Links for 20210827
The World’s Largest Computer Chip: In the race to accelerate A.I., the Silicon Valley company Cerebras has landed on an unusual strategy: go big https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-worlds-largest-computer-chip
Tesla Dojo – Unique Packaging and Chip Design Allow An Order Magnitude Advantage Over Competing AI Hardware https://semianalysis.com/tesla-dojo-ai-super-computer-unique-packaging-and-chip-design-allow-an-order-magnitude-advantage-over-competing-ai-hardware/
Learning Generalizable Robotic Reward Functions from "In-The-Wild" Human Videos https://sites.google.com/view/dvd-human-videos
A new technology, based on a quirk of evolutionary biology, may be the next big thing for CRISPR https://www.statnews.com/2021/08/19/new-technology-based-on-quirk-of-evolutionary-biology-may-be-next-big-thing-for-crispr/
As US Schools Prioritize Diversity Over Merit, China Is Becoming the World’s STEM Leader https://quillette.com/2021/08/19/as-us-schools-prioritize-diversity-over-merit-china-is-becoming-the-worlds-stem-leader/
AI Safety Papers: An App for the TAI Safety Database https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GgusnG2tiPEa4aYFS/ai-safety-papers-an-app-for-the-tai-safety-database
Newly created Wigner crystals could serve as a "computational medium for very far future computing. They would be stable against proton decay, and maybe able to perform collision-based computation."
#FridayPhysicsFun – Normal crystals consist of atoms or molecules arranged in a regular lattice. Recently there has been experimental demonstrations of 2D Wigner crystals – crystals made of just electrons.