Storm drains can be a causeway of disaster for our oceans and bays, because trash and organic debris can travel through the pipelines, polluting the waterways on the other side.

Fortunately, a program in Florida could serve as a model for other communities in cleaning up the drains and preventing harmful pollution from soiling the environment.

The solution is from Miami-based Stop Ocean Pollution Technologies, or SOP. They were selected by the North Bay Village to install up to 50 unique drain filters that utilize an “upper flow of water through the screen, which will allow it to continue to flow even as debris is collected,” according to a report from NBC6 South Florida, the network’s local affiliate. Keeping the drains clear can also prevent flooding.

Biannual online magazine of SF, fantasy & horror.

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” — Ray Bradbury.

A team of experts from different fields are collaborating to promote the use of scientific thinking in decision-making processes. This could lead to better and smarter choices being made by the general public, potentially helping to solve some of the world’s biggest problems.

Amazon.com: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity: 9780385546478: Cipolla, Carlo M., Taleb, Nassim Nicholas: Books.

This #InternationalDanceDay, Spot is meeting another strange dog and making friends through the power of dance. Meet Sparkles!

Instant Family.

Masked attention for zero-shot multi-id image generation.

In the field of personalized image generation, the ability to create images preserving concepts has significantly improved.

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From MIT KAN Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks.

From MIT

https://huggingface.co/papers/2404.

Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, we propose Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as promising alternatives to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs).

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We extend the context length of Llama-3-8B-Instruct from 8K to 80K via QLoRA fine-tuning.

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The Browser Company, makers of the Arc web browser, released its Windows version today. The company started testing the Windows client in December, and it said that more than 150,000 people have been using it.

The startup, which aims to replace your current browser, recently raised $50 million at a $550 million valuation. Today, The Browser Company opened access to its Windows version to all users without any waitlist. Previously, the waitlist had more than 1 million people on it.

The company started with an invite-only Mac-based version in 2022 and opened it to everyone in July 2023.