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...

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

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...

VIDEO | In a series of videos, Andrej Karpathy walks you through the building steps of ... Ai. Truly amazing resource!

Brian K. Lee, Emily J. Mayhew, Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling, Jennifer N. Wei, Wesley W. Qian, Kelsie Little, Matthew Andres, Britney B. Nguyen, Theresa Moloy, Jane K. Parker, Richard C. Gerkin, Joel D. Mainland and Alexander B. Wiltschko use graph neural networks (GNN) to generate a Principal Odor Map (POM) that preserves per...

In a relatively early post on the subject Tim Dettmers lays out the quantization process, and solutions to overcome key challenges in context of deep learning

Harold Cooper discusses a pattern he noticed in ‘visual’ derivations of the formulas for 1+2+⋯+n and 1^2+2^2+⋯+n^2, which led him to a similar derivation for 1^3+2^3+⋯+n^3.

Yuichi Kano developed a photogrammetry technique for reconstructing the outer coloured morphology of various creatures and published more than 1000 models online

Vaisakh Puthusseryppady, Sol Morrissey, Hugo Spiers, Martyn Patel and Michael Hornberger investigate the spatial navigation abilities of Alzheimer's disease patients in virtual reality (VR) environments as well as in a real world community setting. They found that when compared to controls, Alzheimer's disease patients exhibi...

This project is a perfect illustration of the potential of isochrones : maps showing how far one can get in a given timeframe.

Andreas B. Eder, Franzisca Maas, Alexander Schubmann, Anand Krishna and Thorsten M. Erle explore the motivations for the self-administration of painful electric shocks

WIRED - Every so often, our star fires off a plasma bomb in a random direction. Our best hope the next time Earth is in the crosshairs? Capacitors.

Report of the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention on the evolution of the prevalence of obesity among US adults by race and ethnicity, state and territory between 2011 and 2021

Astronomy.com - What is time? Why is it so different from space? And where did it come from? Scientists are still stumped by these questions — but working harder than ever to answer them.

Chen, Carol presents detailed few-principles reasoning about large language model inference performance, with no experiments or difficult math.

Quantamagazine - Molecular detective work is zeroing in on the origins of sexual reproduction. The protein tools for cell mergers seem to have long predated sex — so what were they doing?

Quantamagazine - A new proof significantly strengthens a decades-old result about the ubiquity of ways to represent whole numbers as sums of fractions.

Quantamagazine - Back when the sun was 30% dimmer, Earth should have frozen solid. Yet water flowed and life blossomed. The solution to the paradox shows that we might have that faint sun to owe for life’s existence — with critical consequences for the possibility of life outside Earth

Sabrina J. Mielke, Zaid Alyafeai, Elizabeth Salesky, Colin Raffel, Manan Dey, Matthias Gallé, Arun Raja, Chenglei Si, Wilson Y. Lee, Benoît Sagot and Samson Tan provide a historical overview of open-vocabulary modeling and tokenization in NLP. They highlight the shift from word-based to subword-based approaches like byte-pair...

A curated list of resources dedicated to reinforcement learning applied to cyber security.

Quantamagazine - Tiny amounts of artificial noise can fool neural networks, but not humans. Some researchers are looking to neuroscience for a fix.

Wired - Voyeurs. Sabotaged accounts. Backdoor schemes. For years, the retail giant has handled your information less carefully than it handles your packages.

Tokenization is often presented as the future of Finance. But the promises are as great as the risks are misunderstood. Can this innovation really lead to re-think the foundations of financial theory?

Quantamagazine - Over the past decade, researchers have completely rewritten the story of how gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn form. They’re now debating whether the same process might hold for Earth.