“In this talk I give a brief summary of what seems to me like the first known plan for human uploading that has >5% chance of working on 10-year timelines (if money is no object).” https://youtu.be/jZqynCV0AGc
A new study bridging neuroscience and machine learning offers insights into the potential role of astrocytes in the human brain. https://news.mit.edu/2023/ai-models-astrocytes-role-brain-0815
“Neuroscience is slowly reaching a stage of advancement where it is going to become very useful for fundamental advances in AI. And this is partly thanks to AI, e.g. image segmentation.” https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1693031959721922797
Bob Carpenter thinks GPT-4 is awesome. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/08/20/bob-carpenter-thinks-gpt-4-is-awesome/
"[I]n one leading journal, the frequency of hedging words such as 'might' and 'probably' has fallen by 40% over the past 2 decades... If this trend holds across the scientific literature, it suggests a worrisome rise of unreliable, exaggerated claims." https://science.org/content/article/some-scientific-papers-words-expressing-uncertainty-have-decreased
Chromium’s Rise: Game Changer in Replacing Rare and Expensive Noble Metals https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/Chromium-replaces-rare-and-expensive-noble-metals.html
Scientists Develop a High-energy-density and Ultralong-life Aqueous Zinc-ion Battery https://english.hf.cas.cn/nr/bth/202306/t20230613_331879.html
Food fussiness in children is highly heritable – that is, individual differences in food fussiness are strongly correlated with individual differences in genes. The home environment has little effect, particularly after toddlerhood. [Preprint; N = 4,804] https://psyarxiv.com/ac7vy/
Physicists confirm 67-year-old prediction of massless, neutral composite particle https://mrl.illinois.edu/57513
Using AR to see into patient’s brain and tumor prior to surgery. https://twitter.com/OGdukeneurosurg/status/1691897070137782464
An amazing automation process in agriculture https://twitter.com/fastworkers6/status/1692739756990615875
The IQ of China is 104. The high estimate of China's IQ is not due to selective sampling or scientific fraud. https://www.sebjenseb.net/p/iq-of-china (Razib Khan adds: “east asians have high IQs. early 20th cent japanese americans descend mostly from landless peasants from s. japan. chinese from cantonese laborers. their descendants were the ones who created model minority in 50s/60s”)
China now has a geosynchronous radar imaging satellite, a world's first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZctvA6MAUk
Ukraine:
1. Ukraine will receive up to 42 F-16 fighter jets from the Netherlands and Denmark:
2. At least one Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber was destroyed whilst stationed at the Soltsy air base in Novgorod Oblast - 650km+ from the border with Ukraine:
“Team Biden is trying hard to prevent a decisive Ukrainian victory over a global threat by exaggerating how much it does while quietly underdelivering and underspending what Congress has asked for and allocated. The details in this thread are disturbing.” https://twitter.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1693312202952872037
“If NATO militaries would have taken the drone threat serious, 60+ Skyranger would come of the production lines monthly now.” https://twitter.com/noclador/status/1692545616587460804
“Russian Telegram channel mocks the death of six-year-old Sophia Holynska who was killed in Russia's missile strike on Chernihiv yesterday. The post has nearly 47,000 "laughing" reactions from Russian social media users.” https://twitter.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1693372039724142912
(see also: Russia’s Eliminationist Rhetoric Against Ukraine: A Collection https://www.justsecurity.org/81789/russias-eliminationist-rhetoric-against-ukraine-a-collection/)
“23.07.23 Russian army using 5 tanks tried to capture our positions near Spirne, Donetsk oblast…” https://twitter.com/OSINTua/status/1693320448489013587
A Russian mechanized assault was destroyed at south of Bakhmut. https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1693509752435966115
I never get the point of the IQ stuff.