Links for 2022-07-30
Robotic Telekinesis: Learning a Robotic Hand Imitator by Watching Humans on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVrcBY0lOWw
Ant colonies behave like neural networks when making decisions https://phys.org/news/2022-07-ant-colonies-neural-networks-decisions.html
New AI Can Automatically Detect a Serious Heart Condition https://opg.optica.org/boe/fulltext.cfm?uri=boe-13-7-3922&id=477017
You can rejuvenate old human skins by grafting it on young mice. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35749494/
Permanent Mars base by 1987, Jupiter base by 1996, human landing by 1999 and interstellar probes riding pulsed nuclear drives before 2000: The space future K. Ehricke thought we'd have back in 1963. https://aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=4881
A non-fusion FRC thruster https://web.archive.org/web/20160730022304/https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/pnwmsnw/ELF_IEPC-2009-265.pdf
The American Association of Medical Colleges has approved a DEI-based curriculum, flush with white supremacy, intersectionality, power & oppression, which AAMC Council of Deans Chair says is as important as teaching latest scientific breakthroughs. https://lawrencekrauss.substack.com/p/association-of-american-medical-colleges
Why you should care about space people https://www.t3telemetry.com/why-you-should-care-about-space-people/
"In the 2019 TIMSS scores, the countries in green are places where the 95th percentile of students performed below the South Korean median in math." (via @GarettJones)
This was in response to Paul Graham's patently absurd conjecture that talent might be equally distributed: https://mobile.twitter.com/GarettJones/status/1552363549078523906
One doesn't even have to consider genetics to know that talent cannot be equally distributed. Environmental factors such as malnutrition will lead to differences in the mean IQ of populations. And even moderate differences in the means of two distributions translate to a large difference in the tails. For example, if population A has an average IQ of 100 whereas population B has an average IQ of 105 then among people with an IQ of 160 or higher the Bs will outnumber the As by a ratio of roughly 4 to 1.
And it's not just the environment, as countries such as North Korea show. Even though they have one of the worst political systems imaginable, including malnutrition, they still manage to achieve feats, such as designing intercontinental ballistic missiles, that no Sub-Saharan African country could even dream of.
Approximately 116 first-generation immigrants have founded American Fortune 500 companies. 106 come from Europe or the anglosphere (Canada/Australia/SA) and 6 are East Asian.
England has 21 entries, Germany 17, Canada 14, Russia 9, Ireland 8, Scotland 7, Switzerland 6, France 4, Poland 4, Taiwan 4, Sweden 3, Hungary 3, Brazil 1, Italy 1, Greece 1, Cuba 1, Zambia 1, Norway 1, Australia 1, Netherlands 1, Turkey 1, South Africa 1, Lithuania 1, Bosnia 1, Croatia 1, Finland 1, China 1, Hong Kong 1.
The Brazilian is a white Jew. The Cuban is also white. The “Turkish immigrant” is Armenian.
Source: http://startupsusa.org/fortune500/
See also: The Demographics of Innovation in the United States, Page 27 http://www2.itif.org/2016-demographics-of-innovation.pdf?_ga=2.44113956.1263383430.1513639962-1733797525.1513639962