Self-Replicating Machines - http://www.molecularassembler.com/KSRM.htm
Synthèse vocale libre : Mozilla et NVIDIA relancent le projet Common Voice.
Common Voice, lancé par Mozilla en 2017, vise à développer une solution de reconnaissance vocale libre. La technologie évolue de manière spectaculaire et intéresse de nouveaux acteurs. NVIDIA a choisi d’investir 1,26 million d’euros dans le projet.
Common Voice de Mozilla est une initiative open source visant à démocratiser et à diversifier le développement de la technologie vocale. https://www.toolinux.com/?synthese-vocale-libre-mozilla-et-nvidia-relancent-le-projet-common-voice
Ugh, finally someone did something about it !
I can't wait to see that generalized.
California bans ‘dark patterns’ that trick users into giving away their personal data - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/16/22333506/california-bans-dark-patterns-opt-out-selling-data
#drone killing moths by colliding with them.
Or when #AI enables pest control without #pesticide.
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-drones-hungry-moths-dutch-hi-tech.html
Also includes good news for #AI, with improved vector math support.
Ars Technica: Containerize all the things! Arm v9 takes security seriously https://arstechnica.com/?p=1753363
A mobile robot promoting mars products.
https://gizmodo.com/this-mars-bar-rover-will-chase-you-around-a-store-and-t-1846514705
#robot
How does the brain interpret computer languages?
Neuroscientists detect a distinct brain network that grows stronger with practice.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/how-does-the-brain-interpret-computer-languages/#p3
How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you | MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/05/1020376/resist-big-tech-surveillance-data/
NewPipe App for YouTube & PeerTube | Ad-free and FOSS
⭐️ https://odysee.com/@polarhive:e/newpipe-youtube-peertube-adfree-foss-app:5
⭐️ https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/6674d7da-33e5-4400-a764-1cfbf709a6ff
⭐ ️https://peertube.social/videos/watch/e38052ab-1525-431c-80a0-6c5f4c7d12c2
#tilvids #peertube #youtube #newpipe #fdroid #android #foss #Odysee
Better NLP using a model of the brain of the fruit fly.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/fruit-fly-brain-network-hacked-for-language-processing
They claim to be better than GPT-3.
#ai #nlp
Des exosquelettes pour soulager les soignants
La lutte contre l’épidémie s’accompagne de gestes techniques pour soulager les malades du Covid-19, mais certaines manipulations lourdes contribuent à l’épuisement du personnel soignant. Le projet ExoTurn propose de l’aider avec des exosquelettes.
https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/des-exosquelettes-pour-soulager-les-soignants
Photon quantum computing!
Ars Technica: Programmable optical quantum computer arrives late, steals the show https://arstechnica.com/?p=1747779
The actual value of #bigdata depends on the use case. The more the better does not necessarily stand (Rumpelstiltskin #ai fallacy). But it does for #surveillance...
Adventures in NI: When marginal returns on data collapse, and when they do not https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2021/03/when-marginal-returns-on-data-collapse.html
According to a fresh research (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.09301.pdf), CNAMEs are being abused to allow tracking company (like Criteo, etc...) to get your cookies as if they were the emitter (as if they were the first party).
The research demonstrate the trackers can even impersonate the victims on the impacted websites.
I heard about it on "Security Now" (https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/808).
La Somme figure parmi les 20 départements sur la sellette. La Préfète sonde les élus locaux sur « une mesure de confinement ».
Ce virus n’est pas un fantasme, j’ai pu le mesurer dans mon entourage. Et pourtant, je vais dire « non ». En voici les raisons.
#Emojis
I think we all need cute little parrots in our Slacks/Mattermosts and this is THE place to get them (via @michlymich@twitter.com ^^)
https://cultofthepartyparrot.com/
LastPass Android app has got 7 trackers in it - https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/165465/
https://danuker.go.ro/the-grand-unified-theory-of-software-architecture.html
Don't worry, this is not yet another MVC.
It's actually a very simple set of good practices that I do apply as much as I can.
I finally found the words to express it with this post.
It's a must-read for all software developers, it really applies everywhere.
#software