Fruits hidden by green: an improved YOLOV8n for detection of young citrus in lush citrus trees

In order to address the challenges of inefficiency and insufficient accuracy in the manual identification of young citrus fruits during thinning processes, this study proposes a detection methodology using the you only look once for complex backgrounds of young citrus fruits (YCCB-YOLO) approach. The method first constructs a dataset containing

How generative AI will ruin science and academic research

Background: the epistemology of modern mass media I often come back to Neil Postman’s 1985 classic Amusing Ourselves to Death. It’s a penetrating analysis on the cognitive effects of media technology. His focus is mainly on how the format and mode of communication influences the character of content

Priming, predictive programming and Hollywood

Throughout history, images and stories have played a crucial role in obtaining long-term control or influence over societies and cultures.

The general public has now been firmly established as guinea pigs for Big Pharma

Using the example of three drugs among the many that are causing growing concern, Dr.

Psychological warfare is used to make us submissive to their agenda

Day by day, the accumulating evidence makes it harder to cling to the naive idea that the upheavals defining our times are simply natural coincidences.