Links for 2021-11-04
DeepMind is working on a deep learning model that can emulate the output of any algorithm. This is called Neuro Algorithmic Reasoning; it may be a step towards a “general AI.” https://venturebeat.com/2021/10/12/deepmind-is-developing-one-algorithm-to-rule-them-all/
How Silicon Valley hatched a plan to turn blood into human eggs https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/28/1038172/conception-eggs-reproduction-vitro-gametogenesis/
“Starship matters. It’s not just a really big rocket, like any other rocket on steroids. It’s a continuing and dedicated attempt to achieve the “Holy Grail” of rocketry, a fully and rapidly reusable orbital class rocket that can be mass manufactured.” https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/starship-is-still-not-understood/
People think climate change is increasing fires but the share of land that burned globally declined from 4.2% in 1900 to 2.5% this year. What about California? Wildfires burned up to 12% of the state before 1800 & was 4.2% in 2020. https://archive.md/8w72w
"Gender differences in crying proneness were larger in countries that are wealthier, more egalitarian, more democratic, and more individualist...The larger gender difference in crying among wealthier and more individualist countries is a remarkable finding" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1069397111404519?journalCode=ccrc
Dogs tilt their heads when processing meaningful stimuli. When listening to humans verbally request a familiar toy, only dogs who had learned the toy's name frequently tilted their heads. The direction of the head-tilts was individually consistent over time. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-021-01571-8
Obesity as a Global Succinate Dehydrogenase Activity Deficit https://fireinabottle.net/obesity-as-a-global-succinate-dehydrogenase-activity-deficit-the-ros-theory-of-obesity-part-iii-part-2/
Sunao Tsuboi: Campaigning Hiroshima survivor dies aged 96 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59060950
Accidental socialism: a natural experiment in Haiti 1796–1820 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-institutional-economics/article/accidental-socialism-a-natural-experiment-in-haiti-17961820/1DF3966E265CB8DC2629512DF10E3513