Links for 2022-07-13
“Computer scientists have found a new type of problem that quantum computers can solve dramatically faster than their classical counterparts.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-algorithms-conquer-a-new-kind-of-problem-20220711/
Recursive self-improvement: NVIDIA uses reinforcement learning to make its chips better https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/designing-arithmetic-circuits-with-deep-reinforcement-learning/
“We discover that you can teach LLMs to solve longer problems *only* via in-context learning, instead of fine-tuning. This is mind-blowing🤯🤯! -- that certain skills are hard to be encoded in model weights, but much easier to be acquired from the context.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.04901
“Like humans, macaque monkeys pay most attention to information in the predictability Goldilocks zone: not too predictable (because then there's nothing to learn from it) but also not too unpredictable (because then it's beyond one's processing capacity).” https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0144
Violence and the homeless: An epidemiologic study of victimization and aggression — "The majority of men...had a history of physically aggressive behaviors, often beginning in childhood...The aggressive behaviors usually predated homelessness" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02111915
Robotic arms connected directly to brain of partially paralyzed man allows him to feed himself https://blog.frontiersin.org/2022/06/28/robotic-arms-feed-partially-paralyzed-man-bmi/
‘Fake’ data helps robots learn the ropes faster: A way to expand training data sets for manipulation tasks improves the performance of robots by 40% or more https://news.umich.edu/fake-data-helps-robots-learn-the-ropes-faster/
“Our study indicates that there are potentially multiple neural circuits in the brain that are constantly competing over which action to execute next.” https://scitechdaily.com/solving-a-neuroscience-riddle-how-the-brain-stops-us-from-jumping-the-gun/
Stunned by UFOs, ‘exasperated’ fighter pilots get little help from Pentagon https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3545072-stunned-by-ufos-exasperated-fighter-pilots-get-little-help-from-pentagon/
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope outperformed the quality of Hubble’s deep field in 12.5 hours compared to weeks: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet
The correct link for yesterday’s link number 8: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/06/researchers-exploit-new-intel-and-amd-cpu-flaw-to-steal-encryption-keys/