AI:
BioPlanner: Automatic Evaluation of LLMs on Protocol Planning in Biology https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10632
Multiple AI models help robots execute complex plans more transparently https://news.mit.edu/2024/multiple-ai-models-help-robots-execute-complex-plans-more-transparently-0108
New technology enables drones to navigate around obstacles autonomously https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/technology-enables-drones-to-autonomously-navigate
Technique could efficiently solve partial differential equations for numerous applications — “PEDS does the opposite by choosing its parameters smartly. It leverages the technology of automatic differentiation to train a neural network that makes a model with few parameters accurate.” https://news.mit.edu/2024/peds-technique-could-efficiently-solve-partial-differential-equations-0108
LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024 — "Current LLMs will not take us beyond the paths of knowledge, but if we want to tackle a topic we do not know well, they can often lift us from our absolute ignorance to the point where we know enough to move forward on our own." http://antirez.com/news/140
AST-T5: Structure-Aware Pretraining for Code Generation and Understanding https://github.com/gonglinyuan/ast_t5
Space:
Colonization of Titan: "In certain ways, Titan is the most hospitable extraterrestrial world within our solar system for human colonization. The dark dunes that run along the equator contain a volume of organics several hundred times larger than Earth's coal reserves. Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Titan
Gödel universe: a solution to general theory of relativity that has many unusual properties—in particular, the existence of closed time-like curves that would allow time travel. https://www.privatdozent.co/p/godels-solution-to-einsteins-field
Psychology:
"[A]utistic adults exhibit a diminished neural response to their own faces compared to neurotypical adults, suggesting unique differences in self-referential processing." https://psypost.org/2024/01/autistic-adults-show-unique-neural-responses-to-self-images-study-finds-220536
"Research has found that people frequently respond negatively when they receive help and may in some cases even prefer to endure hardships rather than to seek out help" https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/chapter/other-determinants-of-helping/
Miscellaneous:
I finished watching this great show. Anti-suicide drama. Highly recommended. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%27s_Game
Politics:
“The situation on the Korean Peninsula is more dangerous than it has been at any time since early June 1950. That may sound overly dramatic, but we believe that, like his grandfather in 1950, Kim Jong Un has made a strategic decision to go to war.” https://www.38north.org/2024/01/is-kim-jong-un-preparing-for-war/
British defence secretary: “Can we really assume the strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction that stopped wars in the past will stop them in future, when applied to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard or North Korea?” https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/defending-britain-from-a-more-dangerous-world
Ukraine:
British Labour leader Keir Starmer confirms support for Ukraine 'as long as it takes'. https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1746927689775174136
A Russian hideout was destroyed in the Avdiivka direction. https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1746909642729410824
Thread with significant losses near Avdiivka. https://twitter.com/OSINTua/status/1746579860112167303
SSO units of the 79th Kherson border detachment destroyed a Russian BM-21 Grad MLRS on the left bank that was shelling the Mykolaiv region. https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1747154030856409560
Full video of Russian servicemen getting hit by an FPV-drone while inside a fast-moving "Bukhanka". https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1747020323839480028
Eastern Ukraine, a Russian Su-25 nearly flies into a Ukrainian FPV munition near the front. https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1746986712717316232
Can Europe arm Ukraine—or even itself? https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/01/14/can-europe-arm-ukraine-or-even-itself [https://archive.is/IwxEc]
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