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NEW RESOURCES
University of Illinois: Illinois researchers, Native American tribes working together to curate, increase access to oral histories. “Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are working with Native American tribes to connect them with ethnographic materials and oral histories collected from tribal members and to make the materials accessible online.”
Berkeley Lab: DESI Early Data Release Holds Nearly Two Million Objects. “The first batch of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is now available for researchers to mine. Taken during the experiment’s ‘survey validation’ phase, the data include distant galaxies and quasars as well as stars in our own Milky Way.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
Domain Name Wire: Squarespace buys Google Domains for $180 million. “In a surprising announcement today, website building platform Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) announced that it’s buying Google Domains, Google’s domain name registrar. The purchase price is $180 million, and JPMorgan Chase Bank is providing financing for part of the purchase.”
Stephen Wolfram: Prompts for Work & Play: Launching the Wolfram Prompt Repository. “Today we’re launching the Wolfram Prompt Repository to provide a curated collection of useful community-contributed prompts—set up to be seamlessly accessible both interactively in Chat Notebooks and programmatically in things like LLMFunction.”
Bing Blogs: Bing Maps Global Building Footprints Released. “Microsoft Maps has a dedicated Maps AI (artificial intelligence) team that has been taking advantage of Microsoft’s investments in deep learning, computer vision, and ML (machine learning). Applying all that cool tech to mapping has yielded many useful datasets and our latest worldwide dataset includes a whopping 1.2B building footprints and 174M building height estimates from Bing Maps imagery between 2014 and 2023 including Maxar, Airbus, and IGN France imagery.”
USEFUL STUFF
MakeUseOf: How to Create a Stop-Motion Video With Your Food Photos. “Still-life subjects like food are easy and fun to photograph. But it will get boring quickly if you don’t try new things. So, are you an avid food photographer looking to up your game? Then make a stop-motion animation video with your food photos. It will help break the monotony and give you something different to add to your portfolio.” I’m including this because I think this photography would work well for all kinds of things you want to display.
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
CHEK News: Google Maps sending travellers to closed Horne Lake Road as Highway 4 detour. “Several signs on Horne Lake Road near Highway 19 tell people it’s not open all the way to Port Alberni, but tourists, either unaware or just hoping for the best, are still trying to head west until they hit a blocked gate farther up…. There could be several reasons, but travellers CHEK News spoke with over the last week blamed Google Maps or other map apps on their phones.”
The Verge: How AI art killed an indie book cover contest. “Science fiction and fantasy authors are struggling with AI-generated media — and formulating strategies to deal with it.”
Motherboard: Twitter’s T-Shirt Bots Are Undefeated and Verified by Elon Musk. “T-Shirt bots have been on Twitter for years, but now they’ve got blue check marks and prominent placement on your timeline.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
CNN: Exclusive: US government agencies hit in global cyberattack. “Several US federal government agencies have been hit in a global cyberattack by Russian cybercriminals that exploits a vulnerability in widely used software, according to a top US cybersecurity agency.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
IEEE Spectrum: A Critical Look At AI-Generated Software. “Is AI going to replace human programmers? (Short answer: No, or at least, not immediately.) Is AI-written or AI-assisted code better than the code people write without such aids? (Sometimes yes; sometimes no.) On a more conceptual level, are there any concerns with AI-written code and, in particular, with the use of natural-language systems such as ChatGPT for this purpose?”
WIRED: Marc Andreessen Is (Mostly) Wrong This Time. “Andreessen invests in technological revolutions, so he has little incentive to do anything but hype them up. His post does have value, though, in two ways. First, its obvious blind spots are a useful guide to the thinking of the biggest AI hypesters and where they go astray. Second, its takedown of some of the more hysterical AI fears is actually (somewhat) on target. So let’s dive in.” Good morning, Internet…
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June 17, 2023 at 05:31PM
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