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artificial intelligence
2024-09-14 @ 13.22.30 ∈ In English
(From 2023; Medium.com, eww)

AI and the American Smile
Why do you smile the way you do? A silly question, of course, since it’s only “natural” to smile the way you do, isn’t it? It’s common sense. How else would someone smile? As a person who was not born in the U.S., who immigrated here from the former Soviet Union, as I did, this question is not so simple.
2023-10-05 @ 18.58.33 ∈ In English
2023-09-30 @ 18.09.49 ∈ In English

Introducing the iNaturalist Geomodel · iNaturalist
Today, we’ve changed the Seen Nearby label on suggestions to Expected Nearby. The label comes from predictions made by the iNaturalist Geomodel that we’re introducing for the first time. […] The iNaturalist Geomodel takes a location as input and returns the most likely species at that location as output.
2023-06-30 @ 13.22.42 ∈ In English

Artificial neural network study explains why biting flies are attracted to blue objects
[The ANN, trained to process visual information in a way similar to that of the fly brain, had] trouble telling the difference between blue objects and animals. This suggested that an inability to distinguish between animals and blue objects is the reason for the attraction to blue objects by flies.
2023-04-27 @ 22.18.29 ∈ In English
2023-04-14 @ 15.16.53 ∈ Suomeksi
2023-04-13 @ 18.18.19 ∈ In English
2022-12-04 @ 14.12.09 ∈ In English
2022-09-28 @ 16.41.14 ∈ In English

Better than JPEG? Researcher discovers that Stable Diffusion can compress images
Last week, Swiss software engineer Matthias Bühlmann discovered that the popular image synthesis model Stable Diffusion could compress existing bitmapped images with fewer visual artifacts than JPEG or WebP at high compression ratios, though there are significant caveats.