Tootfinder

Steven Spielberg's "Artificial Intelligence" (2001) was on Netflix and I had never seen it. I had heard that the final act is very sappy and... spoilers... yes it has issues in my opinion (voice-over narration *and* an alien for exposition dumps?!) but the act works well in the context of the movie: I wasn't aware that this is a modern Pinocchio's tale and the movie is quite literal about it.
But what really blew me away were the animatronic robots:

Accelerating cosmological simulations on GPUs: a portable approach using OpenMP
M. D. Lepinzan, G. Lacopo, D. Goz, G. Taffoni, P. Monaco, P. J. Elahi, U. Varetto, M. Cytowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02873

Accelerating cosmological simulations on GPUs: a portable approach using OpenMP
In this work we present the porting to Graphics Processing Units (GPUs, using OpenMP target directives) and optimization of a key module within the cosmological {\pinocchio} code, a Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (LPT)-based framework widely used for generating dark matter (DM) halo catalogs. Our optimization focuses on a specific segment of the code responsible for calculating the collapse time of each particle involved in the simulation. Due to the embarrassingly parallel nature of this compu…

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Alexander Litvinovsky, Anna Ignatova, Pavel Lyubomudrov & Metamorphose String Orchestra:
🎵 Pinocchio (No 11, 'La Fata dai Capelli Turchini')
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