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What Was Grammarly Thinking?

The Atlantic - Technology

A short-lived AI tool promised to help users write like the greats--and a bunch of other random people, including me. T o me, the best first sentence of any piece of journalism is the one in Joan Didion's 1987 book,, which begins like this: "Havana vanities come to dust in Miami." I love that sentence and that propulsive first chapter so much that I once sat down to try to figure out how she did it. I looked at the sentences one at a time to assess what purpose each one was serving, and I counted how many of them Didion had needed to accomplish each thing she wanted to accomplish. Then I thought about how she figured out what order to put them in to have maximum page-turning impact.


One-2-3-45: Any Single Image to 3D Mesh in 45 Seconds without Per-Shape Optimization

Neural Information Processing Systems

The problem is challenging as it requires not only the reconstruction of visible parts but also the hallucination of invisible regions. Consequently, this problem is often ill-posed and corresponds to multiple plausible solutions because of insufficient evidence from a single image.


Trump administration pressed to close Cuba embargo loophole with oil set to run out within days

FOX News

Republican lawmakers Carlos Gimenez, Mario Diaz-Balart and Maria Elvira Salazar demand Trump administration shut off commercial support for Cuba's Communist regime after oil blockade.



The 'discombobulator': Did US use 'secret weapon' in Maduro abduction?

Al Jazeera

Why is the US Fed chair criminal probe causing alarm? Venezuela's defence minister has accused the United States of using the country as a "weapons laboratory" during the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on January 3. Vladimir Padrino Lopez said last week that the US had used Venezuela as a testing ground for "advanced military technologies" that rely on artificial intelligence and weaponry never used before, according to the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal. On Sunday, US President Donald Trump told the New York Post that US forces had indeed used a weapon he referred to as "the discombobulator". "I'm not allowed to talk about it," he said, adding that the weapon "made equipment not work" during the operation. Details of the US military mission to abduct Maduro have not been made public, but the US has been known to use weapons to disorient soldiers and guards or disable equipment and infrastructure in the past.


Ukrainian drone strikes leave hundreds of thousands without power across Russian-controlled area

FOX News

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Noem names Charles Wall ICE deputy director following Sheahan resignation

FOX News

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced Charles Wall as ICE's new deputy director, replacing Madison Sheahan who stepped down to pursue a congressional run in Ohio.



Trump's tariffs could be undone by one conservative doctrine: 'Life or death'

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Women's sports on the line as Supreme Court wrestles with defining 'sex'

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