Links for 2024-02-03
AI:
AI model flags high-risk pancreatic cancer patients 18 months before diagnosis https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/02/ai-model-flags-high-risk-pancreatic-cancer-patients-18-months-before-diagnosis/
“…we train a neural net from scratch through the eyes and ears of one child. The model learns to map words to visual referents, showing how grounded language learning from just one child's perspective is possible with today's AI tools.” https://twitter.com/wkvong/status/1753132293491708027
Meta presents Efficient Tool Use with Chain-of-Abstraction Reasoning https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17464
Investigate-Consolidate-Exploit: A General Strategy for Inter-Task Agent Self-Evolution — When combined with GPT-3.5, the performance with the proposed method matches that of raw GPT-4 across various agent tasks. https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13996
“Our core finding is that GPT-2 struggles to learn impossible languages when compared to English as a control…” https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06416
RAPTOR: Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrieval https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.18059
“Without fundamental advances, misalignment and catastrophe are the default outcomes of training powerful AI” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GfZfDHZHCuYwrHGCd/without-fundamental-advances-misalignment-and-catastrophe
The world's second-most famous AI doomer Connor Leahy sits down with Beff Jezos, the founder of the e/acc movement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zxi0xSBOaQ
Technology:
Is augmented reality the future? “Why Tim Cook Is Going All In on the Apple Vision Pro” https://www.vanityfair.com/news/tim-cook-apple-vision-pro [https://archive.is/oxs65]
According to his 1984 interview with Byte magazine, Steve Wozniak created the BASIC for the Apple 1 computer before he actually built the computer https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17957/how-did-woz-write-the-apple-1-basic-before-building-the-computer
Graphene nanoRibbons as Atomically controlled Light sources https://www.snf.ch/en/2FbXGlXUMjsXkLAt/news/an-architect-of-nano-power-plants
Invisible Armor for Steel: How hBN Coating Is Reinventing Metal Durability https://www.ornl.gov/news/armor-steel
Politics:
The United States has launched massive attacks with strategic bombers against Iranian targets in Iraq and Syria, and has stated that this is only the beginning. Huge secondary explosions on both sides of the border indicate that major rocket/missile depots have been hit. https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1753550180815630822
France has budgeted €413 billion euros for the armed forces in its 2024-2030 military programming law, a 40% increase over the previous period. https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/02/02/france-orders-11-billion-of-cannons-vehicles-and-helicopters/
China blocks Philippines access to South China Sea reef https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2024-02/china-blocks-philippines-access-south-china-sea-reef
Ukraine:
Additional footage of the absolutely disastrous Russian mechanized assault south of Novomykhailivka a few days ago https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1753546672842400147
63rd Brigade's footage of the destruction of enemy units east of Torske with overlayed intercepted radio conversations. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1753469423850012813
Another attempt by the Russian military to advance in a column. Another destroyed column. Video of the 72nd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. https://twitter.com/ian_matveev/status/1753508071203074156
Ukrainian 110th Mechanised Brigade destroys Russian invaders with FPV kamikaze drones in Avdiivka direction. https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1753480409919492315
A Ukrainian drone strike on the largest oil refinery in the Southern Federal District of Russia - Lukoil oil refinery in Volgograd. https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1753702721838801356
Czechia has found 450K 155mm rounds for sale outside the EU and is pressuring EU countries to finance the purchase. https://www.politico.eu/article/czech-republic-artillery-weapons-ukraine-european-union/
“Curbing aid to Ukraine doesn't just empower Russia — it also signals a lack of determination to adversaries like China.” https://twitter.com/SenAngusKing/status/1753447565893214470