Archive: 2024-07

Introducing SAM 2: The next generation of Meta Segment Anything Model for videos and images — Expands Meta’s SAM model to video for effectively identifying which pixels belong to which objects. Open code, weights and dataset (2024-07-31 · ai, meta, mlp, opensource, video )

Saltwater Farming (Youtube) — How to use the two of the most abundant resources on the planet, saltwater and degraded farm land, to grow crops and ecosystems. (2024-07-27 · agriculture, andrew.millison, climate-hope, farming, mangroves, mlp, permaculture, video )

Pace of decarbonization in the US is accelerating — In 2023, US green house gas emissions were 18% lower than they were in 2005. In addition, US is on track to reduce its GHG emissions by 38-56% below 2005 levels in 2035, representing at least a doubling—and potentially as much as a four-times increase—from the pace of annual emissions abatement from 2005 to 2023. (2024-07-27 · climate, climate-hope, ghg, mlp, rhodium )

Earth’s Mysterious, Deep-Dwelling Microbes We’re Only Starting to Understand - The New York Times — "Like the many tiny organisms in the ocean and atmosphere, the unique microbes within Earth’s crust do not simply inhabit their surroundings; they transform them. Subsurface microbes carve vast caverns, concentrate minerals and precious metals and regulate the global cycling of carbon and nutrients." (2024-07-24 · biology, geology, mlp, nytimes, science )

Simon Willison on andrej-karpathy — I saw a quote flow through Simon's blog by an Andrej Karpathy that made a strong claim, but not knowing who Andrej is I couldn't evaluate it. Thankfully I can read over Simon's archives on Andrej (2024-07-24 · ai, andrej.karpathy, mlp, simon.willison )

Stamp Productions' Road to an Olympic Campaign - YouTube — Frame.io customer case study -- I love the work our production team does. (Especially enjoy the shout out from the customer using Frame to reduce their carbon footprint) (2024-07-23 · climate, dayjob, frameio, mlp, youtube )

Kamala Harris and Her Climate Positions - The New York Times — I remember her as one of the original sponsors of the Green New Deal. Good to see her get some credit for that. (2024-07-23 · climate, harris, mlp, nytimes, politics, uspol )

jiff: A date-time library for Rust — Temporal inspired. From the person who built ripgrep and Rust’s regex (2024-07-23 · burntsushi, calendaring, datetime, library, mlp, rust, temporal, timezone )

1-bit LLMs Could Solve AI’s Energy Demands - IEEE Spectrum — “researchers are finding ways to reduce their size by quantization - representing model parameters with only 1 or -1. The two main approaches are post-training quantization (PTQ) and quantization-aware training (QAT).” (2024-07-23 · ai, climate, energy, llm, mlp )

Does Science Fiction Shape the Future? - Nautilus — Spectacular group interview with many of my favorite science fiction writers. Jemisin, Bujold, Brin, Doctrow, Stross and Weir. (2024-07-18 · andy.weir, authors, books, bujold, charlie.stross, cory.doctrow, david.brin, future, mlp, nk.jemisin, scifi )

Quamina Diary - Tim Bray — This ongoing (no pun intended) series by Tim Bray on building Quamina, a finite automaton for pattern matching, is immensely satisfying, focusing as it does on the role of craft and design in software, factors rarely actually that important in the day to day of the work. (2024-07-15 · code, craft, golang, mlp, programming, tim.bray )

Q Numbers - Tim Bray · — Love this latest short entry in Tim's Quamina series - "describes how to match and compare numbers using a finite automaton, which involves transforming them into strings with the right lexical properties. My hope is that there are at least twelve people in the world who are interested in the intersection of numeric representation and finite automata" (2024-07-15 · code, craft, finite.automata, golang, mlp, pattern.matching, programming, tim.bray )

Interesting Volts interview of Kobold Metal CEO. — Company just had their first big find. Worth listening to this interview from last December. Addresses well the concern of whether we have another of the metals needed for the climate transition. Doesn't solve the other challenges related to mining of course. (2024-07-14 · climate, kobold, metal, mlp )

KoBold Metals identifies "largest copper deposit found in decade" in Zambia - The New York Times — First confirmed success for the company. (2024-07-14 · climate, kobold, mining, mlp, tech )

Pictures of people scanning QR codes on Tumblr — No posts as of February 2012. I scanned dozens of codes yesterday from previewing firework to ordering coffee. But there was a time, in the US, when QR codes were silly tech hype and this Tumblr was hilarious. (2024-07-08 · adoption, history, mlp, qrcodes, tech, tumblr )

TikTok users love to watch this guy's drawing robots screw up — As I started saving links again I was wondering in a desultory way what Joshua was up to these days, and the answer apparently is helping plotting robots go viral on Tik Tok. (Article is from 2022) (2024-07-08 · art, joshua.schachter, mlp, robots, tiktok )

Will We Ever Get Fusion Power? - by Brian Potter — Excellent in depth article on the history, science, funding and politics of fusion as we enter a new phase of expanded private funding in the search for a practical reactor. (2024-07-07 · climate, climate-hope, energy, fusion, longreads, mlp, power, science )

True Rate of Unemployment - LISEP Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity — “defined as the jobless, plus those seeking but unable to find a full-time job that pays above poverty wages (pegged at $25,000 a year in 2024 dollars) – stands at 24.6% for the month of May, a 0.4 percentage point increase over the April rate.” (2024-07-07 · economics, mlp, unemployment )

At 100, the Intergalactic Jazz Hero Marshall Allen Is Still on a Mission - The New York Times — We saw Marshall Allen and band play Opus 40 last week, and serious goals to be still performing experimental jazz, on a hot Summer stormy night in a semi-abandoned quarry at age 100. (2024-07-05 · jazz, marshall.allen, mlp, music, sun.ra )