Links for 2024-04-29
AI:
Make Your LLM Fully Utilize the Context https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16811
Could agents driven by powerful language models perform machine learning experimentation effectively? https://github.com/snap-stanford/MLAgentBench?tab=readme-ov-file#results
Fully open-source and free for commercial use text-to-speech model that can clone any voice and speak any language https://github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoice/tree/main
“Brett Adcock says there will soon be billions of robots, but Jensen Huang says jobs won't disappear because we will still want a human in the loop” https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1784731924273180791
Tesla plans ~85,000 H100 cluster https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/tesla-q1-2024-earnings-conference-call
Technology:
Researchers have uncovered a remarkable metal alloy that won’t crack at extreme temperatures due to kinking, or bending, of crystals in the alloy at the atomic level https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/alloy-kinky
Low-cost teleoperated robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFw5hwNVhbA
'Incredibly...the fastest Chinese typists can produce 221.9 Chinese characters per minute. This exceeds the record in English...174 [wpm]. Somehow, Chinese IMEs have gotten “faster than the mode of textual production they were built to compensate for"...' https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-263-a-history-of-the-chinese
Math:
If you think you know what a proof is try this puzzle from Timothy Gowers https://gowers.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/a-little-paradox/
“There are exactly four known fundamental forces (gravitational, electromagnetic, weak, strong), and exactly four normed division algebras (real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions, octonions).” https://x.com/getjonwithit/status/1784258756202688675
Probability distributions from human judgement https://makedistribution.com/
Psychology:
“New study shows that, in Finland and Norway, the relationship between cognitive ability and income becomes *steeper* in the tail of the distribution. This is contrary to common assertions that ability stops mattering at some moderate threshold.” https://x.com/Scientific_Bird/status/1784951449501225425
Ukraine:
“27APR24 Avdiivka sector ORBAT and operational thread. Over the past week RuAF has achieved series of local successes on Avdiivka sector. These began with sudden and unexpected penetration into village of Ocheretyne on 22APR24.” https://x.com/Inkvisiit/status/1784666963060412882
Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrsky says the battlefield situation has "worsened," and Russia is "trying to seize the strategic initiative and break through the frontline." It has "a significant advantage in forces and means" and is "actively attack[ing] along the entire frontline [and] in some directions has tactical successes." Ukrainian troops have retreated west from the flashpoint area of Avdiivka. https://t.me/osirskiy/670