What’s News For April 19th?
1. A new electronic version of Sheldon Axler’s book “Measure, Integration & Real Analysis” (dated 17 April 2022) is freely available at http://measure.axler.net (from the author of the famous “Linear Algebra Done Right”)
2. A new 70-minute interview with Elon Musk in which he sets out his vision for what it will take to create a future worth getting excited about. https://youtube.com/watch?v=YRvf00NooN8
3. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Brookings economist discuss policy and economic implications of AGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfnScBUwwMU
4. Is there actually a broad basin of attraction around human values? How do we know or how can we find out? https://www.lesswrong.com/…/a-broad-basin-of-attraction…
5. Why a slide rule works https://www.johndcook.com/…/04/10/why-a-slide-rule-works/ [also check this playlist for a video demonstration]
6. “The best estimates of a maximally accurate source would be very frequently updated and follow a random walk.” https://www.overcomingbias.com/…/the-accuracy-of…
7. A woman grew up without her left temporal lobe, which highlights how amazingly plastic the brain is. https://www.wired.com/…/she-was-missing-a-chunk-of-her…/ (archived version: https://archive.ph/r9eqv)
8. When It Comes to AI, Can We Ditch the Datasets? Using Synthetic Data for Training Machine-Learning Models https://scitechdaily.com/when-it-comes-to-ai-can-we…/
9. A Brief Excursion Into Molecular Neuroscience https://www.lesswrong.com/…/a-brief-excursion-into…
10. Unsupervised Bayesian Ising Approximation for decoding neural activity and other biological dictionaries https://elifesciences.org/articles/68192
11. Medical dogma is that people with heart failure need to adhere to a low salt diet. The largest randomized trial reported today failed to show any benefit for reducing clinical events https://thelancet.com/…/PIIS0140-6736(22)00369-5/fulltext
12. WA Aboriginal site near Rio Tinto mine more than 50,000 years old, new study reveals https://www.theguardian.com/…/wa-aboriginal-site-near…
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What’s News For April 19th?
