Towards Self-Assembling Artificial Neural Networks through Neural Developmental Programs: “Introducing Neural Developmental Programs (NDPs)🧬🧠Instead of neural networks with fixed architectures, we allow neural networks to grow through a dynamic self-organizing process, inspired by how biological nervous systems develop.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08197
A 9B parameter world model, trained on 4,700 hours of driving data, able to simulate complex and diverse driving scenes from video https://wayve.ai/thinking/scaling-gaia-1/
“With many 🧩 dropping recently, a more complete picture is emerging of LLMs not as a chatbot, but the kernel process of a new Operating System.” https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1707437820045062561
MilliMobile is a tiny, self-driving robot powered only by light and radio waves https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/09/27/millimobile-battery-free-autonomous-self-driving-robot-solar/
DynIBaR: Space-time view synthesis from videos of dynamic scenes https://blog.research.google/2023/09/dynibar-space-time-view-synthesis-from.html
Large Language Models Cannot Self-Correct Reasoning Yet https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01798
"Diamondoid bacteria" nanobots: deadly threat or dead-end? A nanotech investigation https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bc8Ssx5ys6zqu3eq9/diamondoid-bacteria-nanobots-deadly-threat-or-dead-end-a
“We’ve always wondered if there was something beyond CRISPR for genome editing. We now report that animals, plants, fungi and viruses have troves of programmable nucleases capable of efficient gene editing in human cells” https://twitter.com/omarabudayyeh/status/1707491899047608463
The Māori Genocide of the Moriori https://www.stoneageherbalist.com/p/the-maori-genocide-of-the-moriori
“It is estimated that around 1/4 or 1/3 of German population died during Thirty Years' War. But this doesn't tell the whole story. Some regions got off relatively lightly while some experienced a living hell.” https://twitter.com/LandsknechtPike/status/1707450548276879695
"I considered moving out of the USA. After some research, I realized leaving is stupid. There is no chance the USA will stop being the global superpower." https://twitter.com/girdley/status/1708093085895606616
A repeating tidal disruption of a Sun-like star orbiting a black hole: They estimate the star loses around three Earth masses of material on each pass. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14408
A new paper takes a look at the famous "bat and ball problem" and finds that only 77% of people get it right when they are EXPLICITLY TOLD what the correct answer is and told to write it down. When they're just asked to consider the correct answer, it's only 31%.
Read more: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/09/the-ball-the-bat-and-the-hopeless.html
See also: The Idiocy of the Average: https://archive.is/ySvfT
Reasonably intelligent people tend to overestimate how smart everyone else is. About half of Americans are unable to correctly read a table and do a simple addition/subtraction calculation.
Ukraine links:
“Leading up to and during the counter-offensive, many independent observers underestimated the preparedness of russian defenses. Seemingly unremarkable tree lines concealed well-prepared russian positions, fortified and complemented by extensive minefields.” https://twitter.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1709506016881107148
Referencing the UK's support for Ukraine, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said during his speech today: "If we give Ukrainians the tools, they will finish the job. Slava Ukraini". https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1709536733698687165
63 percent of Americans—a strong majority—favor US military aid to Ukraine https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/04/ukraine-poll-republican-support/ [https://archive.ph/M3072]
DUMB THINGS RUSSIA DID IN THE UKRAINE WAR https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1709606855234764936
The US will transfer thousands of seized Iranian weapons and rounds of ammunition to Ukraine https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/04/politics/us-iran-seized-weapons-ukraine/index.html
Germany will send one additional IRIS-T air defense system and more than 12 Gepard anti-aircraft complexes to Ukraine. They are supposed to provide protection for cargo bound for Romania along the country's southern coast. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-04/germany-to-supply-air-defenses-for-ukraine-grain-shipments [https://archive.ph/gz2OZ]
I wonder what postmortem the Noble Prize committee will do as the damage the vaccine is doing becomes impossible to ignore.
Trick question, they still haven't done a post-mortem over the lobotomy prize.