Links for 2024-08-24
AI:
Automating Thought of Search: A Journey Towards Soundness and Completeness — “We achieve 100% accuracy, with minimal feedback iterations, using LLMs of various sizes on all evaluated domains.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11326
FermiNet: Quantum physics and chemistry from first principles — Using deep learning to compute excited states of molecules. This is the first time that deep learning has accurately solved some of the hardest problems in quantum physics. https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ferminet-quantum-physics-and-chemistry-from-first-principles/
“Deep learning has been successfully used to solve some of the hardest problems in many-body quantum physics, since 2016. Here is a non-exhaustive list” https://x.com/gppcarleo/status/1826708739451503064
Show-o: One Single Transformer to Unify Multimodal Understanding and Generation https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12528
"Hydrogel brain" learns to play pong: “Our research shows that even very simple materials can exhibit complex, adaptive behaviours typically associated with living systems or sophisticated AI.” https://www.reading.ac.uk/news/2024/Research-News/Hydrogel-brain-learns-to-play-pong
FocusLLM: Scaling LLM's Context by Parallel Decoding https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11745
“Kamala Harris says as President she would ensure America's leadership in space and artificial intelligence, and ensure America defeats China in the competition for the 21st century” https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1826829893159813540
“Nvidia alone is worth more than the entire stock market of every single country in the world, except for China, UK, India and Japan.” https://allstarcharts.com/3trillion-nvda/
Miscellaneous:
A wireless controlled robotic insect with ultrafast untethered running speeds https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47812-5
A primer on the current state of longevity research https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dWAmkSqLE4YMQRuhj/a-primer-on-the-current-state-of-longevity-research
Politics:
India's Tata Steel is considering using 200 BSRs ("Bharat Small Reactors"), that are 220 MW each, for clean steel production. That amounts to 45 GW of nuclear power, overall, for a single industrial company (vs. country or power utility). https://www.steeltimesint.com/news/tata-steel-mulls-nuclear-energy-use-to-produce-green-steel
Ukraine:
Overnight, another 🇷🇺Russian large ammunition depot was destroyed by 🇺🇦Ukrainian forces in the Ostrogoz district of Russia's Voronezh region. Intense fire and secondary explosions were observed. The strike was carried out by a new rocket-propelled drone called "Palyanytsia". https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1827322463820169643
HIMARS strike on Russian Zoopark counter-battery radar system https://x.com/BackAndAlive/status/1827311582075900231
AASM Hammer strike on Russian positions near Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1827331449567039764
“Politico is told by Biden Admin officials that they fear allowing Ukraine to launch long-range strikes on Russia will prevent the US from normalizing relations with Moscow in the future!” https://x.com/Teoyaomiquu/status/1827073262632792100
"Ruslan, 42, deputy commander of the 68th brigade, which is defending the front lines around Pokrovsk, said he cannot remember such intense fighting at any other point since he was drafted to the military in the fall of 2022 from a coal mine where he used to work. In the last week alone, he said, his troops have retreated some six miles. His own hometown, Novohrodivka, is now the front line, he said." https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/23/ukraine-pokrovsk-russia-advance-civilians-flee/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/s1bVD]