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NEW RESOURCES
Wolfram Blog: Get Down to Business with Finite Mathematics in Wolfram Language. “I am glad to announce the launch of Introduction to Finite Mathematics, a free interactive course that will help open the world of finite mathematics to students from any background. Topics are chosen to align with college courses on finite mathematics and are presented so that you can learn how to use either Wolfram Language or pen and paper to perform calculations.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
The Verge: Bluesky posts are finally open to the public. “Bluesky remains an invite-only decentralized Twitter alternative, but now, you don’t need to have an account and log in to be able to see posts on the platform, according to a blog post from Bluesky CEO Jay Graber. Now, anyone can easily see posts from both the web and from the Bluesky app.”
PC Magazine: Game Over: The Tech That Died in 2023. “Nothing lasts forever, especially in Silicon Valley. Products, services, and CEOs fizzle out regularly, many without any fanfare. Other endings catch us by surprise (10 years later, the demise of Google Reader still stings). Time marches on and corporate priorities shift. Here are the products and services that took a final bow in 2023, starting with the most headline-grabbing shutdowns and then a month-by-month breakdown.”
USEFUL STUFF
MakeUseOf: How to Create a Free AI Avatar on TikTok. “TikTok has introduced AI avatar generation capabilities to its app, so you can easily create AI portraits of yourself. Here’s what you need to know about the feature, and how to use it.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Hürriyet Daily News: German archaeologist’s photo archive delivered to Türkiye. “Between 1953 and 1970, [Friedrich Karl] Dörner carried out various archaeological studies, especially on Mount Nemrut, Arsemia Ruins and Old Kahta Castle. … The photo archive was digitized with funding from the Gerda Henkel Foundation in Germany. The digital archive was delivered to the Adıyaman Culture and Tourism Directorate at a ceremony held on Dec. 22 in Adıyaman. Digital photographs will be kept at the Adıyaman Museum Directorate.”
CBC: How Nanalan’s viral TikTok success reunited the show’s creators after 15 years. “In 1999, Canadian puppeteers Jason Hopley and Jamie Shannon created Nanalan’ — a weird, whimsical and very wholesome children’s television series about a three-year-old girl named Mona, her ever-nurturing Nana and Nana’s dog, Russell. And while this beautiful and bizarre Canadian kids’ show has been off the air for 20 years, the internet has recently brought it back to life.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
Bloomberg: Google Rejected Play Store Fee Changes Due to Impact on Revenue, Epic Lawsuit Shows. “Alphabet Inc.’s Google considered changing its app store pricing model to circumvent a regulatory crackdown, but abandoned a proposal to charge a set fee per app after it became clear that could cost the company billions of dollars, according to documents released late Thursday.”
Associated Press: YouTube mom who gave parenting advice, Ruby Franke, pleads guilty in child abuse case. “A Utah mother of six who gave parenting advice on YouTube pleaded guilty Monday to child abuse charges and will go to prison for trying to convince her two youngest children they were evil, possessed and needed to be punished to repent. Ruby Franke stood shackled in gray and white jail clothing as she closed her eyes and took a deep breath before pleading guilty to each of her first three charges.”
New York Times: How Strangers Got My Email Address From ChatGPT’s Model. “My email address is not a secret. But the success of the researchers’ experiment should ring alarm bells because it reveals the potential for ChatGPT, and generative A.I. tools like it, to reveal much more sensitive personal information with just a bit of tweaking.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Wall Street Journal: How TikTok Brings War Home to Your Child. “The Wall Street Journal created [bots] to understand what TikTok shows young users about the conflict. Those bots, registered as 13-year-old users, browsed TikTok’s For You feed, the highly personalized, never-ending stream of content curated by the algorithm. Within hours after signing up, TikTok began serving some accounts highly polarized content, reflecting often extreme pro-Palestinian or pro-Israel positions about the conflict. Many stoked fear.”
Associated Press: AI pioneer says public discourse on intelligent machines must give ‘proper respect to human agency’. “She’s an important figure behind today’s artificial intelligence boom, but not all computer scientists thought Fei-Fei Li was on the right track when she came up with the idea for a giant visual database called ImageNet that took years to build. Li, now a founding director of Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, is out with a new memoir that recounts her pioneering work in curating the dataset that accelerated the computer vision branch of AI.”
VentureBeat: Apple quietly released an open source multimodal LLM in October. “With little fanfare, researchers from Apple and Columbia University released an open source multimodal LLM, called Ferret, in October 2023. At the time, the release — which included the code and weights, but for research use only, not a commercial license — did not receive much attention. But now that may be changing.” Good morning, Internet…
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December 26, 2023 at 06:31PM
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