Links for 2022-11-02
PhD thesis for anyone wanting to gain a rigorous but unfussy understanding of the mathematics of deep learning. http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10101
A word processor with artificial intelligence baked in, so you can write faster. https://lex.page/ (demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cao0oy1CBg)
Ghostwriter, Replit's Coding AI: Ghostwriter comes with: 1. Complete Code 2. Generate Code 3. Explain Code 4. Transform Code https://replit.com/site/ghostwriter
AI Helps Humans Level Up: Chess players and programmers now have access to tools that can improve skills and unleash creativity https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-tools
Machine vision breakthrough: This device can see ‘millions of colors’ https://news.northeastern.edu/2022/10/05/machine-vision-artificial-intelligence/
“In early 2022, I began a ~9 month project to write: "what's up with fertility?", ranging from demography to assisted reproductive technology. Of course, the "tale grew in the telling", so 40k words later I covered many more Qs that came up...I cover these topics, and much more (embryo selection with polygenic scores, reproductive aging...) in the whitepaper.” https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT1hgf95phUa4e1nqf2VTfjFmUeSBwb7mihE86cU6bE1EI-EZteWm6UmeC18PJSs3Laog4rP7qKtT1j/pub
"Using twenty years of earnings data on Finnish twins, we find that about 40% of the variance of women’s and little more than half of men’s lifetime labour earnings are linked to genetic factors. The contribution of the shared environment is negligible." https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10888-019-09413-x.pdf
On the Randomness of Automatic Card Shufflers https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/10/on-the-randomness-of-automatic-card-shufflers.html
“Should Germany reduce its economic dependencies on China, even if this leads to economic losses?” 66% of Germans say rather yes. https://koerber-stiftung.de/site/assets/files/25420/theberlinpulse2022_2023.pdf