Links for 2023-08-20
AI-Assisted Pathology Ready For Mainstream: Australian system promises tenfold productivity increase https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-pathology
“SpeechX's efficacy in various tasks, including zero-shot TTS, noise suppression, target speaker extraction, speech removal, and speech editing with or without background noise, achieving comparable or superior performance to specialized models across tasks.” https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/speechx/
Bayesian Flow Networks BFNs: A new class of generative models that: 1. brings together the strengths of Bayesian inference and deep learning 2. trains on continuous, discretized or discrete data with simple end-to-end loss 3. places no restrictions on the network architecture https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07037
Autonomous visual information seeking with large language models https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/08/autonomous-visual-information-seeking.html
WizardMath: Empowering Mathematical Reasoning for Large Language Models via Reinforced Evol-Instruct https://twitter.com/Yampeleg/status/1692536736461504944
Learning to See via Epiretinal Implant Stimulation in Silico with Model-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2057-1976/acf1a5
“Something we don’t often talk about: We noticed empirically that the general theorem-proving reasoner actually took so long that over a million queries in a row that called on it, as a last resort, just timed out. Going back farther, we saw that that had happened for decades. So, about one decade ago, we quietly turned the general theorem prover off, so it never gets called on! The only impact is that Cyc sometimes runs a bit faster, since it no longer has that attractive but useless nuisance available to it.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04445
This is an ape ("Kanzi") playing Minecraft! A fascinating experiment on non-human biological neural networks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKpFoYqN9-0
By building a structure out of DNA and then coating it with glass, researchers have created a very strong material with very low density https://today.uconn.edu/2023/07/strong-as-glass/
“Altogether, my analysis shows that political affiliation can help to predict outcomes in over 90% of circuit court cases.” https://www.nber.org/papers/w31509
The FTC is flirting with an unprecedented intervention into online speech. https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/the-feds-chatgpt-probe-threatens-free-speech/
“The US FTC’s modern perspective on the interaction of antitrust and patent law is so reasonable, I’m honestly blown away.” https://twitter.com/davidad/status/1692962026736296068
This figure shows how many victories a given general would have compared to an average general. Long story short, Napoleon is on a whole other level.
Ukraine links:
“Ukrainian drones hit the Russian "Soltsy-2" Air Base in Novgorod Oblast. The air base is home to the Tupolev Tu-22M3, a strategic bomber used also for missile attacks against Ukraine.” https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1692852965030433222
FPV drone is used as a bomber and not a kamikaze. https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1692844685792838013
“In Tolyatti, russia the draft officers came straight to the factory floor to take men away to fight in Ukraine. russian industry stronk! Tolyatti has one of the largest car factories in the world, where they build Ladas.” https://twitter.com/osint_69/status/1692828191910457717