Links for 2023-11-15
GPT-4 Vision for self-driving — Excels: scene understanding, causal reasoning; Potential: out-of-distribution scenarios, recognizing intentions, making informed decisions; Struggles: direction discernment, traffic light recognition, vision grounding, and spatial reasoning tasks. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05332
EmotiVoice 😊: a Multi-Voice and Prompt-Controlled TTS Engine — “The most prominent feature is emotional synthesis, allowing you to create speech with a wide range of emotions, including happy, excited, sad, angry and others.” https://github.com/netease-youdao/EmotiVoice
A team just made OpenAI Whisper 6x faster, 49% smaller, while keeping 99% of the accuracy. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00430 (https://huggingface.co/distil-whisper/distil-large-v2 / demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/distil-whisper-web / see also: Insanely Fast Whisper: Transcribe 300 minutes (5 hours) of audio in less than 98 seconds https://github.com/Vaibhavs10/insanely-fast-whisper)
Music ControlNet: Multiple Time-varying Controls for Music Generation https://musiccontrolnet.github.io/web/
“Mirror is a web app that constantly watches the real-time video feed from the webcam and responds with comments. 100% Local and Private: Try all kinds of ideas. Don't worry, everything happens on your laptop with NO Internet connection.” https://github.com/cocktailpeanut/mirror
A General Theoretical Paradigm to Understand Learning from Human Preferences https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12036
List of emerging technologies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emerging_technologies
Man receives the first eye transplant plus a new face. It’s a step toward one day restoring sight https://www.statnews.com/2023/11/09/first-eye-transplant-face/
When diversity comes at the expense of patients: Where strong fault lines formed along identity characteristics, unpleasant conflicts within teams were more likely to occur. For every ten percent increase in conflict intensity in the groups, the mortality rate among treated patients rose by 10.59 percent and the likelihood of hospital-acquired infections increased by 8.87 percent. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2302341120
“We find a statistically significant negative relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust across all studies.” https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-polisci-052918-020708
-Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity and calculus while quarantined at home due to the Plague
-Einstein worked at a monotonous job at a clerk's office when he published all 4 of his annus mirabilis papers
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.
– Stefan Banach
Political links:
“Ukrainian drone pilots tracked down the Russian FPV launch point from the roof of a building, and landed their FPV there. The Russian pilot was curious and ran to see what kind of drone had landed. The Ukrainian drone then took off and eliminated the Russian pilot.” https://twitter.com/sambendett/status/1724097279827517619
“Sahy, the occupied part of Kherson oblast. A driver desperately tries to evade a Ukrainian FPV drone, driving for nearly a minute, aware he's being followed. Eventually, he makes a wrong decision, attempting a slow 2-step U-turn. The car is hit immediately.” https://twitter.com/kromark/status/1724115988814168555
South of Bakhmut, a Ukrainian FPV munition chases down a Russian soldier on a motorbike. https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1724260435728245076
Ukrainian 110th Mechanised Brigade continues effectively destroy Russian invaders on the outskirts of Avdiivka. https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1724319391452401677
“West of Avdiivka near Vodyane-Sjeverne, over 20 destroyed Russian armored vehicles can be seen. Among them a lot of BMP's. Work by the 53rd mechanized brigade working in the area.” https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1724376130369519729
Top German journalist received €600,000 from Putin ally, leak reveals https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/14/german-journalist-putin-hubert-seipel