Links for 2023-10-11
Language Agent Tree Search Unifies Reasoning Acting and Planning in Language Models https://andyz245.github.io/LanguageAgentTreeSearch/
Can neural language models advance reasoning abilities by imitating symbolic reasoners? POET, a new pre-training paradigm for boosting reasoning capabilities in language models by imitating program executors. Key idea: Program executors contain crystallized reasoning knowledge that can be transferred to language models via pre-training. https://github.com/microsoft/ContextualSP/tree/master/poet
ElevenLabs Launches Voice Translation Tool to Break Down Language Barriers for Content https://elevenlabs.io/blog/elevenlabs-launches-voice-translation-tool-to-break-down-language-barriers-for-content/
Automatic Scoring of Creative Problem-Solving with Large Language Models: A Comparison of Originality and Quality Ratings https://psyarxiv.com/g5qvf
UniAudio: An Audio Foundation Model Toward Universal Audio Generation https://dongchaoyang.top/UniAudio_demo/
Electronic sensor the size of a single molecule a potential game-changer https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/electronic-sensor-the-size-of-a-single-molecule-a-potential-game-changer/
Oxford researchers develop 3D printing method that shows promise for repairing brain injuries https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-10-04-oxford-researchers-develop-3d-printing-method-shows-promise-repairing-brain-injuries
How a single neuron’s parallel outputs can coordinate many aspects of behavior https://news.mit.edu/2023/how-single-neurons-parallel-outputs-can-coordinate-many-aspects-behavior-1003
MIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-engineers-create-supercapacitor-ancient-materials-0731
Why is the BBC promoting ethnonationalism? https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/why-is-the-bbc-promoting-ethnonationalism
Finland says 'outside activity' likely damaged gas pipeline, telecoms cable https://apnews.com/article/finland-estonia-pipeline-24d6623cf2778464fdb4ef1d85c70d91
Israel links:
IDF soldiers coming under Hamas militants fire when they try to save the crew of another Namer APC who locked themself in. https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1711692656818946108
“Footage of Hezbollah's ATGM strike against an IDF M113 IFV near the border, using the "Thar Allah" double 9M133-series Kornet launcher, designed to defeat the Trophy APS by firing two missiles in very rapid succession.” https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/1711853107376685153
% who say Hamas is deliberately striking Israeli civilian areas. U.S. adults: 53%; 18-29: 32%; 30-44: 44%; 45-64: 62%; 65+: 76% https://twitter.com/YouGovAmerica/status/1711512025346572348
“Babies were killed in their bedrooms, says an Israeli general who has been removing bodies from the kibbutz. Israeli soldiers also told BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen that some of the dead had been beheaded.” https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67050350 (there appear to be some confirmations (https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1711807566966100315) but I’d still suggest some caution)
“I’ve served as a combat soldier and officer for 39 years,” Maj-Gen Itai Veruv said...“I’ve never seen anything that comes close...It’s not even something our parents knew. This is something out of the world of our grandfathers back in Europe, from the pogroms and the Holocaust" https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bitterness-and-fury-at-the-kibbutz-where-babies-had-their-throats-cut-z7nz56rn9 [https://archive.ph/dLT72]
“The Israeli media now confirming that the gov't did receive clear warnings from Egyptian intelligence about the imminent attack that occurred on October 7. The PM's office initially issued a flat denial after the first report, but then did an about face and admitted it.” https://twitter.com/lisang/status/1711824708746838214
“The Israeli death toll from Hamas's attacks on the country has risen to at least 1,200, according to an early Wednesday update from Israel's public broadcaster KAN. The total amount of Israelis injured, according to that same update, has risen to 3,000.” https://twitter.com/kann_news/status/1711874938917822687
“Look carefully at who is calling this bloodshed 'liberation.' And who is remaining silent.” https://www.thefp.com/p/when-people-tell-you-who-they-are
Scenes of apocalyptic destruction in #Gaza. https://twitter.com/ThomasVLinge/status/1711714420676505731
Western leftists have lost the plot: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/western-leftists-have-lost-the-plot
And especially galling is the fact that many of the same leftists now celebrating Hamas’ massacre as a righteous blow against occupation refuse to give similar support to Ukraine’s defense against Russian occupation. The DSA’s International Committee blames NATO for Russia’s invasion, and advocates a “peace” that would mean parts of Ukraine being permanently ruled by Russia.
Ukraine links:
Worth hundreds of millions of euros, the German government has arranged for a further delivery of over 150,000 shells 155mm artillery ammunition to Ukraine https://www.rheinmetall.com/en/media/news-watch/news/2023/10/2023-10-10-third-call-off-artillery-ammunition
“Let's make sure not to miss the fact that Germany is sending us an AWESOME defense aid package: ... A total of nearly 1 billion euros.” https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1711837031171547560
Russia attempted a major advance at Avdiivka but it seems to have completely failed (https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1711997573504930242) with some Russian equipment simply falling off pontoon bridges: https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1711696852557414817
General Tarnaviskyi with an update on the eastern Tavria front: "Almost 100 units of enemy equipment were destroyed. Among them a Su-25 aircraft, a BMPT Terminator, one MLRS, 18 tanks, 59 APC's, 5 artillery systems and one AD missile system." https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1712011944226357318