Progress

We did a podcast episode, go listen to it!
The world seems to be aflame with AI stuff right now.

We finally got the house. Now the move starts.

Articles

• The pebble-mound mouse is very good at its job - Australian Geographic
• The Dendrogaster parasite is the stuff of nightmares - Australian Geographic
• Why storefront car crashes happen at convenience stores so often -- Smart Cities Dive: "Throughout all U.S. commercial businesses, storefront crashes happen about 100 times a day, Reiter, co-founder of the Storefront Safety Council, said in an interview." - that number seems way too high. I have no idea how, but I'll need to verify that. The only sources I can find for that number is that one agency that, you guessed it, advises for more safety stuff for storefronts. So, maybe the number might be a bit inflated.
• Roots Search Tool - a Hugging Face Space by bigscience-data: "The ROOTS corpus was developed during the BigScience workshop for the purpose of training the Multilingual Large Language Model BLOOM. The ROOTS Search Tool allows you to search through the ROOTS corpus. We serve a BM25 index for each language or group of languages included in ROOTS. We also offer exact search which is enabled if you enclose your query in double quotes. More details about the implementation and use cases is available in our paper - please cite it if you use ROOTS Search Tool in your work. For more information and instructions on how to access the full corpus consult this form."
• Parquet: more than just "Turbo CSV"
• Introducing BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter large language model, purpose-built from scratch for finance -- Press -- Bloomberg LP
• PWAs in app stores
• Segment Anything -- Meta AI
• Illustrating Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)
• Stats, Maps n Pix: The longest straight line in Great Britain (without crossing a public road)
• AGI Doom and the Drake equation - by Diego Basch
• Here’s How Two New Orleans Teenagers Found a New Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem -- by Keith McNulty -- Apr, 2023 -- Medium: Very smart!
• Why the new RSV vaccines are a BFD - by Eric Topol: They really are a BFD, and I hope we will see more of these super-vaccinces in the future.

Libraries, programming, etc

• Lemmy - A link aggregator for the fediverse
• Home · lobsters/lobsters Wiki
• lobsters/lobsters: Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion: This is the quite sad source code to the ghost town at https://lobste.rs. It is a Rails codebase and uses a SQL (MariaDB in production) backend for the database.
• reddit-archive/reddit: historical code from reddit.com
• GitHub - lm-sys/FastChat: The release repo for "Vicuna: An Open Chatbot Impressing GPT-4"
• GitHub - nat/openplayground: An LLM playground you can run on your laptop
• PhobosLab QOI Image Format, a quite ok format: Very simple, nice!

Games

• Sea of Thieves with the guys. Got sunk once, by two idiots. Eh, well, maybe we were the idiots for not being prepared for other idiots.

Other media

• The Physics Experiment That Ruined Australia - YouTube
• Why Does Every Animal Look Like This? - YouTube
• English counties explained - YouTube
• Why are British place names so hard to pronounce? - YouTube
• The Secret City inside of London Revealed - YouTube
• How Stop-Motion Movies Are Animated at Aardman -- WIRED - YouTube
• Why AI art struggles with hands - YouTube
• a love letter to vrchat - YouTube
• Video Tutorial: The Edit Button (1.0) - YouTube
• Former CIA Chief of Disguise Answers Spy Questions From Twitter -- Tech Support -- WIRED - YouTube
• This Unicorn Changed the Way I Poop - #SquattyPotty - YouTube: Classic!