Links for 2022-07-14
“Today, we're announcing the first model capable of automatically verifying hundreds of thousands of citations at once.” https://tech.fb.com/artificial-intelligence/2022/07/how-ai-could-help-make-wikipedia-entries-more-accurate/
Language Models (Mostly) Know What They Know — “We show that language models can evaluate whether what they say is true, and predict ahead of time whether they'll be able to answer questions correctly.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05221
Why Elden Ring is great, and how not to die binomially. — “…a vast and beautiful open world full of monsters who repeatedly kill you in gruesome ways…” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K5DZyGg2fwf5EhqzG/tarnished-guy-who-puts-a-num-on-it
Genetic Screening Now Lets Parents Pick the Healthiest Embryos [WIRED] https://archive.ph/SR9Ej
3-D Printing Grows Beyond Its Novelty Roots: With the technology improving and costs falling, 3-D printing could be poised to play a major role in manufacturing. [The New York Times] https://archive.ph/Tbtw4
Octopuses may be so terrifyingly smart because they share humans' genes for intelligence https://www.livescience.com/jumping-genes-octopus-intelligence
"Particles of light, or photons, could be transmitted over vast, interstellar distances without losing their quantum nature. That means scientists searching for extraterrestrial signals could also look for quantum messages." https://www.sciencenews.org/article/alien-quantum-communication-extraterrestrial-communication-signal
A very superficial glimpse of what category theory is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAi3XWCBkDo
DNA Typewriter, a molecular recorder that allows for time-resolved recording of sequential events https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04922-8
“A CRISPR-based bacterial recording system (Record-seq) captures signatures of diet, disease, and microbial interactions within the intestine – helping us understand how diet, disease, and the microbiota shape health.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1524845118255157256.html