To Infinity and Beyond: SHOW-1 and Showrunner Agents in Multi-Agent Simulations — “In this work we present our approach to generating high-quality episodic content for IP's (Intellectual Property) using large language models (LLMs), custom state-of-the art diffusion models and our multi-agent simulation for contextualization, story progression and behavioral control.” https://fablestudio.github.io/showrunner-agents/
“Can robots use smart high-level policies to compensate for imperfect low-level primitives? In our latest work on learning cable routing skills, we show that smart high-level policies can fix mistakes and greatly increase end-to-end success rates” https://sites.google.com/view/cablerouting
Automatically detecting adverse drug events (ADEs) from clinical notes: “Despite being over 1,000 times smaller, the distilled model outperformed its teacher GPT-3.5 by over 6 absolute points in F1 and GPT-4 by over 5 absolute points.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06439
A novel approach for improving the quality and consistency of generated outputs from large-scale pre-trained language models (LLMs) https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06857
A gentle yet precise 3D printing technique allows the creation of ultrafine structures using fully functional biopolymers, and might eventually handle delicate things like quantum dots or carbon nanotubes! https://phys.org/news/2023-04-era-3d-dnas-proteins.html
“Other than IQ, no other measure of intelligence, whether grades, emotional intelligence, or practical intelligence assessments, peer-estimates, and self-estimates, are a better predictor of how fast and well people learn, reason, and amass knowledge” https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomaspremuzic/2023/07/11/eight-popular-misconceptions-about-human-intelligence/ [https://archive.is/HdE8X]
“Study finds memories of childhood maltreatment predict current mental illness but documented childhood abuse that was forgotten does not significantly predict mental illness, suggesting that consciously thinking about being the victim of abuse, rather than the direct childhood experience of abuse or its unconscious effects, may be the direct cause of current mental problems, assuming the relationship is causal at all.” https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2806882
“Super-Planckian thermal radiation exceeds the amount of light emitted by a hot blackbody. This was achieved by a photonic crystal made of micro-structured tungsten radiating an excess of 1700nm infrared light by acting like an LED when heated.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62063-2
Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract at least three papers https://stanforddaily.com/2023/07/19/stanford-president-resigns-over-manipulated-research-will-retract-at-least-3-papers/
‘It’s simple and cheap’: the volunteers making Ukraine’s Trembita bomb — Known as the ‘people’s missile’, the bomb costs about £2,300 to build and can be transported in a car boot https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/09/its-simple-and-cheap-the-volunteers-making-ukraine-trembita-bomb
See also: Why the U.S. is so insanely popular in Vietnam even after a devastating war https://medium.com/tdebeus/why-the-u-s-is-so-insanely-popular-in-vietnam-even-after-a-devastating-war-b33cf6ba63ce
During World War II, 1,506,000 Purple Heart medals were manufactured, many in anticipation of the estimated casualties resulting from the planned Allied invasion of Japan.
Lest we forget Operation PX (Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night) and what that would have meant for Japan with an outraged America possessing nuclear weapons.