Links for 2023-11-01
“The next generation of AlphaFold: This model expands beyond proteins to include other molecules like small molecules and nucleic acids, and improves accuracy on proteins. The latest model can predict 3D structures for complexes that include proteins, ligands, nucleic acids, ions, and modified residues.” https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/a-glimpse-of-the-next-generation-of-alphafold/
“A Foundational Large Language Model for Edible Plant Genomes: Our model achieves accurate predictions across many genomic tasks and is also capable of zero-shot prediction.” https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.24.563624v1
Adaptive optical neural network connects thousands of artificial neurons https://www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=13644
FormalGeo: The First Step Toward Human-like IMO-level Geometric Automated Reasoning https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18021
“Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and more specifically proximal policy optimization (PPO), is the fundamental algorithm that powers alignment within AI. Here’s how it works...” https://twitter.com/cwolferesearch/status/1717259462627434746
Detecting Pretraining Data from Large Language Models https://swj0419.github.io/detect-pretrain.github.io/
Prof. Russell on artificial general intelligence (AGI) timelines: “Everyone has gone from 30-50 years, to 3-5 years.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUfhJn53QXA
ChatGPT adds PDF Analysis and Automatic Tool Switching https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/29/23937497/chatgpt-plus-new-beta-all-tools-update-pdf-data-analysis
New study shows how bumblebees make decisions ‘on the fly’ to maximise energy returns https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-10-25-new-study-shows-how-bumblebees-make-decisions-fly-maximise-energy-returns
Book Review: Going Infinite (about Sam Bankman-Fried) https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AocXh6gJ9tJC2WyCL/book-review-going-infinite
Atmospheric CO2 levels from 2.7 billion years ago inferred from micrometeorite oxidation https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6976288/
"The King of Denmark financed a large chunk of government revenues, for hundreds of years, by asking cargo ships passing through their strait to self-assess cargo value, and pay a tax on the value. … King also retains the right to buy the cargo at the self-assessed price." https://arpitrage.substack.com/p/a-harberger-tax-on-patents
Israel links:
"Crawling out of a tunnel fighters of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, military wing of Hamas, ended up between the border wall and a Israeli position. From where they attacked the Israeli temporary 'all round' with an RPG. They also had drone overview." https://twitter.com/GeoConfirmed/status/1719312333007093825
IDF Aerial Defense Array intercepted a Houthi missile detected in the Red Sea area, south of Eilat. https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1719493467959648637
“Southern Lebanon and Golan Heights: Iranian-backed militants, including Lebanese #Hezbollah (LH), conducted nine attacks into #Israel as part of an ongoing attack campaign targeting IDF radar and sensor sites and military targets.” https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1719536464961081808
"What can be said with confidence is that the IDF regularly uses a wide variety of warnings, almost certainly more than any other military." https://lieber.westpoint.edu/idf-hamas-duty-to-warn/
In 20212, Hamas gave Russian propaganda channel RT a tour of their terror tunnel. https://twitter.com/GLNoronha/status/1719344922531148035
Far-Left Support for Hamas is not an Aberration https://reason.com/volokh/2023/10/30/far-left-support-for-hamas-is-not-an-aberration/
Ukraine links:
A new thread about Russian losses during the Russian Avdiivka Offensive (started on 9 or 10 October): 197 vehicle losses. 18 potential vehicle losses. https://twitter.com/GeoConfirmed/status/1719553325102690801
Another thread that shows a lot of Russian equipment losses during Avdiivka attacks. https://twitter.com/OSINTua/status/1719405081685114940
A Ukrainian HIMARS strike on October 29 reportedly destroyed an entire battalion of mobilized soldiers from Chuvashia. https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1719398544233107685
Avdiivka, reality update. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1719331765536379377
Video of DPICM artillery and UAV-dropper munition strikes by Ukraine’s 110th Mechanized Brigade in the Avdiivka area. https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1719459699710447950
“After extensive research and analysis of North Korean deliveries to Russia using various sources and calculations, we estimate that Russia has received around 2,000 cargo containers containing over half a million artillery shells.” https://frontelligence.substack.com/p/counting-the-rounds-north-korean
“Russia spent $22.8 billion on missile attacks on Ukraine. This is more than half of all US military aid to Ukraine ($43 billion). A short thread about missile attacks this winter” https://twitter.com/Volodymyr_D_/status/1719305512884273230
"Small fpv battlefield drones have challenged many accepted rules of war, and doctrine is struggling to adapt...the Russians have imposed a 10km no-tank zone behind the front, dramatically decreasing the value of such weapons." https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/10/29/trenches-and-tech-on-ukraines-southern-front [https://archive.ph/nYzAa]