Links for 2022-11-18
“Introducing Omni! 🔎 ML-powered web browsing is here 🧠Generative thought, from contradiction to automated creativity is here⚡️Real-time connection to every thought you've ever written is here” https://beta.omnilabs.ai/
“The Epiphany of Gliese 581” — A linguist, a chemist, and a comparative psychologist explore the ruins of a dead superintelligence. [26k words science fiction story by @zetalyrae] https://borretti.me/fiction/eog581
“New Tides of History: The Battle of the Tollense Valley. More than 3,000 years ago, two armies met in a huge Bronze Age battle in northern Germany. In an incredible stroke of luck, much of the battlefield survives in a remarkable state of preservation.” [Podcast] https://art19.com/shows/tides-of-history/episodes/d40ec0db-e211-4490-8d2b-182d25fa728e
A platform for building LLM apps. Makes it extremely easy to build, fine-tune and deploy an LLM app with little-to-no code. Great for developers who don't want to deal with ML or even low-code solopreneurs. (via @ai__pub) https://scale.com/spellbook
Generate a professional ad or product demo from a plain cell phone photo. https://scale.com/catalog
I had no idea how terrible Tesla is at self-parking. Does anyone know why? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsb2XBAIWyA
“…if you demand that you "not be treated as a number" or that your insurance "never deny anyone treatment as long as there's some chance it could help", or that health care be "taken out of the hands of bureaucrats and economists", then you will reap what you have sown: worse care and a greater chance of dying of disease, plus the certainty that you have inflicted the same on many others.” https://archive.ph/16ga4
If you have money and want to save lives, you had better put a price on life. https://mindingourway.com/the-value-of-a-life/
Book review: “The Heart of the Brain: The Hypothalamus and Its Hormones” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4gaeWLhnnBvhamRke/book-review-the-heart-of-the-brain-the-hypothalamus-and-its
“Truly fantastic news if you are a long-termer. Dark energy not increasing so no Big Rip so universe won't end in just 10 billion years or so.” (via @JimDMiller) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNTZ6Cvil0Y
"Income was logarithmically associated with brain surface area... These data indicate that income relates most strongly to brain structure among the most disadvantaged children." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25821911/
The threat environment is C.R.I.N.G.E: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea & Global Extremists
– Rep. Adam Smith