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Was a huge fan of @ASKOApplianceNA appliances. Told everyone we knew when asked what we preferred. New dryer discovered to be faulty after delivery, but promise of a fix. 10 months later, and a simple part continues to be "backordered", now until January. Not a good look Asko.

@EricLDaugh @JustinTrudeau @GovRonDeSantis you seem to think that somehow a Canadian boycott should have happened prior to the tariff war #47 decided to launch. Time for new speech writers...your current ones clearly aren't the brightest bulbs.

OMG. RON DESANTIS with the MIC DROP. 🔥 "3.3 million visitors from Canada. That's not much of a boycott, in my book. Maybe they wanted to get a glimpse of what a Stanley Cup winning hockey team actually looks like." CC: @JustinTrudeau

This challenges all sense and reason... Live Updates: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Confirmed as Trump’s Health Secretary nytimes.com/live/2025/02/1…

Who made this? 😂

Gotta secure our border. cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

What is the most “rewatchable” TV series?

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@TheJackForge The irony of a plastic blue recycling bin with a plastic bag in it at every, single, deck.

Today I saw the release of a previously unimaginable text to video AI model and also a new python package manager, and it’s a very close race to determine which one is more impressive to the nerd community.

@DrJimFan Impressive clearly. But I can't see how it demonstrates 'long-term reasoning'...

If you think OpenAI Sora is a creative toy like DALLE, ... think again. Sora is a data-driven physics engine. It is a simulation of many worlds, real or fantastical. The simulator learns intricate rendering, "intuitive" physics, long-horizon reasoning, and semantic grounding, all by some denoising and gradient maths. I won't be surprised if Sora is trained on lots of synthetic data using Unreal Engine 5. It has to be! Let's breakdown the following video. Prompt: "Photorealistic closeup video of two pirate ships battling each other as they sail inside a cup of coffee." - The simulator instantiates two exquisite 3D assets: pirate ships with different decorations. Sora has to solve text-to-3D implicitly in its latent space. - The 3D objects are consistently animated as they sail and avoid each other's paths. - Fluid dynamics of the coffee, even the foams that form around the ships. Fluid simulation is an entire sub-field of computer graphics, which traditionally requires very complex algorithms and equations. - Photorealism, almost like rendering with raytracing. - The simulator takes into account the small size of the cup compared to oceans, and applies tilt-shift photography to give a "minuscule" vibe. - The semantics of the scene does not exist in the real world, but the engine still implements the correct physical rules that we expect. Next up: add more modalities and conditioning, then we have a full data-driven UE that will replace all the hand-engineered graphics pipelines. openai.com/sora

@PPC4Liberty Except that's not what the Stats Canada report said; see original report here: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/36-28-0…

According to Statistics Canada, in November, it was found that almost 200,000 international students who hold study permits have no record of studying at ANY college or university in Canada? THEY NEED TO BE DEPORTED

@KirkLubimov That shortfall looks about the same amount as is being sold to Montana... 🤔

Emergency Alert in Alberta due to an overloaded grid with a 100 to 200 MW shortfall. Solar is producing nothing, again and wind is at ~2.7% of capacity. Fossil fuels are saving lives. -32 weather in one of the energy richest countries in the world, in one of the energy richest area (province) in the world and there is a consideration to do rotating outages. Outrageous. We should be having some of the cheapest and plentiful energy supplies (at the pump as well) in the world but we don't because of policy.

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@seanjtaylor Goes off and see what it can do about Firefly…

Just me, asking ChatGPT to write a detailed plot of a entirely new season of a show I like that got cancelled.

What an amazing group of nominees. I'd hate to be on the committee deciding who on this list gets selected...

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@FrancesLPeck Rum balls being rationed out at an appropriate pace over here. 🤣

@FrancesLPeck @KisscutDesign @globeandmail NICE!!!

Well yes, of course, that sounds about right. galactica.org/?prompt=wiki+a…

@FrancesLPeck Happy Anniversary you two!