Links for 2022-07-19
i-Sim2Real: Reinforcement Learning of Robotic Policies in Tight Human-Robot Interaction Loops — “…we train robots to play table tennis cooperatively with humans for up to 340 hit rallies. That’s 4+ mins of play without dropping the ball.” https://sites.google.com/view/is2r
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy reveals brain activity on the move https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208729119
Dimensional Analysis: A Secret Weapon in Physics https://profmattstrassler.com/2022/06/21/dimensional-analysis-a-secret-weapon-in-physics/
When will the first AI-generated book be on the New York Times Best Seller list? https://www.metaculus.com/questions/11679/first-ai-generated-nyt-best-seller/
Chile: Racial Admixture and Social Outcomes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev-4mRqtTAA
“the extreme environment paradox: an extreme environment can sustain chemical evolution as well as arriving non-native life, yet native life cannot be built up in that very environment.” https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2021.0153
Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic https://spectrum.ieee.org/lotfi-zadeh
Who is against nuclear energy? Women and people who worry "a great deal" about climate change https://news.gallup.com/poll/392831/americans-divided-nuclear-energy.aspx
How a Public School in Florida Built America’s Greatest Math Team [Wall Street Journal] https://archive.ph/0p12Q (note how the article ignores that most of the kids appear to be Asian)