Links for 2021-12-21
Microbes across the land and ocean are evolving to degrade plastic https://newatlas.com/environment/microbes-enzymes-evolve-degrade-plastic-pollution/
Compressing Hegel: Why Intelligence Is Compression wittgenfine.substack.com/p/compressing-hegel [For anyone who wants to learn more about data compression, info theory and links to machine learning: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms + lectures]
Here is a concise article that explains, in layman's terms, how prediction is the same thing as compression https://lesswrong.com/posts/hAvGi9YAPZAnnjZNY/prediction-compression-transcript-1
Leucadia Therapeutics: Towards the Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/12/leucadia-therapeutics-towards-the-prevention-of-alzheimers-disease/
The global fusion industry in 2021: most companies are aiming for the 2030s for the first commercial plant. https://www.fusionindustryassociation.org/about-fusion-industry
ML is helping us regain the formalism we lost during molecular biology's Golden Era http://jck.bio/learning-representations-of-life/
Allow Golden Rice to save lives https://www.pnas.org/content/118/51/e2120901118
Revisiting "The Brain as a Universal Learning Machine", Jacob Cannell https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iNaLHBaqh3mL45aH8/magna-alta-doctrina
“Plenoxels are optimized two orders of magnitude faster than Neural Radiance Fields with no loss in visual quality.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05131