A new study shows what really explains educational attainment (e.g. years of schooling, highest degree earned): It's about 51% genes, 10% shared family environment, and the rest is other stuff, including random effects. https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1687517745376612367 (paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-023-00173-y)
Nuclear breakthrough beyond theory: a Japanese cyclotron has managed to create Sodium-39. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/177
Scaling Relationship on Learning Mathematical Reasoning with Large Language Models — Pushing a 7b model to almost 50% accuracy on GSM8k https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01825
The All-Seeing Project: Towards Panoptic Visual Recognition and Understanding of the Open World https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01907
People preferred product ideas generated by ChatGPT over ideas generated by other people. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4526071
Humans may be more likely to believe misinformation generated by AI https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/28/1075683/humans-may-be-more-likely-to-believe-disinformation-generated-by-ai/ [https://archive.is/AC84E]
Team creates simple superconducting device that could dramatically cut energy use in computing, among other important applications https://physics.mit.edu/news/team-creates-simple-superconducting-device-that-could-dramatically-cut-energy-use-in-computing-among-other-important-applications/
“This isn't something that people want to hear, but the United States needs to spend more on defense.” https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/uh-guys-we-really-should-think-about
Japan's just released defense whitepaper is projecting that their defense spending will more than double. Going from $122.5 billion over the last 5 years, to $310 billion over the next 5. https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2023/07/28/japan-forecasts-large-boost-to-defense-spending-over-next-five-years/
The political impact of social media has been grossly overrated https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/07/the-political-impact-of-social-media-is-overrated.html
"a synthetic version of alcohol billed as having the fun effects of booze but without the negative toxins and hangovers. The regulatory side is much harder than the science." https://www.foodandwine.com/news/hangover-free-alcohol-alcarelle
Health Alert: Your Survival Odds May Increase When Surgeons Take a Break! https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/08/86443.html
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The random effects makes sense if you've ever applied to grad school in the USA