Links for 2023-07-28
Top Scientists Misled Congress About Covid Origins, Newly Released Emails And Messages Show https://public.substack.com/p/top-scientists-misled-congress-about (previously: "The lab leak theory of COVID-19's origins gained tremendous legitimacy this week as The Wall Street Journal confirmed independent reports that the earliest outbreak occurred at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in November 2019." https://reason.com/2023/06/21/lab-leak-theory-confirmed-ben-hu-wuhan-china-covid/)
"To adjust the conclusions in a scientific paper for political reasons isn't part of the scientific process. The world was misled with serious consequences." https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-covid-lab-leak-deception-andersen-nih-research-paper-private-message-52fc0c16 [https://archive.is/2yN9T]
Anthropic CEO stated current AI models can “fill in some of the steps” and that models in "2 to 3 years [...] will be able to fill in all the missing pieces" for bioweapons. https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1795658/artificial-intelligence-bioweapons-terrorists-biosecurity
Palantir's Alex Karp criticises tech firms who won't work on military applications. "They charge themselves with constructing vast technical empires but decline to offer support to the state whose protections and underlying social fabric have provided the necessary conditions for their ascent." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/opinion/karp-palantir-artificial-intelligence.html [https://archive.is/CMBBo]
Congress holds hearing about claims US government has UFO evidence https://www.youtube.com/live/5NE9IhP5mZw
A Mysterious Interstellar Radio Signal Has Been Blinking on and off Every 22 Minutes for Over 30 Years https://singularityhub.com/2023/07/20/a-mysterious-interstellar-radio-signal-has-been-blinking-on-and-off-every-22-minutes-for-over-30-years/
Pig-to-human heart xenotransplantation in two recently deceased human recipients: "Here, using 10-gene-edited pigs, we transplanted porcine hearts into two brain-dead human recipients and monitored xenograft function, hemodynamics and systemic responses over the course of 66 hours." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02471-9
expert reaction to paper warning of a collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-paper-warning-of-a-collapse-of-the-atlantic-meridional-overturning-circulation/
SimPer: Simple self-supervised learning of periodic targets https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/07/simper-simple-self-supervised-learning.html
Contextualizing Protein Representations Using Deep Learning on Protein Networks and Single-Cell Data https://zitniklab.hms.harvard.edu/projects/PINNACLE/
3D-LLM: Injecting the 3D World into Large Language Models https://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/3dllm/
'Stunning' discovery: Metals can heal themselves https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/07/230719112556.htm
"An estimated 795,000 Americans become permanently disabled or die annually because dangerous diseases are misdiagnosed. Just 15 diseases account for about half of all serious harms, so the problem may be more tractable than previously imagined." https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/early/2023/07/16/bmjqs-2021-014130
“In 1990, almost two billion people worldwide lived in extreme poverty. But by 2019, despite rapid global population growth, the number of people living in extreme poverty dropped to around 700 million, a reduction of 1,300 million people.” https://theprogressnetwork.org/rising-wealth-progress-ending-poverty/
Ukraine links:
“Footage of the 35th brigade together with the 7th separate battalion AREY, liberating Staromaiors'ke.” https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1684669524711292928
“The Ukrainian advances are getting numerous. Another successful Ukrainian push is in the Kam'yans'ke area, Zaporizhzhia Oblast.” https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1684679906658246657
“Switchblades got off to a rough start in the war but now are causing mayhem for the Russians.” https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1684673905917640705
We've seen it a thousand times now: small, cheap drones destroying big, expensive hardware. Have militaries around the world adapted to this new reality? Nope. https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1684734791256580096