Links for 2022-09-10
Github Copilot productivity experiment: “The group that used GitHub Copilot had a higher rate of completing the task (78%, compared to 70% in the group without Copilot)...developers who used GitHub Copilot completed the task significantly faster–55% faster than the developers who didn’t use GitHub Copilot.” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/f2C4CWNmrSKMs6SaK/linkpost-github-copilot-productivity-experiment
“In 2018 we announced Multiplayer Mode. Since then, Replit became the world's leading collaborative editor. Today, we're announcing AI Mode, which infuses state-of-the-art intelligence into nearly all IDE features, the next major evolution for Replit: an AI-powered pair programmer.” https://blog.replit.com/ai
Rich Sutton, one of the founders of modern reinforcement learning, releases his 5-10 year plan for AI research - the Alberta Plan. https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11173
"Few-shot Learning with Retrieval Augmented Language Models…New SotA on NaturalQuestions, TriviaQA, FEVER, and 5 KILT tasks with an 11B-parameter retrieval-augmented model. These results include beating models like PaLM that used up to 50x more pretraining compute." https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03299
The Long, Leguminous Quest to Give Crops Nitrogen Superpowers [Wired] https://archive.ph/stksU
Contra-Rotating Floating Turbines Promise Unprecedented Scale and Power https://newatlas.com/energy/coaxial-vertical-floating-wind-turbines/
BBC Submarine Rescue 2005. A great docudrama detailing the recovery of the Russian submarine priz by the Royal Navy submarine rescue team. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egUS7873Ja4
“Even someone who knew physics pretty well might think this behavior impossible if they hadn't studied gyroscopes in particular. A reminder of how quick intuitive judgements can mislead.” — Robin Hanson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHGKIzCcVa0
Japan is the Canary in the Coal Mine – The Great Virtual Escape https://danfaggella.com/japan/
“South Korea plans to provide every family with a newborn child a monthly allowance of 1 million won ($740), in its latest move to encourage more births and try to address the world’s lowest fertility rate” [Bloomberg] https://archive.ph/Bfdyc
Mossad to CIA: Israel will not stand by as Iran defrauds the world https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-716712