A “quantum bath” puts quantum entanglement on autopilot

Physicists have demonstrated a new way to entangle distant quantum bits without the constant measurements and active control normally required. The team created a “quantum bath,” a shared environment filled with correlated microwave photons that automatically pushes separated qubits into an entangled state and helps keep them there. The experiment confirms a theoretical prediction made …

Linus Tech Tips – just experimenting with REFMOD by u/LuisaPinguinnn

For reference here’s the post about REFMOD by it’s creator (u/LuisaPinguinnn). I basically used an old dataset of Linus I had back from the SDXL days to extract a .safetensor file (“mod”) using the nodes from the repo. When using the mod, you don’t need reference images anymore. My prompt is basically just “A youtube …

We open-sourced Sopro V2 Turbo – a 120M voice cloning TTS model that runs 5x faster than real time on CPU

Sopro V2 Turbo is an open-source TTS model that runs locally. Clones a voice from 5-20s of audio ~300ms to first audio on a laptop CPU English, European Portuguese, French, German Local web UI: uvx –from sopro soprotts serve There’s also a Python API and a browser package (@soprotts/onnx-web) for WebGPU/WASM. Repo: https://github.com/samuel-vitorino/sopro Benchmarks + …

LLMs Are Not (Consistently) Bayesian: Quantifying Internal (In)consistencies of LLMs’ Probabilistic Beliefs

Modern AI systems are being deployed in complex domains such as medicine, science, and law, where there is often not a single correct answer given the observed evidence. Such systems must be able to represent and update uncertain beliefs about the world as new evidence arrives to make rational decisions. We introduce the novel technique …

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MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale

By Emma Yanyang Kong, Aditya Deshpande, Asad Abbasi, Bowei Yan, David Fagnan, Ashish Rastogi, Dhaval Patel, Ray Zhang Introduction The Netflix experience is a journey of discovery. Every visual cue, from the artwork on a title to the video previews that autoplay while you browse, is there to connect you with a story you will love. …