Prepare for heartbreak, survival, and unforgettable moments as The Last of Us returns with its highly anticipated second season this April on HBO. Based on the critically acclaimed video game series, Season 2 delves deeper into the harrowing journey of Ellie and Joel, exploring themes of vengeance, love, and the cost of survival in a post-apocalyptic world. The newly released trailer promises gripping performances, breathtaking landscapes, and intense action that fans have come to expect from this groundbreaking adaptation.Bringing the desolate world to life, the VFX team, headed by Production VFX Supervisor Alex Wang and Production VFX Producer Fiona Campbell Westgate, will deliver some eye-popping effects that combine in a seamless fusion of practical with cutting-edge digital artistry from decayed cityscapes to hauntingly realistic infected creatures-the visual effects are sure to amplify the series while drawing audiences in further into emotional and visceral storytelling that has mesmerized millions of viewers around the world.The post The Last Of Us Season 2 April 2025 appeared first on Vfxexpress.

The biographical drama Bob Marley: One Love brings the iconic reggae legends story to life with remarkable authenticity, thanks to the seamless visual effects crafted by Outpost VFX. Known for their expertise in invisible effects, the studio skillfully recreated immersive environments and vibrant crowd scenes, ensuring every frame honors Bob Marleys legacy. From bustling concert sequences to the detailed recreation of historical settings, the VFX work enhances the films authenticity while remaining beautifully understated, allowing the narrative to take center stage.Outpost VFXs artistry shines in how they balanced realism with storytelling, blending live-action footage with meticulously designed digital elements. Their efforts captured the energy and soul of Marleys world, transporting audiences into his life and music. This exceptional VFX work not only pays tribute to Marleys legacy but also underscores the role of visual effects in bringing heartfelt stories to the screen.The post Bob Marley One Love: VFX Breakdown by Outpost VFX appeared first on Vfxexpress.

The no-buy trend isnt anything new, but it gains fresh momentum every January, right on the heels of the holiday splurge.If youre new to the trend, the concept is simple. While theres no strict rule book for the monthlong no-spend challenge, most participants stick to the basics, limiting their spending to nondiscretionary items like groceries and transportation. Some take it a step further by sharing detailed lists of whats allowed and whats off-limits in their budgetno more impulse-shopping hauls or indulgent brunch dates, at least for the month.I know that #nospendjanuary seems like the absolute worst thing ever, admits one TikTok user. But honestly I have seen so many videos where it has absolutely been a game changer in peoples finances and how much they saved in one month is truly crazy. @jadebjohnson our no spend january rules ! #nospendmonth #nospendjanuary #nospendjanuaryrules #2025 original sound jade johnson Her realistic and attainable guidelines include no spending on eating out or extraneous purchases like clothes, home decor, Amazon shopping or impulse buys from the Aldi middle aisle. Some people have even set weekly spending caps to keep themselves accountable and track progress. My goal is to spend under $1,000 this month, another creator shared alongside her rules and exceptions for her no-spend month. Wish me luck.Shopping bans and other financial detox programs have been around for a while; still, its easy to see why January is an attractive month to practice financial restraint. I feel like we are all spent out anyway with the holidays, says one creator. Its time to take a break. For many, the challenge is less about restriction and more about redefining their relationship with money for the year ahead, prioritizing intentional purchases over impulse buys. My only New Years resolution is to be more thoughtful about the things Im purchasing, she adds. @jacklyn._anne Anyone want to join me? This is my first time doing a dedicated no spend wish me luck#newyearresolution #nospendchallenge #nobuy #nobuychallenge #january2025 #underconsumption #underconsumptioncore original sound Noah Kahan But before cutting up your credit cards, its important to consider why youre undertaking the challenge. Is it simply to save money, or is there something specific youre looking to reduce your spending on? Once clear on your financial goals, set yourself up for success. Delete shopping apps, unsubscribe from marketing emails, and even take a break from social media if endless scrolling fuels your urge to shop. Every time youre tempted to buy something, jot it down in your phones Notes app. At the end of the month, revisit the list and see if you still want the items youve noted.Whether or not theyre committing to a no-spend or low-spend challenge, it seems that for the most part, Americans are feeling optimistic about their financial resolutions for 2025, a Motley Fool Money survey reveals. While 69% plan to set money goals, 74% are confident theyll achieve them. If the habit starts to feel good, why stop at January?

A Tennessee law requiring pornographic websites to verify their visitors age was largely blocked in court before it was to take effect January 1, even as similar laws kicked in for Florida and South Carolina and remained in effect for more than a dozenother states.On Dec. 30, U.S. District Judge Sheryl Lipman in Memphis ruled that Tennessees law would likely suppress the First Amendment free speech rights of adults without actually preventing children from accessing the harmful material in question. The state attorney generals office is appealing the decision.The Free Speech Coalition, an adult entertainment trade group, is suing over Tennessees law and those in a half-dozen other states. The coalition lists some 19 states that have passed similar laws. One prominent adult website has cut off access in several states due to their laws.The issue will hit the U.S. Supreme Court fororal arguments regarding Texass lawnext week.Tennessees lawNo one voted against Tennessees law last year when it passed the Republican-supermajority legislature, and GOP Gov. Bill Lee signed off on it.The law would requireporn websites to verify visitors are at least 18 years old, threatening felony penalties and civil liability possible for violators running the sites. They could match a photo to someones ID, or use certain public or private transactional data to prove someones age. Website leaders could not retain personally identifying information and would have to keep anonymized data.The Free Speech Coalition and other plaintiffs sued, winning a preliminary injunction that blocks the attorney general from enforcement while court proceedings continue. However, the coalition expressed concern that private lawsuits or actions by individual district attorneys could be possible.In her ruling, Judge Lipman wrote that parental controls on minors devices are more effective and less restrictive.She wrote that under Tennessees law, minors still could access adult sites using VPNs, or virtual private networks, that mask a users location. Or, they could view pornographic material on social media sites, which are unlikely to reach the laws threshold of one-third of its content considered harmful to minors.The judge also said the impact could be overly broad, potentially affecting other plaintiffs such as an online educational platform focused on sexual wellness.She noted that Tennessees definition of content harmful to minors extends to include text. She specifically mentioned that the phrase the human nipple, or crude combinations of keyboard characters, would be considered harmful as long as they lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.The state and the adult industry respondTennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmettis office is asking the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to let the law take effect as the lawsuit proceeds. Skrmetti noted that other appeals courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, allowed similar laws to take effect.The Protect Tennessee Minors Act institutes common sense age verification to stop kids from accessing explicit obscene content while protecting the privacy of adults who choose to do so, Skrmetti said.The Free Speech Coalition has argued the law would be ineffective, unconstitutional, and force people to transfer sensitive information.This is a deeply flawed law that put website operators at risk of criminal prosecution for something as trivial as a mention of the human nipple, said Free Speech Coalition Executive Director Alison Boden.Site shuts off in some states; SCOTUS hearing loomsAs verification laws took effect in Florida and South Carolina last week, website Pornhub cut off access there and posted a message encouraging people to contact political decision-makers. Its parent company, Aylo, says the site has blocked access in 16 states with verification requirements it called ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous and not properly enforced. The company is advocating for age verification on individual devices.Judges had paused the laws in Indiana and Texas. But circuit appeals courts stepped in to allow enforcement.The Supreme Courtdeclined to halt Texass lawin April while the court action continues. The next step is Supreme Court oral arguments on January 15.Another age verification law is set to begin in Julyin Georgia.This story has been corrected to show that Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti made a statement about the Protect Tennessee Minors Act, not his spokesperson.Jonathan Mattise, Associated Press

On January 7, Mark Zuckebrerg made a not-so-stunning announcement.The Meta CEO said that his company is ending its third-party fact-checking program, declaring that experts, like everyone else, have their own biases and perspectives. Instead, itll allow more speech and rely on a user-generated community notes feature like Elon Musks X already does.This is a culmination of a yearslong rightward lurch away from the social media giant. Right-wing media has always thrived on Facebook, while left-wing critics have long criticized the company for everything from enabling genocide to allowing hate speech to thrive. But Republicans in Congress and on the campaign trail have scolded Meta for kicking Donald Trump off its platform in the wake of the January 6, 2021, insurrection and for heavily monitoring misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.But in recent years the company has taken exaggerated strides to demonstrate that theyre no lefties. Meta allowed Trump to rejoin its platforms in 2023, announced it was deprioritizing political content across Instagram and Threads, and this week made former Bush White House official Joel Kaplan its global affairs chief. Oh, and Meta gave $1 million to Trumps inauguration committee.This is a great opportunity for us to reset the balance in favor of free expression, Kaplan told Fox News in an interview. What were doing is were getting back to our roots and free expression.With Trump assuming the presidency on January 20, Meta knows it needs to play nice with the administration. Trump previously claimed that Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election and wrote that he would spend the rest of his life in prison if he tried it again.But the move to end Metas fact-checking program is just as much a reflection of the current state of its main platform, Facebook, than a political offering to the party in power. I mean, have you seen Facebook lately?Take a spin around Facebook and youll see baby announcements, graduations, and birthday messages. But youll also see a glut of artificial intelligence-generated slop images. My Facebook feed doesnt have political ruminationsit doesnt have anything political at all. Theres scant updates from any news organizations, name-brand influencers, or even friends posting about whats going on in the world. Irrelevant advertisements fill my feed alongside groups I do not follow, and content that seems designed to evoke shock and awe from someone who has never encountered the internet before.Theres a nautical-themed bathroom thats so obviously made with AI that the tiles on the floor are unevenly curved. Theres a nostalgia post from a Facebook group called I grew up in New York (I didnt). And theres a supposedly funny image from a page called Bussin With The Boys that says Never forget when Jared Goff wore his own jersey to a bar when he was a rookie. Not only did I see this recycled post on Twitter a week ago, but its false. The quarterback was at a Make-a-Wish event. The Facebook fact-checkers wont have a chance at that one, but maybe an army of community notes commenters will handle it. (Thats unlikely.)The reality is that, yes, Meta is playing nice with Trump and Co. But Facebooks current status is so painfully dumbed-down, ad-ridden, and slop-filled that its perhaps a move for the best. Facebook is unhealthy beyond repair. We should stop pretending that its anything but a dead platform.

Polish studio Mistovia has paired plywood, walnut and graphite accents with a mishmash of vintage furniture in Plener Istebna a pair of gabled cottages in the Silesian Beskids mountains.The two-storey holiday homes sit side-by-side in Istebna village, with slatted wooden facades and shingled roofs that nod to the region's vernacular buildings.Plener Istebna is a pair of gabled holiday homesCreated by architect Justyna Boduch to accommodate up to nine people each, the 70-square-metre cottages feature identical layouts but subtly different interior designs by Katowice-based Mistovia.The first home, Terracotta, owes its name to the sandy-hued ceramic flooring and burnt orange upholstery found in its open-plan living space.One of the cottages is called Terracotta for its sandy-hued flooringA circular walnut table defines the kitchen and dining area, which includes locally sourced stools with traditional decorations and a feature wall clad with Ukrainian stove tiles."The heart of each cottage is undoubtedly the living space," said Mistovia founder Marcin Czopek.Stone cottage is accented by veiny graphite flooringStone, the second cottage, is accented by veiny graphite flooring in the kitchen and living area, chosen to mimic the speckled appearance of marble."This provides a solid background for the furniture," Czopek told Dezeen. "Warmth is created through abundant wood."Both homes include chunky plywood staircasesMistovia chose a selection of vintage pieces to furnish Stone, including an oval timber dining table and a low-slung 1970s Danish armchair that once formed part of a modular sofa."The furniture comes from various decades and sources," explained Czopek. "Fitting for the Polish-Czech-Slovak borderland, many pieces have Czechoslovakian roots."The private rooms echo their respective living spacesBoth holiday homes feature chunky plywood staircases that connect their ground floors with private spaces upstairs. In the Stone cottage, plywood was also used to clad the ceiling of the living space."The wood pleasantly contrasts with raw concrete and clay plaster walls with added straw chaff," said Czopek.Read: Snhetta designs hikers' refuge in Pyrenees mountains with swooping grass roofThe living spaces across the two cottages are also united by sleek stainless steel kitchen cabinetry, cone-shaped pendant lights and floor-to-ceiling glazing that connects each interior to a terrace with views of the surrounding Silesian Beskids mountains.Upstairs, the private rooms were designed to echo their respective living spaces with tiled, glass and wooden details and colourful soft furnishings.Mistovia is known for its residential projectsMistovia specialises in residential interiors and has quickly cemented a reputation for bringing together unusual materials, as seen in an eclectic Warsaw apartment that Czopek and his team renovated for an art director and her pet dachshund.Last November, the studio took home the title of emerging interior designer of the year at the 2024 Dezeen Awards.The photography is byOni Studio.The post Mistovia designs duo of Polish holiday homes to complement mountainous surroundings appeared first on Dezeen.

Nearly a week after a New Years Day explosion in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, local law enforcement released more information about their investigation, including what they know so far about the role of generative AI in the incident. They confirmed that the suspect, an active duty soldier in the US Army named Matthew Livelsberger, had a possible manifesto saved on his phone, in addition to an email to a podcaster and other letters. They also showed video evidence of him preparing for the explosion by pouring fuel onto the truck while stopped before driving to the hotel. Hed also kept a log of supposed surveillance, although the officials said he did not have a criminal record and was not being surveilled or investigated.RelatedThe Las Vegas Metro Police also released several slides showing questions hed posed to ChatGPT several days before the explosion, asking about explosives, how to detonate them, and how to detonate them with a gunshot, as well as information about where to buy guns, explosive material, and fireworks legally along his route. 1/4ChatGPT queries tied to Matthew Livelsberger Image: Las Vegas Metro Police Department1/4ChatGPT queries tied to Matthew Livelsberger Image: Las Vegas Metro Police DepartmentAsked about the queries, OpenAI spokesperson Liz Bourgeois said:We are saddened by this incident and committed to seeing AI tools used responsibly. Our models are designed to refuse harmful instructions and minimize harmful content. In this case, ChatGPT responded with information already publicly available on the internet and provided warnings against harmful or illegal activities. Were working with law enforcement to support their investigation.The officials say they are still examining possible sources for the explosion, described as a deflagration that traveled rather slowly as opposed to a high explosives detonation that wouldve moved faster and caused more damage. While investigators say they havent ruled out other possibilities like an electrical short yet, an explanation that matches some of the queries and the available evidence is that the muzzle flash of a gunshot ignited fuel vapor/fireworks fuses inside the truck, which then caused a larger explosion of fireworks and other explosive materials.Trying the queries in ChatGPT today still works, however, the information he requested doesnt appear to be restricted and could be obtained by most search methods. Still, the suspects use of a generative AI tool and the investigators ability to track those requests and present them as evidence take questions about AI chatbot guardrails, safety, and privacy out of the hypothetical realm and into our reality.

Xbox chief Phil Spencer has been dropping hints about an Xbox handheld for months, but what about Windows handheld gaming PCs? Jason Ronald, Microsofts VP of Next Generation, tells The Verge that we should expect to see the Windows handheld gaming experience change within this calendar year. Ronald was a roundtable panelist this evening at an AMD and Lenovo event titled The Future of Gaming Handhelds, which was mostly a coming-out party for Lenovos new Legion Go S. But he did hint on stage that Microsoft plans to bring the Xbox experience to Windows PCs, rather than the other way around and expanded on that considerably after we caught up with him later.Weve been really innovating for a long time in the console space, and as we partner across the industry its really about how do we bring those innovations that weve incubated and developed in the console space and bring them to PC and bring them to the handheld gaming space, said Ronald. After we caught up with him after the event, he confirmed that Microsoft is looking at combining Xbox and Windows experiences together and that we should see changes this very year, rather than needing to wait for an Xbox handheld that might still be years away.Microsofts Jason Ronald speaks at the Lenovo/AMD event, flanked by Valve SteamOS designer Pierre-Loup Griffais (left) and AMD chief gaming architect Frank Azor (middle right). Photo by Sean Hollister / The VergeI would say its bringing the best of Xbox and Windows together, because we have spent the last 20 years building a world-class operating system, but its really locked to the console, says Ronald. What were doing is were really focused on how do we bring those experiences for both players and developers to the broader Windows ecosystem.Right now, Windows sucks on handhelds, to put it rather bluntly, to the point that a community-created fork of Valves SteamOS experience can be a far better way to pick up and play games. Ronald is clearly aware of the issues. Were focused on really simplifying that and making it much more like a console experience. Our goal is to put the player and their library at the center of the experience and not all the [Windows] work that you have to do today.Microsoft has done compact modes for Xbox apps on Windows that are focused on improving the handheld experience, but its a lot like putting lipstick on a pig instead of addressing the core experience. I think well have a lot more to share later this year, teases Ronald. I think its going to be a journey and I think youll see a lot of investments over time that youre starting to see already, but well have a lot more to share later this year.Microsoft has made several Xbox apps more handheld-friendly over the past year. Photo by Tom Warren / The VergeHow Microsoft goes about this merging of Xbox and Windows will be key, but it doesnt sound like the company is suddenly going to port a custom Xbox operating system to Windows. It sounds more like Microsoft wants to make Windows all up better at gaming with an Xbox experience on top so the pesky desktop, notifications, and legacy of Windows is hidden away.Related I think, at the end of the day, our goal is to make Windows great for gaming on any device, says Ronald. The reality is the Xbox operating system is built on top of Windows. So theres a lot of infrastructure that we built in the console space that we can bring to the PC space and really deliver that premium gaming experience on any device.Specifically, Microsoft has to tackle a lot of the very basics of making Windows more friendly to controllers and getting that Xbox experience to really drive things instead of the taskbar, Start menu, and other elements. Theres just certain things in Windows that were not designed for if you dont have a keyboard and mouse, like thumbstick support or joypads and stuff like that, Ronald admits. Theres fundamental interaction models that were working on to make sure that regardless of the operating system details it feels very natively like a gaming-centric device and a gaming-centric experience.Ronald says the goal is to put an Xbox experience at the center not the Windows desktop that you have today.

Meta overhauled its approach to US moderation on Tuesday, ditching fact-checking, announcing a plan to move its trust and safety teams, and perhaps most impactfully, updating its Hateful Conduct policy. As reported by Wired, a lot of text has been updated, added, or removed, but here are some of the changes that jumped out at us.These two sections outlining speech (written or visual) are new additions:We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like weird.We do allow content arguing for gender-based limitations of military, law enforcement, and teaching jobs. We also allow the same content based on sexual orientation, when the content is based on religious beliefs.Another section that specifically banned making dehumanizing references to transgender or non-binary people as it or referring to women as household objects or property or objects in general has been removed entirely.The opening statement about what the policies are designed to allow room for that previously listed only health or positive support groups has changed too (new additions marked in bold):People sometimes use sex- or gender-exclusive language when discussing access to spaces often limited by sex or gender, such as access to bathrooms, specific schools, specific military, law enforcement, or teaching roles, and health or support groups. Other times, they call for exclusion or use insulting language in the context of discussing political or religious topics, such as when discussing transgender rights, immigration, or homosexuality. Finally, sometimes people curse at a gender in the context of a romantic break-up. Our policies are designed to allow room for these types of speech.The section that specifically banned targeting people or groups with claims that they have or spread the novel coronavirus has also been removed. A link to this 2017 blog post about the hard questions Meta faces dealing with hate speech has been removed, and some references to hate speech are now changed to hateful conduct.The policy still says that content about denying access to spaces and social services on the basis of their protected characteristics is not allowed, but theres also a new exception (the added text is in bold):...except for sex or gender-based exclusion from spaces commonly limited by sex or gender, such as restrooms, sports and sports leagues, health and support groups, and specific schoolsEven before these changes, the LGBTQ+ media advocacy group GLAAD reported last year that Meta often failed to remove posts violating its hate speech policies. Now, even those guardrails that had been established to protect people from internet harassment are disappearing. Without these necessary hate speech and other policies, Meta is giving the green light for people to target LGBTQ people, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups with violence, vitriol, and dehumanizing narratives. With these changes, Meta is continuing to normalize anti-LGBTQ hatred for profit at the expense of its users and true freedom of expression. Fact-checking and hate speech policies protect free speech. said GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis in a statement responding to the changes.A note from Metas new policy chief Joel Kaplan said, Were getting rid of a number of restrictions on topics like immigration, gender identity and gender that are the subject of frequent political discourse and debate. Its not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms. Wired

The pre-training of language models (LMs) plays a crucial role in enabling their ability to understand and generate text. However, a significant challenge lies in effectively leveraging the diversity of training corpora, which often include data from varied sources such as Wikipedia, blogs, and social media. Models typically treat all input data equivalently, disregarding contextual cues about the source or style. This approach has two primary shortcomings:Missed Contextual Signals: Without considering metadata such as source URLs, LMs overlook important contextual information that could guide their understanding of a texts intent or quality.Inefficiency in Specialized Tasks: Treating heterogeneous data uniformly can reduce the models efficiency in handling tasks that require specific stylistic or factual knowledge.These issues result in a less robust training process, higher computational costs, and suboptimal downstream task performance. Addressing these inefficiencies is essential for developing more effective and versatile language models.Researchers from Princeton University have introduced Metadata Conditioning then Cooldown (MeCo) to address the challenges of standard pre-training. MeCo leverages readily available metadata, such as source URLs, during the pre-training phase. By prepending this metadata to the input text, the method enables the model to better associate documents with their contextual information.MeCo operates in two stages:Metadata Conditioning (First 90%): During the initial phase, metadata such as URL: wikipedia.org is prepended to the document. The model learns to recognize the relationship between metadata and document content.Cooldown Phase (Last 10%): In this phase, training continues without metadata to ensure the model can generalize to scenarios where metadata is unavailable during inference.This straightforward approach not only accelerates pre-training but also enhances the flexibility of language models, allowing them to adapt to various tasks or contexts with minimal additional effort.Technical Details and Benefits of MeCoCore Mechanism:MeCo appends metadata, such as domain names, to the input text in the training data. For example, a Wikipedia article on Tim Cook would include the prefix URL: wikipedia.org.The training objective remains unchanged; the model predicts the next token based on the combined metadata and document text.Advantages:Improved Data Efficiency: MeCo reduces the amount of training data required. For instance, a 1.6B parameter model trained with MeCo achieves the same downstream performance as standard pre-training while using 33% less data.Enhanced Model Adaptability: Conditioning the inference on specific metadata enables models trained with MeCo to produce outputs with desired attributes, such as higher factuality or reduced toxicity.Minimal Overhead: Unlike computationally intensive methods such as data filtering, MeCo introduces almost no additional complexity or cost.Results and InsightsPerformance Gains: The researchers evaluated MeCo across various model scales (600M to 8B parameters) and datasets (C4, RefinedWeb, and DCLM). Key findings include:MeCo consistently outperformed standard pre-training in downstream tasks, such as question answering and commonsense reasoning.For a 1.6B model trained on the DCLM dataset, MeCo achieved an average performance improvement of 1.0% across 10 tasks compared to standard methods.Data Efficiency: MeCos ability to achieve equivalent results with 33% less data translates to substantial savings in computational resources. This efficiency is particularly valuable in large-scale training scenarios.Conditional Inference: The method also supports conditional inference, where prepending specific metadata (e.g., factquizmaster.com) to a prompt can guide the models behavior. For example:Using wikipedia.org reduced the toxicity of generated outputs.Prepending synthetic URLs improved performance on tasks like common knowledge question answering.Ablation Studies: Experiments demonstrated that MeCos benefits stem primarily from its ability to group documents by metadata rather than the specific semantic content of the metadata. This suggests that even hashed or synthetic metadata can enhance training efficiency.ConclusionThe Metadata Conditioning then Cooldown (MeCo) method is a practical and effective approach to optimizing language model pre-training. By leveraging metadata, MeCo addresses inefficiencies in standard pre-training, reducing data requirements and improving both performance and adaptability. Its simplicity and minimal computational overhead make it an appealing option for researchers and practitioners developing robust and efficient language models.As natural language processing evolves, techniques like MeCo highlight the value of using metadata to refine training processes. Future research could explore integrating MeCo with other innovative approaches, such as domain-specific tuning or dynamic metadata generation, to further enhance its effectiveness.Check out the Paper. All credit for this research goes to the researchers of this project. Also,dont forget to follow us onTwitter and join ourTelegram Channel andLinkedIn Group. Dont Forget to join our60k+ ML SubReddit. FREE UPCOMING AI WEBINAR (JAN 15, 2025): Boost LLM Accuracy with Synthetic Data and Evaluation IntelligenceJoin this webinar to gain actionable insights into boosting LLM model performance and accuracy while safeguarding data privacy.The post Researchers from Princeton University Introduce Metadata Conditioning then Cooldown (MeCo) to Simplify and Optimize Language Model Pre-training appeared first on MarkTechPost.