Links for 2023-01-15
“AI-powered hypercompression of audio. We achieved ~10x compression rate vs. MP3 at 64 kbps with no quality loss — the first time this had been done with 48 kHz sampled stereo audio.” https://ai.facebook.com/blog/ai-powered-audio-compression-technique/
“A.I. Turns Its Artistry to Creating New Human Proteins: Inspired by digital art generators like DALL-E, biologists are building artificial intelligences that can fight cancer, flu and Covid” [The New York Times] https://archive.is/yVpcg
Study reveals average age at conception for men versus women over past 250,000 years — “…fathers were consistently older, at 30.7 years on average, than mothers, at 23.2 years on average…” https://news.iu.edu/live/news/28109-study-reveals-average-age-at-conception-for-men
Build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/142673
AI-powered product photoshoots https://twitter.com/mickeyxfriedman/status/1613251965634465792
There has been an enormous decline in various risky behaviors across Western youth for the last several years. https://www.semafor.com/article/12/29/2022/young-kids-are-more-boring-says-science
Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable? https://news.mit.edu/2023/roman-concrete-durability-lime-casts-0106
Breeding the best calf -- the same one -- 10+ times with embryo selection and nuclear transfer. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep08674
For adolescents with severe depression, support from best friends can make symptoms worse rather than better. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-022-00999-x
Visualizing the Inside of Cells at Previously Impossible Resolutions Provides Vivid Insights Into How They Work https://singularityhub.com/2023/01/09/visualizing-the-inside-of-cells-at-previously-impossible-resolutions-provides-vivid-insights-into-how-they-work/
"Margherita Sarfatti, a Venetian Jew, has a claim to be one of the main founders of fascism. She was Mussolini's advisor, funder, and a prolific writer." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margherita_Sarfatti
In a First, South Korea Declares Nuclear Weapons a Policy Option [The New York Times] https://archive.is/yv20Q
Largest rare earths deposit in European history found in Sweden https://newatlas.com/materials/sweden-rare-earths-deposit/
UK to send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, Rishi Sunak confirms https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64274755