AI ‘breakthrough’: neural net has human-like ability to generalize language https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03272-3
“How can humans help robots improve? Using Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) to generate synthetic training data, and only delegate to a human operator for the most challenging parts that can't be synthesized.” https://hitltamp.github.io/
Using LLMs as reasoning engines can be a game changer. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlzNGEvTIKySN_7euoQJrm_zmxVNV8h2F
Tuna: Instruction Tuning using Feedback from Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13385
Contrastive Prefence Learning: Learning from Human Feedback without RL https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13639
A 20 minute research talk on formalising material from Apostol's graduate textbook on number theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jl3ZeYeDfE
Why do the polygenic score means match up so well with the phenotypic means? https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/sasha-gusev-wont-answer-basic-questions
Physicists have shown that simulating models of hypothetical time travel can solve experimental problems that appear impossible to solve using standard physics. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/simulations-of-backwards-time-travel-can-improve-scientific-experiments
Viral Persistence and Serotonin Reduction Can Cause Long COVID Symptoms, Penn Medicine Research Finds https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2023/october/penn-study-finds-serotonin-reduction-causes-long-covid-symptoms
Ruthless aggression of the old school... Dan Severn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqdO1xb42yI
“comparative anthropologists estimated that 50% of female newborn babies may have been killed by their parents during the Paleolithic era.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide
Russia has welcomed Hamas representatives to Moscow less than three weeks after they carried out the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust: https://www.reuters.com/world/hamas-delegation-is-visiting-moscow-russian-foreign-ministry-2023-10-26/
Israel’s official response: https://twitter.com/LiorHaiat/status/1717592919220056382
Israel condemns the invitation of senior Hamas officials to Moscow, which is an act of support of terrorism, and legitimizes the atrocities of Hamas terrorists. We call on the Russian government to expel the Hamas terrorists immediately.
Well, why would Russia expel Hamas? They've been committing war crimes in Ukraine for over 600 days and have kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Political links:
POTUS not mincing words here: "Any attack on the Filipino aircraft, vessels, or armed forces will invoke our Mutual Defense Treaty with the Philippines…" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67224782
US strikes 2 facilities linked to Iranian-backed militias in Syria following series of attacks on US forces in Middle East https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3570798/secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iiis-statement-on-us-military-strikes-in-ea/
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has inaugurated today the French Army’s drone school https://www.terremag.defense.gouv.fr/info-en-bref/larmee-de-terre-se-dote-dune-nouvelle-ecole-des-drones
Another thread of destroyed Russian armour around Avdiivka https://twitter.com/OSINTua/status/1717624038615355565
“Near Pidstepne on the left bank, Russians are now systematically hit in their dugouts. Ukrainian forces have increased their presence in the area.” [Warning: people burning alive] https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1717604465543450805
North Korea's (likely) supply line to Russia has been found by RUSI using satellite photos.
https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/orient-express-north-koreas-clandestine-supply-route-russia
Reading this, I thought: what we need is a clandestine Kickstarter to sink those boats...