Here Are (Newly Released) AI Tools That Will Blow Your Mind , Medium, Nitin Sharma: I bet you don’t know any of these tools. The demand for high-performance GPUs has skyrocketed as more and more individuals strive to build their own machine-learning models. Nvidia has capitalized on this AI hype, selling its products at an… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2023
AI Canon
Andreessen Horowitz – Derrick Harris, Matt Bornstein, and Guido Appenzeller – AI Canon: “Research in artificial intelligence is increasing at an exponential rate. It’s difficult for AI experts to keep up with everything new being published, and even harder for beginners to know where to start. So, in this post, we’re sharing a curated list… Continue Reading
Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Presidential Records and the Presidential Records Act
NARA – “Recent media reports have generated a large number of queries about Presidential records and the Presidential Records Act (PRA), 44 U.S.C. 2201-2209. The PRA requires that all records created by Presidents (and Vice-Presidents) be turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) at the end of their administrations. Below is additional… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 11, 2023
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 11, 2023 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly… Continue Reading
Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding
Nature Human Behavior, Accepted: 3 April 2023. Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding “Around the world, citizens are voting away the democracies they claim to cherish. Here we present evidence that this behaviour is driven in part by the belief that their opponents will undermine democracy first. In an observational study (N… Continue Reading
FIRMS Map Viewer
NASA: “FIRMS Fire Map allows you to interactively browse the full archive of global active fire detections from MODIS and VIIRS. Near real-time fire data are available within approximately 3 hours of satellite overpass and imagery within 4-5 hours.” Technology OpenLayers MapServer Javascript libraries: ol-mapbox-style, visjs, flatpickr, nouislider, @jaames/iro Imagery / Data FIRMS ESRI Global… Continue Reading
CBC Climate Dashboard
“The Climate Dashboard has new features. Click on the layers icon on the globe to see wildfire smoke and active fires. Air quality is also now available for many locations across Canada…The data for the Climate Dashboard comes from the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC). We display weather information for 485 locations in real time.… Continue Reading
A Map of AI for Education
We introduce a new map of the current state-of-the-art: “One morning shortly after Thanksgiving, 2022, we woke up to discover that technological capability had advanced by five years while we were sleeping. It took another week or two for us to realize it, but that event, the launch of ChatGPT, may have a more far-reaching… Continue Reading
Generative AI Product Preview: Westlaw Precision
“Thomson Reuters is incorporating generative AI capabilities enterprise-wide to provide customers with a more conversational experience, intuitive automation, time savings and a significantly improved user experience. Integrating this new technology will transform Thomson Reuters solutions and enable customers to get their work done faster. Thomson Reuters is prioritizing its legal product suite, including Westlaw Precision,… Continue Reading
Microsoft Is Bringing OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI model to US Government Agencies
Bloomberg [free link] “Microsoft Corp. will make it possible for users of its Azure Government cloud computing service, which include a variety of US agencies, to access artificial intelligence models from ChatGPT creator OpenAI. Microsoft, which is the largest investor in OpenAI and uses its technology to power its Bing chatbot, plans to announce Wednesday… Continue Reading
I just bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I regret nothing
Ars Technica: The still-updated World Book Encyclopedia is my antidote to the information apocalypse. “These days, many of us live online, where machine-generated content has begun to pollute the Internet with misinformation and noise. At a time when it’s hard to know what information to trust, I felt delight when I recently learned that World… Continue Reading
A Democracy Crisis In The Making: June 2023 Edition
States United Democracy Center, Democracy Foward, Law Forward report – A Democracy Crisis In The Making: June 2023 Edition: Key Takeaways: 38 states are considering 185 bills that would make it easier to overturn the will of the voters — and harder for trusted election officials to do their jobs. At least eight states have… Continue Reading
