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This Tuesday (10/25/22) - Topics sensationalized!:
The Armadillo, naughty version - Larry's COVID crunch & Motionless Turbine presentation - Ari Goodland's presentation: Stable Diffusion Artificial Intelligence Imaging/Animation.Everyone is now an Artist! - Mike Pore's presentation, Consciousness - The futurist equation - Readily available chemical may to limit COVID-19 - Questioning colonoscopy screening - Omega-3 Fatty Acids Sharpen Thinking Skills - Virginia to drink Treated Wastewater - High energy density batteries - Megawatt-Scale Wave Energy Generator - Turn Desert Sand Into Fertile Soil In Just Seven Hours - Cancer Breakthrough, Clever Synthesis of Rare Cancer-Fighting Compound - Ending Polio Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Our Brains Use Quantum Computation - Butterfly Mutants Reveal Secrets of Ancient “Junk” DNA - Bears Are Not Carnivores - Honeybees order numbers from left to right - Insects contribute to atmospheric electricity - Methane-Eating “Borgs” Assimilating Earth’s Microbes - Antarctica’s Ice Shelves Melting Even Faster - Low Water Levels, Backups on the Mississippi River - 439-Million-Year-Old Fossil Teeth - 'Legally Dead' Humans and 100 Pets Waiting To Be Revived - Prototype Orbital Solar Farm To Orbit By December - Archeological Find Brakes History - Flung A NASA Satellite Into The Sky - Strange Asteroid behaviour - 12-Year Time-Lapse Of Night Sky - Gravity, how fast? - Proton Structure Anomaly - A bunch of links; everything you need to know about Stable Diffusion to get you started!
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Today's links:
True Facts About The Armadillo - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=110iUX1Ursk
Larry's Covid info
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-bFOCPH1Amo3JXKgHy97MtWJrN3nhl4v/view?usp=sharing
Larry's review: On the subject of Motionless Turbines
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1353A6TiwspOvkdvQz_bsmojmhq96B0Bo/view?usp=sharing
STN member Ari Goodland presentation "This changes Everything", advances in visual media via AI.
STN member Mike Pore presents a response to
Researcher offers new explanation for consciousness
9 minutes - The futurist equation: 2122
https://bigthink.com/progress/plan-for-progress-peter-schwartz/
Study shows inexpensive, readily available chemical may limit impact of COVID-19
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-inexpensive-readily-chemical-limit-impact.html
A study questioning colonoscopy screening’s benefits has big caveats
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/colonoscopy-screening-effectiveness-study-limitations
Eating Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Midlife May Sharpen Thinking Skills and Improve Brain Structure
Virginia Uses Treated Wastewater to Shore Up a Drinking Water Aquifer - The New York Times
9 minutes - The future of high energy density batteries | Hard Reset - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMP0x0DpxSY
This Huge, Megawatt-Scale Wave Energy Generator Is About To Be Tested In Scotland - Wonderful Engineering
This Startup Can Turn Desert Sand Into Fertile Soil In Just Seven Hours - Wonderful Engineering
Stanford Researchers Make a Cancer Breakthrough – Clever Synthesis of Rare Cancer-Fighting Compound
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Has Just Committed $1.2 Billion To Ending Polio - Wonderful Engineering
Shocking Experiment Indicates Our Brains Use Quantum Computation
https://scitechdaily.com/shocking-experiment-indicates-our-brains-use-quantum-computation/
Gene-Edited Butterfly Mutants Reveal Secrets of Ancient “Junk” DNA
https://scitechdaily.com/gene-edited-butterfly-mutants-reveal-secrets-of-ancient-junk-dna/
New Evidence Indicates That Bears Are Not Carnivores
https://scitechdaily.com/new-evidence-indicates-that-bears-are-not-carnivores/
Honeybees order numbers from left to right, a study claims
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/honeybee-mental-number-line-order-left-right
Insects contribute to atmospheric electricity
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-insects-contribute-atmospheric-electricity.html
Not Science Fiction: Methane-Eating “Borgs” Have Been Assimilating Earth’s Microbes
Antarctica’s Ice Shelves Could Be Melting Even Faster Than We Thought
https://scitechdaily.com/antarcticas-ice-shelves-could-be-melting-even-faster-than-we-thought/
Low Water Levels Are Causing Barge Backups on the Mississippi River
https://scitechdaily.com/low-water-levels-are-causing-barge-backups-on-the-mississippi-river/
439-Million-Year-Old Fossil Teeth Overturn Long-Held Views About Evolution
https://scitechdaily.com/439-million-year-old-fossil-teeth-overturn-long-held-views-about-evolution/
This Facility In The U.S Has 199 'Legally Dead' Humans And 100 Pets Waiting To Be Revived - Wonderful Engineering
This Company Is Sending A Prototype Orbital Solar Farm To Orbit By December - Wonderful Engineering
17 mins - The Archeological Find That Broke History - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZnW-E70wq8
SpinLaunch Has Just Flung A NASA Satellite Into The Sky For The Very First Time
12 mins - NASA Asteroid Mission Results Shocked Everyone at NASA, Currently No Explanation - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQiDJr3Mwjc
This 12-Year Time-Lapse Of The Entire Night Sky Is Absolutely Mesmerizing - Wonderful Engineering
https://wonderfulengineering.com/12-year-time-lapse-of-the-entire-night-sky/
How fast is gravity, exactly? - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/speed-of-gravity/
Physicists Baffled by Proton Structure Anomaly
https://scitechdaily.com/physicists-baffled-by-proton-structure-anomaly/
DreamStudio - Use Stable Diffusion on the cloud with just your browser. Free, unless you go hog wild; and it you do, it's inexpensive.
Completely addictive!
https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/dream
The following links are a selection of stable diffusion links consisting of animations, Commentary on the implications of stable diffusion and technical information for those interested in taking it further.
Stephen messing around with Stable Diffusion
4 mins Moonlight Sonata - Stable Diffusion Animation (Dynamic Prompting) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NfEC6wWhqI
Stable Diffusion Animation - Big Rock Candy Mountain - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t97H959H58
1 min - Animation - Stable Diffusion Animation Test (A SUCCESS!) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKeYcXGQ5fc
3 mins - Animation - Stable Diffusion Animation - Fauna of the Latent Space Part 3 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ6dV_YFN_I
3 mins - Animation - Stable Diffusion Animation - Fauna of the Latent Space Part1 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjr3dGXof_I
4 mins - Animation no sound -Stable Diffusion Animation Codex Supercut Negative Zoom Test Zoom - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u9B_KIuHhE
2 mins - Animation - Deforum Stable Diffusion Animation - v5 Math Functions - Demo and Test - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6snk7gw898g
3 mins -. Animation - Stable Diffusion Animation - Episode Supercut (Canja Mix) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qezbEIveE14
3 mins - Animation - Stable Diffusion Animation - Episode Supercut (Track by Canja Audio Culture) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83ty5mrRlTk
2 mins - no sound - Animation Stable Diffusion Animation - Codex Supercut (150f episodes/25fepisodes) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c4kIoXlVQ0
2 mins - Dragon Apoco - Stable Diffusion 2d Animation 4K Music Video - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyYMxuyh8Ww
4 mins - Install Stable Diffusion Locally (In 3 minutes!!) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MeJKnbv1ts
54 mins - STN member Michael Kruger contribution - Stable Diffusion - What, Why, How? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltLNYA3lWAQ
14 mins - The AI that creates any picture you want, explained - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVcsDDABEkM
17 mins - Bonus video: What AI art means for human artists - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBfrZ-N3G4
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Stephen Goodfellow