Links for 2021-12-16
IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough That Defies Conventional Design https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-12-14-IBM-and-Samsung-Unveil-Semiconductor-Breakthrough-That-Defies-Conventional-Design
Geothermal Everywhere: A New Path For American Renewable Energy Leadership https://innovationfrontier.org/geothermal-everywhere-a-new-path-for-american-renewable-energy-leadership/
A logical look at the subjectivity of speech: “For instance, if you say, “I think that painting looks good,” you could be expressing doubt about your own assessment, which is not present in the phrase, “That’s a beautiful painting.” Or, if you say, “That’s a beautiful painting,” your companions may disagree — but if you say, “I think that painting looks good,” they cannot disagree that you really do believe the painting looks good.” https://news.mit.edu/2021/justin-khoo-speech-1212
“Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids Are Coming. Here’s How to Get Ready. If you think you have mild or moderate hearing loss, there are ways to prepare for one of the less-expensive hearing aids coming to your drugstore” [WSJ] https://archive.md/rf9FD
"There was a common ability underpinning performance on some, but not all, rationality tests. Latent factors representing rationality and general intelligence were strongly correlated (r = .54), but their correlation fell well short of unity." https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13546783.2021.2008003?journalCode=ptar20
The "quantum annoying" problem and the broader question of "is this problem provably slow for a quantum computer to solve". https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/696
“Many of the world's leading models are now projecting warming rates that most scientists, including the modelmakers themselves, believe are implausibly fast.” https://www.science.org/content/article/un-climate-panel-confronts-implausibly-hot-forecasts-future-warming
"more new species have evolved in our crops than on the Galápagos Islands." https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abl9604