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Three Years Of Clothing Tracking

Olof Hoverfält tracked every piece of clothing that he wore for three years. The resulting analysis, data and charts published on Reaktor is a fascinating read. Olof analyses his clothing on cost per wear, performance and sustainability. His advice after three years is buy and wear what you need and love, and don't waste time on second tier clothing.

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Deepfake Detection Wins BTYSTE

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Seventeen year old Greg Tarr from Bandon Grammer School in Cork won the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition (BTYSTE) for creating a more efficient deep fake detector. Check out his video explaining the efficiencies he achieved here.

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DALL-E Text To Image Generator

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OpenAI showcased DALL-E, a 12 billion parameter rsion of GPT-3 that can generate both real life and unreal images from a line of text!

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2020s Technology

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Eli Dourado published an interesting technology prediction blog post looking at what the 2020s could bring to us in terms of technology advancements.

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10 Remarkable Discoveries of 2020

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Nature published a list of 10 remarkable discoveries of 2020 which include the violation of matter-antimatter symmetry, the connection between the shifting jetstream and the ozone layer, and the DNA based discovery of incest between the people buried in Newgrange.

History

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Indistinguishability Obfuscation

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Indistinguishability Obfuscation (iO) is a crytographic protocol which was thought to be impossible until Aayush Jain and his advisor Amit Sahai from UCLA, together with Huijia Lin from the University of Washington, published a paper acheived IO using standard security assumptions. The purpose of iO, as I understand it, is to allow two pieces of the same data to be encrypted with all but one element being different, e.g. a key, and it would be impossible to determine the difference by comparing the two encrypted results.

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Semantic Scholar

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Semantic Scholar is an academic search engine that uses AI to generate TL;DR; summaries of papers.

AI & ML

Data Vis

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Iron As Renewable Fuel

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Working with researchers from TU Eindhoven, the Swinkels Family Brewers in The Netherlands are the first to employ at scale the burning of Iron as a renewable fuel. Finely ground iron powder burns cleanly at high temperatures and produces iron oxide (rust) as its only emission. Best of all, this rust can be reenrgised back in to iron powder using electricity, for use as a combustable source of energy again!

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Virgin Hyperloop Passenger Test

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Virgin Hyperloop conducted its first test with passengers. Virgin Hyperloop co-founder Josh Giegel and Director of Passenger Experience Sara Luchian were the first to travel on the 500 meter long test track at 387kmph.

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Ear Wax Cortisol Detection

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A team of researches led by Dr. Andres Herane-Vives in University College London have developed a cheap and effective way to measure chronic cortisol levels using ear wax. The historical presence of cortisol in ear wax can be used to monitor depression and possible other conditions like COVID-19 antibodies.

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