An efficient framework that enables LLMs trained with a finite length attention window to generalize to infinite sequence lengths without any fine-tuning. It delivers up to 22x faster inference than vanilla LLMs without any drop in accuracy. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17453
DriveGPT4: Interpretable End-to-end Autonomous Driving via Large Language Model https://tonyxuqaq.github.io/projects/DriveGPT4/
“Scaling up learning across many different robot types: Together with partners from 33 academic labs, we have pooled data from 22 different robot types to create the Open X-Embodiment dataset and RT-X model” https://www.deepmind.com/blog/scaling-up-learning-across-many-different-robot-types
LLM Self-Improvement via Prompt Evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16797
Enable Language Models to Implicitly Learn Self-Improvement From Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00898
Humans see 50% drop in web Traffic as new Google Search ranking change favors AI generated content. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-search-helpful-content-update-results-drop-ai-generated-2023-9
Brain circuits for vision develop without any kind of input from the retina in zebrafish https://www.mpg.de/20891945/0927-psy-vision-in-the-brain-hardwired-for-action-155111-x
DIY Geoengineering: The Whitepaper https://nephewjonathan.substack.com/p/diy-geoengineering-the-whitepaper
Apple used billions of dollars and thousands of engineers on a ‘spectacular failure,’ WSJ reports https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/apple-modem-chip-qualcomm-failure-18381230.php
“Space-based charged particle beams that can shoot down ICBM's mid-flight. Stuff of Science Fiction? No. Science Fact. Introducing: The Radio-Frequency Quadrupole.” https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1665058865287770113
45% of men age 18-25 have never approached a woman in person. https://twitter.com/datepsych/status/1706804066880205298
Ukraine links:
“Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t invade Ukraine in 2022 because he feared NATO. He invaded because he believed that NATO was weak…” https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/weakness-lethal-why-putin-invaded-ukraine-and-how-war-must-end
The European Parliament approved the revision of the EU budget for 2021-2027, which includes provisions on the creation of a special Ukrainian fund of €50 billion. The decision was approved with 393 votes in favor, 136 against and 92 abstentions. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230929IPR06130/parliament-argues-for-a-top-up-to-multi-annual-budget-for-crisis-response
“The ratification of the Rome Statute by the Armenian Parliament is another defeat for Putin’s Russia. Armenia is now obliged by law to detain and extradite Putin to Den Haag if he sets foot on Armenian soil.” https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1709178629966406123
“Approximately 12 months ago, [Russia] initiated a large-scale long-range strike campaign against Ukraine. I have gathered data on the long-range strike (LRS) weapons employed by Russia and Ukraine's success in intercepting them. This thread provides a summary of the findings.” https://twitter.com/FRHoffmann1/status/1709191669630058527
Over 1000 ATACMS for Ukraine? https://twitter.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1709211560378241073
Lists of Russian secret facilities were put into public domain. https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1708923412402283000
“Here are some recent key updates for the past 7 days” https://twitter.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1709291611539087368
The head of the Russian occupation administration of Zaporizhia, Yevgeny Balitsky, said that Russia’s goal is to occupy not only Ukraine, but also the Baltic countries, Poland and Finland. Because these states are "the historical lands of Russia". https://twitter.com/den_kazansky/status/1709281875934560540
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas telling the BBC the story of how Russia tried replace the population of Estonia with Russians. https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1708121699101606104
@Eugine, would you be including among "failures and dead ends" the communist and socialist systems of governance?
I notice your chart of "The Enlightenment Vision" neatly omits all the failures and dead ends, some of which were rather nasty.