Felix Molitor

[Felix Molitor @FelixMolitor]

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[Felix Heide @_FelixHeide_]

Evaluating Neural Networks at the Speed of Light (with Light!). See live optical inference in the video below.

Excited to share recent academic work on optical neural networks as a collection of computing elements embedded in the camera lens! These elements perform computation optically even before an image is captured, using the photons in the scene instead of GPU computation after the capture.

We were able to achieve ImageNet classification more than two orders of magnitude faster than conventional neural networks on today's GPUs at almost no power consumption! To do this, we developed an array of metalenses that perform this computation on light from the scene.

Project: https://t.co/LTLF3hFJhO

Paper: https://t.co/XCxwSLhagn

Amazing collaboration with Kaixuan Wei, Xiao Li, Johannes Froech, Praneeth Chakravarthula, James Whitehead, @_EthanTseng_ , Arka Majumdar .

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Gymnastics is far too exciting

[Blaine Brown @blizaine]

Infinite seamless mega meme mashup 🤭

Keyframes were used to seamlessly transition between 20 memes w/ audio 🤯

@LumaLabsAI Audio on 🔊

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Parrot rhythm and harmony

[Nurder Koch @NurderK]

Das muss man sich vorstellen. Die drittgrößte Volkswirtschaft der Welt, Deutschland, wird von @UNICEF aufgefordert,mehr für Kinder & jugendliche in Armut zu tun. Gleichzeitig diskutiert man hierzulande über Kürzungen beim #Buergergeld sowie der #Kindergrundsicherung!

Keine Pointe

[Chris Albon @chrisalbon]

This is still the best AI ever generated

Salmon jumping in a river

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

"Midnight Games". Excerpt from 1991 Soviet animated film.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When ships pass through Point Nemo in the Pacific Ocean, the nearest land mass is 2,700 km (1677 miles) away.

This means that at certain times of the day (planes excluded), the nearest humans are on the International Space Station ~416 km (256 miles) up

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A "Golden Gate Zipper" is a type of heavy vehicle designed for the purpose of transferring concrete lane dividers, These machines help manage traffic congestion during peak hours.

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[George Tsakraklides @99blackbaloons]

The data is now official: 3 years’ worth of rain fell within two days. Scientists on Greek TV discussing the possibility of the formation of new, permanent lakes in the area. It is a new planet. #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #climatecatastrophe

[Ollie Jones @Olliemnjones]

Thank you for 5k followers! Here's some of my (slightly) older work, made before I departed from the real world

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

This is incredible..turn the volume UP!😍🐦🎶
How many sounds do you hear?
This video is not mine, it belongs to Sarah Tidwell.
She's not on Twitter, but gave me permission to share here, as I knew my followers would love it!❤️
#Starling

[text-mode.org @t3xtm0de]

When Prince changed his artist name to a symbol in 1993, he sent out a floppy with a font that only contained the symbol. https://t.co/6iFo14oqlh

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

Travel back in time 102 years to the summer of 1921. I've enhanced for you this amazing autochrome of bathers at Siouville-Hague, in Normandy, northern France, taken in the golden glow of 1921 by Gustave Gain. It was taken in colour and is not colourised.

[Paul Stamets @PaulStamets]

Folks, we have been working on this for many years, have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars – and invested in  thousands of hours of effort. We now see a light at the end of a long bureaucratic tunnel, filled with many unnecessary and and often unreasonable legal obstacles.

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

Mornin’ folks.

We’ve had a lot of people enquiring about and commenting on #bumblebees asleep on #flowers, especially at this time of year, so here’s a quick (long)🙄 thread explaining what’s going on.

Please retweet so more are more informed.
Thanks good people.
#bees
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[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In Jaws, you don’t see the shark until 1 hour and 21 minutes into the movie.

That wasn’t the plan.

According to the script, the mechanical shark, “Bruce,” was supposed to get more screen time.

When Bruce was tested in a fresh water tank, it worked.

The problem was that…

Jaws was to be the first major motion picture shot on location in the Atlantic Ocean. The first time Bruce got into the ocean, the electrical substructure was destroyed by the salt water.

So director Steven Spielberg had to film the movie without his main character.

This, Spielberg said, “torqued up the suspension of the movie…

Rather than seeing the shark in every scene, I played a lot of the fear from the people in the water, from seeing their legs kicking, from the point of view of the camera moving along the surface of the water.

That’s what turned the movie into more of an exercise in suspense than just a horror film.”

So, Spielberg was asked, if you had the shark when you wanted it, you would have made a different movie?

“I would have made a movie that wouldn’t have been as successful,” Spielberg said. “I think the film would have made half the money had the shark worked.”

Jaws had a record $7 million opening weekend and grossed $100 million in its first 59 days, passing “The Godfather” as the highest-grossing film in history.

Takeaway 1:

The iconic Point of View shots in Jaws were a forced emergence out of Bruce breaking right before filming had to begin.

It’s an example of the “emergence through emergency” principle:

The 20th century inventor and futurist Buckminster Fuller said the engine of innovation is emergency.

“Emergency,” Fuller wrote, “evolves into emergence.”

Takeaway 2:

In Jaws, you don’t see the shark until 1 hour and 21 minutes into the movie.

"This goes to show," Cole Schafer writes, "that anticipation is scarier than confrontation."

The Stoic philosopher Seneca famously wrote, "We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

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"If you break the human struggle down to one word," Jerry Seinfeld says, "it's CONFRONT. And so, I approach everything that way."

Confront the reality that the shark is broken. Confront the hardest task on your to-do list. Confront the problem you're putting off. Confront the workout. Confront the blank page.

Anticipation is scarier than confrontation.

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