Want to understand how LLMs and Transformers work? Then this article is for you. https://ig.ft.com/generative-ai/
Microsoft's Autogen: A framework that allows LLM agents to chat with each other to solve your tasks. https://github.com/microsoft/autogen
How to scale up robotic simulation tasks? GenSim: Generating Robotic Simulation Tasks via Large Language Models. https://liruiw.github.io/gensim/
Microsoft has announced that it will assume liability for copyright infringement by all of its Copilot products (not just GitHub). They claim to have built guardrails and filters into their products to prevent infringement. https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/09/07/copilot-copyright-commitment-ai-legal-concerns/
Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230911-00/?p=108749
Cerabyte Ceramic Storage Poised to Usher in 'Yottabyte Era' https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cerabyte-ceramic-storage-poised-to-usher-in-yottabyte-era
Scientists use quantum device to slow chemical process by factor of 100bn https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/08/29/conical-intersection-simulation-slowed-by-quantum-computer-100-billion-times.html
"Interfering with DMN activity through direct cortical stimulation...caused a decrease in creativity, specifically reducing the originality of the alternate uses, without affecting creative fluency or mind wandering". https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.13.557639v1
Same-Sex Behavior Evolved in Many Mammals to Reduce Conflict, Study Suggests https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/science/same-sex-behavior-evolution-mammals.html [https://archive.ph/ziKzi] (paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41290-x)
Something I wrote in 2019:
Imagine that there were only 15 million Muslims, less than half of whom lived in a single and tiny Muslim-majority country founded by the refugees of a genocide.
In this counterfactual world, there are 1.8 billion Jews living in 50 Jewish-majority countries, some of which attacked this tiny Muslim-majority country right after it was founded in order to drive those Muslim refugees into the sea.
In this thought experiment, not only do these Jewish-majority countries seek to destroy the only Muslim country, but they also purged some 850,000 Muslims from their own countries, who then had to flee to the country the Jews seek to destroy.
Against all odds, this tiny Muslim country has managed to survive and defeat those who seek to destroy it. Yet the hatred remains. Jewish children around the world are taught to hate Muslims and that their country must be wiped off the map. Jews who succeed in killing Muslim civilians are praised and their families are given pensions. International bodies such as the United Nations Human Rights Council constantly single out this tiny Muslim country and hold special sessions to condemn it, resulting in more condemnations against it than all other countries combined. The international press pities every Jew killed by Muslims in self-defense and demands that this tiny Muslim country back off.
In this world, would the political left be on the side of the Jews and condemn the Muslims?
Israel links:
A vehicle is fleeing south towards Magen on the 232 highway, they encounter Hamas militants west of Re’im, who kill the driver. https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1711498747757101261
Iran's official government newspaper celebrates the massacre. https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1711456653294415990
Western leaders issue joint statement stating 'steadfast and united' support for Israel https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/09/joint-statement-on-israel/
Ukraine links:
“We have geolocated over 23000 videos about the Ukrainian war.” http://geoconfirmed.org/Ukraine
Russian propagandists suddenly found that the majority of parents in the so-called "liberated" areas of Ukraine do not want their children to study in the Russian language. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1711292722881892432
Russia made it clear that their massacre of local villagers in Hroza was deliberate. https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1711446045010415834
Fighters of the Ukrainian 3rd Assault Brigade took into capture a Russian officer in the rank of Major, a commander of the Alga battalion belonging to the 72nd Brigade. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1711394387601539281
Ukrainian soldiers of the 79th Air Assault Brigade STOPPED Russian attempted offensive of the armored group in the direction of Novomykhailivka, in Donetsk region: THE ENEMY ASSAULT WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1711413636797792311
The 109th separate mountain assault battalion showed how it eliminated a group of Russians and their armored carriers. https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1711449797465378881
Sth of Robotyne. Russians are under accurate UAF fire. The RuAF are being smashed - between 6 to 8 KIA + WIA. https://twitter.com/Danspiun/status/1711493297284243611
"Against all odds, this tiny Muslim country has managed to survive and defeat those who seek to destroy it. Yet the hatred remains. Jewish children around the world are taught to hate Muslims and that their country must be wiped off the map. Jews who succeed in killing Muslim civilians are praised and their families are given pensions." <--
The analogy here is perfect, and thank you for writing it.