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Ice Cube · Lethal Injection · Song · 1993

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Neural posterior estimation of the neutrino direction in #IceCube using transformer-encoded normalizing flows on the sphere: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19846 -> New machine-learning method improves IceCube’s estimation of neutrino direction: https://icecube.wisc.edu/news/research/2026/05/new-machine-learning-method-improves-icecubes-estimation-of-neutrino-direction/
Neural posterior estimation of the neutrino direction in IceCube using transformer-encoded normalizing flows on the sphere

IceCube is a cubic-kilometer-scale neutrino detector located at the geographic South Pole. A precise directional reconstruction of IceCube neutrinos is vital for associations with astronomical objects. In this context, we discuss neural posterior estimation of the neutrino direction via a transformer encoder that maps to a normalizing flow on the 2-sphere. It achieves a new state-of-the-art angular resolution for the two main event morphologies in IceCube - tracks and showers - while being significantly faster than traditional B-spline-based likelihood reconstructions. All-sky scans can be performed within seconds rather than hours, and take constant computation time, regardless of whether the posterior extent is arc-minutes or spans the whole sky. We utilize a combination of $C^2$-smooth rational-quadratic splines, scale transformations and rotations to define a novel spherical normalizing-flow distribution whose parameters are predicted as a whole as the output of the transformer encoder. We test several structural choices diverting from the vanilla transformer architecture. In particular, we find dual residual streams, nonlinear QKV projection and a separate class token with its own cross-attention processing to boost test-time performance. The angular resolution for both showers and tracks improves substantially over the whole trained energy range from 100 GeV to 100 PeV. At 100 TeV deposited energy, for example, the median angular resolution improves by a factor of $1.3$ for throughgoing tracks, by a factor of $1.7$ for showers and by a factor of $2.5$ for starting tracks compared to state-of-the art likelihood reconstructions based on B-splines. While previous machine-learning (ML) efforts have managed to obtain competitive shower resolutions, this is the first time an ML-based method outperforms likelihood-based muon reconstructions above 100 GeV.

arXiv.org
‘War of the Worlds’ Producer Defends Ice Cube Film After Disastrous Reviews

"The criticism of 'War of the Worlds' didn't surprise me," Timur Bekmambetov admits about the movie that scooped up five Razzie Awards.

The Hollywood Reporter

#classic #rap with #nerd #it lyrics and a deep message from #icecube?

Count me in!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5A-Q89CkMg

The “GOAT” Wouldn’t Make This Song Bruh

I recently floated out the idea of curating a playlist of the worst songs I could find from rappers who would generally be considered some of the greatest of all time. I wasn’t sure if I actually wanted to do it at first, but the idea got a lot of attention and support. People were asking me to post it on Twitter when I was done putting it together. I posted it on my Patreon page yesterday morning, but here it is for the rest of y’all now.

 MUSIC 🔗

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6X5R2E7eQ35rMkynoYmYe8?si=4c66fbcc8218425b

Certain artists such as 2Pac or Lupe have songs that I dislike, but none that I felt were excessively unlistenable enough to qualify for this playlist. Honestly, as much as I dislike Drake, I really struggled to find a song from him that felt bad enough for this playlist as well. He has a lot of songs I dislike, a lot of songs I’d even say I hate, but I couldn’t really find any that were like completely unlistenable. I’m gonna do a commentary video about this for Patreon, so sign up if you wanna see that. If you have any other artists you think should be on this list let me know. ✌🏽

#1000volts #50Cent # #BigBoi #BigPun #BoogieDownProductions #BustaRhymes #CardiB #CharlieFunk #CharlieWilson #ChazBundick #ChuckD #Common #DionTimmer #DMX #Doughboy #DrDre #Drake #Dre #E40 #EarlSweatshirt #Eminem #FredTheGodson #FrenchMontana #Future #GhostfaceKillah #HeatherB #IceCube #IceT #InspectahDeck #JCole #Jadakiss #JAYZ #Jayceeoh #JellyRoll #KaliUchis #KanyeWest #KidCapri #KRSOne #LilKim #LilWayne #Lizzo #LLCoolJ #Ludacris #MastaKilla #MCShan #MileyCyrus #MrHudson #Nas #NickiMinaj #OMG #PNk #PharrellWilliams #PublicEnemy #PushaT #QueenLatifah #Raekwon #Rakim #Redman #RZA #ShaunWiah #ShawnStockman #Shontelle #SlickRick #SnoopDogg #SouljaBoy #SydBennett #TI #TerminatorX #TheNotoriousBIG #TonySunshine #TreySongz #Trozé #Ty #TylerTheCreator #WuTangClan

Review: The Anaconda Remake…the Heck did I Just Watch? (Spoilers)

For those of you who didn’t know, the 1997 movie Anaconda got a reboot last year starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd. Why this was necessary given the hilarious absurdity of the original movie, I don’t know, but it’s a thing. It’s obviously supposed to be a comedy paying homage to the original by making fun of it, but after watching it, though it’s funny, it also felt extremely disjointed.

To start with the pros, the reboot of Anaconda did have some funny scenes in it, which partially came from how random the movie was. It follows Doug and Griffin, two middle-aged guys who dreamed of being film makers, but ended up not getting the jobs they dreamed of. Griffin, wanting to get the gang back together and finally chase his dreams tells everyone that he’s gotten the rights to Anaconda and wants to make a reboot. Thus, they head off to the Amazon to shoot the movie, and a bunch of whacky shenanigans happen, especially when the actual snake comes into the picture.

Now, the snake is one of the places where the movie starts feeling disjointed. Basically, while Doug, Griffin, and the rest of their crew are trying to film Anaconda 2.0, there is an actual Titanoboa-size anaconda hunting them. Additionally, they have to deal with an illegal gold mining ring that they ran into and the people trying to arrest the gold miners.

Oh, yeah. Did I mention that there’s an entire side plot about there being an illegal gold mining ring that the Brazilian authorities are trying to stop that’s only relevant for about a third of the movie? Yeah, that’s a thing.

While that side plot sort-of added something to the movie, it didn’t do a whole lot in the long run other than getting Doug and company a boat (sort-of) and helping establish the existence of the giant anaconda that’s hunting them. Other than that, this side plot just adds fluff to the story that the movie seems to at least be aware of. A few times, it mentions that the existence of the gold mining ring adds tension to a movie that’s otherwise just a bunch of people trying to run away from a giant snake.

Another thing that happens in Anaconda is Ice Cube makes a random appearance and he’s trying to hunt the anaconda for some reason. It’s a plot point that, while funny, makes no sense. He’s really only there for laughs and to pay homage to the original movie.

Overall, the movie was funny but felt crowded and disjointed at times.

Until next time,

M.J.

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Warum lesen sich aus dem Japanischen übersetzte Tröts alle wie wenn sie von einem betrunkenen Yoda stammen würden?
Der Algo der da dahinter steckt hat echt noch eine Menge Feinschliff nötig. #mastodon #icecube
‘Outside Man’: Ice Cube Joins Tommy Lee Jones in New Crime Movie!!

Ice Cube has joined the cast of a new crime movie from Oscar-winning filmmaker Brian Helgeland. Tommy Lee Jones has also been cast in the feature. Notably, Helgeland won the Academy Award for Best …

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