MED Vol. 30, No. 116

Personal Explorations in Distributed Cognition with Foundation Models (medium) Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) First Quarter 2024 Results Conference Call (meta/pdf) Augment (Augment) Eric Schmitt’s GIT alternative VideoGigaGAN: Towards detail-rich video super-resolution (github) An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary (mit tech review) When Do We Stop Finding New Music? A Statistical Analysis (statssignificant) TL/DR 30 years old Related: new music from this year:  Lucy Rose - Life’s Too Short (Lyric Video) ,  Maggie Rogers - Don’t Forget Me (Official Video) FM Skyline : Images  ;  Blue Lab Beats How TikTok’s Chinese owner tightened its grip on the app (ft) The Meta-morphosis of Mark Zuckerberg (nyt)  Venessa Friedman breaks down the vibe shift Reid Hoffman meets his AI twin - Full (youtube) The effect of speed limits on accident frequency on the German Autobahn  (pdf)  TL/DR slowing to 75MPH saves lives Rule Requiring Automatic Refunds of Airline Tickets and Ancillary Service Fees (transportation gov) The Six Horsemen of the Digital Apocalyps (iccl.ie) De-DSI is a proof-of-principle of fully decentralised search engines. (hf)  Arxiv paper (pdf) TL/DR decentralized AI-powered search