Links for 2021-10-01
Learning one multi-task policy for 9 real-world tasks including folding cloths, sweeping beans etc. with just 179 image-action training pairs. — “Our end-to-end framework is capable of solving a variety of language-specified tabletop tasks from packing unseen objects to folding cloths, all without any explicit representations of object poses, instance segmentations, memory, symbolic states, or syntactic structures. Experiments in simulation and hardware show that our approach is data-efficient and generalizes effectively to seen and unseen semantic concepts. We even train one multi-task policy for 10 simulated and 9 real-world tasks that shows better or comparable performance to single-task policies.” https://cliport.github.io/
Explainable neural networks that simulate reasoning https://rdcu.be/cyfGB (redirects to a paper hosted by nature.com)
Synthetic voices can trick humans and machines https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09598
Fossil footprints show humans in North America more than 21,000 years ago https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/fossil-footprints-show-humans-north-america-21000-years-ago-rcna2169
New Models Show That Venus Was Likely Habitable Four Billion Years Ago https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2021/09/24/new-models-show-that-venus-was-likely-habitable-four-billion-years-ago/?sh=6075e381caf2
Single Photon Switch Can Speed Computation Up to 1,000 times https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/09/single-photon-switch-can-speed-computation-up-to-1000-times.html
El Paso police used a controversial surveillance technology to crack the Memorial Park shooting cold case — “Google geofence warrants provide law enforcement with anonymized information about all cellular devices in a selected geographical area using Google’s Sensorvault database of Global Positioning System, or GPS, records.” https://elpasomatters.org/2021/09/23/el-paso-police-used-a-controversial-surveillance-technology-to-crack-the-memorial-park-shooting-cold-case/
Introduction to Quantum Information Science https://qubit.guide/
The Romance of Quantum Archaeology, a short story philosophybear.substack.com/p/the-romance-of-quantum-archaeology
Stanford students are about twice as likely to wear a mask on a bicycle than a helmet. https://stanfordreview.org/stanford-bicycles-helmets-masks/