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The film “Onsight” follows blind athlete and Black Diamond product developer Seneida Biendarra as she wins gold at the 2023 Paraclimbing World Cup. Climbing has been Seneida’s solace since her vision deteriorated, helping her open up and accept her impairment. Despite visual challenges, Seneida navigates terrain with a limited visual tunnel, sometimes narrowing due to […]
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The Great Red Spot on Jupiter was created by the swirling chaos of the planet’s atmosphere. Emergent phenomena like this can’t be predicted from individual components alone, leading scientists to debate over explanations for centuries. In recent years, a new framework has been developed to understand emergence better, treating it as “software in the natural […]
The .top domain registry based in China must prove it can manage phishing reports and abusive domains by August 2024, or face losing its license. .top domains were among the most used for phishing sites last year, according to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN criticized the .top registry for not […]
Japan’s AEON supermarket chain has introduced an AI system called “Mr Smile” to assess employee smiles and service attitudes, sparking debate about workplace harassment. The system analyzes facial expressions, speech tone, and greetings, with a goal of standardizing staff smiles to maximize customer satisfaction. While AEON claims service attitude improved by up to 1.6 times […]
MINT-1T is a groundbreaking open-source Multimodal INTerleaved dataset with one trillion text tokens and 3.4 billion images, making it 10 times larger than other existing datasets. What sets MINT-1T apart is its inclusion of unexplored sources like PDFs and ArXiv papers. The dataset is available in various subsets, including HTML and PDF data, with shards […]
In January 2021, while exploring Winamp skins for the museum, I stumbled upon corrupted files filled with surprises. I uncovered encrypted secrets, a heartfelt gift from a dad in Thailand, email passwords, a Chet Baker biography, backwards audio files, and worm.exe, which turned out to be a harmless game. I cracked passwords, found hidden images […]
GitHub allows access to data from deleted forks, deleted repositories, and even private repositories indefinitely. They introduce the term Cross Fork Object Reference (CFOR) to describe the vulnerability. A crucial point highlighted is the ability to access sensitive data from deleted forks, including API keys. Even private features and code can be accessed if not […]
The experimental flag –experimental-strip-types allows for the execution of TypeScript files in Node.js, transpiling the code into JavaScript without type checking. This meets the demand from users to run .ts files without external dependencies. The @swc/wasm-typescript tool was chosen for its simplicity and lack of additional toolchain requirements. It’s noted that some TypeScript features like […]
FranzAI is a free email assistant powered by ChatGPT-4o that streamlines email workflows, automates responses, sets reminders, and manages tasks intelligently. The free version offers up to 150 email replies and exciting pro features like near unlimited email responses, email forwarding, attachment handling, and more. While the MVP version has limitations, the goal is to […]
The article delves into the phenomenon of model collapse, which affects generations of generative models such as LLMs, GMMs, and VAEs. It describes the degenerative process whereby models trained on data generated by previous generations misperceive reality over time, leading to convergence to a distribution with reduced variance. The content highlights three specific sources of […]