Links for 2022-03-05
“…a child’s annual risk of death in an auto accident is about 1 in 50,000. That’s 80 times higher than the non-masking risk. Honestly, if you’re worried about your kids’ safety, it would make vastly more sense to just drive less. Most obviously, you could withdraw your kids from sports, scouting, dance, and travel.” https://betonit.blog/2022/03/01/covid-arithmetic-for-anxious-parents/
How do we get fairer AI systems? Train the dumbest and biggest model possible: Vision Models are More Robust and Fair When pretrained on Uncurated Images Without Supervision. https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08360
Is OpenAI’s AI As Smart As A University Student? https://youtu.be/9JZdAq8poww
Lambda Calculus in 400 bytes https://justine.lol/lambda/
10–20% Lower Death Risk From Just 30–60 Minutes of Weekly Muscle-Strengthening Activity https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2022/01/19/bjsports-2021-105061
Singularity: Planet-Scale, Preemptive and Elastic Scheduling of AI Workloads https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07848
“LMs can learn via inference alone through demonstrations -- but how does it work? We find that LMs do not really need correct input-output pairs. Randomly replacing labels in the demonstrations barely hurts performance, consistently over 12 models.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.12837
The cost of Germany turning off nuclear power: Thousands of lives https://grist.org/energy/the-cost-of-germany-going-off-nuclear-power-thousands-of-lives/
Time to ban energy imports. It is our continued flow of money that has paved the way for Vladimir Putin’s war. Time to end it. https://www.eurointelligence.com/column/time-to-ban-energy-imports