Links for 2021-09-13
A New System for Cooling Down Computers Could Revolutionize the Pace of Innovation: A Swiss team has created tiny, fluid-filled channels in microchips to spirit away heat and save energy https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/researchers-craft-revolutionary-invention-cool-computers-180975807/
This Neural Network Creates 3D Scenes From 2D Images https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/differentiable-multi-view/
"Hands-free" smart farm will replace laborers with robots https://www.freethink.com/technology/smart-farm
Tech giants are rushing to develop their own chips — here’s why https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/06/why-tesla-apple-google-and-facebook-are-designing-their-own-chips.html
"Because of neural scaling laws, nearly everyone in ML is working on machine learning efficiency at this point, but no one is measuring success that way!!" http://mitchgordon.me/ml/2021/08/31/sota.html
What if the obesity epidemic (which has accelerated) is entirely caused by human synthesized compounds and has nothing to do with diet, carbs, sugar, fat, calories or anything else we turn to for weight loss? https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-part-i-mysteries/
When pooling forecasts, use the geometric mean of odds https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/sMjcjnnpoAQCcedL2/when-pooling-forecasts-use-the-geometric-mean-of-odds
New Molecular Computing Device Has Unprecedented Reconfigurability Reminiscent of Brain Plasticity https://scitechdaily.com/new-molecular-computing-device-has-unprecedented-reconfigurability-reminiscent-of-brain-plasticity/
As problems get solved, people naturally expand their definition of it and so continue to find it, *even if it's no longer there.* https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.aap8731
Loot: the first truly community-owned gaming platform twitter.com/avichal/status/1434271048216694785