😂). Still figuring out the best way to share it! I'll have to explore Replit or Gradio, but that will be a little bit either tonight or tomorrow. The final video below shows where it's at as of right now. And in the comments, I’ve included different outputs—some completely chaotic, others more polished after prompt tuning.

Kiri

69,476 views • 1 year ago

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Steven Johnson

104,814 views • 8 months ago

If you're interested in Tesla Robotaxi, Tesla AI or Tesla FSD, then you ought to know about jimmah . He's probably the one person who's done the deepest public dives on Tesla FSD and Tesla AI over the years. In fact, over the past 4 years I've published 40+ videos (!) with James Douma on Tesla AI/FSD (they are all on a playlist on my YouTube channel). I first discovered James Douma a long time ago (maybe almost 8-10 years ago?) on a web forum called . Back then it was one of the only places for early Tesla owners and TSLA investors to discuss issues deeply. While I posted about investing topics, James posted about Tesla Autopilot and its hardware but in a way that was more thorough than anybody else. When I started posting YouTube videos years later, I invited him on my channel to hear his thoughts on Tesla Autopilot/FSD. It was a riveting discussion and I was surprised at how much I could learn from him. I invited him again for another interview on my channel, and once again I was floored by how much I was learning. So over the years, James has been a great resource for me (and many others) to keep pulse on what Tesla is doing with FSD and AI (and even robotics). He doesn't have his own YouTube channel. He doesn't have any paid services or subscriptions. He probably has mixed feelings about so many people knowing about him. But I appreciate his willingness over the years to be available and help the Tesla community by offering his insights and knowledge. Yesterday I spent most of the day with James taking Robotaxi rides and discussion all things Robotaxi: - current state of Robotaxi - quality of Robotaxi rides - possible scaling plans - challenges - comparison to Waymo and others - Tesla AI 5 - and much more Attached is a 2+ hour edited video of our Robotaxi rides and discussion. We also had an hour+ discussion on Optimus humanoid robots that I'll upload as a separate video tomorrow.

Dave Lee

104,746 views • 1 year ago

I asked Garry Tan how to use meta prompting to get better at AI: "My partners at YC Jared Friedman and Pete Koomen showed me how to do this. You can take almost anything that you do all the time and just drop it into a context window. And then say, “Here’s a bunch of inputs and outputs." And maybe you also add a bunch of notes. And then you tell it, “Write me a prompt that can act as an agent that takes this input and makes this output over here.” You can do this for almost any type of knowledge work. And you can even introspect. "What are things you notice that I did to convert this from the input to the output?”. And then you can just start using the prompt. Initially, it’s going to suck. Because it’s just not that smart yet. But what’s funny is now, I also use it to Iterate my writing. You can be very direct, "I would never say that", "Don’t say it like this", or "Oh, you used the long word there, use the short word". Just speak to it conversationally. And then when you're happy with the output, you can use that new output to make a new prompt. "Based on this conversation, give me a better initial prompt that incorporates all the things we talked about." And you can do this with literally everything. And in theory, there’s so much it applies to that people do day-to-day. You could use it for tweets. You could use it for editing podcasts. You can use it for pretty much everything. I have a folder of prompts that I use all the time. My YouTube prompt is on v27 or something. I'll go through this process with all the different max models. I'll use GPT 5.2 Pro. I’ll use Grok. I'll use Claude. Then, I’ll take all the outputs from all the models and put them into Claude and say "Here’s my prompt, here’s the output from four LLMs, including yourself. Rate each response and tell me what the pros and cons of each approach are." And I usually say "give it to me in numbered form". And then you can agree with one, disagree with two, tell it three is this or that. And then after that, you say given all of this, synthesize it."

The Peel

51,632 views • 4 months ago

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@levelsio

408,276 views • 7 months ago

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This is the video of the interaction that happened at my home on July 13, 2025. I showed up to my home to try and talk with my at that time, wife and see my children. As the text messages and evidence will show in later on filings, I came back to my residence multiple times to try and work things out with Bonnie for the better of our children and family. When I showed up, Bonnie was not there. Her mom was always more than welcome to be there. Her mom lived with us for a while, until I came home after being pardoned. When I got home, she wanted her own space, so we got Lisa her own apartment in Longview, Texas. She had separated from James because he drank all day and would become violent towards her. Before I came home, Lisa got a black eye in my garage from James. So it was a no-brainer for me to either leave her living in my house or get her an apartment in Longview close to us. She insisted on not going back to Oklahoma to live with James, she didn’t want to go to Houston and live with James. Her grandkids were here, her job was here, and she did not want to go anywhere. So we made that happen, and I paid for that out of my own back pocket. That’s the house Lisa is referring to in this video, which is why she has to refer to it as “my” or hers - that’s noticed with her, distinguishing her property, her house, and not their house or our house. ——— but let’s rewind for a second for more context. The day that I announced my run for Congress, James and Bonnie got into a huge fight, she asked me to handle it, I went to go speak with James at Lisa’s residence that I was paying for, James pulled a knife and sliced my neck. The next morning, Bonnie and I got into a huge argument, I asked her if she was going to help me, her answers showed me that she was not. I was already discovering financial wrongdoing, I knew about infidelity, her mother and father are alcoholics and drug addicts, and you can tell that by James slurring all throughout this video. And you’ll notice throughout this video that James tells me multiple times that it’s no longer my house, it’s his daughter’s house - referring to Bonnie. What I didn’t know, is that he really meant that, because Bonnie had taken my power of attorney without my knowledge, signed over all of our assets into her name only, closed Wholesale Universe, Inc., opened Wholesale Universe, LLC in her name only, locked me out of all the bank accounts, then went to an attorney (who am I fully intend on talking about later) and filed for divorce and a restraining order using a false statement of facts, thus committing perjury. Furthermore, you’ll hear James admitting to putting a knife to my throat and blaming me for him doing that. He calls me “lucky”, as if I should be lucky to be sliced and attempted to be killed by my father-in-law. ——————— As soon as this video is over, I called 911, and an officer came out immediately. I will post the rest of the videos of this interaction in the comment section, including when the officer showed up, pulled the gun out, and started questioning him. This is not just a case of an old man grabbing at a gun. James had already tried to kill me once, and that’s why I had to leave. On July 13, 2025, I discovered in the house that day binders and folders that Bonnie had of businesses that I had never heard of. Things like widespread holdings LLC, among others who were opened in 2021, 2022, 2023 and so on. Businesses that were running my money through them, but I was never made privy to. I’ll show you the pictures of that information down below. That’s how I became aware fully with proof that my money had been stolen and fraud had been committed against me. I revoked my power of attorney from Bonnie by text message the very next day. The day after that she started selling assets. I’ve played this all out on my website, but I will be updating it today and tomorrow and adding everything about this case.

Ryan Nichols Sr.

815,057 views • 3 months ago

David Shire on the ideal working conditions to compose a movie score: "Interviewer: What are the ideal working conditions for considering a film score, where you are not your own master as you are when you do musicals? Shire: Working with real collaborators like Francis Coppola, Walter Murch, Glenn Jordan, Talia Shire or a number of other directors I could name is ideal. It’s interesting that I worked with Talia in much the same way that I worked with her brother Francis Coppola on "The Conversation" (1974), where instead of them finishing the movie and then calling in a composer to look at it and then run home with a limited time to do a score, they had me read a script in an early form so we could start talking about the score early on. The music then had a chance to evolve as the picture was evolving. Almost any composer you ask would like to work that way. You have a chance to have your subconscious work on the project, maybe while you are even working on other things. Once I have my basic material and I know it’s right, I can write the cues relatively quickly. Each cue leads to the next. There’s an inner logic about it that carries you through. Subsidiary material starts being generated by the principal material and vice versa. The material reaches a critical mass and starts to explode with possibilities. But as my orchestration and composition skills have gotten more and more fluent, I’ve been increasingly able to turn out a hack score with the best of them, and that scares me. That’s a special danger of doing a lot of TV work. You get too good at doing something in two weeks, often by recycling your favourite ideas and techniques and doing what comes easily. What’s exciting is when a film asks you to do something you’ve never done before, like "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" (1974) I eventually realized the way to get the sound I wanted was through serial techniques. It was a style I wasn’t fluent in. So I had to bite the bullet and spend many weeks down here giving myself composition lessons, so to speak! I think any artist does that. With any new project you are a virgin to some extent. You have to initiate yourself, and give yourself the time to discover." (David Shire's interview with Matthias Büdinger, Soundtrack magazine, 1995) P.S: Happy 89th birthday, David Shire!

DepressedBergman

13,094 views • 12 days ago

Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt on the data strategy behind the next hundred billion dollar companies: He explains that he evaluates startup ideas by looking at 5-year growth trajectories and asking whether there's a more scalable strategy available. Take a founder building an app they want to charge $10 for. Eric Schmidt's challenge: "Why not give it away for free and upsell users instead?" But the real insight is his framework for predicting which companies will dominate — and it all comes down to data. "5 years ago, I said publicly that the future will be apps that are on smartphones that use Google Maps, GPS, and do something useful. Now, what I should have said was Uber." So what does he think will define the next wave of massive companies? Systems built on Android and iOS, fast networks, and powerful machine learning, with a crucial data advantage: "They're going to use the crowd to learn something." He illustrates with this example: Pay dermatologists $1 each to categorize skin samples. Feed that into a machine learning system. Then sell the diagnostic service back to them, because a system trained on thousands of experts will outperform any individual. Schmidt summarizes the winning data strategy: "You crowdsource information in, you learn it, and then you sell it. [This] is in my view a highly likely candidate for the next hundred billion dollar corporations." The blueprint: Aggregate expert data at scale → train ML systems on that data → sell superior insights back to the market. This is how the next generation of dominant companies will be built.

Big Brain AI

104,452 views • 5 months ago

Sora 2 has the capabilities to make an entire anime episode with time and effort. This is a turning point for generative AI models and it is terrifying to think what is next to come. The difference between Sora and Sora 2 is absolutely staggering. Yes, this looks cool. I put the time into it to make it as close to art as possible. This was not simple to make and not just prompting and throwing it in some editor. Every frame is generated of another scene and even the reference image for characters I used to start this project were AI generated. This was all created with 10 second clips pulled apart and chunked out into the final product. Regardless of the imagery you see, I did not directly use any artist's art for this video. This 10-minute video was generated over the course of a week from more than 700 text prompts. It was built on technology trained by scraping the uncredited, uncompensated contributions of countless human artists and animators. The creation of this single video consumed an enormous amount of energy and water, equivalent to powering a home for days and requiring hundreds of liters of fresh water for cooling. But that is nothing. In the 10 minutes you spend watching this, the global network of AI video generators will create over 6,250 more short videos. The combined energy required for that 10 minutes of global creation is enough to power an average household for nearly 2 years. - It's a double-edged sword. While AI uses immense amount of energy has clear immoral issues with scalping the hard work of artists, this also provides those a medium who have potentially spent their life attempting to draw out the ideas in their head and failing to grasp it. My sister is an artist, I grew up always attempting to draw but never could get the image in my head on paper, I've spent the better part of over 20 years to teach myself through watching videos and practice, however I don't have steady hands and frankly have just been unable to make any vision come to life. Which brings me to the conflict here. This would have been a dream of mine to be able to get frames created and flesh out the story in my head. To make this video professionally, it would be an absurd amount of money. A small studio by itself would be over a million dollars just to start up. To hire a studio would be most likely over ~200k. I would love to make this story I have in my head through legit and traditional means, I would love to start a Kickstarter to get funding and hire artists, voice actors, and a production team. However I know that would most likely be an impossible reach that would further fuel the hate. Regardless, I understand the worry this causes. The fear this produces. However, we can't just ignore where AI is currently at and just tell people not to use it or even worse threaten people who use it. People will always use the shiny new toy in front of them, so the real question is how do we either make it work for us and work along side it, or how do we ACTUALLY implement a method to protect art rather than tell people to not use it. Respect your artists. Review their ToS and don't upload their hard work to a model without permission.

LUͦʷCͦk

18,417 views • 9 months ago

I am an outstandingly well trained and well- practiced RN; then outstandingly well trained and 30-year-practiced pediatric dentist and orthodontist. I did not start out anti-VAX by any means. In retrospect now, I would say I was a “vaxer.” But then I started having doubts about the flu vaccine when “they” claimed, “well we didn’t get the right strains that we thought were going to be prominent this year.” Then I had doubts about the Hep B vaccine, then the shingles vaccine, and so I sort of thought I am “anti-adult”vaccines. Then I had a new son join my family with my new husband. My new son had been diagnosed as autistic at age 2, immediately following his MMR vaccine. But childhood vaccines, I had always believed in strongly. After all when I was in high school I helped give the first oral polio vaccine doses on sugar cubes! Of course I felt I was doing something wonderful for the people, taking it, including myself, of course. But now, as I grew to love and work with my son who was injured after his MMR, doubts about childhood vaccines began. And, as I started digging, researching, I found evidence that the then DTP/DPT/DTap vaccine was strongly statistically linked to SIDS. Then I learned about the HPV/Gardisil vaccine and girls being severely injured and dying after that one. And to my horror, this awareness came after our daughter was required to have and had it to continue her university education at Texas A&M. She was fortunate- no severe adverse reactions, at least UP TO NOW. . (Following that vaccine, studies are showing that some recipients do end up with cervical cancer.) And then I learned from my American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry that they were recommending that I and (all pediatric dentists), push it with the parents for both boys and girls as young as nine years of age. That was it. I realized I am anti-vaccine. PS. When the COVID-19 vaccine came into our awareness in 2020, it was not only, “no way for my family and me, but something I knew I had to warn people about. And so, was born. Check it out if you want to be more aware of the sequences and progress of the politicization of that vaccine. It’s really fascinating to look back at. You will see the evolution of my awareness through that particular time, of how deadly and horrid our toxic vaccines can be. We will be moving all of the 20+ articles on RealDrJoy, to substack soon. Tracy Beanz Dr Margaret Aranda Laura Bartlett - I DO NOT CONSENT FORM™ Matt Youngblood🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 ℂ𝕒𝕥 ℂ𝕒𝕥 ℂ𝕒𝕥 Abby the Midwife

Dr. Chris Baker

62,705 views • 8 months ago

Robert Englund on how he was influenced by the performances of Klaus Kinski & James Cagney for his role as Freddy Kruger in "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984): "I saw the Klaus Kinski version of "Nosferatu the Vampyre" (1979, Herzog) with Isabelle Adjani, and I was so blown away by his work and I'm a big fan of Klaus Kinski's and so his freedom, his physical freedom in that film also influenced me to be freer and not be afraid to dance a little bit; to dance to Freddy a little bit or, as we say in the theatre, to wear the scenery a little bit. And sort of find my composition because so much of the scenery that Freddy is involved with is larger than life, it's surreal, it's the boiler-room, it's exaggerated, the set is mutating for whatever reasons and so Freddy, to kind of fill that frame, that rectangle, that picture frame, I wanted Freddy to be able to do that and kind of wear that scenery as if he was almost manifesting it himself in the imagination of whichever victim was hallucinating or dreaming it or having a nightmare in that landscape, so to speak. Yeah and that influenced me a lot and I would also use the hat a lot. I liked to use the hat to reveal the bald head - I liked to use the hat as silhouette and shadow and I liked to use the hat to hide behind. I could like literally hide my eyes from the light under the brim, and then at other times I could just barely lift my head and let the light in under the brim to catch my own eyes. So that was really informed part of Freddy, and then I think there was a little bit of Jimmy Cagney in there. There was a kind of a plant your legs wide, almost a little bit of Jimmy Cagney gangster thing. These are all like images that actors used, almost like having a bulletin board with scraps on them and they kind of inform you in your imagination and then they kind of manifest. I don't think anybody watching me would say Klaus Kinski or say Jimmy Cagney or say Bob Fosse or any of those things. But they did inform me a little bit. Because Freddy knows you're dreaming him, so it's almost like he's on stage. Freddy knows you're dreaming him and you're experiencing him as a spectre so I thought he would exploit that a little bit and milk it a little bit, you know." (Robert Englund's interview with Kwenton Bellette, Screenanarchy, 2012) P.S: Happy 79th birthday, Robert Englund!

DepressedBergman

33,756 views • 1 month ago

Experiments in progress. The one on the right has been learning for ~3 hours, the one in the middle for ~1 hour, and the one on the left just started a few minutes ago. The initial motivation for making the physical Atari was just to commit ourselves to a subset of algorithms that can make progress in this setup. This commitment rules out algorithms that require billions of samples to learn (or worse, require multiple environments running in parallel). Atari games are simple enough that we should be able to show learning on them in a short amount of time with no prior knowledge. Since then, I've realized that this setup is also a good way to compare different paradigms in robotics in a principled way. These paradigms are sim2real, learning from tele-operated data, and learning directly on the robots. So far, I have observed that getting sim2real to work reliably is hard. It requires tweaks that don't scale. Policies that can play perfectly in simulation fall apart because of latencies and the messiness of the real world. These aspects could be modeled to improve the simulation, but not without sinking significant human engineering hours. I have higher hopes for learning from tele-operated data, but that requires a human to learn the task first. These experiments are on my to-do list. I have to learn to play some of the games well through the robot. I’m half-decent at playing Pong and Ms Pacman now. Learning directly on robots is looking like the most promising approach. This approach takes away pesky distribution shifts and makes it possible to have algorithms that continually improve with more data and time without any human intervention. It feels great to let experiments run overnight and wake up to find improved policies. With learning on robots, I should, in principle, be able to go on a long vacation and come back to find better policies for complex tasks beyond Atari games. Whether that is possible with current learning algorithms is a different question.

Khurram Javed

52,110 views • 7 months ago

Quit my Job at Microsoft, and back to the Classroom as a Student - My Short Story. Till today, some say quitting my job at Microsoft doesn't make logical sense. To be serious, it doesn't make any logical sense especially when I have to return to the classroom and back to the job market. This was however necessary for me to pursue a new path for my family. When I was at Microsoft, on several occasions, I felt Microsoft was God's sent to Africa and I am the Evangelist. Explain to me why a company is investing so much in capacity development in Africa like Microsoft. Through relevant skills, we can bring many out of poverty, save them from the after-effects of unemployment, make them dream big and achieve it, and keep alive hopes in the hearts of millions of others with similar backgrounds like mine. So, I took my work with passion and purpose. I was allowed to support academic institutes in several countries and I appeared as a Guest Lecturer for Masters Courses on Advance Data Analytics. I relocated to the US and everything changed, back to the classroom but now as a Student. Indeed a humbling experience for me. I love every opportunity I have to make complex topics simple. You wouldn't know how much I know about Data Management, Data Science, Data Analytics, and Power Platform until you give me a Mic or Opportunity to lead (Yeah, kindly reach out if you would like to have such a passionate young man like myself in your team). I am deeply passionate about these fields and my passion is validated by years of work that I have invested in building up my skills. I have been opportune to lead diverse teams in my career and both my listening skill and ability to break down complex tasks made it easier to bring out the best in my team members. In this presentation, I explained what Supervised Machine Learning is, the data science workflow, and evaluating machine learning models, and I did a live demo in class - built a Supervised Machine Learning model to drive home full comprehension. I am looking for a Remote Internship for Summer 2024 in Data Analytics and I need your help to Like and Repost this. Who knows, I can be lucky enough to find a team that will give me a chance. Thank you in advance 🙏 #intern

TheOyinbooke

215,978 views • 2 years ago

🚨NEW ZEALAND IN FULL BLOWN PANIC MODE! Health Care Worker/Data Administrator, Barry young, BLEW THE LID on How Many People Truly Died from Pfizer Vaccine Batches! He Was Then Raided and Now Faces 7 Years in Prison WHAT HAPPENED? Barry Young worked on a project at “Te Whatu Ora” as a data administrator to implement a vaccine payment system to providers. Te Whatu Ora is a Public Health Agency established by the New Zealand Government. Because Barry helped build this system, he had access to vaccine-related data and he was shocked to learn that a lot of people were dying a week after being vaccinated. Shocked at his discovery, he downloaded and shared that data with the world. THREE VIDEO BREAKDOWN: VIDEO #1 Barry Young breaks down how he came about this data and the Pfizer Vaccine batch data, showing a death rate ranging between 5-25%. VIDEO #2 Liz Gunn sounds the alarm that Barry Young, as well as someone who corroborated his findings, was RAIDED! She calls for a global effort to make this story known. VIDEO #3 The significance of this data being released. More context. WHERE THINGS ARE NOW: Te Whatu Ora has been granted an injunction that "prevents any publication of the data" by the Employment Relations Authority. Te Whatu Ora has alleged Young downloaded the data, and has since removed all his access to their systems. Barry Young, was charged with accessing a computer system for “dishonest purposes”, which carries a maximum penalty of seven years' prison. The police said they would be opposing his release on bail, because of the risk he could continue to spread “misinformation.” UNBELIEVABLE! I hope the people of New Zealand stand with this man. #nzdataleak

jamiemcintyre

432,340 views • 2 years ago