Big Think - As time goes on, dark energy makes distant galaxies recede from us ever faster in our expanding Universe. But nothing truly disappears.

Jiaqi Geng, Dong Huang and Fernando De la Torre expand on the use of the WiFi signal in combination with deep learning architectures, commonly used in computer vision, to estimate dense human pose correspondence.

WIRED - Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover is a case study in destruction. It doesn’t have to be this way.

All slides from Stanford's CS224 courses for 2021, 2022 and 2023

Remi Lam, Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez, Matthew Willson, Peter Wirnsberger, Meire Fortunato, Ferran Alet, Suman Ravuri, Timo Ewalds, Zach Eaton-Rosen, Weihua Hu, Alexander Merose, Stephan Hoyer, George Holland, Oriol Vinyals, Jacklynn Stott, Alexander Pritzel, Shakir Mohamed, Peter Battaglia introduce a machine learning-based meth...

Yizhong Wang, Yeganeh Kordi, Swaroop Mishra, Alisa Liu, Noah A. Smith, Daniel Khashabi and Hannaneh Hajishirzi introduce Self-Instruct, a framework for improving the instruction-following capabilities of pretrained language models by bootstrapping off their own generations.

Quantamagazine - After decades in the shadow of the reigning model for Alzheimer’s disease, alternative explanations are finally getting the attention they deserve.

NASA Science - An enduring myth about the Moon is that it doesn't rotate. While it's true that the Moon keeps the same face to us, this only happens because the Moon rotates at the same rate as its orbital motion, a special case of tidal locking called synchronous rotation.

Trevor Gale, Deepak Narayanan, Cliff Young, and Matei Zaharia propose MegaBlocks, a new system for efficient Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) training on GPUs that never drops tokens and maps efficiently to modern hardware, resulting in up to 40% speedups over MoEs trained with the state-of-the-art Tutel library and 2.4x over DNNs tr...

Space.com - The dominating form of energy in the cosmos, dark energy is driving the accelerating expansion of the universe, but its nature remains a complete mystery.

Discover BigSis' chemical-free insect control solutions based on the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT). SIT is a species-specific, non-toxic biocontrol method that outperforms chemical insecticides, prevents pest infestation and increases crop yield. Already approved for sale in England and four USA states.

SorareData provide critical trading, gaming and live sports data to enhance users engagement and performance in NFT Fantasy Sports. SorareData cover football (soccer), basketball and baseball, the three sports officially licensed by Sorare, the global leader in NFT Fantasy Sports.

OECD publish a report aiming to improve understanding of the environmental impacts of AI, and help measure and decrease AI’s negative effects while enabling it to accelerate action for the good of the planet.

Nature | Ramin Hasani, Mathias Lechner, Alexander Amini, Lucas Liebenwein, Aaron Ray, Max Tschaikowski, Gerald Teschl and Daniela Rus show that it is possible to closely approximate the interaction between neurons and synapses—the building blocks of natural and artificial neural networks—constructed by liquid time-constant ne...

Quantamagazine - An energy-efficient chip called NeuRRAM fixes an old design flaw to run large-scale AI algorithms on smaller devices, reaching the same accuracy as wasteful digital computers

MIT Review - Dark Forest shows how advanced cryptography can be used in a game—and how blockchains might host decentralized digital worlds.

Quantamagazine - Carrie Arnold writes about supergenes, clusters of genes that lock inherited traits together and are more widespread in animals and plants than previously thought. These genetic units can be both beneficial and risky for species, allowing rapid adaptation but also accumulating harmful mutations.

GitHub scans repositories for known types of secrets, to prevent fraudulent use of secrets that were committed accidentally.

Quantamagazine - The discovery of a hot spot for horizontal gene transfer draws attention to the possible roles of parasites and ecology in such changes.

Lucas Beyer shares the slides of his presentation on Transformers in 2022

Quantamagazine - The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. Quantamagazine have attempted to connect the proton’s many faces to form the most complete picture yet.

Short fiction extracted from qntm's Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories published in 2022

Big Think - Researchers developed a “DishBrain” system that connected neurons to a computer running the classic video game Pong. Within five minutes, the cells began “learning” and improved their performance. The mechanism of "learning" might involve the free-energy principle, according to which the brain seeks to minimize e...

Robert Huang and Matthew E. Kahn examine the U.S electric utility's adaptation to natural disasters and green power mandates using a US electric utility panel dataset from 2013 to 2020. They find that utilities have made progress in adapting to such shocks but face a tradeoff between achieving local carbon mitigation goals an...

Ningyu Zhang, Lei Li, Xiang Chen, Xiaozhuan Liang, Shumin Denga and Huajun Chen introduce the new task of multimodal analogical reasoning over knowledge graphs. They construct a Multimodal Analogical Reasoning dataSet (MARS) and a multimodal knowledge graph MarKG, and evaluate with multimodal knowledge graph embedding and pre...