Links for 2022-01-31
Experimental Robot Surgeon Can Operate Without Human Help: STAR is the first robotic system to plan, adapt, and execute a surgical plan in soft tissue without human intervention. What’s more, the robot even appeared to do the job better than human surgeons. https://gizmodo.com/experimental-robot-surgeon-can-operate-without-human-he-1848426703
An RNA-based theory of natural universal computation https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022519321004045?dgcid=author
Vitamin D protects against autoimmune diseases: Reduced autoimmune disease rate by 22 percent compared to placebo, according to new study https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/01/vitamin-d-reduced-rate-of-autoimmune-diseases-by-22/
The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained https://steveblank.com/2022/01/25/the-semiconductor-ecosystem/
Artificial Intelligence Can Analyze Eye Scans To Identify Patients at High Risk of Heart Attack https://scitechdaily.com/artificial-intelligence-can-analyze-eye-scans-to-identify-patients-at-high-risk-of-heart-attack/
Why should the universe have been quantum-mechanical? Assuming classical physics wasn’t good enough for whatever reason, why this specific alternative? Why the complex-valued amplitudes? Why unitary transformations? Why the Born rule? Why the tensor product? https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6244
Joseph Carlsmith wrote a post about ethics in infinite worlds. He thinks the topic matters, in both theory and practice. In particular, he thinks infinities break lots of principles we like; and that they puncture the dream of a simple, bullet-biting utilitarianism. https://handsandcities.com/2022/01/30/on-infinite-ethics/
"Crime accounts for 3.2% of GDP. … in 2017 … the toll taken by 121 million crimes … but … [adding] quality of life & work days lost, the figure increased to … 10% of GDP … Violent crime accounted for 80% of the total." https://thecrimereport.org/2020/03/02/crime-costs-3-2-of-u-s-gross-domestic-product-paper/
Ultra-Fast 3D Printer Works Like Reverse Scanner: “…the process utilizes a method called Tomographic Vat Photopolymerization to print all points of a 3D object concurrently, allowing objects to be generated almost instantly.” https://www.dtu.dk/english/news/nyhed?id=%7B0B3DCF45-0C9D-414B-847B-19FB8E2805CB%7D