Links for 2022-10-02
Brain2GAN: Reconstructing perceived faces from the primate brain https://openreview.net/forum?id=hT1S68yza7
“it is generally thought that fMRI responses are too slow for language decoding. to overcome this low temporal resolution, we developed a bayesian decoder that combines state of the art language models and encoding models to generate rapidly changing word sequences” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1575846939543076865.html
Is Whisper OpenAI's means for gathering the training tokens (from YouTube) to train GPT-4? https://twitter.com/ethanCaballero/status/1572692314400628739
Half of single men report not approaching women out of the fear of being seen as creepy. https://psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-instincts/202209/what-makes-man-come-creepy
"Space-time tradeoffs of lenses and optics via higher category theory" https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09351
“Pessimistic forecasters are overconfident in fixating, hedgehog-like, on only one scenario for how they think something must happen; in reality, there are always many ways through the garden of forking paths, and something needs only one path to happen.” https://www.gwern.net/Forking-Paths
“NVIDIA GET3D generates 3D shapes with high-fidelity textures and complex geometric details. These 3D objects are created in the same format used by popular graphics software applications.” https://nv-tlabs.github.io/GET3D/
Environmental activists say that climate change is an emergency. Then why aren’t they treating it like one? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/capitalism-clean-energy-technology-permitting/671545/
Seven months into the invasion, Russia controls less land than it did in the initial days of the war. See how the advances stalled. https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2022/09/europe/russia-territory-control-ukraine-shift-dg/