Links for 2021-09-24
OpenAI created a system that can generate reasonable summaries of entire books. The system combines reinforcement learning from human feedback and recursive task decomposition. https://openai.com/blog/summarizing-books/
Leaked Grant Proposal Details High-Risk Coronavirus Research: The proposal, rejected by U.S. military research agency DARPA, describes the insertion of human-specific cleavage sites into SARS-related bat coronaviruses. https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-grant-darpa/
Simpson strikes again – a closer look at data in support of COVID booster shots https://tombreur.wordpress.com/2021/09/22/simpson-strikes-again-a-closer-look-at-data-in-support-of-covid-booster-shots/amp/
Chinese chipmaker is getting close to release a GPU that approximates Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 https://www.techspot.com/news/91273-chinese-company-getting-close-releasing-gpu-similar-nvidia.html
Geothermal energy is poised for a big breakout https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/10/21/21515461/renewable-energy-geothermal-egs-ags-supercritical
Hadrian's Retreat From Parthia Drew Fierce Criticism—and Opened the Door to a Better Roman Future https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2021/09/09/roman-emperor-hadrian-unwinnable-war/
GMO eggplant is documented win for resource-poor farmers https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2021/09/gmo-eggplant-is-documented-win-for-resource-poor-farmers/
There's a huge difference between the way today's students understand computers and the way today's professors do. It's starting to cause all kinds of problems for STEM professors, and driven many to rethink the way they teach. https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00037/full
Denisovan introgression has shaped the immune system of present-day Papuans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.09.196444v3
Recent evidence on dysgenic trends https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2021/02/recent-evidence-on-dysgenic-trends-february-2021/
China Analyzing Moon Rocks as Potential Fusion Power Source https://futurism.com/the-byte/china-moon-rocks-fusion-power