Lockdown, a selective small-molecule inhibitor of the integrin phosphatase PPM1F, blocks cancer cell invasion https://www.cell.com/cell-chemical-biology/fulltext/S2451-9456(22)00128-3
A new state of the art for unsupervised vision: MIT CSAIL scientists created an algorithm to solve one of the hardest tasks in computer vision: assigning a label to every pixel in the world, without human supervision. https://news.mit.edu/2022/new-unsupervised-computer-vision-algorithm-stego-0421
New Heat Engine With No Moving Parts Could Fully Decarbonize the Power Grid https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04473-y
Why are there NP-complete problems, really? It turns out it’s for the same reason everybody now owns a computer. A post explaining how that is! https://matjaz.substack.com/p/why-are-there-complete-problems-really?s=r
Infrared Mind Control: program the brain using infrared after injecting subjects with nanoscopic beads https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/04/infrared-mind-control.html
“The recklessness is not the source of the problem. The problem is that cautious people do not know what to do to get an AI that doesn't destroy the world, even if they want that; not because they're "insufficiently educated" in some solution that is known elsewhere, but because there is no known plan in which to educate them.” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dSaScvukmCRqey8ug/convince-me-that-humanity-is-as-doomed-by-agi-as-yudkowsky?commentId=ojLuhmKpDT2JvktfZ
After Years of Promises, NLP is Ready to Prove Doubters Wrong https://consensus.app/blog/after-years-of-promises-nlp-text-processing-is-ready-to-prove-doubters-wrong/
Quantum channel correction outperforming direct transmission https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29376-4
Quantum Communication at Room Temperature https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-communication
Forgetting, fast and slow: Harvard study begins to grapple with process of exactly how it works, finds it does not reverse changes brought by learning https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/04/harvard-scientists-show-forgetting-does-not-reverse-the-learning-process/
Will a 'Turing Test' for plant-based meat be passed if such a test is conducted by April 2023? https://www.metaculus.com/questions/7057/turing-test-for-plant-based-meat-by-2023/
IQ's by university major from SAT's https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/iqs-by-university-degrees-from-sats?s=r
Returns to skills are systematically lower in countries with higher union density, stricter employment protection, and larger public-sector shares. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014292114001433?via%3Dihub
I bought a Google Titan Security Key. It is a more secure hardware-based form of multi-factor authentication. Various services such as Dropbox and Facebook support it. I also disabled other methods such as those based on an Authenticator App or SMS.
If you use it and someone wants to log into your account they will need both your password and the physical key.
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