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In order to prevent harm from AI-generated content and trace copyright, watermarking outputs of generative models is crucial. A new technique called Tree-Ring Watermarking has been developed, which fingerprints diffusion model outputs in a way that is invisible to humans. Unlike other methods that modify images after sampling, Tree-Ring Watermarking subtly influences the entire process […]
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The author of this article discusses their experience building a chess engine called Fiddler over the past two years, focusing on optimizing the move generator, which is a critical component of any chess engine. They discuss the use of bitboards, which represent the occupancy of a chessboard using a unique 64-bit integer, and the use […]
Maps may distort our perception of the world due to the fact that they are 2D representations of a 3D sphere, which leads to distortion. Poorer countries closer to the equator also appear smaller than they are, reinforcing a poor intuition for comparative region sizes. Africa is the biggest loser in this case, as it […]
Apple has announced new software tools and technologies allowing developers to create breakthrough app experiences for its spatial computer, Apple Vision Pro. The computer features visionOS, the world’s first spatial operating system, enabling users to interact with digital content using natural and intuitive inputs such as their eyes, hands and voice. Debuting with an App […]
The author received three DMCA takedown notices for 7,350 URLs on their hardbin.com IPFS gateway alleging that the URLs were serving infringing copies of books. However, of those URLs, none have ever been accessed during the time for which the author has nginx logs, and of the ones they checked, none even worked. The author […]
In Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, cultural historian Mike Jay explores the use of drugs throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries in investigating altered states of consciousness. From morphine to laughing gas and hashish to cocaine, Jay delves into both the experiences of people who used these drugs and how […]
The U.S. Agriculture Department has given the go-ahead to California companies Upside Foods and Good Meat to sell chicken made from animal cells. They are the first firms to gain approval for cell-cultivated meat, which is grown in tanks using cells from live animals or stored cells. The process, hailed by advocates as a way […]
The author’s sons both possess absolute pitch (AP), meaning they can produce and identify musical pitches without any reference notes. The author, who is bad at music herself, set about trying to develop her sons’ musical abilities using methods such as consistent exposure to labeled pitches with a labeled keyboard, solfeggio practice, and the use […]
Jamsocket is a painless session backend platform built for WebSockets. This architecture is commonly used for multiplayer collaboration, sandboxed user code execution, Jupyter notebooks, and more. Jamsocket allows users to spin up session backends on the fly, making hard things easy to scale effortlessly. With Jamsocket, you can share backends among users, run memory-intensive work […]
Platinum photography was a popular method of creating permanent photographs in the early 20th century, before falling out of fashion. The images produced using this process are incredibly matte and have an infinite range of tones, with fine detail that appears almost hyper-real. They are also incredibly stable, with images retaining their deep tones and […]