Fighting back! Concerned about your personal photo being sucked up by A.I. to be used against you later? The Fawkes team has you covered. Fawkes makes alterations to images that are nearly invisible to the eye, but make it much more difficult for deep learning models to "learn" your image, but making pixel-level alterations that "poison" the image.
Psilocybin - is it the magic, wonder drug that some people say it is? Roland Griffiths thinks so, and wants to convince you - before he dies.
Feminism has changed over the years, since I was young. Now it's "darker" and "seething with resentment".
This is funny. Although search using the LLM interface might work in some situations, algorithms based on "what should the next desired word be, based on the model" can fall flat if the underlying development set data is less than optimal.
I've been seeing wind mills everywhere, and my first instinct to seeing these has always been negative. But the technology has improved a lot since the 1980s and it is one of the cheapest sources of energy.
Which is why China and Europe have been pursuing it greatly, far faster than the U.S.
There's a great three part series worth a read. And there's an interesting design from a company called T-Omega.
In my 7 April 2023 post, I pointed out that the Business Journals Downtown Vitality Index put Portland at the very bottom. Now a report from the University of Toronto, looking at cellphone activity, created a ranking of downtown recovery rates for various U.S. cities. Portland ranked second to last. Even Chicago beat us.
Apparently a lot of people want access to Lake Oswego, and can't understand why they not. They blame "the rich" for keeping the lake to themselves. Well, these rich people paid to have the lake created and developed, and want to keep it clean, tidy, and for users to respect the resource. Being able to attain and retain wealth, you are more likely to observe propriety, follow social guidelines and not do anything stupid. Given what we've seen in Portland, I can't blame them for wanting to keep it restricted. L.O. understands that granting open access is not reversible. Once you do so, you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.