Links for 2023-12-01
Large-scale pancreatic cancer detection via non-contrast CT and deep learning https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02640-w
“Welcome to the future. ‘Over 17 days of continuous operation, the A-Lab realized 41 novel compounds from a set of 58 targets… identified using large-scale ab initio phase-stability data from the Materials Project and Google DeepMind.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06734-w
“Machine learning for neuroscience: We build interpretable biological network reconstructions from electrode recordings with ML and optimal transport.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03603
Q: “The reports about the Q* model breakthrough that you all recently made, what’s going on there?” Altman: “No particular comment on that unfortunate leak. But what we have been saying — two weeks ago, what we are saying today, what we’ve been saying a year ago, what we were saying earlier on — is that we expect progress in this technology to continue to be rapid...You can always hit a wall, but we expect that progress will continue to be significant.” https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23982046/sam-altman-interview-openai-ceo-rehired
Concept Sliders: LoRA Adaptors for Precise Control in Diffusion Models https://sliders.baulab.info/
P(doom) roundup: what probability do people put on AI killing everyone? https://twitter.com/AISafetyMemes/status/1729892336782524676
"E. coli bacteria use iron levels as a way to store information about different behaviors that can then be activated in response to certain stimuli... These iron memories persist for at least four generations and disappear by the seventh generation." https://news.utexas.edu/2023/11/21/bacteria-store-memories-and-pass-them-on-for-generations/
A combinatorially complete fitness landscape with >260.000 E.coli genotypes shows unexpected 🤯 properties. Despite ~500 fitness peaks in this landscape, adaptive evolution can easily navigate to highest fitness peaks https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh3860
Genes that increase the chances of getting addicted to alcohol increase the risk of feeling lonely. Genes that increase the risk for autism increase IQ. Genes that increase the risk for anorexia increase the chances of getting a higher education 🧬🧠 [published in 2021] https://bigthink.com/health/tiny-genetic-differences-behavioral-effects/
Births in South Korea are down by 11.5% in Q3 2023 compared to Q3 2022. Seoul TFR: 0.54 https://twitter.com/nonebusinesshey/status/1729710339598569513
Political links:
From Norway to Kaliningrad, Russia is steadily withdrawing troops and demilitarizing its borders with the NATO alliance. This makes a complete mockery of Vladimir Putin's attempts to blame the Ukraine invasion on a supposed "NATO threat" to Russian national security https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-debunks-his-own-propaganda-by-disarming-russias-nato-borders/
“For much of your life, there was an invisible shield that protected you from threat by foreign conquerors. You lived so long under this shield, taking it for granted, that you didn't even notice when it was gone.” https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/people-are-realizing-that-the-arsenal
“Secrets are secret until they are not. The #Ukrainian Baba Yaga is a large #drone that uses advanced electronics and carries a very heavy payload. Russians state these “Cause great damage to our soldiers and fortified areas”.” https://twitter.com/DanielR33187703/status/1730102113869742364
The Ukrainian security service may have attacked the railway track between Russia and China. https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1730502199313064311