This is a curated list of new model and dataset releases in the open AI space. This is not an exhaustive update. I hope you enjoy this more organized monthly update in the middle of the daily SOTA releases. Hacker Llama – Omar Sanseviero @osanseviero Chief Llama Officer @huggingface Continue Reading
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Banned Books Week
American Library Association: “In a time of deep political divides, library staff across the country are facing an overwhelming number of book ban attempts. In 2023 alone, the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 1,247 efforts to censor books and other resources in libraries—an increase of 65% from the year before. In total,… Continue Reading
How to Sign Up for Local Emergency Alerts Before Natural Disasters Strike
Via LLRX – How to Sign Up for Local Emergency Alerts Before Natural Disasters Strike – Natural disasters have affected nearly 90 percent of U.S. counties since 2013, and while many households know about preparing emergency kits, a recent FEMA survey found a large drop in how many people are signed up to receive emergency… Continue Reading
Expert Survey on the Global Information Environment 2024
“The global information environment is under significant pressure from the development of new technologies and shifting public policies. How do experts around the world perceive the varied features of, and threats to, the information environment in their countries of expertise? In June 2024, the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) surveyed 412 researchers from… Continue Reading
Rising Threats to U.S. Democracy – Roots and Responses
Theda Skocpol (Harvard University; A..D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell), Rising Threats to U.S. Democracy — Roots and Responses Abstract: Why is US democracy facing an existential crisis this year? While some focus on the persona and rhetoric of Donald Trump, or stress underlying institutional distortions and polarizing social divisions, Skocpol highlights and explains the recent… Continue Reading
Museo del Prado offers free online access to more than 11,500 publications from late 15th century to early 20th century
“The new Digital Library of the Museo del Prado, developed with funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), offers free access to 5600 magazine issues and 6,000 books specializing in artistic literature and published between the end of the 15th and early 20th centuries. More than 1,700,000 pages have been digitized, the cataloguing… Continue Reading
A handy guide to the universal language for the mathematically perplexed
Ars Technica: “Galileo once famously described the universe as a great book “written in mathematical language and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures.” Unfortunately, it’s a language that many people outside of math and science simply do not speak, largely because they are flummoxed and/or intimidated by the sheer density of all… Continue Reading
How Opus Dei Conquered D.C.
Intelligencer via MSN – “A new book shows just how much sway the mysterious right-wing Catholic group has — and might have over Trump’s next term… Details of the Opus Dei network in the American capital are a significant part of a new, deeply researched book by British financial journalist Gareth Gore, Opus: The Cult… Continue Reading
Inside Iron Mountain: It’s Time to Talk About Hard Drives
MIX: “A few years ago, archiving specialist Iron Mountain Media and Archive Services did a survey of its vaults and discovered an alarming trend: Of the thousands and thousands of archived hard disk drives from the 1990s that clients ask the company to work on, around one-fifth are unreadable. Iron Mountain has a broad customer… Continue Reading
Visit Hundreds of Museums Virtually Using This Free App
MakeUseOf: Quick Links What Is Bloomberg Connects, and What Can You Use It For? What Places Can You Visit With Bloomberg Connects? How Does Bloomberg Connects Compare With Google Arts & Culture? Key Takeaways Bloomberg Connects offers guides to partnered museums and cultural institutions across the globe. Besides museums, you’ll find botanical gardens, historic cemeteries,… Continue Reading
Academic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation
Press release: “On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel at Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against six commercial publishers of academic journals, including Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Sage, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer, on behalf of a proposed class of scientists and scholars who provided manuscripts or peer review, alleging… Continue Reading
Big publishers think libraries are the enemy
citation needed, Molly White – Big publishers think libraries are the enemy. The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read: “I’ve seen quips to the effect of “if public libraries were invented today, they’d be outlawed.” The joke… Continue Reading
