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That was close! Huge asteroid comes within 300 miles of hitting Earth - and NASA only noticed AFTER the close encounter
Ominous warning for humanity as birds suddenly adopt'unsettling' behavior Meghan is accused of'giggling as model stumbles on the catwalk': More Paris Fashion Week disasters emerge, including awkward moment with Kristin Scott Thomas More girls are starting their periods younger than ever before - scientists think they've finally found what's causing it The TRUTH to the doting mother who slaughtered her children and husband told by those she'd been quietly tormenting for years Insiders confirm what everyone suspects about Taylor Swift and Blake Lively... the private apology... and how any future friendship hangs on one humiliating condition Outrage as Baltimore's Dem mayor spends $164k of taxpayer cash on ultra-luxurious new SUV I have no sympathy for them - but this disturbing new trend isn't the answer: JANA HOCKING Taylor Swift reveals truth behind raunchy song about Travis Kelce's manhood Trump stuns CNN reporter as he muses about Ghislaine Maxwell pardon: 'I haven't heard that name in so long' Revealed: Which slimming jab REALLY works best. The doctors' ultimate expert guide on which to pick, how to save money, beat every side effect... and what you need to know about the'golden dose' Functioning alcoholics hide in plain sight... so are YOU one? Trump brands NFL's Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show selection'absolutely ridiculous' The troubled background of delivery man stabbed by Mark Sanchez... as he launches million-dollar lawsuit and sparks civil war at Fox A huge asteroid came within 300 miles of hitting Earth, and scientists only noticed after it had already skimmed past the planet. The 9.8-foot (three metre) space rock, dubbed 2025 TF, flew over Antarctica in the early hours of October 1. Passing at an altitude of just 265 miles (428 kilometres), the rock came closer to the Earth's surface than the orbit of the International Space Station . However, space agencies only realised the near-miss had occurred when the asteroid was detected by the Catalina Sky Survey a few hours later.
People who don't like animals are more likely to have dark personality traits, study finds
Ominous warning for humanity as birds suddenly adopt'unsettling' behavior Meghan is accused of'giggling as model stumbles on the catwalk': More Paris Fashion Week disasters emerge, including awkward moment with Kristin Scott Thomas More girls are starting their periods younger than ever before - scientists think they've finally found what's causing it The TRUTH to the doting mother who slaughtered her children and husband told by those she'd been quietly tormenting for years Insiders confirm what everyone suspects about Taylor Swift and Blake Lively... the private apology... and how any future friendship hangs on one humiliating condition Outrage as Baltimore's Dem mayor spends $164k of taxpayer cash on ultra-luxurious new SUV I have no sympathy for them - but this disturbing new trend isn't the answer: JANA HOCKING Taylor Swift reveals truth behind raunchy song about Travis Kelce's manhood Trump stuns CNN reporter as he muses about Ghislaine Maxwell pardon: 'I haven't heard that name in so long' Revealed: Which slimming jab REALLY works best. The doctors' ultimate expert guide on which to pick, how to save money, beat every side effect... and what you need to know about the'golden dose' Functioning alcoholics hide in plain sight... so are YOU one? Trump brands NFL's Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show selection'absolutely ridiculous' The troubled background of delivery man stabbed by Mark Sanchez... as he launches million-dollar lawsuit and sparks civil war at Fox People who don't like animals are more likely to have dark personality traits, study finds On-screen psychopaths such as Patrick Bateman in'American Psycho' and Villanelle in ' Killing Eve ' are often depicted hurting animals. Now, a study suggests this character flaw is not just the stuff of fiction. Scientists in Serbia have found a link between psychopathy and the belief that animals aren't as worthy as humans.
MrBeast says AI advance is scary for YouTube creators
MrBeast: AI means it's'scary times' for YouTube creators The world's biggest YouTuber, MrBeast, says the rapid advance of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is scary for the millions of creators currently making content for a living. AI tools that can create fully-formed videos from simple text prompts by users have made rapid advances in recent years. On social media, MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, asked what would happen to people like him when AI videos are just as good as normal videos. Fears about the impact AI will have on the jobs market are widespread - but particularly acute in the creative industries. In the film and video game industries, there has been extensive industrial action over the use of AI.
The Future of AI Filmmaking Is a Parody of the Apocalypse, Made by a Guy Named Josh
The filmmaker could not get Tiggy the alien to cooperate. He just needed the glistening brown creature to turn its head. But Tiggy, who was sitting in the passenger's seat of a cop car, kept disobeying. At first Tiggy rotated his gaze only slightly. Then he looked to the wrong side of the camera. Then his skin turned splotchy, like an overripe fruit. The filmmaker was not on a movie set, or Mars. He was sitting at his home computer in Los Angeles using a piece of AI software called FLUX Kontext to generate and regenerate images of the alien, waiting for a workable one to appear. He'd used a different AI tool, Midjourney, to generate the very first image of Tiggy (prompt: "fat blob alien with a tiny mouth and tiny lips"); one called ElevenLabs to create the timbre of Tiggy's voice (the filmmaker's voice overlaid with a synthetic one, then pitch-shifted way up); and yet another called Runway to describe the precise shot he wanted in this scene ("close up on the little alien as they ride in the passenger seat, shallow depth of field").
Artificial Armageddon? AI can now be used to design brand-new VIRUSES - sparking fears it could come up with a catastrophic bioweapon
Clash of the White House titans: Two of Trump's most powerful lieutenants go to WAR with each other - after vicious leak sent shockwaves The troubled background of delivery man stabbed by Mark Sanchez... as he launches million-dollar lawsuit and sparks civil war at Fox Ominous warning for humanity as birds suddenly adopt'unsettling' behavior The TRUTH to the doting mother who slaughtered her children and husband told by those she'd been quietly tormenting for years Brazilian fashion influencer Junior Dutra dies at age 31 after alleged'fox eyes' procedure complications I've seen AI try to ESCAPE labs. The apocalypse is already here... and our children will be the first victims Trump brands NFL's Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show selection'absolutely ridiculous' Investigators reveal there is'no evidence' of arson after horror blaze destroyed South Carolina judge's beachfront home Functioning alcoholics hide in plain sight... so are YOU one? It sounds like the start of a sci-fi film, but scientists have shown that AI can design brand-new infectious viruses the first time. Experts at Stanford University in California used'Evo' - an AI tool that creates genomes from scratch. Amazingly, the tool was able to create viruses that are able to infect and kill specific bacteria.
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Robin Williams' daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: 'stop doing this to him'
Zelda has asked people to stop sending her AI videos of her father, who died in 2014 at the age of 63. Zelda has asked people to stop sending her AI videos of her father, who died in 2014 at the age of 63. Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: 'You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings' Zelda Williams, the daughter of the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, has spoken out against AI-generated content featuring her father. "Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad," Zelda wrote in an Instagram story on Monday . "Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, I'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough', just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening.
Exact and Approximate MCMC for Doubly-intractable Probabilistic Graphical Models Leveraging the Underlying Independence Model
Chen, Yujie, Chakraborty, Antik, Bhadra, Anindya
Bayesian inference for doubly-intractable probabilistic graphical models typically involves variations of the exchange algorithm or approximate Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) samplers. However, existing methods for both classes of algorithms require either perfect samplers or sequential samplers for complex models, which are often either not available, or suffer from poor mixing, especially in high dimensions. We develop a method that does not require perfect or sequential sampling, and can be applied to both classes of methods: exact and approximate MCMC. The key to our approach is to utilize the tractable independence model underlying an intractable probabilistic graphical model for the purpose of constructing a finite sample unbiased Monte Carlo (and not MCMC) estimate of the Metropolis--Hastings ratio. This innovation turns out to be crucial for scalability in high dimensions. The method is demonstrated on the Ising model. Gradient-based alternatives to construct a proposal, such as Langevin and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo approaches, also arise as a natural corollary to our general procedure, and are demonstrated as well.