Entries from December 2022 ↓

• Women Aren’t Promoted Because Managers Underestimate Their Potential | Yale Insights
• How Long Covid Exhausts the Body – The New York Times
• ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Review: It’s Messy, and Glorious
  Michelle Yeoh stars as a stressed-out laundromat owner dragged into cosmic battle and genre chaos.
• Review: ‘The Candy House,’ by Jennifer Egan

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• UK cinemas ban fans in suits from Minions: The Rise of Gru | Minions | The Guardian
• 2022: The year in weird and stupid futures – by Max Read

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• Researchers identify bird species depicted in ancient, finely detailed Egyptian painting

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• macOS Ventura: How to use your iPhone as a Mac webcam with Continuity Camera
• The 12 Best Books of 2022 | WIRED
• Compact Travel Power Strip – 2 US Outlets, USB & USB-C Ports – Grounded (PS-2U+)
• The Great Big Medicare Rip-Off — The Atlantic
  The government is leaving billions of dollars on the table. Here’s how to fix it.
• Eight Books to Comfort You When You’re Lonely — The Atlantic
  Reading may not be a salve for loneliness, but there’s nothing like the rush of being seen by literature.

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• A startup says it’s begun releasing particles in the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate
• No One Can Decide If Grapefruit Is Dangerous — The Atlantic
  The citrus can raise the level of dozens of drugs in the body—sometimes to a worrying degree, sometimes very much not.

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• What's that book called?
• CLIP: Connecting Text and Images
• Lensa’s viral AI art creations were bound to hypersexualize users – Polygon

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• Volume 4, Issue 48: Tim McCarver

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• :: rogerebert.com :: great movies – the life and death of colonel blimp
• Nietzsche’s Eternal Return | The New Yorker
• The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer review – the art of bowing out | Sport and leisure books | The Guardian

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• Google's management has reportedly issued a 'code red' amid the rising popularity of the ChatGPT AI
• The Yale Review | Geoff Dyer
• Vertical Farming Has Found Its Fatal Flaw — WIRED
  Europe’s energy crisis is forcing companies to switch strategies or close down. The industry’s future hangs in the balance.
• LastPass says hackers have obtained vault data and a wealth of customer info — Ars Technica
  Password manager says breach it disclosed in August was much worse than thought.
• Nike ZoomX Vaporfly Next% 2 Women's Shoes Wh/Bk/Vt/Bl
• Lightshot — screenshot tool for Mac & Win
• Character-Aware Models Improve Visual Text Rendering
  Current image generation models struggle to reliably produce well-formed
  visual text. In this paper, we investigate a key contributing factor: popular
  text-to-image models lack character-level input features, making it much harder
  to predict a word’s visual makeup as a series of glyphs. To quantify the extent
  of this effect, we conduct a series of controlled experiments comparing
  character-aware vs. character-blind text encoders. In the text-only domain, we
  find that character-aware models provide large gains on a novel spelling task
  (WikiSpell). Transferring these learnings onto the visual domain, we train a
  suite of image generation models, and show that character-aware variants
  outperform their character-blind counterparts across a range of novel text
  rendering tasks (our DrawText benchmark). Our models set a much higher
  state-of-the-art on visual spelling, with 30+ point accuracy gains over
  competitors on rare words, despite training on far fewer examples.
• New privacy-enhancing technology for everyone
  Today we’re sharing several recent PET developments that will provide the broader developer community new ways to deploy and enhance privacy features.

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• Humans continue to evolve: Study tracks the emergence of 155 new genes
• [The Washington Post] Skepticism before a search: Inside the Trump Mar-a-Lago documents investigation

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