Links for 2022-08-08
Progress in Mathematical Programming Solvers from 2001 to 2020 https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09787
Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Program Better https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14502
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Has Nearly Frozen Nuclear Designs for 48 Years https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/08/nuclear-regulatory-commission-has-nearly-frozen-nuclear-designs-for-48-years.html
On Turing machines: an overview of Turing's (and other's) early work on the theory of computers https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io/2022/07/06/Turing_Machines.html
Faked Crystallography: all 992 flagged papers are from Chinese medical institutions. Bogus papers on metal-organic frameworks, weirdly worded manuscripts on nonexistent MOFs and their imaginary applications, full of apparently randomly selected "references" to the rest of the literature. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/faked-crystallography
"About 20% of our caloric intake feeds our brain when we’re resting even though it’s only 2% of our body weight. It’s a calorically expensive organ." https://razib.substack.com/p/applying-iq-to-iq
In 1991, ~25% of Americans were classified as obese but 48% thought they were "overweight." In 2018, the obesity rate increased to 42% but the percentage thinking they were overweight dropped to 42%. https://news.gallup.com/poll/7264/personal-weight-situation.aspx
Amazon is buying iRobot for $1.7B https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/amazon-is-buying-irobot-for-1-7b/?renderMode=ie11