Links for 2023-10-15
“Our new Sparse Universal Transformer is both parameter-efficient and computation-efficient compared to the Transformer, and it's better at compositional generalization!” https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07096
Adobe's Project Dub Dub Dub translates voice recordings or video audio into several languages while preserving the original speaker's tone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZY-Cv1Q8NY
“OpenAI's Revenue Skyrockets to $1.3 Billion Annualized Rate: This means the company is generating over $100 million per month—a 30% increase from just this past summer.” https://www.maginative.com/article/openais-revenue-skyrockets-to-1-3-billion-annual-rate/
Adobe previews AI upscaling to make old, fuzzy videos and GIFs look fresh https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/11/23912480/adobe-max-sneak-project-resup-ai-video-upscaling-preview
“Are you ready to witness the magic of sound separation? 🎶Explore the AudioSep demo and be amazed by its strong separation performance across various tasks. It's the future of audio processing!” https://twitter.com/Gradio/status/1712854634568761733
“Project See Through simplifies the process of cleaning up reflections by using artificial intelligence. Reflections are automatically removed, and optionally saved as separate images for editing purposes.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjLcIc7-bF4
AI Has Already Created As Many Images As Photographers Have Taken in 150 Years. Statistics for 2023 https://journal.everypixel.com/ai-image-statistics
AI Security Center to Open at National Security Agency https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3541838/ai-security-center-to-open-at-national-security-agency/
Activating astrocytes in the basal forebrain keeps mice awake without any signs of sleepiness https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-astrocytes-basal-forebrain-mice-sleepiness.html
Observation Of Metal Healing Itself Confirms Texas A&M Researcher’s Prediction https://today.tamu.edu/2023/08/24/observation-of-metal-healing-itself-confirms-texas-am-researchers-prediction/
“Hubbard Excitons” – Caltech Physics Discovery Could Lead to Incredible New Technologies https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/physicists-find-evidence-for-magnetically-bound-excitons
Racial and ethnic differences in reproductive potential across the life cycle: “The most notable findings included earlier puberty in blacks and Hispanics compared with whites…” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0015028209039673
The world as you know it will cease to exist within the next 10 years.
Israel links:
Palestinians in your country: what to expect? https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/palestinians-in-your-country-what
"The IDF cannot realistically and fully destroy Hamas's network of tunnels. Parts of the network are unknown. Some are unattainable. And for some of them the collateral damage will be too high." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67097124
Iran sent a message to Israel on Saturday via the UN stressing that it does not want further escalation in the Hamas-Israel war, but that it will have to intervene if the Israeli operation in Gaza continues. https://www.axios.com/2023/10/14/iran-warning-israel-hezbollah-hamas-war-gaza
Analysis of the Salah Al Deen Gaza Wadi bridge explosion https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1713241560752533662
Ukraine links:
“The scale of the Russian assault on Avdiivka underscores their determination to achieve their objectives. Russians have deployed what I've identified as at least two mechanized battalions or two battalion-tactical groups in the primary attack directions, alongside smaller units in other areas, constituting an operation of approximately regimental size.” https://twitter.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1713236442804097160
Russian forces are getting absolutely smashed in head-on assaults on Ukrainian forces in Avdiivka. https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1713173051901087748
A whole trench surrendered to the AFU in the Zaporizhzhia direction https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1713293503172653219
Video about the cooks of the Ukrainian 47th Brigade. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1713110555538386985
U.S. Army moves ahead on Ukraine-style bomber drones https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2023/10/army-moves-ahead-ukraine-style-bomber-drones/390918/
In the past 31 days, Russia has lost 3 times more artillery and 6 times the tanks Ukraine has. https://twitter.com/CasualArtyFan/status/1713238619375235370
I'm against banning pro-Hamas rallies.
Restricting free speech is almost never a solution. It masks the symptoms of the underlying disease.
I want to know what people think, especially if I hate it, and even more so if their beliefs might threaten my well-being.
Many average people live in filter bubbles that shield them from the barbaric realities metastasizing at the very foundations of their societies. This is why I prefer people to publicly and widely proclaim their beliefs in order to burst as many filter bubbles as possible.
If there are Nazis, I'd rather have them wearing swastika armbands so I can easily identify them and gauge their popularity than be surprised when some social tipping point is reached and they suddenly and unexpectedly rise to power.
Banning pro-Hamas rallies only allows politicians and intellectuals to maintain the illusion that multiculturalism and diversity are positive until it is too late.
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