Links for 2023-12-24
Mastering Stacking of Diverse Shapes with Large-Scale Iterative Reinforcement Learning on Real Robots — Learns end-to-end, directly from pixels, and does not rely on substantial additional human domain knowledge https://sites.google.com/view/robochef
G-LLaVA : Solving Geometric Problem with Multi-Modal Large Language Model https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11370
"Humanity vs. AGI" Will Never Look Like "Humanity vs. AGI" to Humanity https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xSJMj3Hw3D7DPy5fJ/humanity-vs-agi-will-never-look-like-humanity-vs-agi-to
On the future of language models https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pnaZajFFWuXAnetpz/on-the-future-of-language-models
“Think of an LLM that can find entities in a given image, describe the image and answers questions about it, without hallucinating ✨ Kosmos-2 released by @Microsoft is a very underrated model that can do that.” https://twitter.com/mervenoyann/status/1737506720249782495
Apple releases Ferret: Refer and Ground Anything Anywhere at Any Granularity https://github.com/apple/ml-ferret
Meta Fairy: Fast Parallelized Instruction-Guided Video-to-Video Synthesis https://fairy-video2video.github.io/
A Brain-Controlled Quadruped Robot: A Proof-of-Concept Demonstration https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/ddog/overview/ (paper: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/1/80)
Quantum batteries break causality: A new way to charge batteries harnesses the power of “indefinite causal order” https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00323.html
Atari 2600 Hardware Design: Making Something out of (Almost) Nothing https://www.bigmessowires.com/2023/01/11/atari-2600-hardware-design-making-something-out-of-almost-nothing/
There Milky Way has a dark patch, and it's weirder than we thought. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-sy3j0zGtk
"This greening of the Sahara didn’t happen once. Using marine and lake sediments, scientists have identified over 230 of these greenings occurring about every 21,000 years over the past eight million years." https://theconversation.com/the-sahara-desert-used-to-be-a-green-savannah-new-research-explains-why-216555
“The best writer in existing America should be +6SD above average; the best writer among the sperm in the cup is +8SD. 8SD is “best in two quadrillion”. There has never been a writer that good in the whole history of the world. There is a sperm in that cup who could write at an utterly superhuman level, write things none of us could possibly imagine, things so good it’s not even clear you would still call them writing and not some entirely new semi-divine form of art.” https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-the-long-run-were-all-dad
Political links:
A Tik-Tok-ing Timebomb: How TikTok's Global Platform Anomalies Align with the Chinese Communist Party's Geostrategic Objectives https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf
“Experts estimate Pyongyang has enough nuclear material to build 20-60 nuclear warheads. Can engineers put them on long-range missiles? The Koreans say they can. If they can’t today, it is just a matter of time before they can.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2023/12/21/next-gen-interceptor-is-pentagons-only-option-for-defeating-future-north-korean-icbms/
Argentina protest organisers will have to cover security costs, government says https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-67809237
“Ukrainian planes using JDAMs hit Russian warehouses containing equipment and ammunition of BM-27 “Uragan” MLRS. The strike occurred near Abrykosivka, Kherson. In the end of the footage you can even see two Russian planes, likely Su-25.” https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1738508148770582878
“If we're counting all of Kherson Oblast, the #Krynky loss numbers look like this. 18 UA losses vs. 133 RU losses” https://twitter.com/naalsio26/status/1738619620909523187
Destroyed Russian equipment. Tanks, APV's, regular vehicles... everything. https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1738649362605932864
“Shoygu! Gerasimov! We're territorial defence, not stormtroopers!” https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1738683885968388383