Links for 2023-10-13
“A tidal wave of new primary sources from the ancient world could very soon be on its way - enough to keep scholars busy for decades! The first words have being read from digitally ‘unrolled’ carbonised scrolls from a Roman library in Herculaneum!” https://scrollprize.org/firstletters
“Mechanistic interpretability is not only for ML or LLM, but is even more promising for Science! A few months ago, we proposed a brain-inspired method (BIMT) for NN interpretability; Now we're happy to see that it can give something back to neuroscience - Growing brains in RNNs!” https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07711
Are Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models just In-Context Learning? https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01809
Can large language models play imperfect information games without additional training? https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17277
LLMs are game-changers, but can they help us navigate a constantly changing world? https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03214
Adobe’s Project Stardust is a sneak preview of its next-gen AI photo editing engine https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/10/adobes-project-stardust-is-a-sneak-preview-of-its-next-gen-ai-photo-editing-engine/
“In the last few weeks there have been an explosion of ideas in the Large Language Model (LLM) space that is leading to a higher understanding of how to create even more powerful LLMs.” https://twitter.com/IntuitMachine/status/1712426605501399536
Bioengineering Breakthrough Increases DNA Detection Sensitivity by 100 Times https://www.umass.edu/news/article/bioengineering-breakthrough-increases-dna-detection-sensitivity-100-times
Recovery of walking after paralysis by regenerating characterized neurons to their natural target region https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi6412
Giving free therapy to a bunch of teens who don't have mood disorders caused a bunch of them to develop mood disorders, and caused their relationships with their parents to get durably worse. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796723001560
Political links:
Senior Hamas Official Ali Baraka: We Have Been Secretly Planning the Invasion for Two Years; Russia Sympathizes with Us, Benefits from U.S. Embroilment in This War; Any Swap Deal Should Include Hamas Prisoners in Europe and the U.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZsms0LJWQ
State Duma member Andrey Gurulyov emphasized that Russia is not on the side of Israel. Gurulyov and Vladimir Solovyov jointly laughed at the way Hamas overwhelmed the Iron Dome air defense system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMeiuxaujk0
France has 10000 (!) police stationed around the country to keep their Jews safe from the imported Muslim problem. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-reports-dozens-antisemitic-acts-since-hamas-attack-2023-10-11/ [https://archive.ph/b5PID]
The largest group of known perpetrators of antisemitic violence in Europe are Muslims. According to an anti-Semitism report by the European Union, 30% (41% in Germany) of the perpetrators are Muslims, 21% people with a left-wing political view, and 13% right-wingers. https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2018/experiences-and-perceptions-antisemitism-second-survey-discrimination-and-hate
A study by a German university comes to a similar conclusion: 81% of all physical attacks were committed by Muslims. http://beratungsnetzwerk-sachsen-anhalt.de/images/docs/Publikationen/JuPe_Bericht_April2017.pdf
This pattern is verified by yet another study: Antisemitic Violence in Europe, 2005 – 2015 Exposure and Perpetrators in France, UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Russia https://archive.jpr.org.uk/download?id=3310
Jews Feel Safer in Europe’s Conservative East Than Its Liberal West https://commentarymagazine.com/anti-semitism/jews-anti-semitism-europe-east-west/
“We said ‘never again.’ The UK was a safe haven. Now, after the biggest massacre of Jews since the holocaust, British Jewish children are being advised to hide their identities as they walk to school, for their own safety. There should be mass outrage that this is necessary.” https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1712379734900805837
“Since barbarity pornography is all the rage these days, I thought I'd remind you all what's been going on in Europe for the past 7 years.” https://twitter.com/SBAbsolutist/status/1712450267625468294
Ukraine links:
Russian human losses during the ast 48h amount to almost 1000 in the Avdiivka direction. https://twitter.com/RaduHossu/status/1712603920302739698
Destruction of Russian mechanised column during an offensive on Ukrainian positions south of Novomykhailivka, in Donetsk region. https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1712438314676936737
The destruction of a column of Russian armored vehicles coming from Pisky southwest of Avdiivka. https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1712537589276954794
Russian infantry being decimated by artillery (including cluster munitions) to the north of Odradivka, Bakhmut direction. Work of the 45th Brigade. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1712437045249839592
Norway, Sweden and Denmark to jointly buy artillery shells for Ukraine https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/10/11/7423717/
In the coming months, The Czech Republic and Denmark will supply Ukraine with tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, hand guns and ammunition of both new production and from the warehouses of Czech private companies at the expense of the Danish government. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/czech-republic-denmark-supply-tanks-fighting-vehicles-ukraine-czech-defence-2023-10-12/ [https://archive.ph/bOFgD]
Ukraine is likely to receive additional batches of Switchblade 600 kamikaze drones. https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-russia-switchblade-drones-loitering-munitions-shahed-1833837