What’s News For February 14th? As always we search the globe for the news that MSM has missed or ignored for you!
1. Computer Scientists Prove Why Bigger Neural Networks Do Better — “Fundamental mathematical results had suggested that networks should only need to be so big, but modern neural networks are commonly scaled up far beyond that predicted requirement—a situation known as overparameterization. In a [new paper], Sébastien Bubeck of Microsoft Research and Mark Sellke of Stanford University provided a new explanation for the mystery behind scaling’s success.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-prove…/
2. Introducing Intrinsic, an Alphabet (Google) company – Unlocking creative and economic potential with industrial robotics https://x.company/projects/intrinsic/
3. European Fusion Reactor Sets Record for Sustained Energy https://www.science.org/…/european-fusion-reactor-sets…
4. Chimpanzees apply ‘medicine’ to each others’ wounds in a possible show of empathy https://edition.cnn.com/…/chimpanzee-insects…/index.html
5. “Striatal dopamine signals are region specific and temporally stable across action-sequence habit formation” https://www.sciencedirect.com/…/pii/S0960982221017036
6. Live-bearing cockroach genome reveals convergent evolutionary mechanisms linked to viviparity in insects and beyond https://www.biorxiv.org/…/10.1101/2022.02.03.478960v1.full
7. Moreover, Silicon Valley’s quest to live forever could benefit humanity as a whole — here’s why [published SEP 21 2021] https://www.cnbc.com/…/silicon-valleys-quest-to-live…
8. The cognitive ability of blacks raised by non-blacks https://reasonwithoutrestraint.com/quantifying-the…/
9. Lastly, an evaluation of some common (fallacious) arguments against the lab leak theory https://gillesdemaneuf.medium.com/some-common….
