Tavo @tavoglc@social.cleverlibre.org

Real-time Neural Radiance Talking Portrait Synthesis via Audio-spatial Decomposition
abs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12368
project page: https://me.kiui.moe/radnerf/

HyperTuning: Toward Adapting Large Language Models without Back-propagation
abs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12485

MagicPony: Learning Articulated 3D Animals in the Wild
abs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12497
project page: https://3dmagicpony.github.io/

People rightly criticize Qatar for its labor rights issues, sexual minority issues, role of religion in Qatar's society etc but convenient forget to reflect on their own countries. While the magnitude of the problem can be different the same issues plague most countries.

#EarthquakeReport #EarthquakeToot M6.1 #Deprem #Earthquake in #Turkey

@USGS_Quakes models suggest low chance for lots of triggered landslides and moderate chance for widespread induced liquefaction

Read more in report from 2020: earthjay.com/?p=9288

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000irp8/ground-failure/summary

[Curiosity]

In GNU/Linux in the console, the easiest way to copy and paste text is (as long as we are mouse advocates, of course) to select the text and then at the target location simply press the middle mouse button. And that's it.

#linux #console #protip

Doing a bit of an experiment. Boost if you agree!

Trans rights are human rights.

Black lives matter.

No human is illegal.

Love is love.

Her body is her choice.

Science is real.

Kindness is everything.

Frederick Garrison Hall, Irving Kent Hall and Mary Kent Hall, Ex Libris inscribed

#illustration https://artvee.com/dl/irving-kent-hall-and-mary-kent-hall-ex-libris-inscribed/

Evidence on #EndMT in human #MultipleSclerosis

Inflammation-induced endothelial to mesenchymal transition promotes brain endothelial cell dysfunction & occurs during multiple sclerosis pathophysiology

Dr. Helga de Vries lab Cell Death Dis 2019
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41419-018-1294-2

Giant #viruses are unusual due to their length and complexity relative to other viruses. This review describes their diversity and biology. Great starting place to learn about them!

@nature, #Biology, #Microbiology, #Symbiosis, #Evolution, #Phylogenetics https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00754-5

Remdesivir reduces COVID-19 mortality in a real-world setting

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an explosion of clinical research resulting in the development of a variety of vaccines and treatments, although the efficacy of some remains controversial. Now, researchers from Japan report that remdesivir, a drug whose effectiveness has been debated, appears to make a big difference in Japanese patients with COVID-19 who received corticosteroids in the ICU.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-11-remdesivir-covid-mortality-real-world.html

"A study has now linked APOE4 with faulty cholesterol processing in the brain, which in turn leads to defects in the insulating sheaths that surround nerve fibres and facilitate their electrical activity. Preliminary results hint that these changes could cause memory and learning deficits. And the work suggests that drugs that restore the brain’s cholesterol processing could treat the disease."

#alzheimer
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03724-2

Maddow has produced a [remarkable eight-part series](https://rachel-maddow-presents-ultra.simplecast.com/episodes) on the history of authoritarian insurrectionists in 1930s and 40s America. It is a story of Christian nationalism, antisemitism, the America First movement, anti-democratic media figures, politicians sympathetic to authoritarian regimes, calls to armed insurrection, and violence.

Any similarities to recent events are entirely deliberate.

#Antisemitism, #Authoritarianism, #ChristianNationalism, #Fascism, #History, #Podcast

What’s worse

(Please boost/share with potential PhD candidates)
Very excited to announce that I am looking for #PhD students to work with @ umich CSE. If you're interested in #causality + #machinelearning and would like to spend your PhD years NOT losing half your income on rent, I strongly encourage you to apply to our PhD program

Wish more people realised that for most art businesses, it's the artist alone doing all the work. Creating the pieces, shipping orders, administration, customer service, promotion, starting feuds with other artists, spitefully painting unflattering portraits of them into historical scenes, trying to poison them, it's all one person.

" Management of the SVD outbreak in Uganda in 2000 was complicated by the fact that the outbreak-response team did not understand the local health beliefs and missed an opportunity to align their risk communication with the population’s understanding of disease transmission.5 This hard-won lesson has led to the regular inclusion of anthropologists in response teams to aid in designing and implementing control measures."

#Virology #Epidemiology #Filovirus #NEJM

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2213975?query=featured_home

'Drug resistance is a known risk factor for poor tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes, but the contribution of other bacterial factors to poor outcomes in drug susceptible TB is less understood. Here, we generate a population-based dataset of drug-susceptible Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) isolates from China to identify factors associated with poor treatment outcomes.'

#Preprint #tuberculosis

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.20.517261v1?med=mas