Links for 2023-06-11
Otter: A Multi-Modal Model with In-Context Instruction Tuning
Otter🦦 now knows how to answer a variety of multi-modal real-world questions across a variety of scenarios after we train it how to MIMIC-IT.
Thread: https://twitter.com/JingkangY/status/1667087758840709120
LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression using Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04050
InternLM - China's Best (Unverified): Significant effort was put into parallelization to help evade the US chip ban. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sKsFjvSkJ29uu6Tyq/internlm-china-s-best-unverified
ATT3D: Amortized Text-To-3D Object Synthesis https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/ATT3D/
“I find it really difficult to engage with predictions of LLM capabilities that presume some version of the scaling hypothesis will continue to hold - it just seems highly implausible given everything we already know about the limits of transformers!” https://twitter.com/xuanalogue/status/1666765447054647297
Humans still have the genes for a full coat of body hair [Washington Post] https://archive.is/TmdkU
This rare variety of corn has evolved a way to make its own nitrogen, which could revolutionize farming [published in 2018] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/corn-future-hundreds-years-old-and-makes-its-own-mucus-180969972/
“Average people behave the way they think they ought to, even though that behavior might not reflect their own personal feelings. Given a sufficient ‘A-HA!’ moment when they discover that their personal feelings are shared by a large portion of the population their behavior may change dramatically.” https://web.archive.org/web/20120503235047/http://www.ideasinactiontv.com/tcs_daily/2002/03/patriotism-and-preferences.html
“[C]itizens' policy opinions changed immediately and substantially when their party switched its policy position – even when the new position went against citizens' previously held views.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajps.12550
Top income taxation reduces everyone’s income, not just those at the top. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/720394
New study indicates age plays a key role in the relationship between technology multitasking and cognition https://www.psypost.org/2022/07/new-study-indicates-age-plays-a-key-role-in-the-relationship-between-technology-multitasking-and-cognition-63594
D-Day was all about logistics. Only 14% of the D-Day force were infantry, and 6% were tank crews. The rest were "rear area functions,” including logistics, medical staff, and all the functions to make war possible. https://adamtooze.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Tooze-D-Day-A-New-Kind-of-War-.pdf
Codon is a new Python compiler that generates code with much higher performance than interpreted Python (CPython). https://github.com/exaloop/codon
In a bid to reduce Europe's dependence on China for critical minerals, Norway is reading plans to open a vast ocean area for deep-sea mining. Norway’s waters contains metals used in electric car batteries and wind turbines. [Financial Times] https://archive.is/5q3hn