Links for 20210816
The next phase in Google’s AI plans: a new system called Pathways, which aims to generalize across millions of tasks and take a major step forward in how we build powerful, responsible artificial intelligence. https://blog.ted.com/tech-comeback-notes-from-session-5-of-tedmonterey/
An open-source machine learning platform for drug discovery https://torchdrug.ai/
Runaway star caught streaking across Milky Way at 2 million mph ... in the wrong direction https://www.livescience.com/runaway-star-streaks-milky-way.html
People with higher verbal intelligence held more polarized views of Covid-19: "These findings are consistent with prior research in which various measures of cognitive ability predicted greater political polarization... [M]otivated reasoning may be bounded by the ability to construct reasonable justifications for desired conclusions." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289621000647
"The Great Awokening is the most rapid cultural shift in the English-speaking world in modern times." noahcarl.substack.com/p/indicators-of-the-great-awokening
How The Auto-Giro Works (1931) youtube.com/watch?v=mQieKnglzj4