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Google's Lumiere: Creating Adorable Animals in Unreal Situations

Google has announced Lumiere, an advanced text-to-animal AI video generator capable of creating realistic videos of cute animals in various scenarios. Lumiere's unique architecture allows it to generate the entire temporal duration of a video at once, achieving global temporal consistency.

The Great M&M Taste Debate: European vs American

An exploration of the taste differences between European and American M&Ms, with European chocolate being perceived as superior. The author conducts an experiment with other Americans in Denmark to compare the two varieties.

Unveiling the True Vision of Robots: Beyond Steel, Embracing Chemistry

Czech playwright Karel Čapek invented the word "robot" in 1921, but was unhappy with its evolution to denote mechanical entities. In a newly translated article, Čapek expresses frustration with how his original vision for robots was being subverted, arguing that they should be based on science, not technology.

Unveiling Hidden Patterns: Implementing Spectral Clustering from Scratch in Python

Spectral clustering, a complex form of machine learning, transforms data into a reduced-dimension form and applies k-means clustering. Implementing spectral clustering from scratch in Python was a challenge, but the results were identical to the scikit-learn module, with the most difficult part being computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the normalized Laplacian matrix.