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Important milestone, AI Act adopted by European Parliament.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240308IPR19015/artificial-intelligence-act-meps-adopt-landmark-law

Artificial Intelligence Act: MEPs adopt landmark law | News | European Parliament
On Wednesday, Parliament approved the Artificial Intelligence Act that ensures safety and compliance with fundamental rights, while boosting innovation.

Air quality: Useful little video briefing, on why MERV-13 filters are more effective than HEPA filters in the context of an ordinary room.
#AirQuality #CovidIsAirborne

Important milestone, AI Act adopted by European Parliament.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240308IPR19015/artificial-intelligence-act-meps-adopt-landmark-law

Artificial Intelligence Act: MEPs adopt landmark law | News | European Parliament
On Wednesday, Parliament approved the Artificial Intelligence Act that ensures safety and compliance with fundamental rights, while boosting innovation.

Character is too important
Former House Speaker #Paul #Ryan this week doubled down on his claim that
he will not vote for Donald Trump this November,
reasserting his opposition to the former president just two months before he's set to accept the Republican nomination in Milwaukee.
"Not from me…

'Character is too important': Paul Ryan says he'll write in a candidate, won't vote for Trump
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan this week doubled down on his claim that he will not vote for Donald Trump this November

Good run tonight. I felt strong and never faltered for HR or breath. Hopefully whatever had been fatiguing me has passed. 🤞#Running

Cepheids as distance indicators and stellar tracers
G. Bono (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit\`a di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy), V. F. Braga (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Monte Porzio Catone, Italy), A. Pietrinferni (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Teramo, Italy)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04893…

Cepheids as distance indicators and stellar tracers
We review the phenomenology of classical Cepheids (CCs), Anomalous Cepheids (ACs) and type II Cepheids (TIICs) in the Milky Way (MW) and in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs). We also examine the Hertzsprung progression in different stellar systems by using the shape of I-band light curves (Fourier parameters) and observables based on the difference in magnitude and in phase between the bump and the minimum in luminosity. The distribution of Cepheids in optical and in optical-near infrared (NIR) c…

Spielt hier einer Wow ? Ich will mich auf der Webseite einloggen, aber ich komme irgendwie nicht rein, muss immer wieder dieses verdammte Captcha machen. Es kommt keine Fehlermeldung.
Hat jemand mal ähnliche Probleme gehabt ?
#wow #worldofWarcraft

DexCap: Scalable and Portable Mocap Data Collection System for Dexterous Manipulation
Chen Wang, Haochen Shi, Weizhuo Wang, Ruohan Zhang, Li Fei-Fei, C. Karen Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07788

DexCap: Scalable and Portable Mocap Data Collection System for Dexterous Manipulation
Imitation learning from human hand motion data presents a promising avenue for imbuing robots with human-like dexterity in real-world manipulation tasks. Despite this potential, substantial challenges persist, particularly with the portability of existing hand motion capture (mocap) systems and the difficulty of translating mocap data into effective control policies. To tackle these issues, we introduce DexCap, a portable hand motion capture system, alongside DexIL, a novel imitation algorithm …

Comparison between my simulated drainage for the Isle of Man and the actual on the ground river courses. This is getting pretty good. It isn't yet perfect, but promising!
This is work towards being able to create a complete naturalistic environment from either just a heightmap, or a combination of a heightmap, a rainfall map, and soil permeability map.
#GameDev

mw-engine/src/cljc/mw_engine/drainage.clj at develop · simon-brooke/mw-engine
The Microworld engine. Processes a world to create new states - simon-brooke/mw-engine

The Boston-area Covid sewage RNA counts have not improved in a year
I've been copying the Covid RNA-in-sewage measurements from the MWRA's website for a few years now, mostly so I could replot it on a log scale, but also to answer (vaguely, sort of, with caveats) questions about how we are doing.  The short answer is we are not doing any better than we were last year, and have been behind more or less since mid-December.

The Boston-area Covid sewage RNA counts have not improved in a year
I’ve been copying the Covid RNA-in-sewage measurements from the MWRA’s website for a few years now, mostly so I could replot it on a log scale, but also to answer (vaguely, sort of, wit…