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Jacob Bartlett – Apple is Killing Swift
https://blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/apple-is-killing-swift
Jacob Bartlett argues that Swift, once envisioned as a simple and composable programming language by its creator Chris Lattner, has become overly complex due to Apple’s governance. Bartlett highlights that Swift now contains 217 reserved keywords, deviating from its original goal of simplicity. He contrasts Swift’s governance model, where Apple serves as the project lead and arbiter, with other languages like Python and Rust, which have more community-driven or balanced governance structures. Bartlett suggests that Apple’s control has led to Swift’s current state, moving away from Lattner’s initial vision.
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Bloomberg – Sam Altman on ChatGPT’s First Two Years, Elon Musk and AI Under Trump
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-sam-altman-interview
One of the strengths of that original OpenAI group was recruiting. Somehow you managed to corner the market on a ton of the top AI research talent, often with much less money to offer than your competitors. What was the pitch?
The pitch was just come build AGI. And the reason it worked—I cannot overstate how heretical it was at the time to say we’re gonna build AGI. So you filter out 99% of the world, and you only get the really talented, original thinkers. And that’s really powerful. If you’re doing the same thing everybody else is doing, if you’re building, like, the 10,000th photo-sharing app? Really hard to recruit talent.
OpenAI senior executives at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco on March 13, 2023, from left: Sam Altman, chief executive officer; Mira Murati, chief technology officer; Greg Brockman, president; and Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist. Photographer: Jim Wilson/The New York Times
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Gaussian Splatting OFX plugin for Nuke
https://radiancefields.com/gaussian-splatting-in-nuke
https://aescripts.com/gaussian-splatting-for-nuke
Features
- Import .ply files in Nuke.
- Support Compressed .ply files from SuperSplat
- Crop with Spherical or Box shape.
- Crop with Y Plane.
- Combine up to 10 models in the scene.
- Colorize with Ramp using Spherical or Box shape.
- Reveal model with Opacity Ramp.
- Animate Splat Scale with Spherical or Box shape.
- Each model can be distorted with Noise.
- Render Depth Pass for 3D compose.
- Color correction for each model.
- Real-time with GPU
- Export scene
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ComfyUI + InstaID SDXL – Face and body swap tutorials
https://github.com/cubiq/ComfyUI_InstantID
https://github.com/cubiq/ComfyUI_InstantID/tree/main/examples
https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface
Unofficial version https://github.com/ZHO-ZHO-ZHO/ComfyUI-InstantID
Installation details under the post
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ComfyUI Tutorial Series Ep 25 – LTX Video – Fast AI Video Generator Model
https://comfyanonymous.github.io/ComfyUI_examples/ltxv
LTX-Video 2B v0.9.1 Checkpoint model
https://huggingface.co/Lightricks/LTX-Video/tree/main
More details under the post
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xinsir – controlnet-union-sdxl-1.0 examples
https://huggingface.co/xinsir/controlnet-union-sdxl-1.0
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outpainting
upscale
openpose
depthmap
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lineart
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hed
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ted
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