Links for 2023-06-19
Recovering secret keys from devices using video footage of their power LED https://www.nassiben.com/video-based-crypta (See also: A superhuman AI will break your security, no matter what https://axisofordinary.substack.com/p/a-superhuman-ai-will-break-your-security)
GAIA-1: A Cutting-Edge Generative AI Model for Autonomy https://wayve.ai/thinking/introducing-gaia1/
A step toward safe and reliable autopilots for flying https://news.mit.edu/2023/safe-and-reliable-autopilots-flying-0612
The Little Book of Deep Learning: presents the technical background for understanding diffusion-based image synthesis, and language models. https://fleuret.org/public/lbdl.pdf
New evidence of plant food processing in Italy before 40ka https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379123002093
The myth of New World genocide: “In the United States, where the native population might have approached 2,000,000 individuals prior to Christopher Columbus’ arrival, widely-accepted tallies show that the total number of natives massacred by whites prior to 1848 amounted to less than 8,000 individuals” [The Spectator] https://archive.is/SdTet
Westinghouse has a NASA/DoE contract to scale down the container-sized eVinci 5MWe microcreactor even further for space applications. https://info.westinghousenuclear.com/news/westinghouse-and-astrobotic-team-to-power-outer-space-with-evinci-microreactor-technology
Airbus Ventures announces its investment in Venus Aerospace, a Houston-based hypersonic startup enabling cost-effective one-hour global transport. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/airbus-ventures-invests-venus-aerospace-150000366.html
The average IQ of a state negatively correlates with murder, assault, burglary, and robbery, even after controlling for demographic variables: "Results suggest that the prevalence of both violent and property crimes is associated with lower state IQs." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886909005169
Israel lost roughly a thousand tanks destroyed or temporarily knocked out and 102 jets: “…over 2,000 Egyptian howitzers, siege mortars, and rocket launchers unleashed a titanic barrage on the Israeli fortifications of the Bar Lev Line on the east bank of the Suez Canal. Overhead, 200 MiG and Sukhoi jets roared over the frontline to plaster Israeli airbases, artillery batteries and command posts.” https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/1973-yom-kippur-war-gave-world-horrifying-glimpse-what-modern-mechanized-warfare-would