What’s News For April 20th?
1. “The determinant of a matrix is how much the matrix expands or contracts space. More precisely: it’s the volume of the parallelepiped spanned by the columns of the matrix. (Ditto the rows.) This, btw, is why det 0 => non-invertible: one or more spatial dimensions has collapsed” https://mobile.twitter.com/mic…/status/1073673971583705089
2. Right from birth, human brains are organized into networks that support mental functions such as vision and attention, a new study shows. https://www.sciencedirect.com/…/pii/S1053811922002294
3. US Army awards $19M to small businesses to develop AI/ML technologies ‘that will lead to more informed Army decision-making, facilitate autonomous operations and increase the speed and scale of military action’ https://www.army.mil/…/army_awards_19m_to_small…
4. In this demonstration of Siemens’ SynthAI, learn how you can auto-generate 1000’s of annotated images in minutes and automatically train your ML vision algorithms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6qIyb4HlwM
5. “We’ve trained a natural language assistant to be more helpful and harmless by using reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF).” https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05862
6. A 2006 NASA program shows how government can move at the speed of startups https://www.thecgo.org/…/a-2006-nasa-program-shows-how…/
7. “In the 1970s & 80s, anthropologists working in small-scale, non-industrial societies fastidiously noted down what people were doing throughout the day. I’ve been exploring the data & am struck by one of the most popular activities: doing nothing.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1510978995269029888.html
8. Metaculus: How good were our AI timeline predictions so far? https://www.metaculus.com/…/how-good-were-our-ai…/
9. Economic Impacts of Artificial General Intelligence https://www.metaculus.com/…/economic-impacts-of…/
10. AI safety and timelines https://www.metaculus.com/…/10438/ai-safety-and-timelines/
11. “I think all the different angles we look at share the same conclusion: slightly faster timelines than anticipated.” https://www.metaculus.com/note…/10655/the-next-five-years/
12. Nuclear power is safe and gets cheaper the more we embrace it – we need to get past its PR problem https://inews.co.uk/…/nuclear-power-safe-cheaper-uk…
13. “If [Germany] turned back on all the nuclear reactors, [it] could eliminate nearly all the need for gas electricity—and some coal too, which is quite polluting.” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/…/why…
