Links for 2021-10-29
Can astrocytes compute anything neurons can? — “I demonstrate theoretically that calcium waves in astrocytes can compute anything neurons can.” https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.20.465192v1
U.S. Warns of Efforts by China to Collect Genetic Data https://archive.md/JzCM1
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley says China's hypersonic weapons test was almost a "Sputnik moment" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-hypersonic-missile-sputnik-moment/
Senior US general warns China's military progress is 'stunning' as US is hampered by 'brutal' bureaucracy https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/28/politics/hyten-stunning-china-military-progress/index.html
The history of the detection of gravitational waves, from Einstein 1915 all the way through to LIGO's detection, a century later, in 2015. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1609/1609.09400.pdf
How to build tools that change and augment people's thinking, with a focus on memory https://numinous.productions/ttft/
Long-range regulatory effects of Neandertal DNA in modern humans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.20.464628v1.full
Breakthrough proof clears path for quantum AI: Novel theorem demonstrates convolutional neural networks can always be trained on quantum computers, overcoming threat of ‘barren plateaus’ in optimization problems https://discover.lanl.gov/news/releases/1015-quantum-ai
Neutrino decoupling: the epoch at which neutrinos ceased interacting with other types of matter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_decoupling
Meteor burst communications "is a radio propagation mode that exploits the ionized trails of meteors during atmospheric entry to establish brief communications paths between radio stations up to 2,250 kilometres (1,400 mi) apart." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_burst_communications