It was a fantastic talk - and also a chilling reminder of what's at stake with the climate crisis

Global soy production — what is it used for?

Sauder et al. present a new paradigm for mapping underwater environments to significantly scale up coral reef monitoring by taking a leap towards fully automatic analysis of video transects

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À Djibouti, la #diplomatie rencontre la #science 💼🤝🔬

Des experts de l'EPFL mettent en œuvre un projet de sauvegarde des récifs coralliens de la #MerRouge , soutenu par le EDA - DFAE.

Unissant les pays riverains autour d'un but commun, ce projet promeut la #ScienceDiplomacy .

The beginning of drowning in an internet flooded by shitty generated content...

Poster sessions NeurIPS Conference

How long until 3D Gaussian-based Dense *RGB* SLAM? 😇

If AI ruins the world, it won't be because it turns into an evil Ultron with superpowers bent on destroying humanity. It will be more like cars or fast fashion -- a slow, boring, long term tragedy of the commons that many will experience as 'progress'

Testing out HeyGen translation on French and German. I don’t speak either language so let me know if it sounds natural if you do.
I hope if you pay you can turn off the color correction.
It didn’t work on my phone so I had to upload on my pc.
app.heygen.com/guest/template…

Incredibly, the placebo effect is (mostly) not real.

It is a result of statistical confusion. Whenever you have a group with extreme values, they tend to exhibit regression to the mean. Eg. on average, sick people tend to become more healthy over time.

Thus if you give one

The 7 hottest days on Earth in the last 100,000+ years all happened in the last week:

July 6 ~ 17.23°C / 63.01°F
July 7 ~ 17.20°C / 62.96°F
July 4 ~ 17.18°C / 62.93°F
July 5 ~ 17.18°C / 62.92°F
July 8 ~ 17.17°C / 62.90°F
July 10 ~ 17.12°C / 62.81°F
July 9 ~ 17.11°C / 62.79°F

Friendly reminder

there are already multiple AI chatbot companies that quite literally finetune their models with the sole reward criterion being 'time spent talking to our chatbot'

the companies which become the best at increasing user emotional attachment and devotion will outcompete the others

so unfair......

Shameful. Greed over decency. IOC MEDIA

Anybody know where I can find information about demonstrations in #Lausanne regarding this? #IOC #BoycottRussianSport #FIFA