Links for 2022-03-07
Demis Hassabis gave a talk on building AGI and how the tech can then be used to advance scientific discovery itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtJVLOe4cfs
How can your thinking be so reliable when your brain is made of noisy, unreliable neurons? #GridCodes, first discovered in mice, allow perfect error correction! We can use this trick to build better #neuromorphic #AI chips. https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.12887
What was the first “art”? How would we know? https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2117561118
How the NSA effectively assumed control over the Trickbot botnet in 2020, according to leaked chat logs from the Conti ransomware gang. Fairly brilliant attack on the botnet and its failsafe recovery mechanism. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/conti-ransomware-group-diaries-part-i-evasion/
A New Theoretical Concept Interweaves Magnetism and Topology – Revolutionary Future Potential https://scitechdaily.com/a-new-theoretical-concept-interweaves-magnetism-and-topology-revolutionary-future-potential/
Scientists seek to solve mystery of why some people do not catch Covid https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/02/scientists-seek-to-solve-mystery-of-why-some-people-do-not-catch-covid
8,000 Years Ago, 17 Women Reproduced for Every One Man [published 2015] https://psmag.com/environment/17-to-1-reproductive-success
Ukraine's army is using a nimble 'game-changing' drone called The Punisher that has completed scores of successful missions against the Russians, say reports https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraines-punisher-drones-hit-russian-troops-multiple-times-reports-2022-3
Richard Nixon on Russia in 1992: ""[T]he prospects for the next 50 years will turn grim. The Russian people will not turn back to Communism. But a new, more dangerous despotism based on extremist Russian nationalism will take power. . . . If a new despotism prevails, everything gained in the great peaceful revolution of 1991 will be lost. War could break out in the former Soviet Union as the new despots use force to restore the 'historical borders' of Russia."" [New York Times] https://archive.ph/WeY6b
This analysis might be real:
Read the whole thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1500301348780199937.html
"With regards to Russian military losses: I don’t know the reality – no one does. There was some information the first 2 days, but now no one knows what is happening in Ukraine. We’ve lost contact with major divisions. (!!)"
"Now, civilian losses in Ukraine will follow a geometric pattern progression, and resistance against us will only get stronger. Infantries already tried to enter cities – out of 20 paratrooper groups, only one had “provisional” success."
"Our conditional deadline is June. Conditional because in June there will be no economy left in Russia – there will be nothing left."