Links for 2022-04-22
Physicists in South Korea have demonstrated experimentally that the act of measuring a quantum system splits information encoded in the system between the measurer, the measured state, and information that can be recovered. https://physicsworld.com/a/quantum-measurement-splits-information-three-ways/
You can plant an undetectable backdoor in any deep learning model https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/04/undetectable-backdoors-in-machine-learning-models.html
“Great scientists like Einstein, Newton, and Darwin had a single year in which they made multiple career defining discoveries. Was it their youth? Their lack of obligations? The right problem at the right time? I explore the mystery of the miracle year:” https://dwarkeshpatel.com/annus-mirabilis/
Are nuclear weapons not as destructive as you think? https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php/topic,6142.0.html
Many black-white disparities in important life outcomes are mostly or entirely eliminated after controlling for youth standardized test scores https://www.reddit.com/r/samharris/comments/qa6dy6/many_blackwhite_disparities_in_important_life/
Diverse Life Forms Evolved 3.75 Billion Years Ago – Challenging the Conventional View of When Life Began https://scitechdaily.com/diverse-life-forms-evolved-3-75-billion-years-ago-challenging-the-conventional-view-of-when-life-began/
A Startup Is Engineering Trees to Grow Faster and Capture More Carbon https://singularityhub.com/2022/04/14/a-startup-is-engineering-trees-to-grow-faster-and-capture-more-carbon/
DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content — “This is how the economics of the metaverse will ultimately make sense: virtual worlds needs virtual content created at virtually zero cost, fully customizable to the individual.” https://stratechery.com/2022/dall-e-the-metaverse-and-zero-marginal-content/
The neural code for ‘face cells’ is not face specific https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.06.483186v1
Synaptic wiring motifs in posterior parietal cortex support decision-making https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.13.488176v1
SpaceX beating Russian jamming attack was ‘eyewatering’: DoD official — “The way that Starlink was able to upgrade when a threat showed up, we need to be able to have that ability,” said Dave Tremper, the Pentagon’s director of electronic warfare. “We have to be able to change our electromagnetic posture, to be able to change very dynamically what we’re trying to do without losing capability along the way.” https://breakingdefense.com/2022/04/spacex-beating-russian-jamming-attack-was-eyewatering-dod-official/
“After being handed control of the 20 lowest-performing public schools in Houston, explicitly for the purpose of porting in the Zone’s pedagogy, Professor Fryer fired half the teachers and almost all of the principals. Within two years, he’d significantly boosted math scores and college matriculation.” https://quillette.com/2022/04/15/why-did-harvard-university-go-after-one-of-its-best-black-professors/