Links for 2022-07-31
Robots Learn To Play With Play Dough – Better Than People With Just 10 Minutes of Data http://hxu.rocks/robocraft/
"EarthGrid's … plasma boring robot it's developing can dig underground tunnels as much as 100 times faster than the competition, all while costing about 98 percent less." https://newatlas.com/energy/earthgrid-tunnel-boring-robot/
"The Heat Beneath Our Feet" a bipartisan, multi-state effort to rapidly scale up geothermal power in the western United States. https://westgov.org/initiatives/overview/the-heat-beneath-our-feet
“It's a new state-of-the-art for self-supervised learning on this benchmark while using nearly 10× fewer parameters than previous best performing approaches and 100× fewer labeled images than current mask-based auto-encoder.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.07141
ML-Enhanced Code Completion Improves Developer Productivity — “A small but specialized LM trained on extremely high-quality data and backed by static analysis beats much larger models in production.” https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/07/ml-enhanced-code-completion-improves.html?m=1
“And the most fatal belief with these systems is that you already know what they can do and to not try any silly prompts. If you never try, you'll never know, and it's not like GPT-3 itself will ever tell you about the many outrageous prompts which remain undiscovered.” https://www.reddit.com/r/mlscaling/comments/w5h2lb/comment/ihdr3bx/
Research funding through competitions might result in total waste through rent dissipation https://www.cspicenter.com/p/mo-money-mo-problems
England’s New Conservative Superstar https://www.commonsense.news/p/englands-new-conservative-superstar