Links for 2023-05-08
Is the human brain special? No: Mammalian brains have evolved to 10^5 size differences but maintain remarkably similar scaling laws. We use the same cells in the same proportions but dedicate an enormous energy cost to just running more of them. https://pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1201895109 (see also: https://twitter.com/SilverVVulpes/status/1637397907455221760)
Outperforming Human Pathologists – New Harvard-Developed AI Tool Predicts Colon Cancer Survival, Treatment Response https://hms.harvard.edu/news/ai-tool-predicts-colon-cancer-survival-treatment-response
GPT-4 with browsing https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1655235047346126850
Interpretable Machine Learning for Science with PySR and SymbolicRegression.jl https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01582
Chat With Your Data To Build ML-Driven Customer Segments Using a Chatbot Built With ChatGPT and LangChain https://pub.towardsai.net/chat-with-your-data-to-build-ml-driven-customer-segments-using-a-chatbot-built-with-chatgpt-and-e43259d592fe
These corruption statistics are literally incredible! (Every political science student should read this article.) https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/05/05/these-corruption-statistics-are-literally-incredible/
Poor body health is a more pronounced manifestation of mental illness than poor brain health. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2804355
Biological DOOM: a brief overview of biological computation https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/guxDHdwaRt9AbZAKx/biological-doom-a-brief-overview-of-biological-computation
The World’s First Wooden Transistor https://spectrum.ieee.org/wood-transistor
A wireless and battery-less implant for multimodal closed-loop neuromodulation in small animals https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-023-01029-x
“Scenarios set out under the UN Climate Panel (IPCC) show human welfare will likely increase to 450% of today's welfare over the 21st century. Climate damages will reduce this welfare increase to 434%.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162520304157
There Is No Climate Tipping Point https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/climate-change-banned-words/climate-tipping-point-real
A lithium-air battery could have an energy density comparable to that of gasoline, and thus allow an electric car to go a long distance without recharging. There are promising laboratory results. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq1347
“We're introducing $50k in prizes for the first teams to find ten letters in a four square centimeter region of the Herculaneum papyri” https://scrollprize.org/first_letters