Links for 2024-03-26
AI:
A tweak in the architecture of Transformers can significantly boost accuracy https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02622
“AIOS, a Large Language Model (LLM) Agent operating system, embeds large language model into Operating Systems (OS) as the brain of the OS, enabling an operating system "with soul" -- an important step towards AGI.” https://github.com/agiresearch/AIOS
Computer-aided diagnosis for lung cancer screening https://blog.research.google/2024/03/computer-aided-diagnosis-for-lung.html
Google presents Vid2Robot: A robot policy trained to decode human intent from visual cues and translate it into actions in its environment. https://vid2robot.github.io/
DepthFM: Fast Monocular Depth Estimation with Flow Matching https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13788
GeoWizard: Unleashing the Diffusion Priors for 3D Geometry Estimation from a Single Image https://fuxiao0719.github.io/projects/geowizard/
Yell At Your Robot 🗣️: Improving On-the-Fly from Language Corrections https://yay-robot.github.io/
Sam Altman may have Siri and Alexa in his sights after OpenAI filed a 'digital voice assistant' trademark application https://ca.news.yahoo.com/sam-altman-may-siri-alexa-110401518.html
What can we learn from Apple's MM1 paper? https://x.com/NandoDF/status/1772220903889183076
Technology:
Computational phenotyping of neural wiring: convert biological networks to artificial networks. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44900-4
“How to grow (almost) any microbe. A New Hope. Using just 10% of a genome sequence, we can estimate the required environmental (salt, pH, oxygen, and temp) conditions for growing a microbe in the lab.” https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.22.586313v1
Psychology:
Stanford Medicine study identifies distinct brain organization patterns in women and men https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/02/men-women-brain-organization-patterns.html
Why Do Men Dominate Chess? https://quillette.com/2024/03/22/why-do-men-dominate-chess/ [archived version: https://archive.is/Q3krV]
“Are men better at chess than women? To answer this let's use FIDE Data of almost 450,000 players.” https://x.com/notcomplex_/status/1772340839538184628
Ukraine:
Ukraine Has Developed 15 Kinds Of Long-Range Strike Drone—And Has Sortied Them Against Russia’s Oil Industry https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/03/24/ukraine-has-developed-15-kinds-of-long-range-strike-drone-and-sortied-them-against-russias-oil-industry/
Ukrainians put 8,000 cellphones connected to microphones on 6-foot poles around the country to detect incoming Russian drones. They detected 84/84 and shot down 80 of them with AA guns. Cost: $500ea — Gen James B Hecker, Commander US Air Forces, Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O0sRM-uY7E&t=109s
French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said he is prepared to use his powers to requisition industrial capacities or impose priorities to weapon makers to speed up production of arms and shells needed on the battlefield in Ukraine and elsewhere. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-might-requisition-arms-producers-speed-up-production-help-ukraine-2024-03-26/
The 95th Air Assault Brigade showed footage of a large Russian mechanized column being destroyed near Terny. https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1772546380071842272
“Russian soldier films result of their assaults in Avdiivka direction. DOZENS killed Russian soldiers which are lying in the fields like garbage…” https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1772562897710838140
Politics:
Google's Culture of Fear: inside the DEI hivemind that led to gemini's disaster — “'You could cut the headcount by 50%,… and nothing would change.' At Google, it’s exceedingly difficult to get rid of underperformers" https://www.piratewires.com/p/google-culture-of-fear
“Former Chief of Staff of 🇵🇱 Army General Rajmund Andrzejczak & The 🇵🇱 Institute of International Affairs director Sławomir Dębski on experience of Russian extermination policy shaping the strategic culture of CEE states. "The compromises end with us being hauled in train wagons."” https://x.com/PawelSokala/status/1772532187067498515
“Security situation in Pakistan getting very grim. Two big attacks on PakMil in Balochistan in just under a week. And today, attack being reported on the Chinese in northern Pakistan.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/26/five-chinese-nationals-killed-in-suicide-bomb-attack-in-pakistan-police