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Links van 13 tot 24 december 2024
Mirror Bacteria Research Poses Significant Risks, Dozens of Scientists Warn | The Scientist Magazine® We recently joined a number of other scientists in calling for a certain line of research to not be pursued: work that could result in the creation of “mirror bacteria.” These are bacteria made of all components that natural cells possess,…
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Links van 30 oktober tot 3 november 2024
How the U.S. military lost a $250 million war game in minutes – The Washington Post As a U.S. Navy carrier battle group entered the Persian Gulf, it came under surprise attack by adversaries launching missiles from commercial ships and radio-silent aircraft that quickly overwhelmed its missile defense systems. Nineteen U.S. ships, including the aircraft…
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Links van 26 tot 30 september 2024
XKCD 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today One of the all-time great XKCDs. It’s amazing that “check whether the photo is of a bird” has gone from PhD-level to trivially easy to solve (with a vision LLM, or CLIP, or ResNet+ImageNet among others). AI, XKCD How to Make Viral 1950’s Super Panavision 70 Videos…