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A Microscopic Hunt

Apoorv Upreti

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Apoorv Upreti

7 Jan 2021 • 1 min read

A neutrophil (a type of white blood cell) hunts a bacterium:

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Soviet Nuclear Lighthouses

Interesting video from the BBC on autonomous lighthouses built by the Soviets that were powered by small nuclear batteries. I didn't know nuclear batteries were a thing. It seems like they basically convert heat released from radioactive material decay into electricity. From Wikipedia: An

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Apoorv Upreti 8 Jan 2021 • 1 min read

DALL-E

OpenAI's newest generative model DALL-E can generate images from descriptions of text. Like GPT-3, it's such a major improvement over anything we've had in the past that it's absolutely shocking. The most impressive example: when prompted to generate 'an illustration of a baby daikon

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Apoorv Upreti 6 Jan 2021 • 1 min read

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