December 3, 2023

Hackaday: Mozilla Lets Folks Turn AI LLMs Into Single-File Executables

Hackaday: Mozilla Lets Folks Turn AI LLMs Into Single-File Executables. “LLMs (Large Language Models) for local use are usually distributed as a set of weights in a multi-gigabyte file. These cannot be directly used on their own, which generally makes them harder to distribute and run compared to other software…. To help with that, Mozilla’s innovation group have released llamafile, an open source method of turning a set of weights into a single binary that runs on six different OSes (macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD) without needing to be installed.”

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December 2, 2023

CIDRAP: CDC revamps wastewater COVID data reporting

CIDRAP: CDC revamps wastewater COVID data reporting. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently unveiled new wastewater data tracking dashboard to make it easier to track local and national trends, even by variant. Wastewater tracking is one of the early indicators health officials use to gauge the activity of SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses.”

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December 2, 2023

Vice: The Palestinian Internet of the 90s Is Being Preserved, One GIF at a Time

Vice: The Palestinian Internet of the 90s Is Being Preserved, One GIF at a Time. “To many Palestinians, Israel’s ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip is destroying not just buildings and human lives, but a people and their history. With Israeli strikes expected to continue after a brief pause this week, one artist is trying to preserve that history with a digital archive that gathers remnants of the Palestinian internet as it existed in the late 90s and 2000s.”

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December 2, 2023

University of Massachusetts Amherst: UMass Amherst Libraries Announce Jerry Russo Oral History Collection

University of Massachusetts Amherst: UMass Amherst Libraries Announce Jerry Russo Oral History Collection. “In March of 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, filmmaker and photographer Jerry Russo began working on an oral history project to interview visual artists and creatives all over the world. During the subsequent two years, he completed 249 interviews via Zoom. Russo donated the oral histories to the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center (SCUA), for which social change and the arts are major collecting focuses; more than 100 of the interviews are now available in SCUA’s digital repository, Credo.”

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December 2, 2023

University of Chicago: Jessica Stockholder Digital Archive Available on LUNA

University of Chicago: Jessica Stockholder Digital Archive Available on LUNA. “The Visual Resources Center (VRC) is excited to announce the digital archive of Jessica Stockholder, now available to the UChicago community and beyond on the VRC’s digital collections platform, LUNA. The Jessica Stockholder Archive is the first LUNA collection dedicated to a near-comprehensive overview of the work of a single artist.”

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December 1, 2023

NASA: Google’s ‘A Passage of Water’ Brings NASA’s Water Data to Life

NASA: Google’s ‘A Passage of Water’ Brings NASA’s Water Data to Life. “As part of the long-standing partnership between NASA and Google, NASA worked with Google Arts & Culture and artist Yiyun Kang to create an interactive digital experience around global freshwater resources titled ‘A Passage of Water.’ This immersive experience leverages data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites and new high-resolution data from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission to illustrate how climate change is impacting Earth’s water cycle.”

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December 1, 2023

San Diego Reader: Jim MacDonald’s cellphone captures over 2,000 local performances

New-to-me, from San Diego Reader: Jim MacDonald’s cellphone captures over 2,000 local performances. “Just a Fan Recording Local Music is the name of Jim MacDonald’s YouTube channel; it boasts over 2000 cell phone videos of live performances by local artists, 586 subscribers, and around 191,000 views. MacDonald resides in Ocean Beach, and in 2019, he started walking over to the Farmers Market bandstage on Wednesdays to check out performers like Yvonne Brown of the Kings.”

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December 1, 2023

CODART: More than 70 Summaries of Museums and Institutions with Dutch and Flemish Collections in the Netherlands Published

CODART: More than 70 Summaries of Museums and Institutions with Dutch and Flemish Collections in the Netherlands Published. “As part of CODART’s 25th anniversary year, the summary texts of museum collections with Dutch and Flemish art on this website are being greatly expanded in two installments. In March we announced the addition of more than 40 summaries of Belgian collections, and now we announce the addition of around 70 new summary texts of public collections in the Netherlands with significant holdings of art from the Low Countries. The texts were written exclusively for the CODART website by, or in collaboration with, curators of the collection in question.”

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December 1, 2023

The Guardian: Archaeologists reveal life stories of hundreds of people from medieval Cambridge

The Guardian: Archaeologists reveal life stories of hundreds of people from medieval Cambridge. “Archaeologists at Cambridge University have reconstructed the ‘biographies’ of hundreds of the city’s ordinary medieval residents by examining their skeletons in detail, using a wealth of scientific data to fill out the life stories of poor or disadvantaged people whose names were never recorded.”

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November 30, 2023

Wolfram Blog: Don’t Be Discreet and Learn Discrete Mathematics with Wolfram Language

Wolfram Blog: Don’t Be Discreet and Learn Discrete Mathematics with Wolfram Language. “I am glad to announce the launch of Introduction to Discrete Mathematics, a free interactive course that aims to explore the world of integers and information. This course investigates the mathematical foundations of computation and information theory. It is designed to be compact and efficient, minimizing the number of redundant examples and amount of potentially distracting background material.”

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November 30, 2023

Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary (National Security Archive)

National Security Archive: Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary. “This special posting also centralizes links to dozens of previously published collections of documents related to Kissinger’s tenure in government that the Archive, led by the intrepid efforts of William Burr, has identified, pursued, obtained and catalogued over several decades. Together, these collections constitute an accessible, major repository of records on one of the most consequential U.S. foreign policy makers of the 20th century.”

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November 29, 2023

University of California Santa Cruz: New eDNA Explorer provides a powerful new resource for conservation

University of California Santa Cruz: New eDNA Explorer provides a powerful new resource for conservation. “CALeDNA, a UC-wide consortium project to document California’s biodiversity, has launched a prototype of their new eDNA Explorer. This open-source tool provides a powerful and easily accessible platform for sharing, exploring, and analyzing data from projects that use environmental DNA.”

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November 29, 2023

Kenya News Agency: Govt Launches Treaty Database

Kenya News Agency: Govt Launches Treaty Database. “The Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the African Union (AU), and the government of Sweden, launched a project dubbed ‘Accelerating the Ratification and Domestication of African Union Treaties.’ This will establish and maintain a public website of treaties and international instruments to which Kenya is a party to.”

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November 28, 2023

The Maryland Motherlode: Births, Marriages, Deaths, and Naturalizations (Reclaim the Records)

Reclaim the Records: The Maryland Motherlode: Births, Marriages, Deaths, and Naturalizations. “MORE THAN FIVE MILLION RECORDS FROM THE STATE OF MARYLAND ARE NOW ONLINE. These records include both the name/date indices as well as full vital records certificates, covering more than a century of Maryland history. They are now freely viewable in the ‘Maryland State Archives’ collection, at the Internet Archive.”

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