Links for 2024-05-08
AI:
Best Humanoid Robots Today and Superhuman bots in the future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H0TJJ31YBU
Who’s making chips for AI? Chinese manufacturers lag behind US tech giants https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01292-1
“[DeepSeek] did not copy what Western firms did. There are brand new innovations. Their model has more than 160 experts with 6 routed to per forward pass. 236 billon total parameters with 21 billion active per forward pass. Furthermore, DeepSeek implemented a novel Multi-Head Latent Attention mechanism which they claim has better scaling than other forms of attention while also being more accurate.” https://www.semianalysis.com/p/openai-is-doomed-et-tu-microsoft
Iterative Reasoning Preference Optimization https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19733
How is an LLM actually using the info given to it in its context? Is it misinterpreting anything or making things up? ContextCite: a simple method for attributing LLM responses back to the context. https://gradientscience.org/contextcite/
Miscellaneous:
Giant nanomechanical energy storage capacity in twisted single-walled carbon nanotube ropes https://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2024/05/wind-up-nanotechnology.html
Are these newly found rare cells a missing link in color perception? https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/retinal-ganglion-cells-function-color-perception-601292/
Grounding Ethics, Values & Culture: Joscha Bach, Anders Sandberg, Robin Hanson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onkrGOs6-AY
“Why would the Nuclear Regulatory Commission create an application review process that results in ***2 million*** pages of documents? Well, they charge nuclear companies by the hour…” https://x.com/AlecStapp/status/1787836935362265351
Economics:
“Basically ΔTFP or growth in technology is measured as growth in GDP minus that portion of the growth in GDP that we can explain by more labor and capital, ΔGDP-aΔK-(1-a)ΔL.” https://x.com/ATabarrok/status/1787870095227629785
Real GDP Mainly Measures The Goods Which Are Revolutionized Least https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8gCsRPxvXyAZJLcwd/gdp-per-capita-in-2050?commentId=cx8Djtp44duzqkW9g
Ukraine:
Surrounded by the Russians. Paratroopers & United24 Journalists under Assault. — “This, like for all soldiers, is their life now — Ukraine or death.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgJFPJ64aR0
“The 3rd Brigade of Operational Assignment "SPARTAN" showed the destruction of the settlement of Robotyne, while also capturing destroyed Russian equipment and personnel.” https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1787865451470508135
The oil depot in Luhansk sustained heavy damage. Several oil tanks burned down while others took significant damage. In addition, power lines and a gas pipeline were damaged/destroyed. https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1787957539453419868
“The first video of the confirmed destruction of a Supacat HMT-based AIM-132 ASRAAM "Franken-SAM" launcher in service of the Ukrainian military by Russian forces in Ukraine.” https://x.com/Archer83Able/status/1787939353131426006
Czech President Petr Pavel gave an interview to the German ARD: It was already known that the first 180,000 shells had been contracted. Pavel said in the interview that these shells would be delivered in June. Contracts for a further five- to six-figure number of shells have already been signed. https://x.com/deaidua/status/1788197107800674808
About half of the North Korean supplied KN-23 missiles deviated from their initial trajectory and exploded in the air, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office said. According to them, North Korea supplied Russia with ~50 of such ballistic missiles. https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-examines-nkorean-missile-debris-amid-fears-moscow-pyongyang-axis-2024-05-07/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/tR1L2]
