Links for 2022-09-11
Modern humans generate more brain neurons than Neandertals. Due to the change of a single amino acid, brain evolution has proceeded differently. https://www.mpg.de/19178398/0906-mozg-modern-humans-generate-more-brain-neurons-than-neandertals-151300-x
This Jellyfish Can Live Forever. Its Genes May Tell Us How. [The New York Times] https://archive.ph/vYo0e
A Memory Prosthesis Could Restore Memory in People With Damaged Brains [MIT Technology Review] https://archive.ph/Y6jZ4
The Despotism of Isaias Afewerki. Eritrea’s dictator makes his move on Tigray. https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-despotism-of-isaias-afewerki-de-waal
The Dark Side of Solar Power: California's groundwater polluted by toxic heavy metals from discarded rooftop solar panels. The global green energy recycling industry is woefully unprepared for the deluge of waste that is on the way. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-07-14/california-rooftop-solar-pv-panels-recycling-danger
Estimation accuracy in the (building|road) construction industry https://shape-of-code.com/2022/07/31/estimation-accuracy-in-the-buildingroad-construction-industry/
"Awesome-LLM-Robotics": A comprehensive list of papers using large language/multi-modal models for Robotics/RL, including papers, codes, and related websites https://github.com/GT-RIPL/Awesome-LLM-Robotics
“Correct: OpenAI is trying to directly build safe AGI.” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3S4nyoNEEuvNsbXt8/common-misconceptions-about-openai
AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) http://blog.eladgil.com/2022/08/ai-revolution-transformers-and-large.html
“For two years, the AI world has had this glorious period of believing that big tech companies just need more compute to make their models better, not more user data. That period is ending. Here's what happened...” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1563455844670246912.html
Only two outdated tweets about the Ukrainian offensive. Things are moving too fast right now for a daily newsletter. Russian lines West of the Oskil have now completely collapsed.
The prediction that Ukrainians would surrender and that there is no Ukrainian identity has turned out to be spectacularly wrong.