Links for 2022-07-17
“Researchers at Australia's University of Queensland (UQ) have built a nanomechanical logic gate that uses vibrations for information processing rather than electrons, which could approach the physical lower limit for energy consumption (the Landauer limit).” https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361500869_Scalable_nanomechanical_logic_gate
The map of the brain, created by an aerospace engineer: “It was an amazing and humbling experience to anticipate the circuitry that an engineer would expect to find was right where I thought it would be. My engineering and software coding background helped me to ‘reverse engineer’ my way through the brain.” https://thehighestofthemountains.com/brainmaps.html
“Have you ever “heard” yourself talk in your head? Turns out it's a useful tool for robots too! Introducing Inner Monologue: feeding continual textual feedback into LLMs allows robots to articulate a grounded “thought process” to execute long, abstract instructions.” https://innermonologue.github.io/
LM-Nav: Robotic Navigation with Large Pre-Trained Models of Language, Vision, and Action https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.04429
The Cost of Torture: Evidence from the Spanish Inquisition: “…torture yielded information that was often reliable: witnesses in the torture chamber and witnesses that were not tortured provided corresponding information about collaborators, locations, events, and practices.” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09636412.2020.1761441
“A discovery about how algorithms can learn and retain information more efficiently offers potential insight into the brain’s ability to absorb new knowledge.” https://news.uci.edu/2022/07/05/solving-algorithm-amnesia-reveals-clues-to-how-we-learn/
U.S. Navy Uses 3D Printers to Turn Warships Into Weapons Factories https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a40577952/navy-3d-printing-spares-drone-parts/
Japan Proposes a Wild Concept for Making Artificial Gravity on the Moon https://singularityhub.com/2022/07/11/japan-proposes-a-wild-concept-for-making-artificial-gravity-on-the-moon/