Links for 2022-11-07
Stable Diffusion Is Getting Outrageously Good! 🤯https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT8e1EV5-ic
The Case for Energy Optimism: “Over the last few years cobalt demand estimates have been crushed by developments in cathode chemistry due to cost and performance improvements in simpler chemistries – I am sceptical that this is the last time that today’s ‘unobtainium’ becomes tomorrows chopped liver.” https://syncretica.substack.com/p/the-case-for-energy-optimism
“Preparing for class and just learned that the "pink tax" seems to be a myth. Identical (or nearly identical) goods marketed to women are, if anything, slightly cheaper on average than when marketed to men…” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1580380290551189506.html
How several dimensions of features get stored in a single neuron. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1582853643803336705.html
Age of Invention: Why wasn't the Steam Engine Invented Earlier? Part III https://antonhowes.substack.com/p/age-of-invention-why-wasnt-the-steam-76c
The Long, Strange Relationship Between Psychedelics and Telepathy https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34xa5/the-long-strange-relationship-between-psychedelics-and-telepathy
Physicists see light waves moving through a metal https://phys.org/news/2022-10-physicists-metal.html
This Harvard Female Scientist Wants To Use Genetics To Reverse The Age Of Your Skin https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexzhavoronkov/2022/10/31/this-harvard-female-scientist-wants-to-use-genetics-to-reverse-the-age-of-your-skin/?sh=19d3acae1462
What Happens if a Supervolcano Blows Up? https://youtu.be/fXb02MQ78yQ