Links for 2023-12-06
“Magicoder, a series of fully open-source (code, weights, and data) Large Language Models (LLMs) for code that significantly closes the gap with top code models while having no more than 7B parameters.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02120
A new optimization framework for robot motion planning https://news.mit.edu/2023/new-optimization-framework-robot-motion-planning-1130
“Meta: Today we're announcing the AI Alliance, together with IBM and 50+ global organizations across the industry.” https://ai.meta.com/blog/ai-alliance/
“SODA is the first diffusion model to succeed at ImageNet linear-probe classification” https://soda-diffusion.github.io/
Mistral AI, a French AI startup competing with OpenAI, is close to reaching a $2 billion valuation https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-04/openai-rival-mistral-nears-2-billion-valuation-with-nvidia-funding [https://archive.is/4F3dT]
“What happened is, broadly: 'Altman made the OA non/for-profits and gifted most of it to EA with the best of intentions, but then it went so well & was going to make so much money that he had giver's remorse, changed his mind, and tried to quietly take it back; but he had to do it by hook or by crook, because the legal terms said clearly "no takesie backsies"'.” https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Mo7qnNZA7j4xgyJXq/sam-altman-open-ai-discussion-thread?commentId=CAfNAjLo6Fy3eDwH3
Generalization, from thermodynamics to statistical physics https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uG7oJkyLBHEw3MYpT/generalization-from-thermodynamics-to-statistical-physics
"On average, males have larger total brain volumes than females... Regional sex differences in volume and tissue density include the amygdala, hippocampus and insula, areas known to be implicated in sex-biased neuropsychiatric conditions." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763413003011
“Ancestral genetic components are consistently associated with the complex trait landscape across Europe. People of different ancestral backgrounds have different genetic predispositions to 32 out of 53 complex traits tested, including things like BMI, likelihood of smoking, and levels of various immune cells.” https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.04.560881v1
“Contrary to popular opinion, a person in a big city encounters less diverse individuals than a person in a small city, since big cities foster segregation. The big sort. We show this by analyzing 1.6 billion person-to-person encounters among 10 million people across 382 cities in the U.S.” http://segregation.stanford.edu/
The origins of the steam engine: An essay with interactive animated diagrams https://rootsofprogress.org/steam-engine-origins
Political links:
Video of the aftermath of the strike on a Russian column in Hladkivka. Literally piles of corpses. https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1731954408299053290
“The Ukrainian 110th Mechanised Brigade continues to destroy Russian invaders on the outskirts of Avdiivka, near coke plant. This is the work of only 1 pilot in 1 day.” https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1731998508461257063
“The latest Russian assault against Stepove north of Avdiivka ended like the previous assaults, in a disaster. At least two MT-LBs and around a dozen dead Russians litter the ground. According the source there were even 4 destroyed IFVs and 40 killed Russians.” https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1732121548226490781
“It will no longer surprise anyone that the Russians are no longer trying very hard to hide the fact of their direct participation in the war with Ukraine since 2014. But it’s still interesting to see how things like this appear…” https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1731804693486026814
Nine months in Russian captivity. Oleksii Anulia told how he was starving, eating worms and a live mouse https://texty.org.ua/articles/111246/nine-months-in-russian-captivity-oleksii-anulia-told-how-he-was-starving-eating-worms-and-a-live-mouse/
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