Links for 2022-02-02
Upload an image and ask an artificial intelligence a specific question about what can be seen in the image or ask it to generate a caption https://huggingface.co/spaces/akhaliq/BLIP
Kelly betting and Bayesian inference: “In Bayesian reasoning, you start out by spreading your belief across different hypotheses, and as you receive evidence you shift your belief towards the hypotheses that more confidently predicted the evidence you saw. In a prediction market made up of many bettors, you start out with wealth distributed between bettors, and as events happen the bettors who made good predictions get richer at the expense of bettors who made bad predictions. There’s a sense in which these processes work exactly equivalently.” https://shlegeris.com/2018/04/11/kelly.html
The genetics of immunity: A new study links GWAS variants to changes in immune cell dynamics https://centuryofbio.substack.com/p/the-genetics-of-immunity
Frog regrows amputated leg after drug treatment: "The demonstration raises the prospect that drugs could be used to switch on similar untapped abilities for regeneration in human patients to restore tissues or organs lost to disease or injury." https://theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/26/frog-regrows-amputated-leg-after-being-given-drug-treatment
Cockatoos’ Impressive Golfing Skills Prove They're Capable Of Complex Tool Use https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cockatoos-impressive-golfing-skills-prove-theyre-capable-of-complex-tool-use/
Fascinating thread on Dagestan and Chechnya. One is an anarchocapitalist oligarchy, the other an absolute monarchy. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1486532228322512898.html
A Chinese satellite was observed grabbing another satellite and pulling it out of its normal geosynchronous orbit and into a “super-graveyard drift orbit.” https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44054/a-chinese-satellite-just-grappled-another-and-pulled-it-out-of-orbit
Field experiments find no evidence that chimpanzee nut cracking can be independently innovated [nature.com] https://rdcu.be/cFCp4
[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 1. What's the problem & Why work on it now? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4basF9w9jaPZpoC8R/intro-to-brain-like-agi-safety-1-what-s-the-problem-and-why
“We discuss a hypothetical existential threat from a 10 km diameter comet discovered 6 months prior to impact. We show that an extension of our work on bolide fragmentation using an array of penetrators, but modified with small nuclear explosive devices (NED) in the penetrators, combined with soon-to-be-realized heavy lift launch assets with positive C3 such as NASA SLS or SpaceX Starship (with in-orbit refueling) is sufficient to mitigate this existential threat.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10663
gwern on the ridiculous ways by which some machine learning papers define "bias" https://www.reddit.com/r/mlscaling/comments/sh74bx/using_deepspeed_and_megatron_to_train/hv15ko1/
Neil Young’s Long Record of Spreading Scientific Misinformation https://finance.yahoo.com/news/neil-young-long-record-spreading-023237548.html