Links for 2021-09-29
7 Fallacies of Economics: Almost every economic error traces to one of these. https://fee.org/articles/7-fallacies-of-economics/
Scientists develop the next generation of reservoir computing: "...next-generation reservoir computing on a Lorenz weather prediction task, which was 33 to 163 times faster than the current-generation model. The new model also was about a million times faster in terms of forecasting accuracy, and OSU's Daniel Gauthier said it achieved this improvement using the equivalent of just 28 neurons, versus 4,000 for the current-generation model." https://news.osu.edu/a-new-way-to-solve-the-hardest-of-the-hard-computer-problems/
Paths To High-Level Machine Intelligence https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/amK9EqxALJXyd9Rb2/paths-to-high-level-machine-intelligence
"We developed a 2.4g miniature multiplane 2-photon microscope recording 1000s of neurons in freely moving 🐭 and used it to obtain the 1st topographic maps of all spatial cell types." https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.20.461015v1 [Large-scale two-photon calcium imaging in freely moving mice] / https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.20.461016v1 [Functional network topography of the medial entorhinal cortex]
Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story. https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/
“This is a post about the general skill of focusing your eyes, and your attention, to the right place.” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gCz7cB6JG66EhweSS/where-do-your-eyes-go
Two common and distinct forms of variation in human functional brain networks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.17.460799v1
“Home delivery drones in Australia had to be suspended after they were repeatedly attacked by birds.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/watch-raven-google-drone-mid-081245194.html
Expected lifetime earnings for different majors http://www.doug-webber.com/data.html
Robots and CGI have become so good that normal people have trouble judging what's real. In this video, VFX artists explain why the Boston Dynamics videos must be real. youtu.be/HQ1WEiMwV7Y