Links for 2022-10-17
The first direct observation of gravitational waves captured the merging of 2 black holes which emitted 36 septillion yottawatts of power (3.6×10^49 watts), greater than the combined power of all light radiated by all the stars in the observable universe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_observation_of_gravitational_waves
“This is perhaps the most surprising robotics result our lab has produced in the last few years. Vision-based dexterity with no RL, no simulation, just from human teachers in mixed reality. The cool part: It shows zero-shot generalization to new objects.” https://twitter.com/LerrelPinto/status/1580595227852951553
“Welcome Relative Representations, enabling zero-shot communication between latent spaces without any training! It turns out that distinct neural networks learn intrinsically equivalent latent spaces...” http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15430
“I'm not a scaling maximalist, but it's surprising to me how many people are 1) interested in differences between human and artificial intelligence and 2) think scaling to improve performance means deep learning is doing something fundamentally wrong. Why? Because evolution made some pretty hefty tradeoffs in energy cost, soft/fractured skulls at birth, etc. in order to scale the human brain.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1575418456928813057.html
Collective Intelligence for Deep Learning: A Survey of Recent Developments https://blog.otoro.net/2022/10/01/collectiveintelligence/
Deep-learning-from-scratch video lectures https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhIrjkxbuWI23v9cThsA9GvCAUhRvKZ
Exceptional Abilities in Autism https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221113760
Wow, A Simulation That Looks Like Reality! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NAi30ZBpJU
On-Device Training Under 256KB Memory https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.15472
Long-term recordings of large populations of neurons reveal neural motifs representing internal states. https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/10/12/new-insight-into-the-hidden-states-of-the-brain/
China wants to lead in tech and is succeeding in many areas (e.g. robotics, space). China is an industrial giant that dominates manufacturing. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1580959042012602368.html
"China’s crackdown on its once-swaggering tech industry erased more than $1 trillion in combined market value." [Bloomberg] https://archive.ph/c82tO
“On Sep 5th, Jin Canrong, surrounded by smiling students and accompanied by an inspirational soundtrack, appeared on《这就是中国》to express his faith that "the day will soon come" when China's military power brings Taiwan back under mainland control.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1579201240466358273.html
"Between the 1980s and the 2010s Iranian women reduced the rate at which they had children from 6.5 to 2.5, faster than the pace of the one child policy in China." https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-161-irans-contested-demographic