Links for 2022-03-06
A video by Timothy Nguyen on DeepMind’s recent “AI for Mathematics” breakthrough that enabled mathematicians to establish new and significant theorems. He covers the knot theory background, machine learning basics, and the Nature paper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPCI1-ZvwOg
The Wisdom of the crowd is often focused on the mean and sometimes on the variance of the crowd’s forecasts. In this new SSRN paper, the authors take a step further and show that skewness can represent an “informed minority.” https://ssrn.com/abstract=4004029
IQ correlates at 0.80 with state wellbeing as indexed by crime, education, health, and income. Higher IQ predicts lower religion, lower income inequality, and lower conservatism. But higher COVID vaccinations and higher alcohol consumption. https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/10/1/15
“Compared with other entities, the average corporation is considered about as similar to a person as an ant.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010027722000567
A study of assortative mating confirms a strong correlation between partners' education polygenic scores, and that assortative mating looks to be in something close to an equilibrium. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28774-y
"Remarkably, only men’s female partner’s competitiveness, not their own, increases their future income." https://ices.gmu.edu/events/13205
Reconstruction of neocortex: Organelles, compartments, cells, circuits, and activity https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(22)00134-9.pdf#%20
Optical Computing Advance: Breakthrough Discovery in Light Interactions With Nanoparticles https://scitechdaily.com/optical-computing-advance-breakthrough-discovery-in-light-interactions-with-nanoparticles/
"Positive thinking has long been extolled as the route to happiness, but it might be time to ditch the self-help books after a new study shows that realists enjoy a greater sense of long-term wellbeing than optimists." https://bath.ac.uk/announcements/time-to-get-real-on-the-power-of-positive-thinking-new-study/
War links:
Is the Russian Air Force Actually Incapable of Complex Air Operations? A week into the war, these are the sort of questions that experts are now beginning to ask. https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/rusi-defence-systems/russian-air-force-actually-incapable-complex-air-operations
““We’re in shock at how dumb their behavior is,” said another member of the Ukrainian special-forces unit who has been going on missions…every night. His unit, he said, had lost two soldiers since the war began nine days ago, and killed more than 60 Russians in recent days.” [Wall Street Journal] https://archive.ph/sMfuE
Sky News team's harrowing account of their violent ambush in Ukraine this week https://news.sky.com/story/sky-news-teams-harrowing-account-of-their-violent-ambush-in-ukraine-this-week-12557585
China says it seeks to ‘resolve’ Taiwan question, amid comparisons to Ukraine https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/05/china-taiwan-ukraine-report/
Ukraine events seem to have raised Trump's chance of being the next President from 28% to ~33%, yet had little effect on Biden (~16%), Harris (~8%). https://electionbettingodds.com/President2024.html#chart
[The video (warning: gore)]