Links for 2024-05-09

AI:

1. Google announces AlphaFold 3: A state-of-the-art AI model for predicting the structure and interactions of all life’s molecules. 🧬 https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-deepmind-isomorphic-alphafold-3-ai-model/ (Video: “This Will Change Everything!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz7Qp73lj9o)

2. Former Google CEO says AI is really underhyped. "It's coming, it's here, it's about to happen." https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1cmoa52/former_google_ceo_on_ai_its_underhyped/

3. OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap says generative AI as it is today will be "laughably bad" within a year. https://x.com/ai_for_success/status/1787700287324782756

4. OpenAI Is Readying a Search Product to Rival Google, Perplexity https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-07/openai-is-readying-an-ai-search-product-to-rival-google-perplexity [no paywall: https://archive.is/CfzzE]

5. xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory — “Exponential gating and modified memory structures boost xLSTM capabilities to perform favorably when compared to state-of-the-art Transformers and State Space Models, both in performance and scaling.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04517

6. Microsoft presents You Only Cache Once: Decoder-Decoder Architectures for Language Models — “The design substantially reduces GPU memory demands, yet retains global attention capability.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05254

7. ScrapeGraphAI: LLM-Based Web Scraping — ScrapeGraphAI is a Python library that automates data extraction from websites, documents, and XML files using Large Language Models (LLMs). https://github.com/VinciGit00/Scrapegraph-ai

8. Cheat Sheets for Machine Learning and Data Science https://sites.google.com/view/datascience-cheat-sheets

9. Microsoft made an ‘air-gapped’ AI for spies that’s walled off from the internet https://qz.com/microsoft-offline-ai-service-chatgpt-gpt4-us-spies-1851462266

Miscellaneous:

1. Regeneron administered two completely deaf children single shots in their ears and, after just a few months, they're able to hear. https://investor.regeneron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/latest-db-oto-results-show-dramatically-improved-hearing-normal

2. Full-colour 3D holographic augmented-reality displays with metasurface waveguides https://www.computationalimaging.org/publications/holographicar/

3. The Bizarre Behavior of String on a Spool https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/05/08/the-spool-paradox/

Questions:

1. Questions about biotech https://atelfo.github.io/2024/04/01/biotech-questions.html

2. Open Questions https://gwern.net/question

3. I Have Questions https://axisofordinary.substack.com/p/i-have-questions

Politics:

1. “For the 5 non-Jewish countries, the UN produced 1 document for every 2,258 civilian deaths…For Israel, it produced 1 document for every 9.4 deaths” https://x.com/nathancofnas/status/1788258326205043165

2. How China uses foreign firms to turbocharge its industry https://www.high-capacity.com/p/how-china-uses-foreign-firms-to-turbocharge

Ukraine:

1. The total count of visually documented Russian tank losses during their 2022 invasion of Ukraine has just reached 3000! https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html

2. “Destroyed Russian equipment by both HIMARS projectiles and guided aerial bombs. Among Russian losses are a Krasukha-4 REB complex. 2 BUK-M3 air defense systems, an infantry base and a BM-21 "Grad" MLRS.” https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1788284404957053308

3. “Russia has severely depleted one of their largest towed artillery storage bases. In updated images it is visible that they have removed about 60% of the stored guns and half of the remaining guns might be unusable.” https://x.com/HighMarsed/status/1788151899360764038

4. “Overnight, Ukraine once again attacked an oil depot. This time in Yurovka, Krasnodar Krai in Russia. At least seven explosions were recorded. Several oil tanks are on fire.” https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1788461497443627332

5. “It is reported that Ukrainian UAVs also attacked the Salavatnefteorgsintez oil refinery in Bashkiria in Russia, some 1400km from the Ukrainian border.” https://x.com/Tendar/status/1788504658014622196

6. “The Ukrainian drones are in fact slow-flying ultralight planes. They flew at least 1,300 km - likely even 1,500 km - before hitting the refinery in Bashkortostan. The Russian air defense is not existent.” https://x.com/Euan_MacDonald/status/1788545773900087668

7. EU reaches deal on using profits from Russia’s frozen assets for Ukraine https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/08/eu-reaches-deal-on-using-profits-from-russias-frozen-assets-for-ukraine