Links for 2021-09-30
The Most Important Century (in a nutshell): “When I talk about being in the "most important century," I don't just mean that significant events are going to occur. I mean that we, the people living in this century, have the chance to have a huge impact on huge numbers of people to come - if we can make sense of the situation enough to find helpful actions.” https://www.cold-takes.com/the-most-important-century-in-a-nutshell/
Learning to Walk in Minutes Using Massively Parallel Deep Reinforcement Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11978
How DeepMind Is Reinventing the Robot — Having conquered Go and protein folding, the company turns to a really hard problem https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/how-deepmind-is-reinventing-the-robot-2655083400
Math Equation of Mood Can Predict Your Preferences Better Than You Can https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/news-item/a-mathematical-equation-of-mood-can-predict-your-preference-better-than-you-can/
Transposon-triggered innate immune response confers cancer resistance to the blind mole rat https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-021-01027-8
“40 years ago, the discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect stunned physicists. We now understand this as an example of an invertible topological phase of matter. Now we have the equations to classify all possible invertible topological phases in 2d.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11039
Löb’s Theorem and Curry’s Paradox: The difference between profound results and paradox is often razor thin. https://inference-review.com/article/loebs-theorem-and-currys-paradox
Amazing Airborne Microchips are the Tiniest Human-Built Objects to Take Flight https://gizmodo.com/amazing-airborne-microchips-are-the-tiniest-human-built-1847722228
French study warns of the massive scale of Chinese influence around the world https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20210922-french-study-warns-of-the-massive-scale-of-chinese-influence-around-the-world
Google Is Burying Alternative Health Sites to Protect People from “Dangerous” Medical Advice https://fee.org/articles/google-is-burying-alternative-health-sites-to-protect-people-from-dangerous-medical-advice/