Links for 2023-03-28
3D Printing a Titanium Part Created By Artificial Intelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxKI4XBwBjU
Make-It-3D: High-Fidelity 3D Creation from A Single Image with Diffusion Prior https://make-it-3d.github.io/
Enhancing Activity Prediction Models in Drug Discovery with the Ability to Understand Human Language — “We are proud to present 🗜️CLAMP (Contrastive Language-Assay-Molecule Pre-training), a new tool 🛠️ for molecular activity prediction that can adapt to new experiments at inference time! 🤯 This could be a game-changer for low-data tasks!” Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03363 / Code: https://github.com/ml-jku/clamp
“Coding assistants are coming. They’re imminent. You will use them this year. They will absolutely blow your mind. And they’ll continue to improve at an astonishing rate.” https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/cheating-is-all-you-need
"Make me an app"—just talk to your @Replit app to make software https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1639355638097776640
A 16-Month-Old Chatbot Startup With No Revenue Is Now a $1 Billion Unicorn [Wall Street Journal] https://archive.is/H1vic
“Uncovering the unknowns in sperm whale communication🐳 using deep learning. We introduce a novel interpretability technique (CDEV) that combines generative deep models and causal inference methods. Our model discovers meaningful properties, both novel and previously hypothesized.” https://twitter.com/begusgasper/status/1637983954329550848
Why didn't we get GPT-2 in 2005? https://dynomight.net/gpt-2/
Experimental pill achieves complete cancer remission in 18 people with aggressive leukemia https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-03-15/an-experimental-pill-achieves-complete-cancer-remission-in-18-people-with-aggressive-leukemia.html
College students built a satellite with AA batteries and a $20 microprocessor https://www.popsci.com/technology/college-cheap-satellite-spacex/
Nuclear Power's Economics Suck: “The core problem is any release of radioactive material is regarded as intolerable. As long as this is the case, any expenditure which might conceivably reduce the probability of a release can be justified. But such thinking quickly pushes the cost of nuclear power up multiple times, making nuclear prohibitively expensive.” https://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/stage-2-nuclear-powers-economics
Nuclear Power is Too Safe: “…if we had replaced coal starting 50 years ago, we are looking at less than 100,000 nuclear lost life years, roughly one ten-thousandth of the coal lost years.” https://jackdevanney.substack.com/p/nuclear-power-is-too-safe
How to Understand the Well-Being Gap between Liberals and Conservatives https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/03/how-to-understand-the-well-being-gap-between-liberals-and-conservatives/
“Four of the five hottest apps in the U.S. in March were forged in China.” [Wall Street Journal] https://archive.is/hllO4
This is a realistic representation of the size and distance between the Andromeda Galaxy and Milky Way:
P.S. If space travel was instantaneous and you would visit each star of the Andromeda Galaxy for only 1 second it would still take you ~31,000 years to do so.
See also: The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) has satellite galaxies just like the Milky Way. Orbiting M31 are at least 13 dwarf galaxies: the brightest and largest is M110, which can be seen with a basic telescope. The second-brightest and closest one to M31 is M32.
See also: Death by affirmative action: race quotas in medicine https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2019/04/death-by-affirmative-action-race-quotas-in-medicine/