AI:
“How to master discrete and continuous control with limited data? Introducing EfficientZero V2, a general framework designed for sample-efficient RL algorithms, which outperforms the SotA methods and DreamerV3 across diverse domains.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00564
Teaching Large Language Models to Reason with Reinforcement Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04642
All Roads Lead to Robotics: "...the longer a program interacts with a source of entropy, the less formal guarantees we can make about the correctness of our program’s behavior. Even if you are not building a physical robot, your codebase ends up looking a lot like a modern robotics software stack. " https://evjang.com/2024/03/03/all-roads-robots.html
VisionLLaMA: A Unified LLaMA Interface for Vision Tasks https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00522
SaulLM-7B: A pioneering Large Language Model for Law https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03883
Miscellaneous:
“Bumblebees can teach each other new behaviours that are too complex for them to learn alone…. The findings provide evidence that bees can socially learn some behaviours at a level of complexity previously thought to be unique to humans.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07126-4
Focused ion beam technology: a single tool for a wide range of applications https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pOid=71034&pNid=0
Quantum Leap in Superconductivity: Harvard’s High-Pressure Breakthrough https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/01/high-temperature-superconductors-with-a-twist/
What would happen if you got vaccinated against the same antigen over and over again? A report on a hypervaccinated individual who received 217 vaccinations within 29 months against SARS-CoV-2. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(24)00134-8/fulltext
Politics:
I haven't fact-checked this. But if it's true, it's pretty worrisome where America is headed: “Description of writer Evan Osnos' recent interview with Biden. Watch til the end. Either I'm totally high or this is disturbing shit. Both can't be true. Okay, I guess both can be true.” https://x.com/SethMacFarlane/status/1765990751761281205
Ukraine:
“Grim footage from the battlefield in Ukraine. A broken down Russian column was recorded by Code 9.2, a unit within the 92nd Assault Brigade. Lots of destroyed heavy equipment and killed Russian infantry can be seen. Likely the Bakhmut direction.” https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1766084793643487725
“Russian cities experienced a heavy attack by UAVs last night. The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that 50 drones were involved. Especially Taganrog was in the focus. Local Telegram channels claim that the target was the aviation repair and research facility of Beriev.” https://x.com/Tendar/status/1766360973386936512
Klishchiivka massacre. RU losses. https://x.com/moklasen/status/1766162668979716198
“A company of Russian mechanized infantry reached the southwestern tip of the settlement Novomykhailivka. But they became under heavy shelling and attacks of the Ukrainian 79th air assault brigade, eventually taking huge losses. RFWF+MP2 Novomykhailivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine” https://x.com/GeoConfirmed/status/1766212328645591393
“The Prime Minister of Czechia confirms that they have only secured enough funds to procure the first batch of 300,000 shells. Unclear if these are all 122mm, 155mm or a mix of both. There are at least another 500,000 available, possibly up to 700,000, as the Norwegian MoD spoke of up to 1 million shells.” https://x.com/P_Fiala/status/1766032681593151587
Poland: “The presence of #NATO forces in Ukraine is not unthinkable. I appreciate the 🇫🇷 President Emmanuel Macron's initiative, because it is about Putin being afraid, not us being afraid of Putin.” https://x.com/PolandMFA/status/1766118567529869614
The visually identifiable Russian losses for YESTERDAY alone are again larger than the entire stocks of some countries: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e_tI3ovN5jK-RrDPCpCy2lEtnX7XJaAHGF2zPMps11w/
Poor fucking goat.