I found this video embedded in this article “How I Stay Up to Date With the Latest AI Trends as a Full-Time Data Scientist” (No, I don’t just ask ChatGPT to tell me) The video is an amazing simulation of finder/seeker (what in French we call palying who is the Wolf…) Amazing things occurred, even… Read More »
This is a cool “App” written with Python Streamlit: upload a PDF and ask questions about it! It uses ChatGPT in the background. This “proof of concept” app has some “Community token” to access GPT. Or one can add a personal OpenAI API key. Web App: https://ask-my-pdf.streamlit.app Code: https://github.com/mobarski/ask-my-pdf Found on LinkedIn: streamlit_python-code-pdf (probably requires… Read More »
This YouTube channel: @SonhoscomDimensao is just amazing and full of examples! Perfect optical illusions that fool the eyes. There are many many more fun other ones to watch! The video below shows many in one movie.
This is the title of an article in “The New Yorker” with the same title: What a Sixty-Five-Year-Old Book Teaches Us About A.I. [Archived] By David Owen, February 25, 2023. I liked the image too: ChatGPT Summary The article is fun to read, with a reading time estimated at 12-15 minutes for this 2,191 words… Read More »
In 1982, there was a “not-from-Disney” animation that had fascinated me… “The Secret of NIMH.” Just discovering it root is bringing back memories. (Official Trailer.) In the 1971 book Ms. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, written by Robert C. O’Brien, the rodents strive to create their own utopia after escaping from a research facility.… Read More »
Chateaubriand Fellowship The Chateaubriand Fellowship allows PhD students registered in an American university the opportunity to spend 4–9 months in France. The fellowship aims to initiate or reinforce collaborations or join projects between French and American research teams. US citizenship is not required (see eligibility and guidelines.) Summary French Government funded Chateaubriand STEM Fellowship available… Read More »
Engineer/Comedian Don McMillan has a YouTube Channel with a lot of fun videos, many of them making fun of how data, science, statistics, physics, etc. is misused by people or bad journalism. Here is one example with statistics: Embedded jokes with “supporting” journal pages: Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 25… Read More »
A new spin-off company from the University of Wisconsin-Madison proposes a new interface for data analysis based on Guided English Language© (GEL) to command Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning methods via “utterances” i.e. English-like phrases easier to write than code whether R, python, SQL, or other traditional tools. The web site is at datachat.ai The… Read More »
Moving atoms For some reason a paper copy of “Chemical and Engineering News” (November 11, 2019 – Vol 97 Issue 44) ended up in my hands, and I almost missed this fun section named: “30 years of moving atoms: How scanning probe microscopes revolutionized nanoscience” (link.) The article is progressing over time from 1993 til… Read More »
Recently I was testing a Docker image to run a container for Next Gen sequencing, a way to test an existing “pipeline” on the first published study of the effect of the Zika virus. (https://hub.docker.com/r/maayanlab/zika/) Running a docker container may provide some ease in reproducibility, but sometimes there are also hardware barrier that need to… Read More »