that will appear throughout the presentation every time there's an exercise you can choose whether you want to work on it or not I'll give a little five-minute break since I know it's hard to pay attention to a presentation for two hours straight and if you'd like to work through the exercise you can work through it otherwise just take a break and chat with your neighbors the basic topic of today's tutorial is really generative modeling in general it's impossible to describe generative ever salient works without contrasting them