thefutureoflife.org 15 Quirky Gadgets and Accessories to Buy Today (May) It’s time for us to take another look at a bunch of quirky, imaginative and downright useful gadgets and accessories that you can buy today. Which one takes your fancy the most? For more inspiration, check out our 2013 holiday gift guide, our previous collection of gadgets and accessories for geeks and 15 quirky gadgets and accessories to buy today. You can view all 15 of these gadgets and accessories listed on one page here. Nixie Epoch Clock This eye-catching clock is crafted from maple hardwood, and includes easily replaceable display tubes. Click the image for more information
cityofsound Shark Attack, Infographic Shows the Staggering Number of Sharks Killed by Humans Every Year Joe Chernov and Robin Richards have created an infographic that illustrates the staggering number of sharks killed by humans every year. According to the infographic, sharks killed 12 people last year, but humans kill that many sharks every four seconds, adding up to an estimated total of 100 million sharks annually. Many sharks are killed by “finning,” a process in which a shark’s fins are cut off to be sold for shark fin soup. Organizations like the Shark Conservation Society, Stop Shark Finning, Humane Society International, documentaries like Sharkwater, and environmental campaigns on The Pew Charitable Trusts are all working to raise awareness of and ultimately prevent shark finning. You can view the full infographic at Chernov’s website. infographic via Joe Chernov via Under the Vast Blue Seas, I Love Charts About these ads Related Laughing Squid Posts Woman Holds a Great White Shark's Fin & Swims With It February 20, 2013 In "Blog" Shark Bite Oven Mitt March 23, 2011
OpenAI Blog Index Introducing ChatGPT Plus February 1, 2023 — Announcements New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text January 31, 2023 — Announcements OpenAI and Microsoft Extend Partnership January 23, 2023 — Announcements Forecasting Potential Misuses of Language Models forDisinformation Campaigns—and How to Reduce Risk January 11, 2023 — Research New and Improved Embedding Model December 15, 2022 — Announcements, API ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue November 30, 2022 — Announcements, Research DALL·E API Now Available in Public Beta November 3, 2022 — Announcements, API DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist September 28, 2022 — Announcements Introducing Whisper September 21, 2022 — Research DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting August 31, 2022 — Announcements Our Approach to Alignment Research August 24, 2022 — Research New and Improved Content Moderation Tooling August 10, 2022 — Announcements DALL·E Now Available in Beta July 20, 2022 — Announcements July 18, 2022 — Announcements Image GPT
ACE The goal of the ACE Program is to dramatically enhance the accuracy, precision, and timeliness of intelligence forecasts for a broad range of event types, through the development of advanced techniques that elicit, weight, and combine the judgments of many intelligence analysts. The ACE Program seeks technical innovations in the following areas: (a) efficient elicitation of probabilistic judgments, including conditional probabilities for contingent events; (b) mathematical aggregation of judgments by many individuals, based on factors that may include: past performance, expertise, cognitive style, metaknowledge, and other attributes predictive of accuracy; and (c) effective representation of aggregated probabilistic forecasts and their distributions. The ACE Program will build upon technical achievements of past research and on state-of-the-art systems used today for generating probabilistic forecasts from widely-dispersed experts. Related Program(s)
mark's blog window: Panorama This is just a run through of how I stitched my panoramic together. I saved all my sequences to individual folders. I employed this method for all of the panoramic. The steps layed out here presuppose you have some understanding of Photoshop. Step 1 Open all the images from a sequence in Photoshop, compile them into stacked and layered image. Step 2 Using the crop tool extend the background. Step 3 Create a layer on the bottom and fill it with white. Step.4 Turn off the visibility on all the layers except the bottom white layer and the top two.Turn the uppermost layer to opacity 50%. Step 5. Step 6. Step 7. Step 8. Step 9. Repeat until all layers are in place. If you need to adjust the colour, density you can insert adjustment layer acting only on that layer.
Computer Game Technique As Effective As Drugs For Children With Anxiety New research from Israel suggests that it may not be necessary to use drugs when treating highly anxious children. Instead, their anxiety can be relieved with a computer-based technique called attention bias modification (ABM) that’s already seen success in adult patients. The relatively new treatment was developed at several labs around the world, including that of professor Yair Bar-Haim of Tel Aviv University’s School of Psychological Sciences. The treatment draws people away from their tendency to dwell on potential threats, ultimately changing their thought patterns. Related articles Early intervention is critical because most adult anxiety disorders begin during childhood. Same effectiveness – more advantages An initial clinical trial in Israel showed that the ABM program was as effective as medication and cognitive therapy for children and offered several distinct advantages, as reported by Bar-Haim’s team. Anxious people respond faster to “threatening” images Photo by abcdlish
Original Moon Landing Tapes — Erased Forty years ago — on July 20, 1969 – audiences watched in awe as Apollo 11 landed on the moon. The historic moment was captured at the time on high quality tapes, along with Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the lunar surface and the planting of the American flag. Those tapes, however, no longer exist. NASA admitted at a press conference on Thursday in Washington that the tapes have been lost or recorded over — or, as NASA called it, “degaussed.” Richard Nafzger, a NASA engineer who put the original video procedures together and now is in charge of projects like the space shuttle, said a NASA team had looked high and low for the original tapes but had been unable to find them. But they do know that they are gone. So, what’s left for historians and NASA researchers? NASA’s focus at the time, Nafzger said, was on being able to broadcast a signal live from the moon — not preserving the results. It previewed 15 minutes of the work-in-progress during the press conference.
Global Futures Studies & Research by The Millennium Project 10 Fabulous German Words With No English Equivalent This past week, I journeyed to Berlin, Germany with one of my best friends in an effort to avoid the utter sadness that comes with the impending conclusion of my study abroad experience. Despite not knowing a lick of German (my apologies to every person that had to endure my not-so-impressive hand gestures and aggressive pointing), the trip was a success and we both left feeling more cultured and a little more appreciative of our English-speaking countries. That’s not to say the German language is unpleasant. In fact, there are a handful of fantastic German words that describe life more perfectly than any English word could. 1) Weltschmerz (n.): mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state They say that the grass is greener on the other side, but it’s that kind of mindset that causes the grass on your side of the picket fence to look gray and infested with earwigs. Picture this: you’re 26 years old. - Disrespectful bros. - Hitler.
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Castles in the sea | Education Graham Hancock doesn't look mad as he sprawls in an armchair in his small, neat house in Kennington, south London. But his critics would say appearances deceive: he is either a lunatic, a charlatan, or both. Hancock has spent the past 10 years writing books and producing TV programmes which argue that everything we are told about ancient history is wrong: civilisation didn't start in Sumeria and Egypt around 3,500 BC; it began 10,000 years before in great cities which subsequently suffered a cataclysm. He first expounded the thesis in 1995 in Fingerprints of the Gods (the echo of Erich Von Daniken's pro-alien Chariots of the Gods is unfortunate). So, Graham, I hear you are bonkers. The 51-year-old former journalist pleads not guilty on both counts. Hancock's first "mystery" book - a quest for the lost Ark of the Covenant - was The Sign and the Seal in 1992, and he seems to see himself as an Indiana Jones figure, kicking against the constraints of academia, thinking the unthinkable.