Links for 2023-08-09
1. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says his timelines to "generally well educated human" are 2-3 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlkk3glap_U
2. “We present AgentBench, a multi-dimensional evolving benchmark that currently consists of 8 distinct environments to assess LLM-as-Agent's reasoning and decision-making abilities in a multi-turn open-ended generation setting.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03688
3. Autochain is a lightweight, simpler alternative to Langchain. It allows developers to build complex applications on top of large language models and databases. https://github.com/Forethought-Technologies/AutoChain
4. gpt-prompt-engineer is a tool that reads a denoscription of the task you want an AI to perform, plus a number of test cases. It then generates a large number of prompts about a topic, tests the prompts, and rates the results. https://github.com/mshumer/gpt-prompt-engineer
5. Untangling Infrabayesianism: A redistillation [PDF link; ~12k words + lots of math] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Xne4Bma99bKXWc9AH/untangling-infrabayesianism-a-redistillation-pdf-link-12k
6. Desirable properties for a superconductor http://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/08/desirable-properties-for-superconductor.html
7. “With a great deal of sadness, we now believe that the game is over. LK99 is NOT a superconductor, not even at room temperatures (or at very low temperatures). It is a very highly resistive poor quality material. Period. No point in fighting with the truth. Data have spoken.” https://twitter.com/condensed_the/status/1688747910471561216
8. “I expected that interest in LK-99 would just die a slow death after no one could replicate it; rarely is a smoking gun found that explains the spurious observations. But in this case it seems we have a full coroner's report!” https://twitter.com/MichaelSFuhrer/status/1689098570920759296
9. LK-99 superconductor: Real money prediction markets fall to 13%... https://twitter.com/base_rate_times/status/1688987353866702848
10. The Collapse of Broken-Windows Policing in New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, 2013–22 https://www.aei.org/research-products/working-paper/the-collapse-of-broken-windows-policing-in-new-york-city-los-angeles-and-washington-dc-2013-22/
11. "It is striking that asians with parents who did not complete high school score 100 points above blacks with PhD parents." https://humanvarieties.org/2023/08/06/a-remarkable-correlation-between-iq-and-sat-scores-across-ethnic-groups/
12. “Critics of the Supreme Court call its decisions "right wing" and "extreme." But read them yourselves and I'll bet you'll conclude, as I did, that they are more informed by small-l liberalism and that the vast majority are solidly in line with public opinion.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/defense-supreme-court/674874/ [https://archive.is/YKv6Q]
13. "I can hear legions of consequentialists desperately rationalizing 'the fact' that family punishment always fails a cost-benefit test. My one-word reply: 'Seriously?!'" https://betonit.substack.com/p/why-not-punish-families
14. How Taiwan plans to counter drones by mid-2024 https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2023/08/01/how-taiwan-plans-to-counter-drones-by-mid-2024/
1. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says his timelines to "generally well educated human" are 2-3 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlkk3glap_U
2. “We present AgentBench, a multi-dimensional evolving benchmark that currently consists of 8 distinct environments to assess LLM-as-Agent's reasoning and decision-making abilities in a multi-turn open-ended generation setting.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03688
3. Autochain is a lightweight, simpler alternative to Langchain. It allows developers to build complex applications on top of large language models and databases. https://github.com/Forethought-Technologies/AutoChain
4. gpt-prompt-engineer is a tool that reads a denoscription of the task you want an AI to perform, plus a number of test cases. It then generates a large number of prompts about a topic, tests the prompts, and rates the results. https://github.com/mshumer/gpt-prompt-engineer
5. Untangling Infrabayesianism: A redistillation [PDF link; ~12k words + lots of math] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Xne4Bma99bKXWc9AH/untangling-infrabayesianism-a-redistillation-pdf-link-12k
6. Desirable properties for a superconductor http://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2023/08/desirable-properties-for-superconductor.html
7. “With a great deal of sadness, we now believe that the game is over. LK99 is NOT a superconductor, not even at room temperatures (or at very low temperatures). It is a very highly resistive poor quality material. Period. No point in fighting with the truth. Data have spoken.” https://twitter.com/condensed_the/status/1688747910471561216
8. “I expected that interest in LK-99 would just die a slow death after no one could replicate it; rarely is a smoking gun found that explains the spurious observations. But in this case it seems we have a full coroner's report!” https://twitter.com/MichaelSFuhrer/status/1689098570920759296
9. LK-99 superconductor: Real money prediction markets fall to 13%... https://twitter.com/base_rate_times/status/1688987353866702848
10. The Collapse of Broken-Windows Policing in New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, 2013–22 https://www.aei.org/research-products/working-paper/the-collapse-of-broken-windows-policing-in-new-york-city-los-angeles-and-washington-dc-2013-22/
11. "It is striking that asians with parents who did not complete high school score 100 points above blacks with PhD parents." https://humanvarieties.org/2023/08/06/a-remarkable-correlation-between-iq-and-sat-scores-across-ethnic-groups/
12. “Critics of the Supreme Court call its decisions "right wing" and "extreme." But read them yourselves and I'll bet you'll conclude, as I did, that they are more informed by small-l liberalism and that the vast majority are solidly in line with public opinion.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/defense-supreme-court/674874/ [https://archive.is/YKv6Q]
13. "I can hear legions of consequentialists desperately rationalizing 'the fact' that family punishment always fails a cost-benefit test. My one-word reply: 'Seriously?!'" https://betonit.substack.com/p/why-not-punish-families
14. How Taiwan plans to counter drones by mid-2024 https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2023/08/01/how-taiwan-plans-to-counter-drones-by-mid-2024/
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"In a previous life, the Boston Dynamics founders developed a new breed of dynamic robots. Here are clips from those early one-legged, two-legged and four-legged robots developed at Carnegie Mellon (1980-1986) and MIT (1987-1995)." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd5iEke6UlE
"In a previous life, the Boston Dynamics founders developed a new breed of dynamic robots. Here are clips from those early one-legged, two-legged and four-legged robots developed at Carnegie Mellon (1980-1986) and MIT (1987-1995)." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd5iEke6UlE
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Tweet: https://twitter.com/whatisnuclear/status/1688383774822899712
See also: An Expert Explains Why The Radioactive Water Stored at Fukushima Should Be Released https://www.sciencealert.com/an-expert-explains-why-the-radioactive-water-stored-at-fukushima-should-be-released
See also: An Expert Explains Why The Radioactive Water Stored at Fukushima Should Be Released https://www.sciencealert.com/an-expert-explains-why-the-radioactive-water-stored-at-fukushima-should-be-released
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"It's like a radioactive tracer shot through global academia, briefly revealing a lower bound on how much garbage "research" is out there."
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https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1689450163469717509
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Links for 2023-08-10
1. Experiment led by Med School professor allows animals to live 6-9 percent longer, lower biological age https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/08/blood-of-young-mice-extends-lives-of-old-mice/
2. Novo’s obesity drug Wegovy lowers cardiovascular risk by 20%, landmark trial finds https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/health/wegovy-obesity-drugs-heart-disease.html [https://archive.is/dLYkw]
3. On not getting contaminated by the wrong obesity ideas https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NRrbJJWnaSorrqvtZ/on-not-getting-contaminated-by-the-wrong-obesity-ideas
4. AI offers huge promise on breast cancer screening https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66382168
5. “An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks: It is quite comprehensive and contains a ton of details about a) threat models of how AI could go catastrophically wrong b) countermeasures we could implement.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12001
6. Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/08/nvidia-ceo-we-bet-the-farm-on-ai-and-no-one-knew-it/
7. What is ontology? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZG94agRiYbHHcSSmp/what-is-ontology
8. US Army developing LASSO tank-killing drone for infantry https://www.militarytimes.com/unmanned/uas/2023/07/31/us-army-developing-lasso-tank-killing-drone-for-infantry/
9. The aliens could be signaling us now and we wouldn’t even “hear” it: X-ray or gamma-ray lasers for communication https://twitter.com/NukeSpaceCadet/status/1686907440414273536
10. Unpatchable AMD Chip Flaw Unlocks Paid Tesla Feature Upgrades https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tesla-mcu-amd-asp-flaw-jailbreak
11. Google Pays Apple $15,000 For Hacking Chrome Security https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2023/08/03/google-pays-apple-15000-for-hacking-chrome-security/
12. “Analysis of 50 major Europe- and North America-based global non-profit organizations…showed that environmental and climate groups were the most likely to include Taiwan as part of China, or exclude it altogether, in maps and reports.” https://hongkongfp.com/2023/08/06/why-are-the-worlds-climate-and-environment-ngos-trying-to-erase-taiwan-from-the-map/
1. Experiment led by Med School professor allows animals to live 6-9 percent longer, lower biological age https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/08/blood-of-young-mice-extends-lives-of-old-mice/
2. Novo’s obesity drug Wegovy lowers cardiovascular risk by 20%, landmark trial finds https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/health/wegovy-obesity-drugs-heart-disease.html [https://archive.is/dLYkw]
3. On not getting contaminated by the wrong obesity ideas https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NRrbJJWnaSorrqvtZ/on-not-getting-contaminated-by-the-wrong-obesity-ideas
4. AI offers huge promise on breast cancer screening https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66382168
5. “An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks: It is quite comprehensive and contains a ton of details about a) threat models of how AI could go catastrophically wrong b) countermeasures we could implement.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12001
6. Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/08/nvidia-ceo-we-bet-the-farm-on-ai-and-no-one-knew-it/
7. What is ontology? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZG94agRiYbHHcSSmp/what-is-ontology
8. US Army developing LASSO tank-killing drone for infantry https://www.militarytimes.com/unmanned/uas/2023/07/31/us-army-developing-lasso-tank-killing-drone-for-infantry/
9. The aliens could be signaling us now and we wouldn’t even “hear” it: X-ray or gamma-ray lasers for communication https://twitter.com/NukeSpaceCadet/status/1686907440414273536
10. Unpatchable AMD Chip Flaw Unlocks Paid Tesla Feature Upgrades https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tesla-mcu-amd-asp-flaw-jailbreak
11. Google Pays Apple $15,000 For Hacking Chrome Security https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2023/08/03/google-pays-apple-15000-for-hacking-chrome-security/
12. “Analysis of 50 major Europe- and North America-based global non-profit organizations…showed that environmental and climate groups were the most likely to include Taiwan as part of China, or exclude it altogether, in maps and reports.” https://hongkongfp.com/2023/08/06/why-are-the-worlds-climate-and-environment-ngos-trying-to-erase-taiwan-from-the-map/
Cumulative mass lifted by SpaceX rockets. Log scale on the y-axis.
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Links for 2023-08-11
1. Inflection.ai is a major AGI lab https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Wc5BYFfzuLzepQjCq/inflection-ai-is-a-major-agi-lab
2. Gwern: why hasn’t AI-generated music taken off in the same way as AI-generated art or AI-generated text? He thinks it’s a combination of copyright, low demand, and technical difficulty https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-284/comment/18354821
3. The famed Stanford Smallville is officially open-source: 25 AI agents inhabit a digital Westworld, unaware that they are living in a simulation. They go to work, gossip, organize socials, make new friends, and even fall in love. Each has unique personality and backstory. https://github.com/joonspk-research/generative_agents
4. “Separate Anything Audio Model - AudioSep! Showcasing powerful separation capabilities & impressive zero-shot generalization across tasks: audio event & musical instrument separation and speech enhancement!” https://audio-agi.github.io/Separate-Anything-You-Describe/
5. Ketamine: WD-40 for the Bayesian brain https://smoothbrains.net/posts/2023-08-01-ketamine.html
6. “So one of the questions most fusion startups are going to have to answer is where do you get tritium to keep sustaining the reaction?” –Michael Koziol https://spectrum.ieee.org/fusion-is-having-a-moment
7. HADAR: New Method Allows AI To See Through Pitch Darkness Like Broad Daylight https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2023/Q3/purdue-thermal-imaging-innovation-allows-ai-to-see-through-pitch-darkness-like-broad-daylight.html
8. “The study comparing data from patients who had their thymus removed with those who had not found that thymectomy patients had a nearly threefold higher risk of death from a variety of causes, including a twofold higher risk of cancer and a more modest increase in autoimmune diseases.” https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/08/turns-out-lowly-thymus-may-be-saving-your-life/
9. “I learned a bit about fracking today and even relative to my prior expectation holy cow does it sound like sorcery.” https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1685460287129063424
10. Trannoscript of taped conversations among German nuclear physicists (1945) https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/08/trannoscript-of-taped-conversations-among-german-nuclear-physicists-1945.html
11. About half of the Chinese people are gamers: "China’s video game player population has grown to a record of 668 million, a government-run game industry association said" https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2023/07/29/video-game-player-population-grows-to-668-million
1. Inflection.ai is a major AGI lab https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Wc5BYFfzuLzepQjCq/inflection-ai-is-a-major-agi-lab
2. Gwern: why hasn’t AI-generated music taken off in the same way as AI-generated art or AI-generated text? He thinks it’s a combination of copyright, low demand, and technical difficulty https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-284/comment/18354821
3. The famed Stanford Smallville is officially open-source: 25 AI agents inhabit a digital Westworld, unaware that they are living in a simulation. They go to work, gossip, organize socials, make new friends, and even fall in love. Each has unique personality and backstory. https://github.com/joonspk-research/generative_agents
4. “Separate Anything Audio Model - AudioSep! Showcasing powerful separation capabilities & impressive zero-shot generalization across tasks: audio event & musical instrument separation and speech enhancement!” https://audio-agi.github.io/Separate-Anything-You-Describe/
5. Ketamine: WD-40 for the Bayesian brain https://smoothbrains.net/posts/2023-08-01-ketamine.html
6. “So one of the questions most fusion startups are going to have to answer is where do you get tritium to keep sustaining the reaction?” –Michael Koziol https://spectrum.ieee.org/fusion-is-having-a-moment
7. HADAR: New Method Allows AI To See Through Pitch Darkness Like Broad Daylight https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2023/Q3/purdue-thermal-imaging-innovation-allows-ai-to-see-through-pitch-darkness-like-broad-daylight.html
8. “The study comparing data from patients who had their thymus removed with those who had not found that thymectomy patients had a nearly threefold higher risk of death from a variety of causes, including a twofold higher risk of cancer and a more modest increase in autoimmune diseases.” https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/08/turns-out-lowly-thymus-may-be-saving-your-life/
9. “I learned a bit about fracking today and even relative to my prior expectation holy cow does it sound like sorcery.” https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1685460287129063424
10. Trannoscript of taped conversations among German nuclear physicists (1945) https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/08/trannoscript-of-taped-conversations-among-german-nuclear-physicists-1945.html
11. About half of the Chinese people are gamers: "China’s video game player population has grown to a record of 668 million, a government-run game industry association said" https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2023/07/29/video-game-player-population-grows-to-668-million
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Links for 2023-08-12
1. Chinese tech companies reportedly rushed to stockpile $5 billion worth of advanced gaming processors to power artificial-intelligence development. https://www.ft.com/content/9dfee156-4870-4ca4-b67d-bb5a285d855c [https://archive.is/LpAG2]
2. Evidence Shows AI-Driven Companies Are Buying up Gaming GPUs https://www.tomshardware.com/news/evidence-shows-ai-driven-companies-are-buying-up-gaming-gpus
3. Nvidia Unveils Faster Chip Aimed at Cementing AI Dominance https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-08/nvidia-unveils-faster-processor-aimed-at-cementing-ai-dominance [https://archive.is/GNcJE]
4. 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-gaussian-splatting/
5. GPT-3 Aces Tests of Reasoning by Analogy https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/large-language-models-beat-undergrads-on-tests-of-reasoning-via-analogy/
6. “No one likes geoengineering. It will certainly be done, as it is the lesser of two evils. Of course, increasing the global greenhouse gas forcing by 4 W/m² is also a form of geoengineering. We don't like that, but did it nonetheless.” https://www.ryanlcooper.com/geoengineering-is-going-to-happen/
7. “Skin cancer rates are ~17-fold higher in the UK compared to Singapore despite that Singaporeans bathe in 2-3 fold more UV radiation than the British.” https://twitter.com/doctorveera/status/1687590434644606976
8. Super Radar: Breakthrough radar research overcomes a nearly century-old trade-off between wavelength and distance resolution https://news.chapman.edu/2023/08/02/super-radar-breakthrough-radar-research-overcomes-a-nearly-century-old-trade-off-between-wavelength-and-distance-resolution-2/
9. Revolutionizing Optical Imaging With Complex-Domain Neural Networks https://spie.org/news/complex-domain-neural-network-advances-large-scale-coherent-imaging
10. “What the hell is an ampersand and why does it look like that?! The first thing you need to know is that "&" used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet...” https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1687673402750828544
11. Remains found in China may belong to third human lineage https://phys.org/news/2023-08-china-human-lineage.html
1. Chinese tech companies reportedly rushed to stockpile $5 billion worth of advanced gaming processors to power artificial-intelligence development. https://www.ft.com/content/9dfee156-4870-4ca4-b67d-bb5a285d855c [https://archive.is/LpAG2]
2. Evidence Shows AI-Driven Companies Are Buying up Gaming GPUs https://www.tomshardware.com/news/evidence-shows-ai-driven-companies-are-buying-up-gaming-gpus
3. Nvidia Unveils Faster Chip Aimed at Cementing AI Dominance https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-08/nvidia-unveils-faster-processor-aimed-at-cementing-ai-dominance [https://archive.is/GNcJE]
4. 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-gaussian-splatting/
5. GPT-3 Aces Tests of Reasoning by Analogy https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/large-language-models-beat-undergrads-on-tests-of-reasoning-via-analogy/
6. “No one likes geoengineering. It will certainly be done, as it is the lesser of two evils. Of course, increasing the global greenhouse gas forcing by 4 W/m² is also a form of geoengineering. We don't like that, but did it nonetheless.” https://www.ryanlcooper.com/geoengineering-is-going-to-happen/
7. “Skin cancer rates are ~17-fold higher in the UK compared to Singapore despite that Singaporeans bathe in 2-3 fold more UV radiation than the British.” https://twitter.com/doctorveera/status/1687590434644606976
8. Super Radar: Breakthrough radar research overcomes a nearly century-old trade-off between wavelength and distance resolution https://news.chapman.edu/2023/08/02/super-radar-breakthrough-radar-research-overcomes-a-nearly-century-old-trade-off-between-wavelength-and-distance-resolution-2/
9. Revolutionizing Optical Imaging With Complex-Domain Neural Networks https://spie.org/news/complex-domain-neural-network-advances-large-scale-coherent-imaging
10. “What the hell is an ampersand and why does it look like that?! The first thing you need to know is that "&" used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet...” https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1687673402750828544
11. Remains found in China may belong to third human lineage https://phys.org/news/2023-08-china-human-lineage.html
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"Incredible 3D visualization of a human embryo in the fifth week of life. Note the tail and fishlike appearance. All vertebrate embryos look roughly like this; we start from the same place, then diverge as we develop. Humans are modified fish."
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1690075745518002176
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1690075745518002176
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This reminds me of religious people who argue that you can't be a good person without faith.
I'd recommend staying as far away as possible from anyone who is incapable of being compassionate without believing in some untruths.
https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1690160419397365760
I'd recommend staying as far away as possible from anyone who is incapable of being compassionate without believing in some untruths.
https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1690160419397365760
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Links for 2023-08-13
1. How Dead is Moore's Law? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWTnpy7sw2g
2. Photonic (light-based) computing uses photons instead of electric voltage to operate. These Analog iterative machines (AIM) offer up to 100x the data throughput of traditional digital architectures & could be the near future of computing. https://www.pcgamer.com/microsofts-light-based-computer-marks-the-unravelling-of-moores-law/
3. Getting the Ball Rolling: Learning a Dexterous Policy for a Biomimetic Tendon-Driven Hand with Rolling Contact Joints https://srl-ethz.github.io/get-ball-rolling/
4. AI's Next Frontier: Are Brain-Computer Interfaces The Future Of Communication? https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2023/08/11/ais-next-frontier-are-brain-computer-interfaces-the-future-of-communication/ [https://archive.is/VfDfK]
5. Scientists Uncover a Surprising Link Between Pure Mathematics and Genetics https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/number-theory-and-evolutionary-genetics
6. New photocatalytic system converts carbon dioxide to valuable fuel more efficiently than natural photosynthesis https://www.cityu.edu.hk/research/stories/2023/08/03/new-photocatalytic-system-converts-carbon-dioxide-valuable-fuel-more-efficiently-natural-photosynthesis
7. Japanese Scientists Develop Novel, Completely Solid, Rechargeable Air Battery https://www.waseda.jp/top/en/news/78001
8. Rogue “planets are six times more abundant than worlds orbiting their own suns,” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/science/space/our-galaxy-is-home-to-trillions-of-worlds-gone-rogue.html [https://archive.is/1sB0B]
9. Canada Turns to Nuclear Power After 30-Year Pause to Meet Demand Surge https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-31/canada-turns-to-nuclear-power-after-30-year-pause-to-meet-demand-surge [https://archive.is/wgjDL]
1. How Dead is Moore's Law? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWTnpy7sw2g
2. Photonic (light-based) computing uses photons instead of electric voltage to operate. These Analog iterative machines (AIM) offer up to 100x the data throughput of traditional digital architectures & could be the near future of computing. https://www.pcgamer.com/microsofts-light-based-computer-marks-the-unravelling-of-moores-law/
3. Getting the Ball Rolling: Learning a Dexterous Policy for a Biomimetic Tendon-Driven Hand with Rolling Contact Joints https://srl-ethz.github.io/get-ball-rolling/
4. AI's Next Frontier: Are Brain-Computer Interfaces The Future Of Communication? https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2023/08/11/ais-next-frontier-are-brain-computer-interfaces-the-future-of-communication/ [https://archive.is/VfDfK]
5. Scientists Uncover a Surprising Link Between Pure Mathematics and Genetics https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/number-theory-and-evolutionary-genetics
6. New photocatalytic system converts carbon dioxide to valuable fuel more efficiently than natural photosynthesis https://www.cityu.edu.hk/research/stories/2023/08/03/new-photocatalytic-system-converts-carbon-dioxide-valuable-fuel-more-efficiently-natural-photosynthesis
7. Japanese Scientists Develop Novel, Completely Solid, Rechargeable Air Battery https://www.waseda.jp/top/en/news/78001
8. Rogue “planets are six times more abundant than worlds orbiting their own suns,” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/science/space/our-galaxy-is-home-to-trillions-of-worlds-gone-rogue.html [https://archive.is/1sB0B]
9. Canada Turns to Nuclear Power After 30-Year Pause to Meet Demand Surge https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-31/canada-turns-to-nuclear-power-after-30-year-pause-to-meet-demand-surge [https://archive.is/wgjDL]
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