Links for 2023-10-08
Decoding speech from non-invasive recordings of brain activity https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-023-00714-5 (code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/brainmagick)
Maybe Your Zoloft Stopped Working Because A Liver Fluke Tried To Turn Your Nth-Great-Grandmother Into A Zombie https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/08/19/maybe-your-zoloft-stopped-working-because-a-liver-fluke-tried-to-turn-your-nth-great-grandmother-into-a-zombie/
MathCoder: Seamless Code Integration in LLMs for Enhanced Mathematical Reasoning — Achieves SotA scores among open-source LLMs on the MATH (45.2%) and GSM8K (83.9%). Outperforms GPT-4 on the competition-level MATH. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03731
Agent Instructs Large Language Models to be General Zero-Shot Reasoners: Boosts the performance of SotA LLMs by a large margin, including Llama-2-70b-chat (23.2%), and GPT-3.5 Turbo (17.0%), much more than 0-shot CoT can do. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03710
To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler versions on synthetic children’s stories. https://www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-language-models-thrive-with-gpt-4-as-a-teacher-20231005/
How ant brains inspire robots find their way in farmlands https://interestingengineering.com/science/how-ant-brains-inspire-robots-find-their-way-in-farmlands
Magentic: Python LLM Integration — A new tool that lets you integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into your Python code. It allows you to create functions that return structured output from the LLM, and mix LLM queries and function calling with regular Python code to create complex logic. https://github.com/jackmpcollins/magentic
Web Scraping using ChatGPT - Complete Guide with Examples https://proxiesapi.com/articles/web-scraping-using-chatgpt-complete-guide-with-examples
Evolution of the Moon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKmSQqp8wY
Magnificent short film 'One Revolution per Minute' features a luxury spaceship cruising across the solar system with a 450m rotating ring. https://erikwernquist.com/one-revolution-per-minute
EEG can sort subjects into one of seven IQ ranges with 83% accuracy. The accuracy increases to 98% when the number of ranges are reduced to only three: Low, medium, and high. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169260714000303
“Our dominant world culture needs a fertility reckoning. It must face the hard fact that many of its authentically cherished values conflict with it persisting, instead of being replaced by Amish-like folks. What shall it compromise in order to persist?” https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/a-fertility-reckoning
It's already pretty obvious that we'll soon be exploring infinite worlds with infinite detail, generated on the fly by artificial neural networks.
Here I used Bing to generate some images from a possible world where astrobiologists explore an alien forest but disappear. The Space Force is sent to investigate and find the planet teeming with dangerous aliens.
Israel links:
Fires from Hamas attacks in Israel are visible in new satellite imagery. https://twitter.com/ian_matveev/status/1710720332946935878
“Wondering why the Israeli civilians were not shooting back? The US has 120 civilian guns per 100 people. Israel has 6.7 civilian guns per 100 hundred people. 107 countries have higher rates of civilian gun ownership than Israel.” https://twitter.com/futurepundit/status/1710765494192738747
“Noa was partying in the south of Israel in a peace music festival when Hams terrorists kidnapped her and dragged her from Israel into Gaza.” https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1710719164099318078
“The Israeli tracked vehicle losses are high. Today I have counted at least the following, mostly captured but some also damaged…” https://twitter.com/emilkastehelmi/status/1710798093053038827
Zelenskyy: “Today, the entire world saw horrifying videos from Israel. Terrorists humiliate women and men, detain even the elderly, and show no mercy.” https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1710723464414282183 (Note: It’s not just humiliation. There are many videos and photos showing Israeli civilians being killed and kidnapped, executed in their homes and in the streets. Women stripped and with broken legs being paraded on pickup trucks. Israeli death toll: At least 350 killed, including 30 police officers; over 1,800 wounded, including many critical injuries.)
