Links for 2022-10-14
"The number of AI papers on arXiv per month grows exponentially with doubling rate of 24 months." https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1580597088773341185.html
“Interested in aging and cancer. I did a year of literature survey on this. Here is my list of 20 key open questions and challenges to better understand the interplay between aging and cancer.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1575529608174108672.html
“In this post, I would like to draw attention to the book Principles of Deep Learning Theory (PDLT), which I think represents a significant advance in our understanding of how neural networks work.” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nRu92PXLrdwqdtQmn/more-recent-progress-in-the-theory-of-neural-networks-1
Math is the great secret. [The New York Times] https://archive.ph/zEQsU
Futurist prediction methods and accuracy https://danluu.com/futurist-predictions/
Dysgenics by the Numbers — Quantifying the Fall of Civilization https://georgefrancis.substack.com/p/dysgenics-by-the-numbers
“I am proposing that it can be helpful to think of Ideas as occupying a space that exists alongside the purely physical world with which we’re all familiar, and that further it is useful to think of this parallel emergent world as extremely real and not at all a metaphor.” https://eigenrobot.substack.com/p/the-map-is-of-the-territory
MIT Chemical Engineers Are Cracking the Carbon Removal Challenge https://scitechdaily.com/mit-chemical-engineers-are-cracking-the-carbon-removal-challenge/
The Ideological Refusal to Acknowledge Evolved Sex Differences. https://quillette.com/2022/09/01/the-ideological-refusal-to-acknowledge-evolved-sex-differences/
The largest and most efficient advanced compressed air energy storage (CAES) project has been connected to the electricity grid in Zhangjiakou, a city in China. The world’s 1st 100-MW CAES plant will power 40,000-60,000 households at peak power use... https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/the-worlds-largest-compressed-air-energy-storage-ready-for-commercial-operation
A brief history of Ukrainian electoral politics in the past decade https://1991dispatch.substack.com/p/what-elon-musk-gets-wrong-about-ukraine
List of times a nuclear state lost/stalemated and didn't use a nuke https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/y1lioc/list_of_times_a_nuclear_state_loststalemated_and/
The Russian army will be 'annihilated' if it launches a nuclear attack, warns Josep Borrell https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/10/13/the-russian-army-will-be-annihilated-if-it-launches-a-nuclear-attack-warns-josep-borrell (previously: Petraeus: US would destroy Russia’s troops if Putin uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/02/us-russia-putin-ukraine-war-david-petraeus)
Musk: Russia attacks Starlink on a daily basis; active terminals in Iran.