Links for 2023-12-17
The unreasonable effectiveness of linear algebra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqv3cXt8ZNU
Next-Gen fMRI Improves Spatial Resolution 10-Fold -- A suite of improvements enables the NexGen 7T to image sub-microliter neuron clusters https://spectrum.ieee.org/nexgen-7t-fmri
‘It’s all gone’: CAR-T therapy forces autoimmune diseases into remission https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03968-6
A new AI cancer detection model trained to spot pancreatic malignancies—the most deadly solid cancer— outperformed expert radiologists https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02640-w
“Mistral AI's new model — Mixtral 8x7B — is pretty impressive. We'll see how to get set up and deploy Mixtral 8X7B, the prompt format it requires, and how it performs when being used as an Agent — we even add in some Mixtral RAG at the end.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCRvIPpFyEI
Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors -- The Big Three can now all make CFETs—next stop on the Moore’s Law roadmap https://spectrum.ieee.org/cfet-intel-samsung-tsmc
Intel unveils new AI chip to compete with Nvidia and AMD https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/14/intel-unveils-gaudi3-ai-chip-to-compete-with-nvidia-and-amd.html
UniRepLKNet: A Universal Perception Large-Kernel ConvNet for Audio, Video, Point Cloud, Time-Series and Image Recognition https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.15599
A Task is Worth One Word: Learning with Task Prompts for High-Quality Versatile Image Inpainting https://powerpaint.github.io/
The effect of horizon length on scaling laws https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ouEQLAca3bbiimAFQ/the-effect-of-horizon-length-on-scaling-laws
“The sheer breadth of problems one can solve using geometric techniques is the reason Solomon gave his Geometric Data Processing Group a “purposefully ambiguous” name.” https://news.mit.edu/2023/justin-solomon-pushing-geometric-boundaries-1212
“Without x-rays, high-powered microscopes, and fancy research equipment...How would you figure out the size of a single molecule? Lord Rayleigh did it way back in 1890, using little more than oil, water, and a pen. His inspiration? Benjamin Franklin.” https://twitter.com/NikoMcCarty/status/1734923686430572946
Doctor shortages don’t seem to affect subsequent mortality. https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.00478?journalCode=hlthaff
Frozen methane under the seabed is thawing as oceans warm – and things are worse than we thought https://theconversation.com/frozen-methane-under-the-seabed-is-thawing-as-oceans-warm-and-things-are-worse-than-we-thought-216054
Political links:
“Frontelligence Insight team, upon a thorough examination of multiple satellite shots spanning from October 10th to November 28th, has identified over 211 destroyed or damaged and abandoned Russian vehicles in the vicinity of Avdiivka.” https://frontelligence.substack.com/p/avdiivka-geospatial-vehicle-loss
A top-secret Chinese spy satellite just launched on a supersized rocket https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/12/a-top-secret-chinese-spy-satellite-just-launched-on-a-super-sized-rocket/
“All three [hostages] were shirtless, with one of the figures carrying a stick with a makeshift white flag, according to the investigation. The soldier…believed the men moving toward him was an attempt by Hamas to lure IDF soldiers into a trap” After the first two hostages were killed the IDF battalion commander came out & called a halt. They heard someone shouting “help” in Hebrew. *Then* a third hostage emerged and was also shot. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/initial-idf-probe-hostages-were-shirtless-waving-white-flag-when-soldiers-opened-fire/
Today, Odesa is a Russian city, tomorrow it will be Kyiv and perhaps Lviv. As the joke goes, Russia's borders end where somebody kicks their ass. It's not even a joke. It's a policy advice.