Links for 2022-08-10
Scientists create synthetic mouse embryos, a potential key to healing humans [Washington Post] https://archive.ph/AXDNw
The world’s best public, open source language model is now Made in China http://keg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/glm-130b/posts/glm-130b/
Researchers propose affordable and sustainable alternative to lithium-ion batteries https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08-sustainable-alternative-lithium-ion-batteries.html
Heinz: The brand is one of the first to rely on OpenAI's Dall-E 2 art generator https://www.adweek.com/commerce/heinz-taps-ai-design-next-ad-campaign/
People were extremely less likely to interfere with a theft in progress than they had hypothetically predicted. https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10508422.2022.2104282
The Consequences of Marrying Your Cousin https://youtu.be/kyNP3s5mxI8
Free markets are creating a major free speech problem: Integration with China was supposed to spread our values; it's done the opposite https://www.slowboring.com/p/china-speech
Build Nuclear Now, a new policy campaign to enable advanced nuclear reactors
The Sahara was green from 14,000 to 5,000 years ago. Some researchers believe that it became a desert due to the sudden cooling of the Atlantic Ocean. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2024898118
Biomass requires more than 10,000 times more land than nuclear power: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0270155&fs=e&s=cl
(Note the log scale!)