Links for 2022-07-16
DeepMind AI Learns Simple Physics Like a Baby https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01921-7
Columbia Engineers build a robot that learns to understand itself, rather than the world around it https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/hod-lipson-robot-self-awareness
"Using GPT-3 to explain how code works", Simon Willison https://simonwillison.net/2022/Jul/9/gpt-3-explain-code/
“Dark matter: Our review suggests it's time to ditch it in favor of a new theory of gravity” https://phys.org/news/2022-07-dark-ditch-favor-theory-gravity.html
Dark Matter Doesn't Exist https://iai.tv/articles/dark-matter-doesnt-exist-auid-2180?_auid=2020
"world’s biggest dark-matter detector… see no sign [yet]… from 65 days worth of data… [but] that’s a tiny fraction of the 1000 days of data LZ researchers aim to take over the next 3 to 5 years" https://www.science.org/content/article/dark-matter-hunt-heats-first-result-world-s-biggest-detector
Pāṇini, the father of linguistics: “His treatise is generative and descriptive, uses metalanguage and meta-rules, and has been compared to the Turing machine wherein the logical structure of any computing device has been reduced to its essentials using an idealized mathematical model.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini
"The results could hardly be clearer: although some researchers successfully replicated their own [social-priming] findings, we did not find a single successful replication by an independent team of researchers." https://psyarxiv.com/dwg9v/
"Natural selection could be making society more unequal, by increasing the correlation between income and polygenic scores, including scores that predict health and educational outcomes." https://phys.org/news/2022-07-natural-society-unequal.html
“The Air Force has been pumping out stunning imagery of the B-1B swing-wing bomber during its Bomber Task Force mission in the Pacific.” https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/these-photos-from-the-b-1bs-latest-guam-deployment-are-just-rediculous