Norman Casagrande

New VST/AU Plugin! 🚨

Play with Lyria RealTime directly from inside your favorite DAW with “The Infinite Crate” 🎧🎶

With a VST plugin you can feed audio directly into your DAW for sampling, live performance, or even a practice partner to jam with.

💾 Get it here: g.co/magenta/infinite-crate

We’ve just released Magenta RealTime, an open-weights live music model that lets you craft sounds in real time by exploring the latent space through text and audio!

🤗 Model: huggingface.co/google/magen...
🧑‍💻Code: github.com/magenta/mage...
📝Blog post: magenta.withgoogle.com/magenta-real...

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Correction: it *is* a federal republic. Apologies for the confusion.

Switzerland is not a republic, but would it be long-lived enough to make its institutions interesting?

100% agreed. I find it scary to see so many ppl trusting the output of those models. But I clearly have a bias having worked on their “innards”.
NotebookLM is the only one I find useful for research (with caveats) as it gives references to the sources you provide.

It’s a classic!

YouTube video by mutant763 That Mitchell and Webb Look - Evil Vicar

“I stand with 2000 years of darkness and bafflement and hunger behind me”. They don’t make those anymore 😅
youtu.be/yRujuE-GIY4

Also because if you were smart but poor, the church was one of the few places that allowed you to get some education and a good chance for social mobility

Gemma explained: What’s new in Gemma 3- Google Developers Blog Google's Gemma 3 model includes vision-language support and architectural changes for resource-friendly multimodal language models.

Gemma 3 explained: Longer context, image support, and a new 1B model. → goo.gle/4lV8iaw

Other key enhancements:
🔸 Best model that fits in a single consumer GPU or TPU host
🔸 KV-cache memory reduction with 5-to-1 interleaved attention
🔸 And more!

Read the blog for the full details on Gemma 3.

The training data distribution has a massive impact on learning. Imbalanced distributions (some individuals appearing more frequently) accelerate the plateau phase.
This suggests exciting new data scheduling strategies for training - we show that a simple warmup works well!

Theodore Roosevelt, 1918:

What makes you think the rule of law would still apply? ;)

Buddy I just got done writing a book covering 10,000 years of history. I've been a historian for a decade. I promise you, the evidence for idiocy in the human past and present is truly overwhelming. It's even more damaging to assume that people "with agency" are playing five-dimensional chess.

Agreed. That’s a serious risk.

YouTube video by EconomyTalk Brexit’s Bold Promises vs. The Harsh Reality

Keeping politicians (especially populists!) accountable for their promises is an essential task for healthy democracies
youtu.be/VPRaz-5nhX0

I feel like a whole bunch of the next four years is going to be something bad happening and then reminding a whole bunch of people who should know better that we already knew the bad thing was bad. Concentration camps? Bad. Ethnic cleansing? Bad. Violent anti-labor actions? Bad. Nazis? Bad.

A difficult but incredibly powerful read..

we all thought Twitter’s collapse would be swift and sudden like the fall of the Roman Empire but instead it’s been a steady, irreversible decay like the fall of the Roman Empire

OK - time for a preprint!

Proud to share another fantastic piece of work from Gino Cassella, extending the FermiNet and neural network VMC to calculate how positrons interact with matter!

arxiv.org/abs/2310.05607

I personally find mastodon more amenable, and much less likely to get an hostile takeover!