Links for 2023-12-23
Advancements in machine learning for machine learning https://blog.research.google/2023/12/advancements-in-machine-learning-for.html
Learning adaptive planning representations with natural language guidance https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08566
Tencent announces AppAgent: Multimodal Agents as Smartphone Users https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13771
This AI can find your location just by looking at a few photos https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-ai-can-find-your-location-just-by-looking-at-a-few-photos/
Artificial intelligence can predict events in people's lives: The tool was tested on 6 million Danish people, predicting with over 75% accuracy who would live at least four years beyond 2016. https://singularityhub.com/2023/12/22/this-ai-trained-on-the-life-events-of-every-person-in-denmark-it-can-now-predict-their-future/
Japan startup Preferred Networks designs own AI chips to beat bottleneck https://www.reuters.com/technology/japan-startup-preferred-networks-designs-own-ai-chips-beat-bottleneck-2023-12-20/ [https://archive.is/HMHCg]
Outfit Anyone: Ultra-high quality virtual try-on for Any Clothing and Any Person https://huggingface.co/spaces/HumanAIGC/OutfitAnyone
What caused the Little Ice Age? At least 4 huge > 60 Tg sulfate loading events --> 🌋 The LIA began abruptly in two steps: the late 1200s and mid-1400s with monster eruption in 1452 that coincided with fall of Constantinople. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2011GL050168
New Moderna cancer vaccine data spurs share rally https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/moderna-merck-cancer-vaccine-melanoma-updated-data/702560/
Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment Through Programmable Bacteria https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2023/11/revolutionizing-cancer-treatment-through-programmable-bacteria.html
“We conclude that it is reasonable to think that the universe is infinite, and that there exist infinitely many galaxies broadly like ours, scattered throughout space and time, including in our future. It’s a plausible reading of our cosmological situation.” https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2023/12/could-universe-be-infinite.html
Political links:
Among brothers within the same family, the one with lower IQ ability is more likely to be convicted of a violent crime. The persistence of the effect suggests something other than socioeconomic factors — probably genetics — is in play. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0041783
WW2 general Hitoshi Imamura, known for "unusually lenient" rule over occupied Indonesia, sentenced by the Australians to 10 years for other war crimes, decided his release was premature and spent the rest of his life (making 21 years altogether) in a replica of his prison cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitoshi_Imamura
school is bad actually https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1738099362511868043
Argentina Milei reform impressions https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/12/argentina-reform-impressions.html
The Netherlands is sending 18 F-16s to Ukraine to help in the war against Russia. https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/politiek/artikel/5425850/nederland-levert-achttien-nederlandse-f-16s-aan-oekraine-strijd
Ukraine is now the world leader in sea drones. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/20/world/europe/ukraine-drones-sea.html [https://archive.is/U09LG]
“Russia has launched about 7,400 missiles and 3,700 Shahed attack drones at targets in Ukraine during its 22-month-old invasion, Kyiv said on Thursday…Ukrainian air defences were able to shoot down 1,600 of the missiles and 2,900 of the drones” https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-has-fired-7400-missiles-3700-shahed-drones-war-so-far-kyiv-says-2023-12-21/ [https://archive.is/wip/4J6Ib]
“Ukraine reports downing three Russian Su-34 fighter bombers overnight. That's just under 2% of the 155 Su-34s ever built, lost in a single night. At least 20 more Su-34s have been shot down over Ukraine since the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion.” https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1738286636666888417
“Yesterday morning, another assault on the farm was repulsed in the area of Novomikhailivka village. Russians have been trying to assault this farm and a cemetery every day for months now to gain a foothold for the assault of the village itself.” https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1738296241132331178
“Fat Leonard, a military contractor known for organizing and filming orgies involving senior U.S. Navy admirals, is on his way back to San Diego to face sentencing for corruption over a year after he fled to Venezuela.” https://twitter.com/TomWrightAsia/status/1737608803527569588