July 16, 2023
July 16, 2023
https://twitter.com/maximilianhils/status/1680193548212228097
This is NSA retaliation for the FBI
https://twitter.com/sandbagger_01/status/1680502620811558912
This drone dogfighting is quite interesting. I’ve also been thinking about parallels with early dogfighting. In both wars the best place to attack from was above.
Part of the reason for this in WW1 was that the planes were so bad the potential energy from just being above your target was a huge advantage. The ideal attack was from above and behind. Essentially sneaking up on the target and attacking them before they know what’s happening. The same tactics used in Ukraine, where the attacker is above where the target’s camera cannot see.
PIGEON: Predicting Image Geolocations
[2307.05845] PIGEON: Predicting Image Geolocations
We introduce PIGEON, a multi-task end-to-end system for planet-scale image geolocalization that achieves state-of-the-art performance on both external benchmarks and in human evaluation. Our work incorporates semantic geocell creation with label smoothing, conducts pretraining of a vision transformer on images with geographic information, and refines location predictions with ProtoNets across a candidate set of geocells. The contributions of PIGEON are three-fold: first, we design a semantic geocells creation and splitting algorithm based on open-source data which can be adapted to any geospatial dataset. Second, we show the effectiveness of intra-geocell refinement and the applicability of unsupervised clustering and ProtNets to the task. Finally, we make our pre-trained CLIP transformer model, StreetCLIP, publicly available for use in adjacent domains with applications to fighting climate change and urban and rural scene understanding.
https://twitter.com/fortullos/status/1625850162621865984
https://twitter.com/kimzetter/status/1680290502275649537
https://twitter.com/buritica/status/1680236304884195331
An FSB officer arrested in Estonia for sanction busting. He was importing American goods and then smuggling them into Russia.
This seems like such a missed opportunity. He was captured with half a ton of ammunition destined for Russian snipers. Why was this captured, but not tampered with and sent onwards? Loading bullets so they’re hot and explode, or duds and don’t fire, or the powder load is different in every single one so they have different ballistics, or they’re under loaded so the bullet becomes a barrel obstruction, or… I mean, wtf! This is counterintelligence 101!
https://twitter.com/sandbagger_01/status/1679931495358578691
https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status/1680226678176399362
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1680445035316412416
https://twitter.com/russia_nc/status/1680511113232805890