Links for 2022-09-03
“With the equivalent of only two hours of gameplay in the Atari 100k benchmark, IRIS achieves a mean human normalized score of 1.046, and outperforms humans on 10 out of 26 games…and even surpasses MuZero.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00588
This Company Is About to Grow New Organs in a Person for the First Time [MIT Technology Review] https://archive.ph/ah3Yh
"1,000 ancient genomes uncover 10,000 years of natural selection in Europe", Le et al 2022 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.24.505188v1.full
‘Phenomenal’ ancient DNA data set provides clues to origin of farming and early languages [Science.org] https://archive.ph/UbitV
How to terraform Mars for $10b in 10 years https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/how-to-terraform-mars-for-10b-in-10-years/
Researchers engineer first sustainable chromosome changes in mice https://phys.org/news/2022-08-sustainable-chromosome-mice.html
AlphaZero vs StockFish || StockFish family analyzes a fascinating game played against Alphazero. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_t0CY8xVwo
“The Chicago and Sanitary Ship Canal is the path that invasive carp would take to reach the Great Lakes. So to stop them, the US Army Corps of Engineers has installed an electric barrier.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3oLeSPINOk
GPU Engines Are So Strategic China Will Have To Use Its Own https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/01/gpu-engines-are-so-strategic-china-will-have-to-use-its-own/