Links for 2022-08-01
US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/us-regulators-will-certify-first-small-nuclear-reactor-design/
The brains of Neanderthals developed differently from those of modern humans https://www.mpg.de/19021613/0727-mozg-taking-your-time-makes-a-difference-brain-development-differs-between-neanderthals-and-modern-humans-151300-x
Gathering Steam: Unlocking Geothermal Potential in the United States https://www.cspicenter.com/p/gathering-steam-unlocking-geothermal
Pre-Columbian Caribbean population was in the tens of thousands, not the 1-3 million that historians had estimated. [published in 2020] https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/ancient-dna-retells-story-of-caribbeans-first-people/
How independent writers are turning to AI https://www.theverge.com/c/23194235/ai-fiction-writing-amazon-kindle-sudowrite-jasper
Meet the scientists using AlphaFold https://unfolded.deepmind.com/
Can experts in Dan Dennett's philosophy distinguish Dennett's answers to philosophical questions from answers generated by a computer program trained on Dennett's works? Yes and no. Yes, better than chance. But no, not at all reliably. https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2022/07/results-computerized-philosopher-can.html
InfiniteNature-Zero: “We present a method for learning to generate unbounded flythrough videos of natural scenes starting from a single view, where this capability is learned from a collection of single photographs, without requiring camera poses or even multiple views of each scene.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.11148
Mechanics invent an axle that can achieve steering angles of up to 80 degrees https://interestingengineering.com/axle-steering-angles-80-degrees