#Python: The Documentary official Trailer.
https://youtu.be/pqBqdNIPrbo?si=6uqZSTzxp3PamBMM

A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team; handy for sharing with your entourage, to explain why they should stop using #Chromium / #GoogleChrome and use #Firefox or #Epiphany as their main #web #browser :

* The "Manifest v3" sabotage of content blocking extensions: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23131029/mozilla-ad-blocking-firefox-google-chrome-privacy-manifest-v3-web-request
* The attempted sabotage of #JPEGXL: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/chrome-banishes-jpeg-xl-photo-format-that-could-save-phone-space/
* #WebEnvironmentIntegrity a.k.a. #DRM for whole websites would hurt the web, #opensource browsers and OSes: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

It is 90 seconds to midnight
2023 Doomsday Clock Statement

"As #Russia’s war on #Ukraine continues, the last remaining nuclear weapons treaty between Russia and the United States, New START, stands in jeopardy. Unless the two parties resume negotiations and find a basis for further reductions, the treaty will expire in February 2026. This would eliminate mutual inspections, deepen mistrust, spur a nuclear arms race, and heighten the possibility of a nuclear exchange."

https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/

Lake Baikal, Siberia, has turquoise ice! Beautiful! This photo was taken in 2013. Thanks to @deirdrebeth for finding the info! And here is a link to his website: http://en.trofimov-photo.com/
📸: Alexey Trofimov

First blog post of the new year, "Memento and Large Language Models" https://windowsontheory.org/2023/01/03/memento-and-large-language-models/

This is so cool!

Flight #UA858 took off in 2023 but will land back in 2022.

https://www.flightradar24.com/UAL858/2eb4abd0
#BackToTheFuture
#Flightradar24

@tiago I think I am interpolating all the time, and that is ok 🙂 For example, if I create a new beautiful color palette never seen before, is this extrapolation or interpolation? I would say it is interpolation in the color space.

@tiago imho true creativity (extrapolation) is a rare event and the space of interpolation is huge and only a tiny part was explored. And when a genius creates (extrapolates) something great, it also opens a new very large space of interpolation for AI. We can call it false creativity, but it will still change the world.

@tiago true, but most of what we call criativity is interpolation. Everything is a remix 🙂

About damn time. It is absurd to fight against authoritarians, while keeping political prisoners.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/12/julian-assange-biden-press-freedom-legacy?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

@drewtoothpaste 😂 glimpse into the future

Human-level play in the game of Diplomacy by combining language models with strategic reasoning 🚀🔥 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097

Dreambooth Yoji Shinkawa model by @evelryu@twitter.com

@Gradio@twitter.com demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Evel/Evel_Space
@huggingface@twitter.com model: https://huggingface.co/Evel/YoShin
reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/yzetmq/i_created_a_stable_diffusion_model_based_on_yoji/

I found myself continually nodding to this Atlantic piece: "The Age of Social Media Is Ending."

It has a really insightful long-term perspective, which almost reads like an circa-2040 encyclopedia article about the "social media age."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074/

New blog post! Here's a bunch of stuff I learned while building my first production machine learning project: the Soundslice optical music recognition system.

https://www.holovaty.com/writing/machine-learning-thoughts/

Yeah, I need this

Tron-style dreambooth model https://huggingface.co/dallinmackay/Tron-Legacy-diffusion

RT @OpenAI
We've trained a neural net called Whisper that approaches human-level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition. It performs well even on diverse accents and technical language. Whisper is open source for all to use. https://openai.com/blog/whisper/

RANKGEN: Improving Text Generation with Large Ranking Models

Re-ranking with RankGen as well as integrating RankGen in beam search significantly improves text generation quality

paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09726
code: https://github.com/martiansideofthemoon/rankgen

#NLP