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I think there are few plausible reasons not mentioned. We are still early in the tech. 2021 LLMs were not fit for any real purpose outside zany Madlibs. The tech has only really go…

The B2C case here seems off to me. The market of people who are going to pay the high price tag, have enough storage, and tolerate the extreme limitations and slowness of these mac…

Visual anagrams popped up last year using similar, though simpler methods to those in the posted. Flips, internal rotations, rearrangements, color negatives etc. [0] Diffusion illu…

You are right, current CRISPR systems tends to accumulate in the liver. Most CRISPR companies have shifted their focus to the liver over time because it's easiest to deliver there.…

That's a good point, I assumed the farmers in the article were correct on getting squeezed, but individual producers rarely have a good view on the market. And McDonald's et al has…

While this seems true and I hope these companies get a large fine and some regulatory action takes place to wipe out these third party apps, I'm kind of surprised at the corporate …

Absolutely, and in picking collabs with people who are willing to work with the weirdness and make it funny. Vedal is definitely a fantastic creator to make it work so well and the…

This was probably an okay idea terribly implemented. GenAI creators on social media kind of sense. Neurosama, an AI streamer, is massively popular. Silllytavern which lets people m…

Valve actually backed off the ban and clarified their stance [0]. Now they allow AI art by the same standards as non-AI art if it is pre-generated and expect certain guardrails wit…

Linkin Park used it in 4 videos recently and seemed to use a combination of img2img and leaning into the glitchy style. [0] (These are 9-11 mo old so using much older models and te…

Too many users, I don't know Hugging Face's rules but they seem to limit how much each demo can use to a ceiling. When I ran it originally it was like 12 people using it, looks lik…

Web demo for anyone interested takes about 2 minutes to run: https://huggingface.co/spaces/osanseviero/point-e Seems super fast, some are saying 600x faster [0], than than the vers…

This is amazing but Google/OpenAI haven't released their models and don't seem to plan to. There is stable diffusion which was released and is probably slightly less good but still…

Also seems to ignore that social pressure keeps people from account hoping. Personally, I'd be much more likely to a la carte services on a month by month basis if I didn't have th…

I think the biology revolution will look less like the computing (1940s-2010s) or transportation (1890s-1970s) revolutions and more like the chemistry revolution (1800s-1950s). It …

I don't know the specifics for microscope lenses, I know a little about camera lenses, but I think it's largely high failure rate. It's a lot of mechanical grinding and heating and…

That is somewhat true but there are some fixed costs that cannot be easily brought down. 1. Optics- especially when you start talking 63x (looking at internal cell structures) colo…

I'm actually surprised this whole suit is being pursued by a professional society. Closed publications seem to be out of line with the interest of their members. Unless the society…

The original study https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25975 that prompted the SSC article has an interesting discussion of this result in their supplement: "A study using 14C bi…

While this comes to the right conclusion I think it mistraces a lot of the issues. For example: a fair amount of the depression and neurogenesis studies (and indeed neurogenesis ma…

I do wonder how Google, Facebook and the ad sphere sees Patreon. A fair number of creators I've seen use Patreon to go ad free. It seems small but growing with strong network effec…

I think this project in particular is not hugely useful, the optics aren't really up to snuff to do anything other than look at small things with your eyes, it's pretty tricky to u…