Links for 2022-01-15
Comparing U.S. and Chinese Contributions to High-Impact AI Research: “Chinese researchers’ output of highly cited AI publications is increasingly competitive with the work of their U.S. counterparts. Over the past decade, Chinese researchers have published a growing share of the world’s top-5-percent AI publications, rising from half of U.S. output in 2010 to parity in 2019.” https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/comparing-u-s-and-chinese-contributions-to-high-impact-ai-research/
“Hints of a new particle carrying a fifth force of nature have been multiplying at the LHC – and many physicists are convinced this could finally be the big one” [paywall] https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333693-200-the-large-hadron-collider-blips-that-could-herald-a-new-era-of-physics/ [see here for a free article from October 2021: Physicists announce results that boost evidence for new fundamental physics https://phys.org/news/2021-10-physicists-results-boost-evidence-fundamental.html]
Why Does Particle Astrophysics Dominate Pop Science? Are other fields insufficiently wondrous? https://chadorzel.substack.com/p/why-does-particle-astrophysics-dominate
Physicists detect a hybrid particle held together by uniquely intense “glue”. The discovery could offer a route to smaller, faster electronic devices. https://news.mit.edu/2022/physicists-detect-hybrid-particle-held-together-uniquely-intense-glue-0110
A giant study of 10 million military personnel finds multiple sclerosis is very likely a complication of the Epstein-Barr Virus. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj8222
(Beatty’s theorem) Let a and b be any pair of irrational numbers greater than 1 with 1/a + 1/b = 1. Then the sequences { ⌊na⌋ } and { ⌊nb⌋ } contain every positive integer without repetition. https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/01/09/beattys-theorem/
Researchers develop first fully 3D-printed, flexible OLED display https://cse.umn.edu/college/news/researchers-develop-first-fully-3d-printed-flexible-oled-display
Mass production of revolutionary computer memory moves closer with ULTRARAM™ on silicon wafers for the first time https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/mass-production-of-revolutionary-computer-memory-moves-closer-with-ultraram-on-silicon-wafers-for-the-first-time
BAIDU shows how to inject more knowledge into a language model: ERNIE 3.0 Titan: Exploring Larger-scale Knowledge Enhanced Pre-training for Language Understanding and Generation https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.12731
Neural networks that have real economic value: Deep Learning Practices for Industrial Computer Vision https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02028
Touchscreen tech swaps rare metal for graphene, with no performance drop https://newatlas.com/electronics/indium-graphene-oled-touchscreen/
TSMC will have a budget of $44 billion this year. Cf. Manhattan Project: $23 billion (inflation-adjusted). [WaPo] Dear Rivals, TSMC Can and Will Outspend You All [WSJ] https://archive.is/VjfjD