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Jan 23, 2023

Brave New World complete dramatised audiobook

Posted by in categories: food, sustainability

Chapter 1: 0:00 — 25:49
Chapter 2: 26:00 — 43:44
Chapter 3: 43:55 — 1:25:36
Chapter 4: 1:25:48 — 1:49:50
Chapter 5: 1:50:00 — 2:17:16
Chapter 6: 2:17:27 — 2:49:22
Chapter 7: 2:49:29 — 3:19:09
Chapter 8: 3:19:32 — 3:52:27
Chapter 9: 3:52:38 — 4:01:57
Chapter 10: 4:02:04 — 4:13:39
Chapter 11: 4:13:48 — 4:47:54
Chapter 12: 4:48:03 — 5:12:22
Chapter 13: 5:12:32 — 5:32:24
Chapter 14: 5:32:33 — 5:50:33
Chapter 15: 5:50:42 — 6:05:56
Chapter 16: 6:06:06 — 6:30:30
Chapter 17: 6:30:40 — 6:50:40
Chapter 18: 6:50:49 — 7:25:54

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Jan 23, 2023

Ground-breaking technology restores dead organs back to life-like state

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

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A new technique to restore the organs in a body all at once could one day help get much-needed organs to those waiting on the transplant list.

Jan 23, 2023

Origins of Pleasurable Touch Traced From Skin to Brain

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Summary: Study reveals a skin-to-brain neural circuit that responds to rewarding forms of social touch. Researchers say the findings could provide an avenue for harnessing the power of touch to assist in treating social and emotional disorders.

Source: Columbia University.

A parent’s reassuring touch. A friend’s warm hug. A lover’s enticing embrace. These are among the tactile joys in our lives.

Jan 23, 2023

What’s with Earth’s Inner Core? A New Research Paper Shows Evidence Its Spin Rate is Slowing

Posted by in category: futurism

Multi-decade study describes how Earth’s core dynamics are slowing leading to speculation about what the length of a day will be in the distant future.


Seismic readings show a slowing since 2009. Should sci-fi fans be concerned?

Jan 23, 2023

Juice spacecraft heading to spaceport for launch

Posted by in category: space

Out solar system will soon be getting a new explorer, as a mission to study the moons of Jupiter readies for launch.

The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, or JUICE, is scheduled for launch in just a few months’ time, so the spacecraft is now being packed up at its testing location in Toulouse, France, for transport to its launch location in French Guiana.

The spacecraft recently went through its final round of testing, including a thermal vacuum test to ensure it can handle the cold temperatures of space, and the system validation test in which the immediate steps after launch are simulated, like the deploying of booms and arrays that will happen in space.

Jan 23, 2023

New pop-up electrode device could help with 3D mapping of the brain

Posted by in categories: mapping, neuroscience

The device could gather more in-depth information about individual neurons.

Jan 23, 2023

Maintaining Eye Contact in a Video Conference with NVIDIA Maxine

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, robotics/AI

Maintaining eye contact is crucial to establishing engagement and trust in a conversation. This can be challenging in a video conference because it requires participants to look at the camera instead of the screen. The NVIDIA Maxine Eye Contact feature creates an in-person experience for virtual meetings. Powered by AI, Maxine Eye Contact directs your eyes to a centered position to maintain eye contact with your audience. Eye Contact is available to developers through the Maxine Augmented Reality SDK at https://developer.nvidia.com/maxine#ar-sdk.

Learn more about Maxine at https://developer.nvidia.com/maxine and all of NVIDIA’s AI solutions at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/deep-learning-ai/products/solutions/
#AI #NVIDIA #Maxine

Jan 23, 2023

Chat-GPT generates Realistic Images and Art with mid-journey

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

In this video ill show you how you can use some promptengineering to get some amazing mid-journey prompts from chat gpt that can produce stunning images and art.

#chatgpt #gptchat #openai #midjourney #artificialintelligence #ai #machinelearning #deeplearning #chatbot #coding #python

Jan 23, 2023

AI art — automation. A working artist’s take

Posted by in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI

Also some stories from my childhood. Art as a live service. I’m wrong a lot so maybe I’m wrong about this stuff.

Music: “Un coin tranquille — Instrumental Version” by Nono feat. Anat Moshkovski.
I got it on Artlist (like most of the music on the channel) which is a royalty free library that I understand pays their artists pretty well.

Jan 23, 2023

Large Language Model: world models or surface statistics?

Posted by in categories: computing, information science

Large Language Models (LLM) are on fire, capturing public attention by their ability to provide seemingly impressive completions to user prompts (NYT coverage). They are a delicate combination of a radically simplistic algorithm with massive amounts of data and computing power. They are trained by playing a guess-the-next-word game with itself over and over again. Each time, the model looks at a partial sentence and guesses the following word. If it makes it correctly, it will update its parameters to reinforce its confidence; otherwise, it will learn from the error and give a better guess next time.

While the underpinning training algorithm remains roughly the same, the recent increase in model and data size has brought about qualitatively new behaviors such as writing basic code or solving logic puzzles.

How do these models achieve this kind of performance? Do they merely memorize training data and reread it out loud, or are they picking up the rules of English grammar and the syntax of C language? Are they building something like an internal world model—an understandable model of the process producing the sequences?