Links for 2022-09-15
“I've never had so many "this can't possibly be true, we must have a bug" results in the course of a research project before…It's basically saying that neural networks might be bigger -- potentially *much* bigger -- than their surface structure implies, simulating a larger sparser system.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1570096782390226944.html
“If this result holds up generally, merging networks trained on different parts of data looks feasible…The basic idea is simple: you can permute hidden layer neurons, so there are actually far fewer internal models than it looks. Training gets to one, with linear mode connectivity. Can hence interpolate differently trained networks if one is careful.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1570000107646468096.html
“…we demonstrate that the second law of infodynamics requires the information entropy to remain constant or to decrease over time.” https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0100358
"the independent intelligences research program is degenerating, since it has not led to the discovery of hitherto unknown novel facts" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-022-00565-1
Earth receives 37,000 to 78,000 tons of asteroid material from space every year. http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/75-our-solar-system/comets-meteors-and-asteroids/meteorites/313-how-many-meteorites-hit-earth-each-year-intermediate
Around the globe, parenthood is accompanied by more conservative worldviews, and experimentally inducing a parental mindset boosts conservative thinking. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.0978
Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/9780/did-english-ever-have-a-formal-version-of-you
"We are not threatened by there being too many people. We are threatened by people who think there are too many people." https://quillette.com/2022/09/08/in-defence-of-progress/
Causal structure-based root cause analysis of outliers https://proceedings.mlr.press/v162/budhathoki22a.html
Taking UFOs / Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP:) seriously, as a solution to the Fermi Paradox. https://thedebrief.org/the-paradox-of-fermis-paradox/