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March 30, 2025

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Practical Natural Language Processing with spaCy and Prodigy with Ines Montani

In this episode of PyDataSci, we’re joined by Ines Montani, Co-founder of Explosion, Co-developer of SpaCy, and lead developer of Prodigy. Ines and I caught up to discuss her various projects, including the aforementioned SpaCy, an open-source NLP library built with a focus on industry and production use cases. In our conversation, Ines gives us an overview of the SpaCy Library, a look at some of the use cases that excite her, and the Spacy community and contributors. We also discuss her work with Prodigy, an annotation service tool that uses continuous active learning to train models, and finally, what

March 30, 2025

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More of Nacelle’s Excellent Star Trek Toys Are Coming, and We Need Them All

We’re still cackling in delight at the first Nacelle Toys Star Trek drop, which is now available for pre-order after being revealed at last year’s New York Comic Con. But it’s time to stop gazing at the Weyoun figure that you still can’t believe will soon join your collection, for io9 has an important announcement to make: wave two of Nacelle’s Star Trek action figure line is coming! At last, Star Trek toys have broken away from their weird history and are now delivering figures on a level that fans have been wanting for literal decades. Revealed at Nacelle’s Star

March 30, 2025

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Making a web app generator with open ML models

As more code generation models become publicly available, it is now possible to do text-to-web and even text-to-app in ways that we couldn’t imagine before. This tutorial presents a direct approach to AI web content generation by streaming and rendering the content all in one go. Try the live demo here! → Webapp Factory Using LLM in Node apps While we usually think of Python for everything related to AI and ML, the web development community relies heavily on JavaScript and Node. Here are some ways you can use large language models on this platform. By running a model locally

March 30, 2025

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Boost productivity with these 7 sleep hacks from the world’s most successful people

One of the bedrocks of physical wellbeing and cognitive function is good sleep. It’s key to having productive days and feeling great. Yet it’s described as the “most underrated health habit” by Dr. Michael Roizen, the chief wellness officer of the Cleveland Clinic. So it seems not everyone truly understands the power of sleep. But some leading figures in the world do, and they utilize it effectively to contribute to their success. Sure, they’re sleeping on the world’s best mattresses and probably under the most luxury bedsheets, but what else are the leading thinkers, millionaire business owners and Hollywood stars

March 30, 2025

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Losing my mind over this… making an alien eye blink in webui ?!

I’ve been trying to give life to this picture I have of earth being reflected in an alien’s eye. I wanted to turn it in a video where the alien seems like he has life, blinks, always with the earth being reflected. But it’s the first time I’m using webui and im getting lost in all the workflows I could use What would be the technique you use ? With what models, what controlnets if any? What settings are important so that my video doesn’t just become an abstract mess after the first frame ? Thank you so much in

March 30, 2025

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OpenAI responds to criticism of ChatGPT’s Studio Ghibli-style images

After ChatGPT-generated images in the style of Studio Ghibli drew criticism online, OpenAI has shared a response addressing the backlash. OpenAI released native image generation in GPT-4o earlier this week, with a live demo showing CEO Sam Altman and OpenAI staffers using ChatGPT to turn a selfie into an anime-style image that looked a whole lot like the unique and painstakingly crafted animated films of Studio Ghibli. Soon, Studio Ghibli-style versions of memes, selfies, and family photos, all automated by ChatGPT, went viral on X. Altman himself turned his X profile picture into a Studio Ghibli-esque image of himself and