MIT News: Where the sidewalk ends
MIT News: Where the sidewalk ends. “Most cities don’t map their own pedestrian networks. Now, researchers have built the first open-source tool to let planners do just that.”
Visual Studio Magazine: Microsoft Open Sources Tool for GPT-4-Infused Apps
Visual Studio Magazine: Microsoft Open Sources Tool for GPT-4-Infused Apps. “Microsoft has open sourced an internal incubation project that can help developers integrate cutting-edge AI models quickly and easily into their apps.”
TechCrunch: Google introduces Open Health Stack for developers
TechCrunch: Google introduces Open Health Stack for developers. “Google announced a new open source program called Open Health Stack for developers to build health-related apps. These tools, unveiled at the company’s ‘The Check Up’ special event this week, include a Software Developer Kit (SDK) for Android and design guidelines for health apps.”
WIRED: Get Ready to Meet the ChatGPT Clones
WIRED: Get Ready to Meet the ChatGPT Clones. “CHATGPT might well be the most famous, and potentially valuable, algorithm of the moment, but the artificial intelligence techniques used by OpenAI to provide its smarts are neither unique nor secret. Competing projects and open-source clones may soon make ChatGPT-style bots available for anyone to copy and reuse.”
The Verge: Musk said Twitter would open source its algorithm – then fired the people who could
The Verge: Musk said Twitter would open source its algorithm – then fired the people who could. “Musk has been claiming he wanted to open source Twitter’s algorithm even before he took over the social network and again when he announced his intention to acquire it in April 2022. Here we are, and nothing’s changed.” I have made the decision not to index any of the articles about EM announcing what he says will happen. Instead, I’m indexing the followup articles (when there are any).
Engadget: Blender can now use AI to create images and effects from text descriptions
Engadget: Blender can now use AI to create images and effects from text descriptions. “Stability AI has introduced a Stability for Blender tool that, as the name implies, brings Stable Diffusion’s image creation tech to the open-source 3D tool. You can create AI-based textures, effects and animations, whether using source material from your renders or nothing more than a text description.”
University of Michigan: Using the power of artificial intelligence, new open-source tool simplifies animal behavior analysis
University of Michigan: Using the power of artificial intelligence, new open-source tool simplifies animal behavior analysis. “A team from the University of Michigan has developed a new software tool to help researchers across the life sciences more efficiently analyze animal behaviors. The open-source software, LabGym, capitalizes on artificial intelligence to identify, categorize and count defined behaviors across various animal model systems.”
How-To Geek: LibreOffice, the Free Office Suite, Has a Fresh New Look
How-To Geek: LibreOffice, the Free Office Suite, Has a Fresh New Look. “LibreOffice is a popular open-source office suite, with applications that can serve as replacements for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Now there’s a new update with design changes and a few new features.”
Scientific Data: Caravan – A global community dataset for large-sample hydrology
Scientific Data: Caravan – A global community dataset for large-sample hydrology . “This paper introduces a dataset called Caravan (a series of CAMELS [Catchment Attributes and Meteorology for Large-sample Studies]) that standardizes and aggregates seven existing large-sample hydrology datasets. Caravan includes meteorological forcing data, streamflow data, and static catchment attributes (e.g., geophysical, sociological, climatological) for 6830 catchments. Most importantly, Caravan is both a dataset and open-source software that allows members of the hydrology community to extend the dataset to new locations by extracting forcing data and catchment attributes in the cloud.”
BusinessWire: Encord Launches Open Source Active Learning Toolkit to Speed Up Real-World Applications of Computer Vision (PRESS RELEASE)
BusinessWire: Encord Launches Open Source Active Learning Toolkit to Speed Up Real-World Applications of Computer Vision (PRESS RELEASE). “Encord, the platform for data-centric computer vision, has released Encord Active, a free open source industry agnostic toolkit that enables machine learning (ML) engineers and data scientists to understand and improve their training data quality and help boost model performance.”
Bleeping Computer: Hackers push malware via Google search ads for VLC, 7-Zip, CCleaner
Bleeping Computer: Hackers push malware via Google search ads for VLC, 7-Zip, CCleaner. “Hackers are setting up fake websites for popular free and open-source software to promote malicious downloads through advertisements in Google search results. At least one prominent user on the cryptocurrency scene has fallen victim to the campaign, claiming it allowed hacker hackers steal all their digital crypto assets along with control over their professional and personal accounts.”
Western University: Western researchers develop new open-source app for precise brain mapping
Western University: Western researchers develop new open-source app for precise brain mapping. “The hippocampus is a small, complex, folded brain structure that holds clues to several brain disorders. It is also one of the most difficult-to-map regions of the brain. After developing a successful technique to digitally unfold the hippocampus, researchers at the Western Institute for Neuroscience have now built a new app using artificial intelligence (AI) to precisely map the structure. As part of a team led by Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor Ali Khan, former PhD student Jordan DeKraker has developed an open-source app, HippUnfold, which uses state-of-the-art AI to digitally unfold the hard-to-reach areas of the hippocampus.”
Towards Polymer Informatics: Open-source Library for Creating Polymer Property Databases (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Tokyo Institute of Technology: Towards Polymer Informatics: Open-source Library for Creating Polymer Property Databases. “This software automates the simulation and calculation of several relevant properties for a given list of polymers. In turn, this greatly accelerates the generation of large amounts of data to be used in the search for new compounds via materials informatics.”