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Geocities Gifs, Comics, Screenshots, AI, Science
We extracted over 4,500,000 animated GIFs (1,600,000 unique images) and then used the filenames and directory path text to build a best-effort “full text” search engine. Each GIF also links back to the original GeoCities page on which it was embedded.
I figured it wouldn’t hurt to try, so I strung together a hastily improvised request to the judge — hereafter known as the Eleven Magic Words:
“Is there anything the court would like to review to reconsider?”
If you're a knitting nerd, it's a great time to be alive.
Calvin and Hobbes - Days Slip By
A day can really slip by if you’re deliber
Share one idea per week.
We introduce SIMA, short for Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent, a generalist AI agent for 3D virtual settings. We partnered with game developers to train SIMA on a variety of video games.
Generative Interactive Environments - Google
Amazingly, it only takes a single image to create an entire new interactive environment. This opens the door to a variety of new ways to generate and step into virtual worlds, for instance, we can take a state-of-the-art text-to-image generation model and use it to produce starting frames that we can then bring to life with Genie.
A histogram of marathon finishing times (finish times on the x-axis, count on the y-axis) across 9,789,093 finishes shows noticeable discontinuities at every half hour, as well as at "round" times like :10, :15, and :20.
Science will only end when we have licked all the objects in the Universe
It’s hard to disagree with Horgan’s claim that our best and brightest have gone bonkers. Most of them also appear to be outrageously arrogant. When asked about consciousness, the computer scientist Marvin Minsky says, “I’ve solved it, and I don’t understand why people don’t listen.”
