“With a world model, you give it a visual state of the world, an image, and it will then predict the next visual state of the world.” These 3D generations can be used as digital training grounds. “They’re simulations, but they look and feel real.” - Wired
The Commons public accounts committee this week warned it was "crunch time" for the ailing building's restoration, which could cost up to £40bn and take 61 years. - BBC
“After weeks of reaching out, nine major American arenas have turned us down,” he wrote. Macklemore went on to name the specific venues that have allegedly turned him and his team away, despite having availability in the coming months. - The Wrap
If democracy is the political system that allows the fullest human flourishing, the novel is the literary form that most fully cultivates our understanding of human possibility and tragedy and endurance. - The Atlantic
I would argue that everything you need to know about life can be found in “The Sound of Music.” Quite an expansive claim, but I have good credentials for making it. As a child actress, I played the bookish Brigitta von Trapp for three years in a touring production of the musical. - Washington Post
"Like the typed version, it does not include the words 'I have a dream,' part of the ringing second half of the speech that King famously improvised." - The New York Times
Maritime law means Judge Smith oversees "the remains of a ship that was built in Belfast, sailed from England, was heading to New York City and sank off the coast of Canada in international waters more than 1,000 miles from Norfolk." - The New York Times
After a friend-funded release, the actors of Pyre "have met teary-eyed people at multiple screenings - many wanting to touch their feet and hug them, many who said the film reminded them of their own parents and grandparents who are waiting in villages." - BBC
"It is a story of betrayal, set against the turmoil of wartime France under German occupation. At the center of the suspicion is a couple." - Le Monde English
"Wherever possible, materials were sent by sea during the annual short thaw to avoid expensive airfreight. For example, building materials and boxed water — which, Arnaquq-Baril says, was chosen over plastic bottles to leave 'less toxic garbage in the Arctic' — were shipped by sealift." - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
"Bloc voting, where countries award high scores to their neighbours, is a long-running tradition in Europe. Blecher says it is too early to know whether Asia will follow suit." - The Guardian (UK)
It's not 100 percent clear who, exactly, will benefit. "There's little to no way to know whether, for example, a violin teacher or a filmmaker is more likely to be approved." - CBC
"Shoots are moving away from Hollywood and, increasingly, from the United States altogether. The share of film production budgets spent in the U.S. has fallen from 74% to 42% ." - El País English
"They realized that they wanted to create their own model, in which artists — who often cobble together a living over multiple part-time jobs and punishing rehearsal schedules — could earn a salary that reflected the labor they were putting in. ... East Coast Contemporary Ballet was born." - Hartford Courant
