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NEW RESOURCES
CIDRAP: CDC revamps wastewater COVID data reporting. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently unveiled new wastewater data tracking dashboard to make it easier to track local and national trends, even by variant. Wastewater tracking is one of the early indicators health officials use to gauge the activity of SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses.”
Hackaday: Mozilla Lets Folks Turn AI LLMs Into Single-File Executables. “LLMs (Large Language Models) for local use are usually distributed as a set of weights in a multi-gigabyte file. These cannot be directly used on their own, which generally makes them harder to distribute and run compared to other software…. To help with that, Mozilla’s innovation group have released llamafile, an open source method of turning a set of weights into a single binary that runs on six different OSes (macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD) without needing to be installed.”
TWEAKS AND UPDATES
The Guardian: Rishi Sunak’s snub boosts Greek hopes for return of marbles. “In a week when the row over the fifth-century BC antiquities has erupted with renewed vigour, the goalposts have moved in unexpected ways. Which is why Nikos Stampolidis, classical archaeologist by profession, and for the past two years the museum’s director, is in ebullient mood. ‘It has been a magnificent week,’ he told the Observer. ‘I think it’s fair to say events are moving us forward and are in our favour. I’m hopeful and very optimistic.'” A good, thorough article which deserves a better headline.
USEFUL STUFF
Lifehacker: The Best Chrome Extensions to Check Your Grammar. “Whether you’re working on a formal report or a casual business email, whatever you write is going to be read by someone else—which means it should be grammatically correct. There’s no shame in struggling with grammar when writing; everyone has their skills, and those might not be yours. But we’re lucky enough to live in an age in which our own failings can be accounted for with technology—like these five grammar-checking Chrome extensions that can help keep your writing clear, concise, and easily comprehensible.”
AROUND THE INTERNET WORLD
Vice: Wikipedia Editor Who First Noted Henry Kissinger’s Death Has Become an ‘Instant Legend’. “Wikipedia users are celebrating the first user to edit Henry Kissinger’s Wikipedia page after the widely-hated American statesman and war criminal was announced dead on Wednesday at the age of 100.”
BBC: Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk?. “For a company he bought for $44bn (£35bn) last year, bankruptcy might sound unthinkable. But it is possible. To understand why, you have to look at how reliant X is on advertising revenue – and why advertisers are not coming back.” Nice overview.
SECURITY & LEGAL
Korea Herald: Govt. rolls out measures to prevent public servants from livestreaming explicit content. “Following back-to-back incidents of public servants illegally going on livestreaming platforms to create sexual content, the government has rolled out a set of guidelines for public officials’ duties to prevent such incidents from happening, according to reports on Friday.”
Inquirer (Philippines): De Lima eyes suing bloggers that ‘degraded’ her as a woman. “Bloggers who had spread ‘fake news’ and malicious disinformation against recently released former Sen. Leila de Lima should brace themselves for possible court cases that are now “under study” by her legal team. ‘The charges could include libel, cyberlibel, defamation, slander, and assault to honor,’ said De Lima who was granted bail last month after almost seven years in detention at Camp Crame for drug-related charges filed against her during the previous administration.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
Laughing Squid: How Social Media Causes People to Choose Sides by Overwhelming the Human Brain. “The incredibly insightful animated video series Kurzgesagt looks at the role social media has played in sowing tribal discord around the world and how the use of filter bubbles only makes us see the worst in each other.”
Brookhaven National Laboratory: Brainstorming with a Bot . “Kevin Yager—leader of the electronic nanomaterials group at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory—has imagined how recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) could aid scientific brainstorming and ideation. To accomplish this, he has developed a chatbot with knowledge in the kinds of science he’s been engaged in.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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December 4, 2023 at 02:02AM
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