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On a highway in Chennai at midnight, Meena Longjam mistook the driver’s wife bringing him his tiffin for an army check.
I spoke to her for @thelastdvd about Andro Dreams and filming through the conflict in Manipur.
“The missing teenage girl is close to my daughter’s age. They are both big fans of BTS.”
@jaintle speaks to Meena Longjam about Andro Dreams, consent, and filming through three years of conflict in Manipur.
Read on: thelastdvd.com/wake-up-this-…
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“It is a crisis that is not simply a product of the modern time, but, rather, it is a crisis of time itself, a crisis in temporality.”
For Issue 7, Nisarg Patel reads the dreams of Uday Shankar’s Kalpana (1948).
Read on: thelastdvd.com/dreams-deliri…
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The most important briefings of the day.
Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, shares the news of his Nobel Prize with his kids.
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Calling on writers, readers, filmmakers, poets, philosophers, musicians, and dancers 📢📢 We are now on Substack, follow us for more!
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Why is Astra so good at robotics? Leslie Kaelbling at IROS26 [source: xitter.cf/Benedict_Q/status/2104…]
Every time my life has been in a bit of a rut, this man has gifted something like this. This kind of attachment - the kind people have to Virat - is created through those unsolicited, unprompted, unexpected gifts he gives you, coincidentally always when you need them the most.
It’s really hard to explain to people who aren’t into sports the almost maniac-like reactions you have to some of these events, or what makes you get so upset at the eventual retirement of “your” players. The question to me, isn’t why people get emotional over even minute events like a century, it is: how can you not?
Love chess. Love Olympiad. The tournament that keeps giving [drama] year after year. 🇮🇳 Open and Women’s sections have delivered again. Very happy for Gukesh. Savitha was extremely clutch. Easily the POTT.
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"The fundamental difference between all these reimaginations and Nolan’s film is that the others offer lifeworlds that are internally coherent and credible."
For our final August piece, @shonedeep analyses the Odyssey!
Read on: thelastdvd.com/a-chimera-of-…
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Ka-Chow! Lightning McQueen has arrived in Monza 🤩🇮🇹
The seven-time Piston Cup champion makes an appearance at the 2026 Italian Grand Prix to mark the franchise’s 20th anniversary ⚡️🏁
So simple, and so difficult to do. Incredible.
Depth-aware light injection in TypeGPU
I got a 448x448 monocular depth model down to ~8 ms on my M4 Pro across ~250 dispatches, which is fast enough to use in realtime :D
Since the inference is written directly in TypeGPU, I can just feed the depth buffer straight into the lighting pass. It never has to leave the GPU or go through any extra synchronization/interop step
Inference, lighting and draw all go through the same command encoder.
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hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx to my close friend akhil for asking about it and my other close friend fable for working during the world cup final
((1+xy)^3 z + y^2 (1+xy) (4+3xy), y + 3 x (1+xy)^2 z + 3 x y^2 (4+3xy), 2 x - 3 x^2 y - x^3 z): \C^3\to \C^3, has jacobian determinant -2, and sends (0, 0, -1/4), (1, -3/2, 13/2), and (-1, 3/2, 13/2) to (-1/4, 0, 0)
