Links for 2022-10-05
Orexin and the quest for more waking hours: “I decided to research the area more deeply and updated to believe that it’s more likely that we can reduce human sleep needs without significant negative side effects.” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sksP9Lkv9wqaAhXsA/orexin-and-the-quest-for-more-waking-hours
“The grokking phenomenon seemed very puzzling and uncontrollable, but no more! We understand grokking via the lens of neural landscapes, and show we can induce or eliminate grokking on various datasets as we wish.” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jusq6kyZ6XSrtW3Bf/paper-summary-omnigrok-grokking-beyond-algorithmic-data
A language model can improve itself https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1576748318826278912.html
IBM scientists cool down the world’s largest quantum-ready cryogenic concept system https://research.ibm.com/blog/goldeneye-cryogenic-concept-system
“Every now and then you stumble across a piece of physics, some detail about how the universe works, that is extremely lucky in some sense…This happy piece of physics is the basis for the dilution refrigerator, which lets us cool materials down to within a few mK of absolute zero.” http://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2008/10/fortuitous-physics.html
Deep Learning the Functional Renormalization Group https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.136402
A comprehensive mathematical framework treats wrinkling patterns as elegant solutions to geometric problems. https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-new-math-of-wrinkling-patterns-20220922/
“People who say that anyone can make AI art are the latest in a long line of people who said the same thing about some of the most important art of the 20th century.” https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/09/ai-art-generators-future/671568/
Best 100+ Stable Diffusion Prompts: The Most Beautiful AI Text-to-Image Prompts https://mpost.io/best-100-stable-diffusion-prompts-the-most-beautiful-ai-text-to-image-prompts/ — “I defy anyone to read these Stable Diffusion prompts, and not recognize sorcerers chanting arcane language and a long list of forgotten names from lore, in order to cajole a half-comprehending distant spirit into doing their will.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Mechanical Principles combined in a Useless Lego Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1-YeqGynlw