Interesting Links for 22-10-2024

[andrewducker]

1. There's a growth in AI books narrated by AI.A librarian investigates.

(tags:ai writing librarian library )

2. What common items sold in airports after the security screening be used to build lethal weapons?

(tags:weaponry security_theatre airport viaSwampers )

3. A guide to a bit of how LLMs work that I hadn't understood before - Attention. The maths is beyond me, but the concepts are fascinating.

(tags:ai mathematics video )

4. Time: Yes, it's a dimension, but no, it's not like space (and how that insight leads to relativity)

(tags:space time relativity physics )

Comments

[anna_wing]

Changi airport in Singapore and KLIA in Malaysia have security screening at each boarding gate, which would presumably catch this sort of thing. It also makes screening much faster, and avoids having a single security chokepoint.

[andrewducker]

Means I could bring drinks to the airport too!