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Alibaba researchers detail EMO, or Emote Portrait Alive, an AI system that can create realistic talking and singing videos from portrait photos (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/alibabas-new-ai-sy…

Skal man tippe så fŸrer Ÿkningen av aldersgrensen til 72 år for statsansatte at lŸnnsutgiftene for staten vil Ÿke. Det betyr òg at det går tilsvarende flere år fŸr disse faste stillingene frigis til de yngre.
https://www.nrk.no/norge/sju-partier-i-pen

Sju partier i pensjonsavtale – folk må jobbe lenger
Hovedelementene i pensjonssystemet skal ligge fast i ti år, noe som betyr at folk må jobbe lenger når de lever lenger. En ordning for de såkalte sliterne skal også komme på plass.

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Portrait of the Invader: 2 years of Russian soldiering in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/portrait-of-the.html

Compact Speech Translation Models via Discrete Speech Units Pretraining
Tsz Kin Lam, Alexandra Birch, Barry Haddow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19333 https:/…

Compact Speech Translation Models via Discrete Speech Units Pretraining
Using Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) as model initialization is now common to obtain strong results in Speech Translation (ST). However, they also impose a large memory footprint, hindering on-device deployment. In this paper, we leverage the SSL models by pretraining smaller models on their Discrete Speech Units (DSU). We pretrain encoder-decoder models on 1) Filterbank-to-DSU and 2) DSU-to-Translation data, and take the encoder from 1) and the decoder from 2) to initialise a new model, finetu…

Seen at Gallaudet University: ‘Police Need ASL Training’
The art referenced by thumbnails in the bottom right corner:
1. ‘Justice For Our Lives’ by Oree Originol: https://www.oree.art/justiceforourlivesabout
2. ‘We Came, We Saw, We Conquered’ by Nancy Rourke:

Justice For Our Lives About | Oree Originol | Visual Artist
Justice For Our Lives' is a digital portrait series of 100 people killed by US law enforcement since the beginning of the 21st century.

The last lift lady guarding Tbilisi’s brutalist skybridge
In a one-room apartment behind a lift shaft, 70-year-old Mzia Sabanadze continues an almost extinct occupation,
manually operating one of the lifts at Nutsubidze.
The pay-to-ride elevator she operates
– the only one of the four in the blocks open to non-residents
– is for those living in the flats, local people taking a shortcut to the top of the hill, and tourists who come to see this monument to bruta…

Gravitational Waves on Kerr Black Holes I: Reconstruction of Linearized Metric Perturbations
Roman Berens, Trevor Gravely, Alexandru Lupsasca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20311

Gravitational Waves on Kerr Black Holes I: Reconstruction of Linearized Metric Perturbations
The gravitational perturbations of a rotating Kerr black hole are notoriously complicated, even at the linear level. In 1973, Teukolsky showed that their physical degrees of freedom are encoded in two gauge-invariant Weyl curvature scalars that obey a separable wave equation. Determining these scalars is sufficient for many purposes, such as the computation of energy fluxes. However, some applications -- such as second-order perturbation theory -- require the reconstruction of metric perturbati…

«Avec ces ententes, le fédéral veut obtenir des provinces « des plans d’action décrivant la façon dont les fonds seront dépensés [en plus des dépenses existantes] et de quelle façon les progrès seront mesurés », avait-on précisé l’an dernier.»
Dire que la santé est de compétence provinciale. Ottawa et ses gros sabots encore une fois 🙄.

Québec risque de perdre 900 millions d’ici fin mars sans accord en santé avec Ottawa
Les autres provinces qui n’ont pas d’accord final avec Ottawa ont toutes conclu des ententes de principe.