Links for 2022-09-04
“The apparent rate of biomedical progress has never been greater.” https://markov.bio/biomedical-progress/
"From Motor Control to Team Play in Simulated Humanoid Football", Liu et al 2021 {DM} (curriculum training of a single NN from raw humanoid control to coordinated team-wide soccer strategy) https://www.deepmind.com/blog/from-motor-control-to-embodied-intelligence
"What if we asked langauge models to complete text describing what a human would do in a situation? Would they produce realistic answers? How close to human behavior would they get? The authors of this paper answer these questions by simulating classic psych studies, with participant responses given by GPT-3 variants. What they found was that the responses of large models roughly matched what humans actually did in these experiments." https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1565965381457416193.html
What Do NLP Researchers Believe? Results Of The NLP Community Metasurvey https://nlpsurvey.net/
Samples From Asteroid Ryugu Contain Bits That Came From Outside the Solar System https://www.universetoday.com/157282/samples-from-asteroid-ryugu-contain-bits-that-came-from-outside-the-solar-system/
Why is it so hard to predict when and where it's going to rain? Well, part of the answer is that not all rain is the same... https://youtu.be/snCo0Z0dt-k
Photovoltaic-driven microbial protein production can use land and sunlight more efficiently than conventional crops https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2015025118
The Fall of ‘Nature’: A once-respected journal has announced that it will be subordinating science to ideology. https://quillette.com/2022/08/28/the-fall-of-nature/
“The reason I want to congratulate the editors of Nature Human Behaviour is that they are being open and honest about a policy that most social science journals already have.” https://noahcarl.substack.com/p/scientists-not-doing-science
The Ideological Refusal to Acknowledge Evolved Sex Differences https://quillette.com/2022/09/01/the-ideological-refusal-to-acknowledge-evolved-sex-differences/
I just wanted to check whether Stable Diffusion knows what Angela Merkel looks like. Turns out it does.
From Eckhard Mackh:
This was after Putin started conquering Ukraine in 2014...
The reason to celebrate was that an economically ridiculously weak, at the same time highly aggressive and militaristic country with the goal of conquering Lisbon at the other end of the continent, which is ruled by a secret service subculture, for which political murders are a natural means of ruling and which sometimes shoots down passenger planes, makes Europe's largest national economy dependent on its fuel supplies, which means that it can directly influence the elementary needs of its inhabitants at any time, and that expressly with a pipeline that does not prevent this country from going to war with Ukraine and other neighboring countries!
I continue to wonder why it is not possible to incarcerate Angela Merkel at least until the end of her life for such an obvious case of high treason.