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.

Peter West, Chandra Bhagavatula, Jack Hessel, Jena D. Hwang, Liwei Jiang, Ronan Le Bras, Ximing Lu, Sean Welleck and Yejin Choi investigate a new framework, Symbolic Knowledge Distillation.

Max Hodak, founder of the new company named Science in 2021, aspires to make the sensorium directly programmable

Arthur A Mirin examine an issue-gender disparity when it comes to the allocation of research funding among diseases

Quantamagazine - Scientists have reported large DNA structures in some archaea that defy easy categorization.

Ayse Elvan Aydemir, Tugba Taskaya Temizel, Alptekin Temizel, Kliment Preshlenov and Daniel M. Strahinov provide a generic framework for estimating player performance and performing player-fit-to-criteria assessment, under different objectives, for left and right backs from competitions worldwide

Edward J. Hu, Yelong Shen, Phillip Wallis, Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Yuanzhi Li, Shean Wang, Lu Wang and Weizhu Chen propose Low-Rank Adaptation, or LoRA, which freezes the pre-trained model weights and injects trainable rank decomposition matrices into each layer of the Transformer architecture, greatly reducing the number of train...

By looking at the politics of classification within machine learning systems, Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen demonstrate why the automated interpretation of images is an inherently social and political project.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN - The double helix can archive a staggering amount of information in an almost inconceivably small volume

Wired | All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.

NY TIMES - Digital Creators used the blockchain to create a whole new art scene. Then their work started selling for thousands of dollars, sometimes millions.

QUANTAMAGAZINE - The world’s biggest flower, Rafflesia arnoldii, is a parasite that spends much of its life inside its vine hosts. New genomic work suggests that the parasites in this group of plants have lost an astonishing share of their genes.

Regulation of the European Parliament and of the council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (artificial intelligence act) and amending certain union legislative acts (AI Act)

Stella Biderman, Sid Black, Charles Foster, Leo Gao, Eric Hallahan, Horace He, Ben Wang and Phil Wang discuss Rotary Positional Embedding (RoPE), a new type of position encoding that unifies absolute and relative approaches to position encoding in transformers. The authors find that across a large suite of setups, RoPE matche...

The University of Adelaide released the first full tectonic plate reconstruction of the last billion years – spanning nearly a quarter of the Earth’s existence.

250 years after the publication of Adam Smith’s Wealth of the Nations, the emergence of completely free markets of digital assets can shed a new light on economic theories. Can Economics really provide a useful framework to understand the evolutions of these embryonic markets?

The Finance industry is one of the most advanced in the use of data. Yet, there are untapped opportunities, in particular by identifying liquidity in the least liquid markets. A quick introduction to the little-known niche of secondary transactions on Private Equity portfolios.

The ever-increasing production of information poses two problems: a physical physical one, as storage capacity does not increases as fast as production, and an environmental one, since this industry is very energy-intensive. What if data could be stored in a truly durable way? The case for data storage in DNA.

In 2020, a global pandemic caused millions of deaths. The probability that such event happens, however, is not much higher than for other natural disaster that could make our information systems useless globally. Focus on coronal mass ejections