“The methods underlying DALL·E 2 are conceptually simple, and I thought people might find it interesting to understand how it works. Here's an explanation accessible to a non-ML audience.” http://adityaramesh.com/posts/dalle2/dalle2.html
“The Python Package I Wish I'd Learned Earlier” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Nf9KNhsPw
This article by on the 'AI Transition Problem'. Argues that the hard problem with automation is not 'what will replace the value we get from work?' but 'how can we build institutions that ensure we transition to a utopian post-work economy?' http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2022/04/ai-and-the-transition-paradox/
Lighting Up Artificial Neural Networks: A team of international scientists have performed difficult machine learning computations using a nano-scale device, named an “optomemristor”. https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_909263_en.html
Certain molecules are so unstable that just looking at them makes them explode. The structure of solid fluorine has been explored for only the second time, by using neutron diffraction crystallography. It has been a mystery since 1964! https://chemistryviews.org/details/ezine/11141276/Structure_of_Solid_Fluorine_Revisited.html
When you absentmindedly reach out to pick up your cup of coffee and take a sip, what happens in your brain? Many studies have shown that brain activity begins to ramp up even before you are aware of your choice to move. https://neuroscience.caltech.edu/news/new-insights-into-the-neuroscience-behind-conscious-awareness-of-choice
"3.8% of deaths in Mexico are caused by suboptimal temperature (26,000 every year). However, 92% of weather-related deaths are induced by cold (<12 degrees C) or mildly cold (12–20 degrees C) days & only 2% by outstandingly hot days (>32 degrees C)." https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20180594
"differences in test motivation have, on average, a negligible influence on intelligence test performance. (≈ 2.5 IQ points)." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289622000332
A meta-analysis of sex differences in human brain structure: "On average, males have larger total brain volumes than females... Regional sex differences in volume and tissue density include the amygdala, hippocampus and insula, areas known to be implicated in sex-biased neuropsychiatric conditions." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763413003011
A comment on a new twin study by Anonymous: “the twin raised in the US suffered three concussions as an adult, including one in 2018 that resulted in "light sensitivity and concentration difficulty" and led her to feel like a "different person, with increased anger and anxiety." It is hardly surprising that someone who has suffered multiple major concussions would score lower on tests of cognitive ability than someone who has not.” https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/05/a-new-twins-study.html?commentID=160433659
A thread by a first responder on the enormous cognitive inequalities present in society and how most people fail to notice them due to self-segregation: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1521927810809569281.html
This is why so many smart people believe that IQ is bullshit and that everyone can learn to program. They simply have never had a technical conversation with someone whose intelligence is one or two standard deviations below their own.
See also:
1. The Dangers of Ignoring Cognitive Inequality https://quillette.com/2018/08/25/the-dangers-of-ignoring-cognitive-inequality/
2. The Idiocy of the Average: reasonably intelligent people tend to overestimate how smart everyone else is. Half of Americans are unable to correctly read a table and do a simple addition/subtraction calculation. https://archive.is/ySvfT
#3 was a really good short piece here