Links for 2024-03-04
AI and Neuroscience:
Claude 3: The next generation of AI models from Anthropic set new industry benchmarks across reasoning, math, coding, multilingual understanding, and vision. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-family
Learning and Leveraging World Models in Visual Representation Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00504
Deep Networks Always Grok and Here is Why https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15555
Diffusion models are surprisingly good at solving algorithmic tasks. https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03006
Distinct streams for supervised and unsupervised learning in the visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.25.581990v1
Challenging the Traditional Views on How the Brain Processes Movement and Sensation https://www.fujita-hu.ac.jp/en/news/kka9ar00000029xf.html
“Counting arguments provide no evidence for AI doom” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YsFZF3K9tuzbfrLxo/counting-arguments-provide-no-evidence-for-ai-doom
Miscellaneous:
A new optical metamaterial makes true one-way glass possible https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/a-new-optical-metamaterial-makes-true-one-way-glass-possible
France is trying to revive its domestic uranium reprocessing industry, and just now started up the 900 MWe Unit 2 of its Cruas-Meysse plant using its first entirely recycled uranium fuel load. EDF's goal is 30% Enriched Reprocessed Uranium usage by 2030. https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/French-reactor-using-full-core-of-recycled-uranium
“Leonhard Euler... at the time of his death, he had built up such a backlog of mathematical works that after he died, he published 228 papers...” https://x.com/Scientific_Bird/status/1760470580048880110
We haven't solved the physics of blowing dust. https://x.com/DrPhiltill/status/1761726379115045095
Politics:
Less than half of Brits say that nuclear is a low-carbon source of energy. 61% of men thought so, compared to 33% of women. https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/nuclear-low-carbon
Hungary has become China’s useful idiot https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/hungary-has-become-chinas-useful-idiot/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/1ahJs]
Ukraine:
“It looks like the "Czech" artillery ammunition (500k 155mm, 300k 122mm) is fixed and will be delivered to Ukraine very soon. This will be a great relief.” https://x.com/ArtWendeley/status/1764361441593680212
The Ukraine War in 2024 - The Military and Economic Balance of the Long War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQLI8xnINqk
“Finnish Defense Minister: Ukraine can use Finnish-provided weapons to strike Russia“ — “This is an absolutely legal defensive struggle, which Ukraine is waging. The UN Charter allows attacking military targets across land borders.” https://kyivindependent.com/finnish-defense-minister-there-are-no-restrictions-on-usage-of-finnish-military-aid-provided-to-ukraine/
Good thread on Russian most recent losses in Avdiivka. https://x.com/OSINTua/status/1764329113580405106
“Pokrovsk Raion offensive equipment loss numbers as of 01 March 2024. In summary: 757 Russian losses vs. 89 Ukrainian losses” https://x.com/naalsio26/status/1764449040987521245
“Someone blew up a railway bridge in Samara Oblast, Russia, deep in the Russian rear, that was used for transporting military equipment from a local military factory.” https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1764566822580371839
“In Ryazan, a propaganda train of the 🇷🇺 MoD brought booklets to schoolchildren about the difference between Russia and Ukraine. They depict torture and murder of children, homosexual soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces and Satan...” https://x.com/KilledInUkraine/status/1764560240698065392
Dmitry Medvedev held a speech today saying that Russia's borders don't end anywhere and that Ukraine must disappear.
It's almost guaranteed that they will invade other countries in the future. The only way to achieve peace is to defeat them.
See also: “Should we invade Poland next?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CYHgPclI-g