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Reuters Uses AI To Prototype First Ever Automated Video Reports
Developed in collaboration with London-based AI startup Synthesia, the new system harnesses AI in order to synthesize pre-recorded footage of a news presenter into entirely new reports. It works in a similar way to deepfake videos, although its current prototype combines with incoming data on English Premier League football matches to report on things that have actually happened.
Signs of Imminent Peak Bullshit Armageddon
David M. Solomon, the current CEO of Goldman Sachs, produces electronic dance music (EDM) records under the stage name DJ D-Sol. He has performed at nightclubs and music festivals around New York, Miami, and The Bahamas. He released his debut single, "Don't Stop" with an extended version on Spotify in June 2018. (wikipedia)
Goldman Sachs CEO DJ D-Sol Returns With Groovy New House Single, “Electric”
At Goldman, He’s David Solomon. At the Club, He’s D.J. D-Sol.
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Hi! I'm a 2D Person, who lives in a 2D world...
British-based COMPASS Pathways just got a US patent for a psilocybin pill designed to control treatment-resistant depression (alt)
#Comment: A secretive startup, lead by an ex-Goldman Sachs Banker and funded by Peter Thiel, using the extremely broken IP system to patent Psilocybin - a compound that has been known to humanity for millennia. What wonderfully nonsensical late capitalist brain-dead bullshit comedy!
An anonymous group claims it took DNA from global elites — and is auctioning it off
If you had Donald Trump’s DNA, what would you do with it? An anonymous organization called the Earnest Project is offering the chance to own DNA samples of a handful of world leaders and celebrities. The group claims it has surreptitiously collected items discarded by attendees of the 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that may contain their DNA. President Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Elton John all attended the conference.
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Australian Bushfires Reveal Hidden Sections of Ancient Aquaculture System
The eel-farming system of the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape is older than both Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids.
Eugene Odum explains the key concepts of "ecosystem ecology"
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P9V6h2z79w
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6NmohVKEfg
Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA65QA29bXM
Part 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5EhdXpDO3o
Part 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N6NbK5Bw_g
Study reveals food waste is worse than we thought — and which group is most to blame
Abstract: This work provides an internationally comparable consumer food waste dataset based on food availability, energy gap and consumer affluence. Such data can be used for constructing meaningful and internationally comparable metrics on food waste, such as those for Sustainable Development Goal 12. The data suggests that consumer food waste follows a linear-log relationship with consumer affluence and starts to emerge when consumers reach a threshold of approximately $6.70/day/capita level of expenditure. These findings also imply that most empirical models overestimate consumption by not accounting for the possibility of food waste in their analysis. The results also show that the most widely cited global estimate of food waste is underestimated by a factor greater than 2 (214 Kcal/day/capita versus 527 Kcal/day/capita). Comparison with estimates of US consumer food waste based on national survey data shows this approach can reasonably reproduce the results without needing extensive data from national surveys.
China’s overall paper imports dropped another 39% last year
China bought less of the world’s recycled fiber in 2019, the second year in a row of major decreases in recycled material imports. And the country’s environmental ministry has reiterated plans for an all-out import ban next year.
Ecological engineering uses ecology and engineering to predict, design, construct or restore, and manage ecosystems that integrate "human society with its natural environment for the benefit of both". It emerged in the early 1960s, but its definition has taken several decades to refine, its implementation is still undergoing adjustment, and its broader recognition as a new paradigm is relatively recent.
Charles David Keeling (1928 – 2005)
Charles David Keeling was an American scientist whose recording of carbon dioxide at the Mauna Loa Observatory first alerted the world to the possibility of anthropogenic contribution to the "greenhouse effect" and global warming. The Keeling Curve measures the progressive buildup of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, in the atmosphere.
A Probabilistic Formulation of Unsupervised Text Style Transfer - ICLR2020 paper by Junxian He, Xinyi Wang, Graham Neubig, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick
A deep generative model for unsupervised text style transfer, by hypothesizing a parallel latent (unobserved) sequence to generate each observed sequence, good results on benchmarks.
Former NSA Deputy Director Bill Crowell Joins Advisory Board of AI-Powered Cybersecurity Startup CYR3CON
#Comment: The privatisation and unchecked expansion of the capabilities of NSA & co in full swing. A tiny stepping stone towards shared open source intelligence, used by the general public for global peace making - or just more of the same old late capitalist paranoid bullshit?