Links for 2021-10-03
Whole Brain Emulation: No Progress on C. elgans After 10 Years [be sure to read the comment by Gerald Monroe] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHqQxwKuzZS69CXX5/whole-brain-emulation-no-progress-on-c-elgans-after-10-years
Dominic Cummings on how to change government and save America. dominiccummings.substack.com/p/regime-change-2-a-plea-to-silicon
“Gell-Mann Earworms, in which “I can’t trust this” is constantly ringing in your ears as you read anything...To live with Gell-Mann Earworms, I have to consider myself deeply ignorant about the vast majority of issues people around me are talking about.” https://www.cold-takes.com/gell-mann-earworms/
Mortality: “Power calculations make it implausible that there is an upper bound below 130 years.” https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.202097
Iron Battery Breakthrough Could Eat Lithium’s Lunch https://web.archive.org/web/20211001030207/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-30/iron-battery-breakthrough-could-eat-lithium-s-lunch
Engineers create a high-performance all-solid-state battery with a pure-silicon anode https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/meng_science_2021
“Lost nuclear weapons are one of my favorite topics, because most people are completely unaware of them. Whether by incompetence or unexplained phenomenon, there are dozens of nuclear devices that have been completely lost to humanity.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1441388864195764225.html
Why is the statistical revolution not progressing? Vicious cycle of the scientific reform https://osf.io/gmfs9/
A Computer Breakthrough Helps Solve a Complex Math Problem 1 Million Times Faster https://news.osu.edu/a-new-way-to-solve-the-hardest-of-the-hard-computer-problems/
By 115,000 years ago, people were drilling holes in shells to make beads that could be worn as ornaments. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi8620
‘War on glyphosate’ and the unintended negative environmental consequences of the demonization of a safe and effective herbicide and its removal from the garden market https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/08/10/war-on-glyphosate-and-the-unintended-negative-environmental-consequences-of-the-demonization-of-a-safe-and-effective-herbicide-and-its-removal-from-the-garden-market/
“Among the four teams of five or so software engineers he works with on a daily basis, Leon told me, 15 out of the 20 are Chinese. “I don’t mean Chinese-American,” he clarified. “I mean Chinese-Chinese, like from China.” These Chinese engineers largely speak Mandarin during work, making the company billions as they write code with machine-gun efficiency.” https://quillette.com/2021/07/21/silicon-valleys-cynical-treatment-of-asian-engineers/