Links for 2023-07-27
Discussion:
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864624
3. https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/159g2k4/comment/jtgmiph/
Prediction market:
1. https://manifold.markets/fortenforge/is-the-room-temperature-superconduc
2. https://manifold.markets/QuantumObserver/will-the-lk99-room-temp-ambient-pre
3. https://polymarket.com/event/is-the-room-temp-superconductor-real
Twitter Threads:
1. https://twitter.com/alexkaplan0/status/1684044616528453633
2. https://twitter.com/gravity_levity/status/1684029657857892354
More:
1. “I asked several top UK materials physicists about the new "room-temperature superconductor" studies that have gone massively viral on Twitter. None of them were convinced.” https://inews.co.uk/news/science/room-temperature-superconductors-latest-breakthrough-nonsense-2506774
2. Professor Jorge Hirsch, superconductor physicist from UCSD, on today’s ambient superconductor papers: “It’s not superconductivity. It’s experimental artifacts, wishful thinking and poor judgment (in the best scenario)” https://twitter.com/whippletom/status/1684188496469311489
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI start a joint partnership for AI safety: the Frontier Model Forum https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/google-microsoft-openai-anthropic-frontier-model-forum/
“A new USC study finds that by sharing knowledge with each other at the same time, AI agents can quickly learn a wider range of tasks, with applications in medicine and beyond.” https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2023/07/teaching-robots-to-teach-other-robots/
Multiscale Video Pretraining for Long-Term Activity Forecasting https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12854
“…our proposed architecture reduces the network cost by up to 75% compared to the state-of-the-art any-to-any Clos networks without compromising the performance of LLM training.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12169
AI21 Labs debuts anti-hallucination feature for GPT chatbots https://www.ai21.com/blog/introducing-contextual-answers
“Blue Alchemist has been awarded a NASA Tipping Point partnership to produce scalable solar power systems from lunar dust. We’re developing this technology to access and utilize space resources that enable sustainable exploration for the benefit of Earth.” https://www.blueorigin.com/news/blue-origin-awarded-nasa-partnership-to-turn-lunar-regolith-into-solar-power-systems-on-the-moon
Notes On Puzzles (problem solving, thought processes, etc.) https://nabeelqu.substack.com/p/notes-on-puzzles
Hypergeometric distribution symmetry https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/05/23/hypergeometric-symmetry/
New skin-like sensors fit almost everywhere https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/robotik-neue-hautaehnliche-sensoren-passen-fast-immer
MIT Makes Probability-Based Computing a Bit Brighter: The p-bit harnesses photonic randomness to explore a new computing frontier https://spectrum.ieee.org/probabilistic-computing
“Empirically, however, everything I’ve read on poverty convinces me that the root cause of such residence is almost invariably extraordinarily irresponsible behavior.” https://betonit.substack.com/p/abusers-give-vice-a-bad-name
Cython 3.0: The next generation of Python at the speed of C https://www.infoworld.com/article/3702888/cython-30-the-next-generation-of-python-at-the-speed-of-c.html
Ukraine links:
Iran helping Russia build drone stockpile that is expected to be ‘orders of magnitude larger’ than previous arsenal, US says https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/25/politics/us-russia-iran-drones/index.html
Russia Prepares An ‘Avalanche’ Of FPV Kamikaze Drones https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2023/07/26/russia-prepares-avalanche-of-fpv-kamikaze-drones/ [https://archive.is/xDalZ]
Prime Minister Shmyhal said that the Ukrainian government has allocated 40 billion UAH ($1 billion) for the production of UAV's. More than 40 companies have signed contracts with the government, increasing the production rate by a tenfold. https://www.kmu.gov.ua/en/news/denys-shmyhal-tsoho-roku-uriad-vydilyv-40-mlrd-hrn-dlia-investytsii-v-ukrainskykh-vyrobnykiv-bezpilotnykiv
“Sending 1700 drones to the frontline to support 🇺🇦 counteroffensive.” https://twitter.com/FedorovMykhailo/status/1684221311696900096
The war in Ukraine is spurring a revolution in drone warfare using AI https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/26/drones-ai-ukraine-war-innovation/ [https://archive.is/X9wny]
“Ukraine's situation north of Kreminna has deteriorated, this is due to a troop rotation that left inexperienced brigades in charge of a long stretch of front line, where Russia immediately capitalized. Over the past week, Russia has moved to a depth of 5km over a front that is approximately 9km wide.” https://twitter.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1684051920103636993
“RUS offensive (100k troops backed by significant firepower) moving west from Svatove-Kreminna line and approaching Luhansk-Kharkiv border. Could turn out to be biggest RUS offensive since last summer. Aime at pushing into Kharkiv province which UKR retook in Sept.” https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1684166633961717760
Kyiv’s long-awaited counteroffensive is being portrayed as more successful by Russian soldiers and their cheerleaders than by Western analysts https://newlinesmag.com/argument/russians-see-ukrainian-progress-where-others-dont/
"Statistics shared by Ukrainian physicians demonstrate that more than 70% of all Ukrainian combat casualties are due to artillery & rocket barrages ... which has resulted in significant polytrauma to multiple organ systems." https://journals.lww.com/journalacs/Fulltext/2023/08000/Putting_Medical_Boots_on_the_Ground__Lessons_from.31.aspx