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From the article: In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones. ... Chinese “open-source…

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I am so glad I read the OP. To me, the big news here is "FlatCV", the author's computer vision library. Why it interests me: 1. A practical and elegant approach to scanning real-wo…

> If it is making a positive impact, would it matter if it's AI or human We're drowning in this stuff, and no one has enough hours in their day to find out if obviously AI-generate…

By Alex Davies (Author) An exploration of why the stuff we use (mostly) works—and a celebration of the unsung engineers who ensure it does. When a manufacturer offers a 10,000-mile…

Summary: 1. The enormous debt loads that the big AI companies are incurring can be serviced only with very high profits, i.e., very high white-collar job replacement. 2. Local mode…

Hmm, you might be right about that paragraph. I am very sensitive to LLM smells, but I missed this one, probably because the rest of the essay seems handwritten. Of course, one can…

This was such a nice read about a park I had never heard of. Thank you for writing it (and for actually writing it yourself instead of vibing it).

From the article in The Wire: One increasingly popular approach is training models on millions of hours of recordings of humans performing dexterous tasks, in the hope of achieving…

For those (like me) who don't know what "motion" refers to here, it's Motion Project, an open-source program to monitor multiple cameras and trigger real-time hooks based on motion…

A rare interview with Hans Moravec at his home in Pennsylvania.

> we don't only encounter art in a museum True, but the TFA's first line reads: Most of us walk through museums reading the little labels and nodding. The whole point of going to a…

> spitting out verbatim text The New York Times lawsuit is resting on the point that large chunks of undigested articles can be vomited out. OpenAI tried to have the lawsuit thrown…

Museum labels are supposed to be designed to deliver the take-away point that the curator wants to make. Asking museum goers to learn how to read paintings is a poor workaround. Th…

TLDR; a Chicago-area schoolteacher was able to find the rights to the old Backyard Baseball PC game from the 1990s, and she commissioned a software game development company and a s…