Links for 2022-07-26
A superhighway for drones to fly between British cities https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62177614
What's the Lifespan for a Nuclear Reactor? Much Longer Than You Might Think https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/whats-lifespan-nuclear-reactor-much-longer-you-might-think
To search for life on Mars, stop refusing to look: How a small group of NASA scientists has delayed Mars exploration by decades https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-to-search-for-life-on-mars
A Genetic Hypothesis for American Race/Ethnic Differences in Mean g https://psyarxiv.com/ge4zu/
In 1800, the returns to scientific research were ~100x higher than today https://www.openphilanthropy.org/research/social-returns-to-productivity-growth/
Where are the Facts Inside a Language Model?
Engineering circular RNA for enhanced protein production https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01393-0
“…our results for the Solar System show that relative perturbations to Neptune’s semi-major axis of order 0.1 per cent are strong enough to increase the probability of destabilizing the Solar System within 5 Gyrs by one order of magnitude.” https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1763/6623677?login=false
Arguments that solar will soon be cheap enough to produce hydrocarbons for less $ than drilling for them https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2022/07/22/were-going-to-need-a-lot-of-solar-panels/
Senate Advances More Than $50 Billion Bill to Boost US Semiconductor Production https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/20/chips-act-vote-senate-advances-semiconductor-bill.html
China’s SMIC Is Shipping 7nm Foundry ASICs | The Most Advanced Foundry In The World After TSMC And Samsung https://semianalysis.com/chinas-smic-is-shipping-7nm-foundry-asics-the-most-advanced-foundry-in-the-world-after-tsmc-and-samsung/
Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm ever? https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01111
We present an extremely simple sorting algorithm. It may look like it is obviously wrong, but we prove that it is in fact correct. We compare it with other simple sorting algorithms, and analyse some of its curious properties.