Links for 2022-11-10
In machine learning, synthetic data can offer real performance improvements https://news.mit.edu/2022/synthetic-data-ai-improvements-1103
NVIDIA’s Amazing AI Clones Your Voice! https://youtu.be/k54cpsAbMn4
Far-UVC Light Update: No, LEDs are not around the corner https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4Zjm8ycWhg6PzFwnF/far-uvc-light-update-no-leds-are-not-around-the-corner
Genetically modified crops support climate change mitigation https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138522000048
Analysis of a massive database of photos suggests that rhinos have evolved smaller horns over the last century in response to human hunting. Smaller-horned rhinos are less often targeted so have more offspring, which inherit their smaller horns. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10406
"language ancestry explains about 12.3% and religious ancestry as much as 17.4% of the variance in democratic indicators." https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/shared-cultural-ancestry-predicts-the-global-diffusion-of-democracy/90C7A170B924FC305DD66FF8853799FC#
"The reason we're not allowed to have frank discussions about the hereditarian hypothesis isn't because it's been 'debunked', but because it *hasn't* been debunked." https://thecritic.co.uk/my-debunked-views/
“Unexpected” – Scientists Discover an Anti-Aging Mechanism. The mechanism extends the life of the immune system. https://scitechdaily.com/unexpected-scientists-discover-an-anti-aging-mechanism/
“Russia is digging new trenches in... Northern Crimea! Russia has restored the trenches of the Chonhar checkpoint between Crimea and the Kherson Oblast. New trenches were also built.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1590405107169914881.html
"Throughout the 2022 primary season, groups affiliated with the Democratic Party funded ads to boost immoderate Republican candidates … in the hopes that they would be easier to beat in a general election. …looks like the gamble worked." https://reason.com/2022/11/09/democrats-spent-millions-boosting-far-right-republicans-how-did-it-pan-out/