OpenELM mirrors efforts by Microsoft to make useful small AI language models that run locally. | Continue reading
Gregory Alvarez: “Living Like It’s 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone” (via Tracy Durnell) – A personal story about stopping use of a smartphone and social media and still not using it 3 years later. Good example to use to examine our own habits…. | Continue reading
I’ve completed my latest side project, the Marked Conductor. Here’s the backstory: Marked 2 offers the option to use Custom Processors (and Preprocessors) which allow you use Markdown (and other) flavors with your own commands to convert them to HTML. This is commonly used for pr … | Continue reading
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Source: Eve. A couple of weeks ago, the MacStories team shared our favorite indoor HomeKit devices. The HomeKit accessory universe is more limited outdoors, but with spring easing into summer in the Northern Hemisphere, we thought we’d share the devices that we use outside, too. … | Continue reading
Getting straight to the code: It looks a little beastly but I love clever tricks like this. Here, Terrence defines a web font with an array of font files that operating systems use for local emoji support. It’s not totally unlike leveraging a system font, only we have to do more … | Continue reading
One of the world’s top vaccine-makers is partnering with a major AI company to advance medicine — and its chief executive is excited. Read more... | Continue reading
Robotic telescopes of various shapes and sizes are hitting the market these days, each promising clear views of the cosmos and ease of use—attributes not often found paired together in a single telescope. Amateur and backyard astronomers are now fully embracing this ongoing, auto … | Continue reading
I have a system I've been using since 2019 for taking notes at work. I use an Arc notebook that I got from Staples that has refillable pages. It's a customizable system, so I can remove pages and insert them elsewhere in the book by simply pulling out the sheet. It’s really nice … | Continue reading
The good folks at Kaiweets have sent me their KTI-W01 Thermal Camera to review. You can use coupon code TEB15 for an exclusive 15% discount. Let's get this unboxed and working! Demo Photos The photos are stored as JPGs which can be read by any normal graphics program. They also c … | Continue reading
"I have never heard of any requirement to use biocides and am pretty sure there aren't." Homeowner seeks advice after landscaping company makes concerning claim about city's policies: 'This would be an absolute nightmare to hear' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
23 states want the Biden administration's EPA to curtail its approach to environmental justice. | Continue reading
bumblebeeappletree: So a while ago I commissioned @thefruitloop-chan to make a Solarpunk poster for anyone to use! And this beautiful piece was made! This is a blank for people to put text on, and here’s the two text ones that I put over Anyone can print them and put them up and … | Continue reading
Blogmarks that use markdown I needed to attach a correction to an older blogmark (my 20-year old name for short-form links with commentary on my blog) today - but the commentary field has always been text, not HTML, so I didn't have a way to add the necessary link. This motivated … | Continue reading
Last month, New York City’s Department of Transportation authorized the use of electric cargo bikes on city streets, and put some key safety standards in place. On March 27, NYC DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez announced the amendments to the city’s traffic rules to allow the op … | Continue reading
Speaking of drafts you discover and then decide to publish, this was from last week. So I just used ChatGPT to learn about some CSS selector concepts I was confused by and, on a whim, asked it to quiz me to make sure that I understood everything. It was a very good experience tha … | Continue reading
Decided to cancel my ChatGPT subscription because I don’t use it for much else besides creating images for the Epic Tales Tavern and other DALL-E experiments. This means the Epic Tales Tavern is going on hiatus for a while. | Continue reading
A new version of Clapper, a GTK4-based video player for Linux desktop has been released — the first major update in nearly 2 years. I first wrote about Clapper back in 2021 having been seduced over by its slick user interface (a superficial reason to like a media player, I know), … | Continue reading
A challenge these A.I. tools have is that we’re coming down from the novelty high we had at the launch of ChatGPT a year and a half ago and now they need to deliver on actual use cases that make people’s lives better. As someone who uses Claude almost everyday, I think there’s cl … | Continue reading
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When Adobe added an AI (Artificial Intelligence) Assistant to Adobe Reader in early 2024, many people who use Reader to view and annotate PDFs were frustrated. And annoyed with Adobe’s red button to try it out (pricing for AI Assistant is $4.99/month for an early-bird subscriptio … | Continue reading
At first glance, wearable speakers are a strange bit of kit. When Bose released their Soundwear Companion in 2017, I couldn't see the use case. But as I age it becomes more obvious. I frequently use captions while watching shows or movies, as I have a difficult time making out th … | Continue reading
Initial resistance from medical professionals towards AI has been overcome by working closely with doctors to develop technology they want to use. “Doctors should be using AI not only for a more precise diagnosis but for a more precise diagnosis 35 times an hour. That’s the real … | Continue reading
In the dying stages of innovation, companies at the top of the heap use their market power to maintain their high profits. The post Suckage begins here: why search engines now prioritize advertising over good UX appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design. | Continue reading
Clara and I went for a lunch break walk yesterday. The leaves and sky were gorgeous. People use the phrase touch grass as a bit of an insult thesedays, but honestly, it’s probably one of the best things you can do. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2024-04-24. | Continue reading
Introduction In this article, we are going to see what is the best way we can use OneToOne optional attribute so that we can avoid N+1 query issues. One-To-One table relationship As I explained in this article, in a one-to-one table relationship, the parent and the child tables s … | Continue reading
In this article I use the metric system, where 1 meter = 3.28 feet. I also talk about highways. Here I use the definition in British English, where highway refers to any path with a public right of access. We are all familiar with the existence of route planners like google maps … | Continue reading
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There are so many products out there, so you need to learn how to convince potential customers that yours is the best. You might believe in your product, but you’ll need to persuade others that what you’re selling is a quality product and use sales techniques to sway their decisi … | Continue reading
Ever since Tesla started rolling out Full Self Driving (FSD) to non-employee Tesla owners in the US, people in other countries have been asking when they’ll be able to install and use FSD. As far as I remember, it’s always been a vague “someday…” kind of response. That hasn’t rea … | Continue reading
As more applications are moving towards cloud deployments, minimizing startup time is becoming more and more important. Read on to find out how to use Timefold Solver with Spring native images to reduce startup time in your application. If you want to follow along, clone the Time … | Continue reading
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As more applications are moving towards cloud deployments, minimizing startup time is becoming more and more important. Read on to find out how to use Timefold Solver with Spring native images to reduce startup time in your application. If you want to follow along, clone the Time … | Continue reading
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought The transcript of How Do You Use ChatGPT? with Alan Cowen is below for paying subscribers. Subscribe Timestamps Dan tells Hume’s empathetic AI model a secret: 00:00:00 Introduction: 00:01:13 What traditional psychology tells us about emotions: 0 … | Continue reading
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought Every illustration/LinkedIn. TL;DR: Today we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast How Do You Use ChatGPT? I go in depth with Alan Cowen, the cofounder and CEO of Hume, a research laboratory developing an empathetic AI model. We dive into th … | Continue reading
Django’s release notes are extensive and describe nearly all changes. Still, when upgrading between Django versions, you may encounter behaviour changes that are hard to relate to any particular release note. To understand whether a change is expected or a regression, you can use … | Continue reading
A threat actor has been using a content delivery network cache to store information-stealing malware in an ongoing campaign targeting systems U.S., the U.K., Germany, and Japan. [...] | Continue reading
For the first time, researchers use a combination of MEG and fMRI to map the spatio-temporal human brain dynamics of a visual image being recognized. | Continue reading
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A new wheeled robot is able to climb metal structures in a very clever and unique way – it uses an extendible tape-measure limb. Descendants of the bot may one day find use inspecting or even repairing things like towers, bridges, power stations and ships. Continue Reading Catego … | Continue reading
NCBR has announced a call for proposals for joint projects between scientists and entrepreneurs who wish to receive funding from Swiss Funds in the area of applied research. The deadline for submission of proposals is 1 July, with 15 million Swiss francs, which is more than PLN 6 … | Continue reading
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Meta’s Llama 3 models in Amazon Bedrock. Meta Llama 3 is designed for you to build, experiment, and responsibly scale your generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications. New Llama 3 models are the most capable to support … | Continue reading
Today, I am happy to announce the general availability of Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock, first released in preview at re:Invent 2023. With Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock, you can implement safeguards in your generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) applications that are … | Continue reading
With Agents for Amazon Bedrock, applications can use generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) to run tasks across multiple systems and data sources. Starting today, these new capabilities streamline the creation and management of agents: Quick agent creation – You can n … | Continue reading
The Amazon Bedrock model evaluation capability that we previewed at AWS re:Invent 2023 is now generally available. This new capability helps you to incorporate Generative AI into your application by giving you the power to select the foundation model that gives you the best resul … | Continue reading
With Amazon Bedrock, you have access to a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies that make it easier to build and scale generative AI applications. Some of these models provide publicly available weights that can be f … | Continue reading
During AWS re:Invent 2023, we announced the preview of Amazon Titan Image Generator, a generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) foundation model (FM) that you can use to quickly create and refine realistic, studio-quality images using English natural language prompts. I … | Continue reading