"Working with the artificial intelligence company RAIC Labs, which scanned satellite images of China's entire land border captured by Planet Labs, The Times identified the locations of new villages and checked them against historical images, state media, social media posts and public records.
The mapping reveals that China has put at least one village near every accessible Himalayan pass that borders India, as well as on most of the passes bordering Bhutan and Nepal... "
Oh I thought they were talking about silly web comics and random art on the internet that was 'stolen'. Film and game industries of course embrace all types of tech to make money (didn't Disney use generative AI for the opening sequence of a Marvel series last year?)
"[Artists] would much rather be properly compensated for their work..."
'Properly compensated'... determined by the market, right? That's being driven close to $0, just like with software (and was headed that direction before the recent AI craze).
"Artists would much rather... focus more on fulfilling creative tasks."
Like the two penis jokes shown on that site? Incredible.
"The persistent are attached to the goal. The obstinate are attached to their ideas about how to reach it. Worse still, that means they'll tend to be attached to their first ideas..."
So obstinate people expect the desired outcome to depend on their expertise at some point(s) in the past. Is the difference between the two just humility?
I was struck by the number of oddly posed photos as well. The choice seems consistent across all their Q&A interviews. https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/qa/
A clue about the styling can be found on their 'About' page: "Our work often resembles journalistic alchemy — we mash together the complexities of science with the malleable art of storytelling in an attempt to forge a precious new alloy. It can be a mind-bending enterprise, but we relish the challenge."
"... Louis Sarkozy is a Franco-American writer. After having been raised in France, he moved to the United States and graduated from Valley Forge Military Academy and College... " [1]
and
"... He is currently applying to the United States Army's Officer Candidate School, where he hopes to start a career as an Army officer..." [2]
Makes it seem like he is preparing to be the next Lafayette in case China invades the USA.
"In this study, a training-free classifier based on GPT-4 Vision has been developed to estimate building age epochs from facade images... Based on the analysis of MAE of only 0.85 decade and special confusion matrices, we found that most of the age epochs can be predicted successfully but only approximately, which means they are predicted to be in adjacent but not far off age epochs."
"Nearly every day, Benigno bikes about 10 miles and picks up around six pounds of debris — about the max the magnets can carry. Over the course of eight weeks, he collected over 410 pounds of metal..."
'Long release cycles: The joint deployment meant that there was increased fear of unintended production outages as debugging and rollback can be difficult for a deployment of this size. This drove the approach of the “release train”. Every two weeks, a “snapshot” of all modules was taken, and promoted to be a “release candidate”. This release candidate then went through exhaustive testing which attempted to cover as large a surface area as possible. This testing stage took about two weeks. Thus, depending on when the code change was merged, it could take anywhere between two and four weeks to reach production.'
I guess I'm just old, but I prefer the delay with a couple of weeks of testing versus pushing to prod and having the customer test the code.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/warm-sesam3/id6744872364
Please take a look at the 'About' in settings