‘People We Meet on Vacation’ Writers on the “Rubik’s Cube” of Adapting Emily Henry’s Novel, ‘When Harry Met Sally’ Influence and Making the “EmHen Hive” Proud

Yulin Kuang, Amos Vernon and Nunzio Randazzo talk about capturing the “spirit” of the author’s bestseller, the intimidation ...

Julia Roberts Read ‘Ocean’s 14’ Script and Was ‘Surprised’ at How Good It Is: ‘We Wouldn’t Do It If It’s Not Good’

Yes, Julia Roberts has read a script for the forthcoming “Ocean’s 14” film — and she was “surprised” by how good it was, she ...
GitHub

FlexAttention based, minimal vllm-style inference engine for fast Gemma 2 inference.

This project has no flash-attn dependency, no custom triton kernel. Everything is implemented with FlexAttention. The code is commented, the structure is flat. Read the accompanying write-up: vLLM ...

Smart Banner Hub Launches StrokeSense — Handwriting to Stroke-by-Stroke Animated Video With Auto Colors

The first platform using DBSCAN-based point reconstruction to capture authentic handwriting and replay it as smooth, color-coded animated video. Handwriting is procedural — it’s not just what you ...
GitHub

AnyTop: Character Animation Diffusion with Any Topology

📢 September 25, 2025 – Important bug fix related to dataset preprocessing and handling unseen motions. If you are working with either, please pull the latest commits and rerun the preprocessing ...
IEEE

AI-Driven Script-to-Scene Translation for Automated Cinematic Pre-Visualization

Abstract: As the need for quick and cheap ways to make movies grows, people are looking into AI-powered options that can help with different stages of production. This paper describes a new way to use ...
IEEE

Combining Airborne LiDAR Data and Optical Imagery for Improved National-Scale Beach Topography Estimation: A Case Study in New Zealand

Abstract: Accurate beach topography mapping is crucial for understanding coastal dynamics and mitigating climate change impacts. However, traditional methods such as airborne LiDAR have limitations, ...
Palm Beach Post

Florida Python Cowboy makes a splash with new tactic for hunting iguanas

Mike Kimmel, known as the "Python Cowboy," leads guided hunts for invasive iguana and Burmese pythons. Invasive iguanas are a costly pest in Florida, damaging landscaping and burrowing into flood ...