Links for 2021-10-23
Scientists Enable Blind Woman to See Simple Shapes Using Brain Implant https://healthcare.utah.edu/publicaffairs/news/2021/10/10-blind-moran.php
A landmark achievement in the history of human genetics. An analysis of more than half a million human exomes was published in Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04103-z
AI-designed hardware: "We believe that more powerful AI-designed hardware will fuel advances in AI, creating a symbiotic relationship between the two fields." https://www.gwern.net/docs/reinforcement-learning/2021-mirhoseini.pdf
How Nanomaterials Will Help Scientists Probe the Brain in Unimaginable Detail https://singularityhub.com/2021/10/18/how-the-emerging-field-of-nanoneuro-could-revolutionize-brain-science/
Formal peer review: “when two teams of referees independently assess the same work, they only agree on about 50% of the assessment...for accepted papers, there is no correlation between quality scores and impact of the paper as measured as a function of citation count.” https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.09774.pdf
How China Conquered The Keyboard youtu.be/hBDwXipHykQ
The children of the survivors of Chernobyl do not have excess mutations. It is consistent with a worldview that radiations are less harmful to our biology than commonly assumed. https://www.science.org/content/article/no-excess-mutations-children-chernobyl-survivors-new-study-finds
Most people were able to cure their diabetes by losing weight https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dme.14395
Keeping your iron stores low might be important to slow your aging https://www.aging-us.com/article/203612
An atomic clock measured how general relativity warps time across a millimeter https://www.sciencenews.org/article/atomic-clock-general-relativity-time-warp-millimeter-physics