What’s News For April 10th?
1. Firstly, why human intelligence is just a glimmer of what is possible https://axisofordinary.substack.com/…/why-human…
2. Optimizing crop planting with mixed integer linear programming in Stardew Valley https://www.lesswrong.com/…/optimizing-crop-planting…
3. Moreover, Waymo’s AI Recreates San Francisco From 2.8 Million Photos! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AZhcnWOK7M
4. Fascinating paper on how coding languages evolve. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/…/10…/rsif.2015.0249
5. Rather than change Excel, we just changed the names of genes to stop getting Excel errors. [published 10 August 2020] https://www.bionews.org.uk/page_151346
6. The electrical conductivity of saltwater doubles across a 0°C to 30°C temperature range. What’s interesting is that the range of values is similar to that of common semiconductors like silicon or germanium. https://researchgate.net/…/287147827_Temperature…
7. A mobile robotic chemist: “…the autonomous workflow is 1,000 times faster than manual methods, in addition at least ten times faster than semi-automated but non-autonomous robotic workflows.” [published 08 July 2020] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2442-2
8. Neuroscientists Identify Fundamental Mechanism for Long Term Memory Storage https://scitechdaily.com/neuroscientists-identify…/
9. 29 Boxes containing 2,349 vials of SARS went missing from the Pasteur Institute BioLab in Paris, France in 2014. Scientists never found out how the vials went missing. [published April 16 2014] https://archive.ph/cmNFy
10. “The flavonoid corylin exhibits lifespan extension properties in mouse” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28908-2
11. Birds of a Feather Don’t Fact-check Each Other: On Twitters crowdsourced factcheck program @birdwatch, partisanship is king: users mostly flag counterpartisans’ tweets as misleading and rate their notes as unhelpful https://psyarxiv.com/57e3q
12. “The government plans to reduce the UK’s reliance on oil and gas by building as many as eight new nuclear reactors, including two at Sizewell in Suffolk. A new body will oversee the delivery of the new plants.” https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61010605
13. “We know how to win. But without sustainable and sufficient supplies requested by Ukraine, these wins will be accompanied by enormous sacrifices. The more weapons we get and the sooner they arrive in Ukraine, the more human lives will be saved.” https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-russia-war-1.6411277
14. Lastly, recommended science fiction short story about brain implants https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/…/key…/amp/
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What’s News For April 10th?
