Valencia reaches 46°C, a record temperature for the Spanish city. This broke the previous record by 3.4°C. Yikes. (ᔥ Twitter)
The ever-disappearing Antarctic sea ice
Not quite polar opposites.
How to make peanut butter cookies with ChatGPT
Finally, an innocent use case for ChatGPT: recipes!
Zoom has updated its ToS to allow training AI on user content without the ability to opt-out. The line that pisses me off is that Zoom has a “perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license” to redistribute, publish, access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works, and process Customer Content.
(ᔥ Stackdiary; ↬ Abeba Birhane)
Researchers at NVidia are showing off Perfusion, a text-to-image model they say is 100KB in size and takes four minutes to train. What could possibly go wrong?
(ᔥ Hackaday)
Keidra Chaney on why nonprofits need a values-based social media strategy: If your organization’s internal social media content policies and procedures haven’t been documented, document them now.
Mongabay on breadfruit’s “biodiversatility”: According to recent research, the increased temperatures of climate change will widen breadfruit’s range, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa […] making this a reliable crop for places struggling with poverty and food security.
The Long Boom that got kinda real
They knew too much too soon.
Dr James Wootton on the 80s video game that helped scientists win a Nobel Prize
They’re more than just games.
Janelle Shane from AI Weirdness reviewed a study that showed GPT detectors were misclassifying writing by non-native English speakers as AI-generated 48-76% of the time, compared to 0%-12% for native speakers.
TIL: there’s an online encyclopedia for integer sequences. You can’t just put any sequence of numbers in but there are plenty of pages for the Fibonacci sequence, the Catalan numbers, and prime numbers.
The house is winning even more as Las Vegas casinos shift the odds and raise the stakes
Sam Rothstein would have never let this happen in his casino!