@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2026-06-22 15:46:43
Pour ceux qui ont accès...
"La recherche française déstabilisée par une crise multiforme"
https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2026/06/22/la-recherche-francaise-destabilisee-par-une-crise-multiforme_67…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-07-18 16:56:00
Two small new prints from this afternoon, this time not Kallitype but contact printing on silver chloride FB paper, developed with Adox MCC. The increase in depth and detail is just wonderful and the feel of the final results an instant throwback to my early darkroom adventures ~40 years ago... 😍
The pictures are of two of my favorite places in recent years. Larger prints will be available for purchase in September.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-20 05:11:01
Singapore announces a National AI Partnership with Google and an MoU with OpenAI, which will set up an AI lab and commit $234M to the city-state's AI ecosystem (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/singapore-
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-07 20:35:14
Meta launches Muse Image in Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and previews Muse Video, the first media generation models from its Superintelligence Labs (Meta)
https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-image-muse-video-msl/
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-05-16 00:12:07
I can image a developer parallel to the first, too: the human still using all their skills and experience, but with the machine catching mistakes, providing context and validation and vigilance that is •orthogonal to• testing and type checking and code crafting and — the big one! — actually •thinking• about the problem.
That’s a regime I imagine developers would feel a lot better about. And I know there are people out there pursuing it! But they’re not the ones dominating the conversation.
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@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-07-14 01:47:52
📊 Results: text context produced 50 successful games at ~9 minutes average. Image context produced only 23 successful games at ~20 minutes average. Damage numbers were comparable or slightly better with images, but the runtime gap was drastic.
💸 Token usage: 306 million tokens for the text runs vs 213 million for the image runs — with roughly half as many completed games.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-07-09 15:40:54
I also saw that uncredited, context-free photo in my timeline.
This entire thread is a good explanation of the many ways that post was bad form:
https://mas.to/@meganL/116888106293249758
Give credit, give context, don’t do inspo porn.
@gray17@mastodon.social2026-05-20 17:15:06
ok "extended thinking" appears to repeatedly generate the image with additional context generated by the "thinking" steps.
I tried "renaissance painting of a cuisinart toaster lying on its side on the hood of a kia soul", and the last three "thinking steps" are some version of: oops, the toaster is upright, lemme try again. in one session it gives up and says, sorry the toaster is upright, I hope you still like the result anyway.
this is ve…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-07-21 21:40:45
More Donations from Epstein Contacts to Susan Collins Uncovered (Troy Matthews/MeidasTouch)
https://meidasnews.com/news/more-donations-from-epstein-contacts-to-susan-collins-uncovered
http://www.memeorandum.com/260721/p141#a260721p141
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-08 17:50:43
Apple announces new parental controls, letting kids ask to browse specific websites or contact specific people, adding automatic image filtering, and more (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2189728/apple-expands-parental-c…
