Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 39
Aug 1, 2024
Maximum Possible Information in the universe?
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
I remember hearing about this in one of the programs in discovery science. The physicist claimed that the maximum possible information in the universe is $10^{10^{123}}$ whereas the maximum possible information that can be known by man is $10^{10^{90}}$. Can anyone explain to me how can we arrive at such a specific number, and also how can information be represented by only numbers?
Aug 1, 2024
Never-before-seen shapes up to 1,300 feet long discovered beneath Antarctic ice
Posted by Arthur Brown in category: futurism
The unusual patterns, found beneath West Antarctica’s Doston Ice Shelf, could help scientists to better understand how glaciers erode.
Aug 1, 2024
Solar storm adds third radiation belt around Earth
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Scientists discover a new temporary radiation belt around Earth during a rare solar storm in May 2024.
Aug 1, 2024
Scientists solve mystery of DNA damage detection and repair caused by sunlight, alcohol, and pollution
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
A collaboration between researchers at the Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London and the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, has solved a decades-old mystery which could pave the way to better cancer treatments in the future.
Aug 1, 2024
Japan Has Millions of Empty Houses. Want to Buy One for $25,000?
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
With a shrinking population and more than 10 million abandoned properties, the country is straining to match houses with curious buyers.
Jul 31, 2024
Midjourney releases V6.1 model, which is faster and “generally more beautiful”
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: futurism
More than six months after the last update, Midjourney has released a new image model — but it’s a smaller jump.
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Midjourney CEO David Holz announced version 6.1 of the company’s image model via Discord. This new version builds on V6, released in late December, and promises more coherent, detailed, and visually appealing results.
Jul 31, 2024
Qstr Talk by Yusuke Moriguchi: Color qualia similarity structures in children and adults
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
Comparing color qualia structures through a novel similarity task in young children versus adults https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/wdcu7Moriguchi, Y., Watana…
Jul 31, 2024
Paper page — Visual Riddles: a Commonsense and World Knowledge Challenge for Large Vision and Language Models
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in category: futurism
Visual riddles a commonsense and world knowledge challenge for large vision and language models.
Visual Riddles.
A commonsense and world knowledge challenge for large vision and language models.