Links for 2022-06-08
Saudi Arabia plans to spend $1 billion a year discovering treatments to slow aging https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/07/1053132/saudi-arabia-slow-aging-metformin/ (archived version: https://archive.ph/noPk8)
Exploring How Young Blood Helps Reverse Signs of Aging in Old Brains https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/06/06/exploring-how-young-blood-helps-reverse-signs-of-aging-in-old-brains/
Artificial intelligence to help autonomous vehicles avoid idling at red lights: “A single intervention having 20 to 25% reduction in fuel or emissions is really incredible. But what I find interesting, and was really hoping to see, is this non-linear scaling. If we only control 25% of vehicles, that gives us 50% of the benefits in terms of fuel and emissions reduction.” https://techxplore.com/news/2022-05-artificial-intelligence-autonomous-vehicles-idling.html
Notes on Teaching GPT-3 Adding Numbers: “Does GPT-3 know arithmetic? Are LM scratchpads/chain-of-thought prompting always helpful? What should go into a successful scratchpad when sampling predictions from GPT-3?” https://lingo.csail.mit.edu/blog/arithmetic_gpt3/
Macaw is a language model developed by Allen AI (AI2). It is freely available and open-source. Macaw is 1⁄10th the size of GPT-3 and roughly 10% more accurate at answering questions… https://github.com/allenai/macaw
AstroForge aims to succeed where other asteroid mining companies have failed https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/astroforge-aims-to-succeed-where-other-asteroid-mining-companies-have-failed/
Navy’s 85-Foot Orca Unmanned Submarine Will Be A Minelayer First https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/navys-85-foot-orca-unmanned-submarine-will-be-a-minelayer-first
"Cost-efficient whole genome-sequencing using novel mostly natural sequencing-by-synthesis chemistry and open fluidics platform", Almogy et al 2022 {Ultima Genomics} https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.29.493900v1.full
Ultima Genomics Storms Out Of Stealth Promising $1/Gigabase Short Reads https://omicsomics.blogspot.com/2022/05/ultima-genomics-storms-out-of-stealth.html
How to win an election in 10 easy steps: an effective altruist's guide https://trevorklee.substack.com/p/how-to-win-an-election-in-10-easy?s=r
Overall, the assumptions shown in this screenshot were all reasonable.
For example, pick a random person from the pool of all politicians in the world. It will most likely be a man.
It's also more likely that a woman will be described as beautiful than a man.
We might not like this but if we desire a translation that's most likely to fit a given situation rather than one that we would hope for then this is a good translation.