Linking Park December 22nd, 2022
Accessing U.S. data for research just got easier
An online portal offers one-stop shopping to apply for access to protected data sets maintained by 16 federal agencies. Scientists can search the site to find the data set they want and then, with one click, file an application. The site also allows them to track the status of their request.
A new class of antidepressant works in 2 hours
The potential new drug is in a class of its own, as it works differently than any other antidepressant on the market.
It almost sounds like an upper you take during the holidays.
With all the AI websites out there, you can check whether your photo has been used to train these models.
To check whether images associated with you have been used to train an AI system, visit HaveIBeenTrained.com. (This engine doesn’t save your image searches.)
I checked mine and was relieved to find that it wasn't, but I found an image of someone I know online. Apparently, we look similar. Perhaps, it's the great big nose.
Newly discovered species of bacteria in the microbiome may be a culprit behind rheumatoid arthritis.
In our recently published study, my colleagues and I found an important clue to a potential culprit behind this disease: the bacteria in your gut.
This is personally important for me since my mom recently passed away due to complications arising from rheumatoid arthritis (it's an autoimmune disease). I'm curious if I'm susceptible.
Select 10-20 photos of yourself (or you and your partner as a 👩❤️👨 couple, or your 🐶 dog or 🐱 cat). We'll train the AI to generate AI-generated avatars that look just like you in any style you want.
It will put you back $40, but the images are pretty great. However, I'm wary that they may be using my pictures to train their models in the future.
If you wondered how Kanye West, as a black man, pals around with overt white supremacists, read The Rainbow Putsch Coalition
It is weird, but it isn’t new. White supremacists, who in many (or sometimes any) cases wouldn’t pass as white, have always been an odd feature of the white supremacist landscape. This is in part because, contrary to the white supremacist’s most fundamental claims, race is a fiction — or, better said, a culturally derived, ever-changing, and porous set of overlapping categories that derive from and reinforce systems of domination and exploitation and are consequently always in flux.
Personal blogs are back...again. Say welcome to the ooh.directory.
We at Instagram Want You to Know That if You Don’t Use Reels We Will Hurt You and Your Family. Time to reel them in.
Esquire's Best New Restaurants in America, 2022. Two of Austin's are featured.