Links for 2023-10-19
“Today we're sharing new research that brings us one step closer to real-time decoding of image perception from brain activity.” https://ai.meta.com/blog/brain-ai-image-decoding-meg-magnetoencephalography/
Set-of-Mark Prompting Unleashes Extraordinary Visual Grounding in GPT-4V https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11441
“In our survey of ~4,000 postdocs, one in three respondents are using AI chatbots to help refine text, generate or edit code, wrangle literature in their field, and more.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03235-8
Large Language Models Are Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasters https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07820
HyperHuman: Hyper-Realistic Human Generation with Latent Structural Diffusion https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08579
Octopus: Embodied Vision-Language Programmer from Environmental Feedback https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08588
OpenAI Python Library: The library provides easy access to the OpenAI API from applications written in the Python language. https://github.com/openai/openai-python
“The US just published its revised export controls on AI chips, moving away from the 'chip-to-chip' interconnect bandwidth threshold to a threshold on computational performance (OP/s), including its derived performance density (OP/s per mm²).” https://twitter.com/ohlennart/status/1714319096035119228
Solid progress in developing construction techniques for the Moon. https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/How_to_make_roads_on_the_Moon
Cancer expert given experimental treatments for incurable brain tumour describes 'phenomenal' results https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-20/melanoma-richard-scolyer-georgina-long-early-results/102879818
An excellent visualization of what a defeat the attack on Avdiivka turned out to be for the Russian army. And this is just the northern flank.
Source: https://t.me/DeepStateUA/17857
Also check this thread about destroyed or abandoned Russian armor in the Avdiivka direction: https://twitter.com/OSINTua/status/1714604462159835285
And see this fresh analysis of the battle: https://twitter.com/emilkastehelmi/status/1714715790153248909
More: “Russian armor/infantry trying to advance near Avdiivka, and getting pummeled by Ukrainian forces (Presidential Brigade, 2nd Battalion. pretty spectacular footage, incl at 0:43 when a soldier can be seen trying to extinguish flames on his pants)” https://twitter.com/Mike_Eckel/status/1714620062336725036
P.S. This morning, Russia is again attacking Avdiivka and suffering heavy losses. Until the last Russian!
More Ukraine links:
“By comparing Planet Labs imagery taken on 29 September 2023, we can assume with some degree of probability what types of helicopters were lost. Apparently four Mi-8 and five Ka-52 were destroyed in the attack on 17 October 2023.” https://twitter.com/MarcinRogowsk14/status/1714719455555584501
“Amid the predominant public focus on the successful ATACMS strike at Berdyansk airfield, our team has also assembled a comprehensive report on the outcomes of a similar strike at Luhansk airport, where numerous Russian attack and transport helicopters are stationed.” https://twitter.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1714797845457350817
Strike on two Russian BM-21 Grad MLRS during reloading. By the 43rd brigade of Ukraine. https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1714558868838060452
“FPV drones from the UAV company Wild Division (part of the 82nd brigade) chasing Russian infantry in their hideouts in the Zaporizhzia region. The trenches are littered with dead bodies..” https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1714625037368496618
“The Russian offensive at Kupyansk, which I believe was a diversion, is not only losing steam but is actively getting rolled back. Synkivka, which was partially taken by Russian forces, has been re-liberated and the Russian troops thrown back to Lyman Pershyi.” https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1714750892656709801
Storming of Andriivka by the 3rd separate assault brigade. https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1714532406261154004
6x Ukrainian MGM-140 ATACMS salvo https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1714645074800164914
Boeing is accelerating the delivery of 1800 JDAM kits to Israel. They were purchased in the same 2021 Direct Commercial Sale as the 1000 Small Diameter Bombs which Israel has already received. JDAM kits convert unguided bombs into PGMs. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-18/boeing-accelerates-delivery-of-up-to-1-800-gps-guidance-bomb-kits-to-israel
Again, there are lots of claims about a successful Ukrainian operation across the Dnieper. I remain skeptical. https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1714689436955431135
Based on the evidence I've now seen, I'm confident that civilians died when a Palestinian rocket fell on the area of the Gaza hospital. They were camping on the lawn next to the parking lot (marked red below). But I'm very skeptical about the claim that 500 people died. Maybe 50 at most, based on a video taken immediately after the incident.
Israel links:
How an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza would face the problem of Hamas' vast underground tunnel network, which extends for hundreds of kilometres. https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1714267575469973771
Report by French journalist @KoliaDelesalle from the huge morgue housing the victims of the October 7th attack. https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1714662618927935902