Links for 2023-05-20
Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold
Project page: https://vcai.mpi-inf.mpg.de/projects/DragGAN/
“Ozempic doesn't just suppress your appetite. I talked to patients who took the drug to lose weight— only to also effortlessly stop biting their nails, compulsively shopping, drinking alcohol, and so on.” [The Atlantic] https://archive.is/BUo29
“I asked ChatGPT to contest my parking ticket. What followed was a thing of beauty” https://www.fastcompany.com/90898619/i-asked-chatgpt-to-contest-my-parking-ticket-what-followed-was-a-thing-of-beauty
LDM3D: Generates both image and depth map data from a given text prompt, allowing users to generate RGBD images from text prompts. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10853 (video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13pBwo8GPEt96WRfg0THtNicIeFu5TlD9/view?usp=sharing)
Deep physical neural networks trained with backpropagation: “Here we introduce a hybrid in situ–in silico algorithm, called physics-aware training, that applies backpropagation to train controllable physical systems.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04223-6
Longevity Biotech Landscape https://www.adanguyenx.com/longevity
Westinghouse Electric's AP300 Small Nuclear Reactor will easily fit on a football pitch. https://newatlas.com/technology/westinghouse-ap300-nuclear-plant/
China is moving forward with what appears to be a pretty large scale test of seawater uranium extraction! https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/CNNC-launches-test-platform-to-extract-uranium-fro
“The most important nuclear reactor that you've never heard of is…The MARVEL reactor from INL!” https://twitter.com/MattLoszak/status/1659176151099625472
Why gene editing is still humanity’s most powerful tool: “…what happened in the past few years is we’ve found easy to reprogram tools that will allow us to edit our genes. Man, that’s going to be 10 times more impactful than the digital revolution was.” https://bigthink.com/the-well/gene-editing-crispr-should-we-be-worried/
Vast Says It Will Launch Its First Space Station in 2025 on a Falcon 9 https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/vast-says-it-will-launch-its-first-space-station-in-2025-on-a-falcon-9/
Captura Facility Could Remove Gigatons of Carbon Dioxide From the Ocean https://newatlas.com/technology/captura-carbon-dioxide-ocean/
"The time for noble lies and cautious caveats has passed. Race differences in intelligence are a recalcitrant fact with pervasive ramifications." https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/why-talk-about-race-differences
Ukraine to receive F-16 fighter jets https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1659599358797443073
Advanced aliens really are out there, and we have enough data to say roughly where they are in space and time, and when we will see or meet them.
Read the rationalist explanation for the Fermi paradox (peer-reviewed and published in a prestigious journal): https://grabbyaliens.com/