Links for 20210823
How unusual human traits are not rare: "...there are enough vectors of genuine, meaningful remarkability that running across any of them is essentially unremarkable." https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/p51it3/there_is_a_moderate_chance_you_are_a_frigging/
Extrapolating to Unnatural Language Processing with GPT-3's In-context Learning: The Good, the Bad, and the Mysterious https://ai.stanford.edu/blog/in-context-learning/
Over 1000 tools reveal trends in the single-cell RNA-seq analysis landscape https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.13.456196v1?rss=1
Leviathan Wakes: China’s Growing Fleet of Autonomous Undersea Vehicles https://cimsec.org/leviathan-wakes-chinas-growing-fleet-of-autonomous-undersea-vehicles/
"used nets to catch 16 species of deep-sea fish that have evolved the ability to be virtually invisible … There are likely more, and potentially much darker, ultra-black fish lurking deep in the ocean." https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/deep-sea-fish
Oft-cited paper showing dishonesty can be reduced by signing a statement of honest intent *before* completing a task vs. after- not only failed to replicate- but was been found to be fraudulent. https://datacolada.org/98
Who Tells Them Things They Don't Want to Hear? Can the New York Times ever defy its affluent white subscriber base again? Sources speaking on condition of anonymity say it's unlikely https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/who-tells-them-what-they-dont-want
Tiny human brain grown in lab has eye-like structures that 'see' light https://www.newscientist.com/article/2287207-tiny-human-brain-grown-in-lab-has-eye-like-structures-that-see-light/amp/