Links for 2021-12-07
Speech by Éric Zemmour, French presidential candidate: “15,000 French who have braved political correctness, the threats of the extreme left, and the hatred of the media.” At the mention of the media, the crowd breaks into boos...“I meet with the French people and two fears haunt them: degradation – impoverishment of the French people, the decline of our power, and the collapse of our schools; and that of the great replacement – with the islamisation of France, mass immigration, and public insecurity.”...“Meanwhile, the feminists avert their eyes, and talk to us about inclusive writing.” [Boos]...“The preservation of our heritage is not the enemy of modernity – it is in fact the condition of its existence.”...“School must rediscover its primary objective: transmission of knowledge, not reducing inequality. It must no longer seek to be the most inclusive possible, but rather rediscover the belief in merit and effort.” Read more: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1467890723949326340.html
The Lab Leak Fiasco: "For over a year the media enforced falsehoods about the pandemic’s origins, never evaluated the evidence, never apologized, and was never held accountable" https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/lab-leak-fiasco
A recently published article investigated the neural complexity of the EEG signals using Multi-Scale Entropy as a potential link between creative thinking, intelligence, and cognitive control. https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/9/4/59
Are knowledge graphs AI’s next big thing? https://towardsdatascience.com/are-knowledge-graphs-ais-next-big-thing-1ea97bb394bd
Slaughterbots - if human: kill() youtu.be/9rDo1QxI260
Population Crashes: The Deadliest Events In History https://www.metaculus.com/notebooks/8739/population-crashes-the-deadliest-events-in-history/
The Deadlock Empire is a tutorial disguised as a game in which participants solve concurrent programming challenges to avoid deadlocks. https://deadlockempire.github.io/
Life on the beach with Markov chains (a very short introduction to Markov chains) https://plus.maths.org/content/life-beach-markov-chains
“A reasonable environmental hypothesis on intelligence: infant nutrition (in a rich country). But it too bites the dust. Randomized control trials on feeding infants supplemented formulas vs standard formula in the 1990s. No difference on exam scores in the 2010s.” https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj-2021-065805
This tree diagram traces the evolution of the elephant depiction throughout the middle ages up to the age of enlightenment. https://www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/index.html
Shulman and Yudkowsky on AI progress https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sCCdCLPN9E3YvdZhj/shulman-and-yudkowsky-on-ai-progress