Links for 2022-03-16
You Can Have Geothermal Power Everywhere If You Drill Deep Enough — A new technology drills with microwaves and can go down 12 miles to where the real heat is. https://www.treehugger.com/geothermal-drilling-technology-quaise-energy-5219924
New GPT3 Impressive Capabilities - InstructGPT3 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dypAjfRCe4nyasGSs/new-gpt3-impressive-capabilities-instructgpt3-1-2
GPT-3 can now make changes to existing content, not just predict what comes next. https://openai.com/blog/gpt-3-edit-insert/
Why Fill a Galaxy with Self-Reproducing Probes? https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2022/03/10/why-fill-a-galaxy-with-self-reproducing-probes/
A Central Bank Digital Currency would enable a totalitarian nightmare https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/just-say-no-to-cbdcs?s=r
“The single most undervalued fact of linear algebra: matrices are graphs, and graphs are matrices. Encoding matrices as graphs is a cheat code, making complex behavior simple to study.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1502215264544296962.html
“Really loved this physicist's perspective on why intuitionistic mathematics is a much better foundation than classical. Law of Excluded Middle delenda est.” —@NPCollapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT0XDSe0GyY
Is progress in mathematics understudied? https://virginica.substack.com/p/progress-studies-in-mathematics?s=r
War links:
“The Ukrainian military as a whole have been expecting this kind of invasion to come since 2014,” said Barrons. “And then they were handed the gift of these light forces coming in piecemeal, underestimating them, which they were able to pick off.” https://www.ft.com/content/90421972-2f1e-4871-a4c6-0a9e9257e9b0?sharetype=blocked [archived version: https://archive.ph/f4uu8]
According to this analysis Russia has lost at least 213 main battle tanks so far https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html
“An update on the Russian drone operations we have seen 18 days into this war. Earlier, Russian advance lacked ISR/combat UAV that were part of their regular CONOPS/TTPs as defined by training, exercises, and military deployments to Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1503035372237996033.html
Chinese and Saudi firms create joint venture to make military drones in the kingdom https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2022/03/09/chinese-and-saudi-firms-create-joint-venture-to-make-military-drones-in-the-kingdom/
“Tigray blockaded: no schooling, no medicine, no cell phone, no banking, no electricity, no fuel, high inflation. At one point the Tigrayans were on the cusp of victory, but then the government fought back with Turkish drones. Now Tigray might get genocided.” (via @whyvert) https://eritreahub.org/tigray-mortality-has-war-and-hunger-cost-500000-lives-professor-jan-nyssen-ghent-university