Links for 2021-10-17
China tests new space capability with hypersonic missile: “China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August that circled the globe before speeding towards its target, demonstrating an advanced space capability that caught US intelligence by surprise.” https://archive.ph/qPXwT
UK to put nuclear power at heart of net zero emissions strategy https://archive.ph/6rFUh
Guns from the 3D Printer: The Shadowy, Homemade Weapons Community Just Keeps on Growing https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/guns-from-the-3d-printer-the-shadowy-homemade-weapons-community-just-keeps-on-growing-a-649578f3-0522-40b4-931c-97d347b0f320
This Robot Walks, Flies, Skateboards, Slacklines [Veritasium is at the Aerospace Robotics and Control Lab at Caltech] youtube.com/watch?v=H1_OpWiyijU
A New Link to an Old Model Could Crack the Mystery of Deep Learning https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-link-to-an-old-model-could-crack-the-mystery-of-deep-learning-20211011/
Why is simplicity so unreasonably effective at scientific explanation? https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-simplicity-so-unreasonably-effective-at-scientific-explanation
Scientists Genetically Modify Plants to Grow Meat Protein https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-58709069
Emissions – the ‘business as usual’ story is misleading: Stop using the worst-case scenario for climate warming as the most likely outcome — more-realistic baselines make for better policy. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00177-3?proof=t
"IQ-Learning" outperforms prior works by up to 7x on Atari. https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.12142
A Few More Examples May Be Worth Billions of Parameters https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.04374
Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List https://theintercept.com/document/2021/10/12/facebook-dangerous-individuals-and-organizations-list-reproduced-snapshot/