How much can artists make from generative AI? Vendors won’t say
As tech companies begin to monetize generative AI, the creators on whose work it is trained are asking for their fair share. But so far no one can agree on whether or how much artists should be paid. A recent open letter from the Authors Guild signed by more than
Read moreVenture capital is opening the gates for defense tech
Anduril is symbolic of a trend in which defense tech and venture capital dollars are no longer antithetic.
Read moreConsecutive coupon collector problem
Coupon collector problem Suppose you have a bag of balls labeled 1 through 1,000. You draw draw balls one at a time and put them back after each draw. How many draws would you have to make before you’ve seen every ball at least once? This is the coupon collector
Read moreHumane’s ‘AI Pin’ debuts on the Paris runway
You’d better believe that Humane is going to milk the media hype cycle for all it’s worth. After all, the company’s been buzzy since it first engaged with the media – well before it offered the slightest bit of insight into what it’s been working on. That’s courtesy of its
Read moreKick streamers consider leaving over CEO’s comments in a sex worker ‘prank’ stream
Streamers are leaving Kick en masse in protest of the platform’s lack of safety guidelines, after a prominent creator streamed an encounter with a sex worker without informing her that there were other people present. She was briefly prevented from leaving after she expressed discomfort, while Kick’s CEO posted laughing
Read moreThe Way I Got Into Artificial Life
A first act in how I got interested in the field of artificial lifeContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreMastering Flock Simulation with Boids, C++, OpenGL and ImGui
Learn how to simulate the flocking behavior observed in birds or fish through simple interaction rules to yield complex crowd dynamics. To this end, we’ll also explore the implementation of a trackball camera and the setup of Dear ImGui with OpenGL and GLFWPhoto by Barth Bailey on Unsplash1. Boids TheoryIntroductionCraig Reynolds’ “boid” concept,
Read moreHow to Fully Automate Your jOOQ File Generation
Fully Automate Your jOOQ File GenerationHow to use Gradle, Docker, and Flyway to automate jOOQ file generation without your actual databaseLogos of jOOQ, PostgreSQL, Docker, Java, and KotlinJava Object Oriented Querying, aka jOOQ, is a handy tool to write SQL queries for your application in a type-safe and convenient way via a
Read moreHow To Host Your Taipy App on Taipy Cloud
Preparing your files, creating your account, and uploading it all for hostingContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreThe co-founder of a collapsed crypto hedge fund was arrested in Singapore
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Su Zhu, the co-founder of the collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), was arrested in Singapore on Friday. Zhu was taken into custody while attempting to leave the country from Singapore’s Changi Airport, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Teneo, the liquidation
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