Links for 2023-10-02
“We put our blind faith in Mercedes-Benz’s first-of-its-kind autonomous Drive Pilot feature...Crucially, Mercedes takes full legal liability when Drive Pilot is activated...” https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/27/23892154/mercedes-benz-drive-pilot-autonomous-level-3-test
This might be the best video editing model out there: Object Removal: remove the object(s) from a video; Video Completion: complete the masked video; Video Outpainting: expand the view of a video. https://shangchenzhou.com/projects/ProPainter/
Toyota conceives of more efficient method to train robots https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/toyota-conceives-of-more-efficient-method-to-train-robots
Individual neurons mix multiple RNA edits of key synapse protein, study finds https://news.mit.edu/2023/individual-neurons-mix-multiple-rna-edits-key-synapse-protein-fly-study-finds-0925
Technique for 3-D Printing Metals at the Nanoscale Reveals Surprise Benefit https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/technique-for-3-d-printing-metals-at-the-nanoscale-reveals-surprise-benefit
“DJI Avata Explorer Combo allows an immersive flight experience with intuitive kinesthetic motion control.” https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1708036716471161212
“Animal cloning is alive and kicking,” says Kevin Sinclair, a developmental biologist at the University of Nottingham, UK. “But it’s flying under the radar.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02921-x [https://archive.ph/wip/r1Ynp]
IQ was found to be a significant predictor of grades for both blacks and whites. Blacks and whites with similar IQ scores had roughly similar grades. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-02038-008
"We find that sex differences in total brain volume are not accounted for by sex differences in height and weight, and that once global brain size is taken into account, there remain numerous regional sex differences in both directions." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763421003900
Ukraine links:
Is the Russian naval blockade of the Odesa region failing? https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1708416182749905315 (Oz Katerji: “It’s kind of insane how “crippled the Black Sea Fleet and unilaterally re-opened its grain shipment corridor” isn’t widely considered part of Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive, when it very clearly is, and it very clearly has been hugely successful & consequential.”)
“The GUR reports that Ukraine managed to attack and damage the Smolensk Aviation Plant which produces KH-59 missiles. According to them, 3 out of 4 drones hit the target, causing significant damage to the production facilities.” https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1708764643374629116
“It turns out that the Russian attack towards Urozhaine last week was more disastrous than earlier thought, with the Russian assault force losing at least 4 BMPs, 4 tanks (T-80BV, T-72B3, 2x unk), and a BREM ARV to Ukrainian fire.” https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1708634238172491798
Musk is spreading stupid Russian propaganda again. I thought about writing a more detailed response, but I don’t really have the time for it. So here are just two quick tweet responses: 1. https://twitter.com/XiXiDu/status/1708759616924893535 2. https://twitter.com/XiXiDu/status/1708782864186191875