Links for 2022-02-08

1. Dog Aging Project, a resource for scientists in many fields https://newsroom.uw.edu/news/dog-aging-project-resource-scientists-many-fields [Paper: https://www.gwern.net/docs/longevity/2022-creevy.pdf]

2. Lie detection systems go high-tech: “A subject is asked to answer a number of true or false, or yes and no, questions. As they do so, eye tracking software watches and studies their responses. The result is then provided within five minutes, and it claims to be 86-88% accurate.” https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60153129

3. Researchers report game-changing technology to remove 99% of carbon dioxide from air https://techxplore.com/news/2022-02-game-changing-technology-carbon-dioxide-air.html

4. Solving Wordle using information theory

5. “A strong dependency between changes in fluid and crystallized abilities in human cognitive aging. Hence, individuals showing greater losses in fluid abilities tend to show smaller gains, or even losses, in crystallized abilities.” https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abj2422

6. Scientists successfully produced particle-antiparticle pairs from a vacuum https://www.techexplorist.com/scientists-successfully-produced-particle-antiparticle-pairs-vacuum/44446/

7. ‘Quantum Friction’ Slows Water Flow Through Carbon Nanotubes, Resolving Long-Standing Fluid Dynamics Mystery https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/02/02/quantum-friction-slows-water-flow-through-carbon-nanotubes-resolving-long-standing-fluid-dynamics-mystery/

8. Physicists at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands have proposed a new scalable quantum computing architecture using trapped ions. https://iop.uva.nl/content/news/2022/01/a-new-method-for-quantum-computing.html?cb&cb

9. Researchers use GPU fingerprinting to track users online https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-use-gpu-fingerprinting-to-track-users-online/

10. New Research Brings Cell-Based Artificial Kidneys a Step Closer https://singularityhub.com/2022/02/02/cell-based-artificial-kidneys-are-a-step-closer-thanks-to-this-new-research/

11. Vieta jumping (proof technique) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieta_jumping

12. Pure shape rotation game https://vladimirslepnev.itch.io/zigzag

Miles Brundage@Miles_Brundage

I'm old enough to remember when protein folding, text-based image generation, StarCraft play, 3+ player poker, and Winograd schemas were considered very difficult challenges for AI. I'm 3 years old.

2:27 AM · Feb 7, 2022

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Roger Pielke Jr.@RogerPielkeJr

Alimonti et al. 2022 New review of extreme events & disasters Consistent with IPCC Sure to prompt much discussion "on the basis of observational data, the climate crisis that, according to many sources, we are experiencing today, is not evident yet" link.springer.com/article/10.114…

2:11 PM · Feb 7, 2022

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Sam Altman@sama

shape rotation can create a wordcel but not the other way around

Dedicating Ruckus @ded_ruckus

@eigenrobot what is GPT but the construction of a wordcel via shape rotation

9:47 PM · Jan 31, 2022

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Nadège Rolland@RollandNadege

The vision of foreign heads of state speed dating with Xi Jinping in Beijing is something to behold. The markings of a modern metamorphosis of the ancient China tributary system are unmistakable.

6:47 PM · Feb 7, 2022

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NATO ACT@NATO_ACT

The Gender & Hybrid Deep Dive is the first among a series of future sessions, including Gender & Resilience, Gender & Deterrence and Gender & Climate Change. The Deep Dive series aim to integrate a gender perspective throughout all of #NATO’s core tasks.

nato.int

Deep Dive Recap: Exploring Gender and Hybrid Threats

5:46 AM · Feb 5, 2022

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If you are deeply pessimistic about humanity's future because of climate change, can you cite any credible scenarios in which the global GDP is predicted to be lower than it is today?

By realistic scenarios I mean those that don't assume a huge increase of coal power plants, like RCP8.5, which is an absurd assumption.

I am not asking for scenarios where the GDP will be lower than it could be without climate change but scenarios in which we are expected to witness a global recession. That's a necessary condition for climate change to be catastrophic enough to be deeply pessimistic.