Links for 2023-08-19
Self-Alignment with Instruction Backtranslation: Presents a scalable method to build a high quality instruction following language model by automatically labelling human-written text with corresponding instructions. https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06259
“AI-augmented pipeline with Frontera yields ten-fold increase in target binding success” https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/news/latest-news/2023/08/03/deep-learning-for-new-protein-design/
“Introducing CHITA, an optimization-based approach for pruning pre-trained neural networks at scale. Learn how it leverages advances from several fields and outperforms state-of-the-art pruning methods in terms of scalability and performance tradeoffs” https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/08/neural-network-pruning-with.html
Link-Context Learning for Multimodal LLMs — “By providing demonstrations with causal links, LCL guides the model to discern not only the analogy but also the underlying causal associations between data points, which empowers MLLMs to recognize unseen images and understand novel concepts more effectively.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07891
An open-source swiss army knife for everything Computer Vision. https://github.com/roboflow/supervision
“This essay is a personal history of the $60+ million I allocated to metascience starting in 2012 while working for the Arnold Foundation (now Arnold Ventures).” https://goodscience.substack.com/p/metascience-since-2012-a-personal
Could Bitcoin Be Our Best Chance To Mitigate Runaway Methane Emissions? https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-is-the-best-way-to-mitigate-runaway-methane-emissions
"Now he has the bittersweet task of writing a book documenting how what happened is 'just what white racists predicted and what white radicals like myself scorned' " https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-south-africas-brave-new-world
China Hacked Japan’s Military Networks https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/08/china-hacked-japans-military-networks.html
Biden to sign strategic partnership deal with Vietnam in latest bid to counter China in the region https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/18/biden-vietnam-partnership-00111939
A Chinese media report gave rare insight into China’s demographic crisis since Beijing stopped publishing fertility-rate data: TFR down to 1.09. Number of marriages has collapsed. https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1692766773911634150
Troop Deaths and Injuries in Ukraine War Near 500,000, U.S. Officials Say -- Russia has suffered 120,000 killed and 170-180,000 wounded (222 KIA, 324 WIA per day); Ukraine has suffered 70,000 killed and 100-120,000 wounded (130 KIA, 204 WIA per day). https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/politics/ukraine-russia-war-casualties.html [https://archive.is/h76fW]
America’s Obsession With Weight-Loss Drugs Is Affecting the Economy of Denmark: Novo Nordisk’s market capitalization has matched the GDP of its home country https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/americas-obsession-with-weight-loss-drugs-is-affecting-the-economy-of-denmark-22797e5c [https://archive.is/bGZEA]