Links for 2024-03-23
AI:
A way to take 500k AI models in dozens of different modalities and use evolutionary methods to automatically "merge" them, and achieve state-of-the-art performance. https://sakana.ai/evolutionary-model-merge/
An AI tool tested by the NHS successfully identified tiny signs of breast cancer in 11 women which had been missed by human doctors. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68607059
ChatGPT can learn indirect control https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sY3a4Rfa48CgteBEm/chatgpt-can-learn-indirect-control
"Deep Learning" Is Function Approximation https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DhjcdzTyqHte2v6bu/deep-learning-is-function-approximation
NeuFlow: Real-time, High-accuracy Optical Flow Estimation on Robots Using Edge Devices — “Our approach achieves around 30 FPS on edge computing platforms, which represents a significant breakthrough in deploying complex computer vision tasks such as SLAM on small robots like drones.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10425
Fast High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Adversarial Diffusion Distillation https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12015
SV3D: Novel Multi-view Synthesis and 3D Generation from a Single Image using Latent Video Diffusion https://sv3d.github.io/
Technology:
Steady But Niche Progress in 3D Printing https://brief.bismarckanalysis.com/p/steady-but-niche-progress-in-3d-printing
Cutting Energy Use by 97% – Stanford Engineers Invent Game-Changing Actuator https://news.stanford.edu/press-releases/2024/03/20/new-efficient-moext-gen-robotics/
Miscellaneous:
In <1 year, a patient’s rare disease was diagnosed and a new medicine was invented that successfully treated it. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1813279
Parrots love playing tablet games. New research from Rébecca Kleinberger’s lab at Northeastern University delves deep into the data on how parrots use touchscreen devices, with the help of a bespoke gaming app. https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/03/20/parrots-playing-tablet-games/ (paper: https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:h989sd115)
“In 1916, in Kraków's Planty park, Banach encountered Professor Hugo Steinhaus, one of the renowned mathematicians of the time. According to Steinhaus, while he was strolling through the gardens he was surprised to overhear the term "Lebesgue integral" and walked over to investigate. As a result, he met Banach, as well as Otto Nikodym. Steinhaus became fascinated with the self-taught young mathematician.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Banach
Ukraine:
Looks like the Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries are continuing despite America's pleas to stop: "Overnight, Ukraine attacked the Kuybyshevsky oil refinery in the Samara region in Russia. The refinery is specialized in the production of jet fuel among other products. The fire lasted until the morning. The refinery is 900km from Ukraine’s border." https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1771445161895100567
Politics:
At least 93 dead following yesterday’s Islamic State terror attack in Moscow. [warning: video with dead civilians] https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1771230817592766490
Putin ignored Western warnings about the terror attack. https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1771312730793726431
“All roads lead back to Iran, but really, it's Chinese money that is fueling Iran and terrorism.” https://x.com/RepWaltzPress/status/1770850089243734088