Links for 2024-05-13

AI:

1. MatterSim: A Deep Learning Atomistic Model Across Elements, Temperatures and Pressures https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04967

2. Scientists at Eli Lilly are predicting that AI will soon independently design unexplored drugs. Researchers said that AI models ‘hallucinating’ (typically a flaw in GenAI) will be a powerful unlock in discovering new drugs. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/05/within-a-few-years-generative-ai-will-design-new-drugs-on-its-own.html

3. Chinese researchers bootstrap AI agents in a simulated hospital to get better at real world diagnosis https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02957

4. Unitree Introducing | Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent | AI Avatar | Price from $16K https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzX1qOIO1bE

5. Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/business/apple-siri-ai-chatgpt.html [no paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20240511010642/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/business/apple-siri-ai-chatgpt.html]

6. Anthropic Releases Metaprompt: A Powerful Prompt Engineering Tool — “Describe what you want to achieve, and Claude will use prompt engineering techniques like chain-of-thought reasoning to create more effective, precise and reliable prompts.” https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/prompt-generator

7. IBM Releases Open-Source LLM Code Models That Outperforms Llama https://github.com/ibm-granite/granite-code-models

8. “Singular Learning Theory (SLT) is a novel mathematical framework that expands and improves upon traditional Statistical Learning theory using techniques from algebraic geometry, bayesian statistics, and statistical physics. It has great promise for the mathematical foundations of modern machine learning.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Ge6Jq_lgk

9. “You can now turn any glasses into AI smart glasses for just $20” https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1789845142846759389 (https://github.com/BasedHardware/openglass)

What experience in the workplace radicalized you? https://x.com/danfaggella/status/1789764233804050831

Biophysics:

1. Brain Really Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6G1D2UQ3gg

2.

Why does the military use red light? https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/t8heg2/comment/hzo2jxt/

Miscellaneous:

1. “Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram. I want to talk about this a bit.” https://x.com/matthew_d_green/status/1789687898863792453

Ukraine:

1. “On the Kreminna front, units of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade with assistance of the 60th Brigade repelled a fairly big Russian mechanized assault near Tors'ke. Roughly 10 units of Russian equipment were disabled, damaged or destroyed. Among them 5 tanks and 5 BMP's.” https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1789958874859979115

2. Russian armored vehicles (T-72B3M, T-90M, BMP-2) destroyed as a result of another Russian assault attempt in the Liman sector https://x.com/small10space/status/1789947707001364708

3. Yuriy Butusov's assessment of the situation in Kharkiv oblast. https://x.com/justincbzz/status/1789881700748558434

4. “Yesterday morning I got a message that more or less said Ukraine had contained the Russian advance in Kharkiv…Today, I see different sources saying more or less the same thing.” https://x.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1789967233319408000

5. “An ammunition and weapons depot in Russian-occupied Sorokyne, Luhansk Region, was struck. Secondary explosions can be heard.” https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1789935805894476155

6. Several channels report that this morning a Russian radar station in occupied Crimea was hit. https://x.com/Tendar/status/1790001191683850718