Links for 2022-04-24
Painting a Landscape with Maths: "We will define colors and shapes using formulas that when composed together into one large formula will result in this mathematical painting..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFld4EBO2RE
US Navy wirelessly beams 1.6 kW of power a kilometer using microwaves https://newatlas.com/energy/us-navy-beams-1-6-kw-power-kilometer-microwaves/
“So did you know that no-one really knows why the most used spacecraft propulsion system today actually works?” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1516013489722216450.html
“We have entered into an agreement to be acquired by Intrinsic, a robotics software and AI company at Alphabet, and our AGI research team is joining DeepMind.” https://intrinsic.ai/blog/posts/mission-momentum/
How Apple’s Monster M1 Ultra Chip Keeps Moore’s Law Alive https://www.wired.com/story/apple-m1-ultra-chip-moores-law/ (archived version: https://archive.ph/SKfVh)
Bot Can Spot Depressed Twitter Users in 9 of 10 Cases https://www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/articles/Bot-can-spot-depressed-Twitter-users-in-9-out-of-10-cases
Sensory Optimization: Neural Networks as a Model for Understanding and Creating Art [published in 2019] https://owainevans.github.io/visual_aesthetics/sensory-optimization.html
Do Large Language Models Understand Us? https://www.amacad.org/publication/do-large-language-models-understand-us
“If, in fact, the large language models are already displaying some kind of emergent intelligence, it might even suggest a path forward toward true artificial general intelligence. But if the large language models are ultimately just ‘‘stochastic parrots,’’ then A.G.I. retreats once again to the distant horizon…” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/magazine/ai-language.html (archived version: https://archive.ph/Xw63Y)
A.I. researchers are making progress on a long-term goal: giving their programs the kind of knowledge we take for granted. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/can-computers-learn-common-sense
NVIDIA's New AI: Next Level Image Editing! https://youtube.com/watch?v=cS4jCvzey-4
Experimental injection may repair spinal cord injuries, animal study suggests: "Mice that were paralyzed due to severe spinal cord damage regained the ability to walk within four weeks of receiving an experimental injectable therapy." https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/04/14/us-injection-spinal-cord-injuries/5361649948977/
244 genetic variants influencing differences in face shape between Europeans and East Asians have been discovered, and some differences are "caused by a directional selection, due mainly to a local adaptation in Europeans." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01038-7
“…it is now illegal to use a math test to make sure that math teachers know the material they would be teaching.” https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/those-unwanted-results-from-the-ontarios?s=r
Sweden is burning again: “Sweden’s descent into social unrest is a remarkable development in what was once one of Europe’s most stable societies.” https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sweden-riots-quran-burning-again
The progress that was made in ultrasound super-resolution imaging is truly amazing:
In vivo whole brain microvascular imaging in mice using transcranial 3D Ultrasound Localization Microscopy https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396422001797
Functional ultrasound imaging of recent and remote memory recall in the associative fear neural network in mice https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432822001309?dgcid=rss_sd_all
Coronary Flow Assessment Using 3-Dimensional Ultrafast Ultrasound Localization Microscopy https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1936878X22001401?dgcid=author
Ultrafast Doppler imaging and ultrasound localization microscopy reveal the complexity of vascular rearrangement in chronic spinal lesion https://rdcu.be/cLOSM