Kory Mathewson
@korymath
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Understanding intelligent interactions between humans and machines Research @GoogleDeepMind Startups @creativedlab Improv @theatresports @improbotics
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Most excited to share this project with the world.
It's amazing to see the magic made when the most capable generative AI systems connect with the most creative folks on the planet.
We put our cutting-edge video generation model Veo in the hands of filmmaker
@DonaldGlover
and his creative studio, Gilga.
Let’s take a look. ↓
#GoogleIO
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How many machine learning researchers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
1 and 500 billion well-labelled examples.
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SOLUTION
View -> Developer -> JavaScript Console
Copy/Paste:
var sheet = document.createElement('style')
sheet.innerHTML = ".startHidden {display: block !important;} .preBooking {display: none !important;}";
document.body.appendChild(sheet);
Press Enter
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Here is a short story about how a poorly planned rollout of a vaccine sign up form can get in the way of people getting the vaccine
@GoAHealth
@AHS_media
Today, Feb 24, you can book vaccinations for those born 1946 or earlier.
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BSc -- Electrical Engineering
MSc -- Biomedical Engineering
PhD -- Computer Engineering
These days: Prompt Engineering
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Automatically Generating Engaging Presentation Slide Decks w/
@thomas_wint
TEDRIC is capable of generating coherent slide decks based on a single topic suggestion.
📝 Paper:
💽 Code:
▶️ Demo: (
@h0h0h0
)
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Excited to share our
@GoogleDeepMind
work creating agents that can mimic experts in goal-driven behaviour in real-time 3D environments.
It's a significant stride in human-AI interaction.
Delve into the details in our paper in Nature Communications
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Successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis: Humour-in-the-loop: Improvised Theatre with Interactive Machine Learning Systems
thx:
@lanacuthbertson
@PiotrImprov
@MathKyle
@AmiiThinks
@ualbertaScience
@PatrickPilarski
@JFaid
@theatresports
and more.
deets:
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✨Announcement ⏰
This 🍂, I will ✈️ from
#yeg
to
#montreal
🇨🇦 to join the incredible team at
@DeepMindAI
as a research👨🔬 working on problem solving algorithms for 🤖 & 💻 & 👨🎨
(emoji responses 💪’ly encouraged)
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Want to do this for your grandparents and older loved ones?
Go to:
In Chrome -> View -> Developer -> Developer Tools
Then on the right hand side on the Styles pane.
Click the PLUS + sign, and add some text:
.startHidden {
display: block !important
}
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What are symbols & how do they work?
We present a path towards symbolically fluent artificial intelligence by investigating: 1) what symbols are, 2) how they come to exist, 3) and how systems behave when using them.
w/
@AndrewLampinen
@santoroAI
@dnraposo
& Tim Lillicrap.
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Are you interested in a research science internship in 2020 at
@DeepMindAI
in
#Montreal
?
Applications close on 3rd January 2020, however applications are processed on a rolling basis so please do apply as soon as possible.
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Honoured and excited to get to share my story of how creativity led me to be a researcher
@GoogleDeepMind
-- a job that fills me with so much joy and where I get to do what I love to do everyday.
Shout out to every collaborator I've worked with,...
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Me: Let's do this JAX
JAX: "For differentiation of non-holomorphic functions involving complex outputs, or function with integer outputs, use jax.vjp directly"
Me: right, right.... cool. Me too.
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I forced a 🤖 to read over 1 million numbers and then asked it write some of its own.
Can you tell which ones an expert human wrote and which ones are machine made?
A) 1001100100010111
B) 1110000010000101
C) 0111000100100010
D) 1111111010110111
E) 1000100000100111
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Excited to share Dramatron widely and openly today.
We are looking forward to learning if and how you might incorporate Dramatron into your own artistic practices.
Introducing Dramatron, a new tool for writers to co-write theatre and film scripts with a language model. 🎭
Dramatron can interactively co-create new stories complete with title, characters, location descriptions and dialogue.
Try it yourself now:
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Ph.D. thesis submitted: "Humour-in-the-loop: Improvised Theatre with Interactive Machine Learning Systems"
More:
250 git commits illustrate how thesis content ebbs & flows & shrinks & grows, with edits and revisions.
h/t
@PatrickPilarski
(we did it!)
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I made a bot improvise for 1000 hours and then asked it to come up with a few short-form improv games of it's own. Here's the first three...
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Beautiful paper from Facebook AI research:
Personalizing Dialogue Agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?
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Interested in the
@GoogleDeepMind
Student Researcher Program?
Enrolled in bachelor/masters/PhD program want to learn more:
🎉Applications for 2024 are now open to start Jan/Feb.
Open to in-person in Montreal + share research interests? DMs are open.
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@jdan
Jordan. We don't know each other, and the internet is a really weird place. But, real recognize real and this is a very well prepared and executed bit; it works great from a humour perspective and from a technical perspective.
Congratulations on making me laugh very hard.
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Then, DO NOT fill in the a Postal Code in the top form. And DO NOT click the broken Submit.
Just fill out the bottom form and click continue.
This will show all the important stuff on the page, and ensure that you are, most importantly, able to book things for your loved ones.
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Well... there seems to be a CSS class called .startHidden (much like the virus) ... but I can find it and track it down thank you to the fact that MY GRANDPARENTS BOUGHT ME A COMPUTER AND LET ME PLAY VIDEO GAMES AND USE THE INTERNET.
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a portrait of the artist as a young computer
-- VQGAN + CLIP
full generation:
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Hi 👋 I'm Kory.
👨💻🤖 I am a research scientist in Artificial Intelligence
@DeepMind
.
🎭 I am also an improvisor with
@theatresports
and
@improbotics
🌐 If you want to learn more about me
Feel free to reach out and say hello.
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Shaping the Narrative Arc: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Collaborative Dialogue: . Interesting collaborative dialogue generation by shaping underlying narrative arcs w/
@marcgbellemare
,
@pcastr
, Colin & George from
@GoogleAI
#montreal
.
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Great to see
@davidchalmers42
presenting at the
@Mila_Quebec
today on the techophilosophical questions raised by The Matrix, the metaverse, and Virtual Reality
These ideas are explored deeply in his recent book Reality+
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Excited to share this work from
@DeepMind
on building agents that interact with humans.
Understanding intelligence requires understanding interaction.
We show that large scale behavioural imitation is an effective tool toward creating intelligent, interactive agents.
Our team studied how to build agents that interact with humans using natural language and physical actions in a simulated environment called the Playroom - based on a large dataset of human-human interactions.
(1/3)
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a portait of the artist as a young computer
-- diffusion
full generation:
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Vaccinated.
Unfortunately, they had to call Animal Control and evacuate the premises when I release my sick pythons.
Feeling more powerful already 🐯
#jelaifait
Thank you
@vaccelerateur06
and to all the amazing people running the show, esp. Aurel.
ps. sorry about the 🐍💪
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Let me know what else I can do
@shandro
?
Here is the post:
And the quick fix:
SOLUTION
View -> Developer -> JavaScript Console
Copy/Paste:
var sheet = document.createElement('style')
sheet.innerHTML = ".startHidden {display: block !important;} .preBooking {display: none !important;}";
document.body.appendChild(sheet);
Press Enter
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Only keep tabs open that speak to your heart. Take the plunge and discard the rest.
You can reset your life and embark on a new lifestyle.
The best way to choose which tabs to keep open & which to close is to look at each and ask:
Does this spark joy?
If it does, keep it.
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Feb 23rd, I'm @ Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
@AmiiThinks
for a
#ML
/
#AI
community event discussing:
Four Directions to Sail Your 🚢: Internships, Scholarships, Entrepreneurship, and Mentorship
Register here:
Here's a picture of me in a boat.
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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. Edsger Dijkstra
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I am delighted to be at the
@royalsociety
in sunny London, England today to present our
@DeepMind
research on learning robust real-time cultural transmission in machines.
DYK: The royal society is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
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Thank you to
@MathKyle
for raising the alarm on this one and to for being the best developer and advocate and manager I know.
Now, get that vaccine gran and gramps and let's hug again!
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Alrighty
#MachineLearning
, I'm looking for your number 1 favourite ML/
#AI
term.
Mine is "loopy belief propagation" - approximate inference algorithm on graphical models with loops
Faves
@danijarh
@elasri_layla
@FelixHill84
@hardmaru
@MirowskiPiotr
@ladognome
@transformsai
?
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Filled that out ... and yep. That broken borker was the 'slow' part of the system.
Glad that
@AHS_media
are thinking about being Healthy Together.
Hopefully this will help some folks.
We will get through this together.
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Most photos will only be 'seen' by computer vision algorithms and machine learning systems.
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2023 will be the year of Interactive Machine Learning
So it is a good time to remember
➡️ ALL MACHINE LEARNING IS INTERACTIVE ⬅️
➡️ Why does this matter?
➡️ What can you do on your next AI / ML-powered project
A short 🧵 to start the year.
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a portrait of the artist as a young computer
-- VQGAN + CLIP
full generation:
h/t
@somewheresy
@RiversHaveWings
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An incredible production from an inspiring team. This is what the future of creative AI/ML looks like.
Runway beta v0.4 is here! 🏄♀️
Major updates include:
- 5 new models: StyleGAN, GPT-2, MaskRCNN, PhotoSketch, Visual Importance.
- Vector Input: a grid-like interface for exploring the outputs of generative models such as BigGAN and StyleGAN.
More features on the way! 🎁
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Text to image systems are cool,
But what’s your favourite image to text process?
#ai
#AIart
#aiartcommunity
@pcastr
@MirowskiPiotr
@c_valenzuelab
What’s happened in the space since e.g. and
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After 41 years,
@theatresports
has found a
#foreverhome
at the
@TELUS
@oldstrathcona
Exchange Building in beautiful
#yeg
.
Lots of good memories in this building already, and I am sure there will be many more over the next 4 decades.
Congrats to
@MattOpacity
& GM Sarah et al!
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Obligatory shaking of hands picture with supervisor Dr.
@PatrickPilarski
at the silent hero in all of this doctoral work, the
@sugarbowlcafe
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Jann is a chatbot using JUST approximate nearest neighbor. It combines
@Spotify
's Annoy library,
@Google
@TensorFlow
Hub Universal Sentence Encoder and is built for speed using Flask, Python, and deployed immediately for free on
@heroku
. Try it now: .
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A dream.
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Hmmm... start with a postal code... okay, I can do that.
But, why would I start with a mandatory postal code?
And why when I enter a postal code, does the submit button become inactive and then nothing happen?
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🥳New paper 🚨
Communicative capital: a key resource for human–machine shared agency and collaborative capacity.
📝
w/ Adam Parker
@ualberta
@AmiiThinks
,
@csherstan
@SonyAI_global
, Ann Edwards,
@patrickpilarsk
&
@richardssutton
@DeepMind
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@CalamusandSinew
@GoAHealth
@AHS_media
It's always easier to fix a problem when you know what it looks like.
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Prompting generative AI models isn’t magic. It’s computer programming. Here’s how to think about writing great prompts.
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The day has arrived -- I'm so excited 🚽📚🎉
Toilets of Montreal is a collection of photographs of discarded toilets in public.
With several short musings exploring the history and culture of toilettes en plein air.
On sale now @
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There are ONLY 2 hard problems in software engineering:
1. cache invalidation
2. naming things
3. off-by-one errors
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Story:
Quick Fix:
How can I get this message to everyone who needs to hear it?
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I have eaten at least a half a dozen hot dogs 🌭 this year alone.
Here’s 7 condiments you need to know 🧵 ...
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I am excited to be presenting some great work with some brilliant collaborators at
#NeurIPS
2020.
This has been a challenging year and I want to thank the inspiration and support of these collaborators.
Research demands team work, compassion, empathy, and collective creativity
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Great article in
@TIME
from
@corinnepurtill
covering
#AI
#humor
and
#improv
comedy.
Honoured to be included alongside the talented
@PiotrImprov
/
@MirowskiPiotr
@thomas_wint
&
@naomi_fitter
@witscript
@JoeToplyn
.
World-class experts in bots + humans making funny things.
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Thanks! It is amazing how much feedback I have received along the lines of: "even though AI scares the spit out of me... with minds like yours involved I feel much less worried." I think it is our responsibility as scientists to communicate and share progress with all.
Can machine intelligence be funny? Our
@korymath
talks about how he's using
#DeepLearning
to do improvisational
#AI
:
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Excited and proud to present
@ParityBOT
:
"Women, politics and Twitter: Using machine learning to change the discourse"
Alongside
@lanacuthbertson
and great co-authors at the
#NeurIPS2019
AI for Social Good Workshop.
More details @
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Second, a theatre company in Canada (
@theatresports
) produced several scripts co-written with Dramatron (and heavily edited by the playwright)---see the photo from a performance—and got positive reviews!
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We already have a very good understanding of the world, but we have a very poor understanding of how we achieve this understanding
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@aclmeeting
Any update on when reviews will be released and author response period will begin?
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Honored and delighted to be included in the
@AmiiThinks
Impact Report 2020-21: "Creating the future of AI"
The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute is one of Canada's preeminent centres of AI, and bridges the universes of world-class research and innovative ventures!
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This is a dream team if I have ever heard of one. An incredibly formidable connection between one of the most inspired folks I know and a team that continues to excel and support an ever growing NLP community.
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Unfortunately, they have a 'slow tool'
*hair on the back of my neck stands up* ... thinks to myself, hmm I wonder which part of the tool is slow.
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Today
@1
:40pm EST I will present The Future of "Live" Theatre at
#MTLConnect
.
AI will change theatre, it's already begun. Robots on stage, dialog systems, personalized performances: artists challenge the fabric of reality and explore just how 'live' live theatre needs to be.
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I am so proud of you. Congratulations on paving the way. You are brilliant and your perseverance has been an inspiration for me since the moment I recognized it.
Choisi mon frère.
Honoured and excited and relieved to learn I've been awarded tenure at
@UAlberta
@ualbertaScience
@Psych_UAlberta
. Thanks to all the excellent mentors, colleagues, and trainees who made this possible.
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Well... disable that display: none --> and all the sudden this looks a lot more promising.
This looks like a form that might actually help me.
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Just took a huge bite of a banana.
Forgot to peel it first.
How's your Thursday going?
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#London
, you are quite a city.
This week has brought me so much joy.
Highlights inc. first days at
@Google
@DeepMindAI
, seeing
@TheShowstoppers
, & watching a late-night eater enjoy a fresh gyro so fully that he convinced a complete stranger to buy and eat one.
#squint
#dayone
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Improv comedy as a Turing Test? Excited to present at
#NIPS2017
() alongside
@PiotrImprov
========
Read the paper:
Blog post:
An improvisers POV (cc
@raeroshow
):
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Honored to be featured alongside
@PiotrImprov
in an article in the
@nytimes
by
@alexmarshall81
. Appreciated support from
#yeg
,
@theatresports
,
@ualbertaScience
,
@AmiiThinks
, and so many others. This is just the start.
h/t to
@wood_daniel
for photomagic
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Today at
#NeurIPS2022
, I’m excited for the World Debut of “PORTAGING”
At the
@ml4cdworkshop
-
Colab w/
@dribnet
@piotrmirowski
@juliettelove29
@hannahjdotca
@jasonbaldridge
@irinablok
@godatplay
@kaliyuga_ai
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The list of accepted workshops at
@NeurIPSConf
2020 looks interesting!
Excited to be working with a great team on - exploring all things language and games.
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Hard at work rehearsing with Raspberry for me and
@PiotrImprov
's improv show at the 2018
@edmontonfringe
. Thank you to
@theatresports
for the production and to
@wood_daniel
for the photos today.
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I gave a talk at
@AmiiThinks
on preparing applying for and getting internships, scholarships, entrepreneurship, and mentorship.
If you are a grad student, or looking for advice toward these 'ships... this video might be of interest to you.
More in 🧵
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Use reinforcement learning to train little learning machines to solve quests!
Congratulations to the whole team at
@transformsai
on the launch 🚀
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Had an absolute blast meeting
@pennjillette
&
@MrTeller
at the opening night of
@magicgoeswrong
at the beautiful Vaudeville theatre.
Teller is much taller and more talkative in person.
Congratulations to
@adammeggido
and the
@mischiefcomedy
crew for a roaring magical success.
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How creative are you?
The difference between you and everybody else is what you decide to do with the ideas you have.
So, when you think: "I thought of that ages ago!"
So did someone else, they just took the next step(s) of making the idea a reality.
Done is better than perfe
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So excited to be performing as
@improbotics
alongside
@PiotrImprov
@sydnycmpbll
@MattOpacity
@theatresports
fave Marg as well as the fantastic folks from
@AmiiThinks
What a great way to wrap up the
#DLRLSS2020
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AI is fundamentally changing the creative process.
If we want to truly understand how art is evolving in the age of AI, we need to start with a deceptively simple question: What is art?
Deeper dive:
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act as if.
act as if you have it.
celebrate all the spread you stopped.
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two iguanas wearing daft punk helmets standing on their legs behind turntables at burning man
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