AI:
Compound AI systems: The best results are increasingly obtained by compound systems, not monolithic models. https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2024/02/18/compound-ai-systems/
Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10200
“The constantly changing nature of the world is a significant challenge for AI models, particularly when it causes a disconnect between training and input data. Learn how we’ve addressed this by combining the strengths of offline and continual learning” https://blog.research.google/2024/02/learning-importance-of-training-data.html
“How can you tell when a model is hallucinating? Let it cheat! An expert doesn't need to cheat, so if your model learns to cheat, there must be something it doesn't know.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08733
Miscellaneous:
“If you think it is going to take humanity 50 years to figure something out (a cure for cancer, AGI, etc) - we might be just 11 years away…Some types of compute efficiency...are improving by 50%+ per year…Efficiency in analyzing biotech lab samples has improved by around 40% per year over the past 20 years…Most people need to dramatically shrink the timelines over which they expect the seemingly impossible to turn into the imminently probable.” https://x.com/01Core_Ben/status/1759510975634371070
Potential new weapon in battle against superbugs: Harvard team’s synthetic molecule highly effective against drug-resistant bacteria https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/02/potential-new-weapon-in-battle-against-superbugs/
Thalamus Modulates Consciousness via Layer-Specific Control of Cortex https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(20)30005-2
The surprisingly subtle geometry of a familiar game shows how quickly math gets complicated. https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-mysterious-math-of-billiards-tables-20240215/
Politics:
“This is an Olympic Gold Medal level bad take, even for Donald Trump.” https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111958285847100029
Ukraine:
First Ukrainian F-16 pilots will complete training as soon as May: "The pilots are already “flying F-16s solo every day,” but the requirements for these pilots have changed and training is taking a bit longer because the pilots need to be able to operate a “full range of missions” beyond wartime scenarios."https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2024/02/first-ukrainian-f-16-pilots-will-complete-training-soon-may/394264/
“The race to arm Ukraine with new generations of drones is on. Some see it as the only way to sustain Ukraine defense against Russia. So what’s new in drones?” https://x.com/Mylovanov/status/1759362735400157489
“Ukrainian FPV drones attack hangars with hidden Russian AFVs inside. Tanks, BMPs, BMPT Terminator. As said, Russians gathered these AFVs for use in attacks on the southern front.” https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1759864209888723415
The Canadian government announced today that it would donate more than 800 FLIR SkyRanger R70 multi-mission UAVs to Ukraine. https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1759766893664076002
“Madyar video showing a Ukrainian FPV strike on a Russian fixed-wing FPV drone. They were able to watch the video feed and send up FPVs to take it down.” https://x.com/RALee85/status/1759860158899835032
British Target Drones Appear To Have Been Turned Into Strike Weapons In Ukraine https://www.twz.com/news-features/british-target-drones-appear-to-have-been-turned-into-strike-weapons-in-ukraine
“The 58th Motorized Brigade repelled a large Russian mechanized attack north of the village of Shevchenko in the Vuhledar direction. In total 3 tanks, numerous BMP's/MT-LB's and infantry were destroyed.” https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1759901088117903653
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> This is an Olympic Gold Medal level bad take, even for Donald Trump.
Why?