What’s News For February 4th? As always we search for the globe for the most interesting information that mainstream media has missed or chosen not to report!
1. EleutherAI has released their open-source 20B parameter GPT-3 competitor! https://blog.eleuther.ai/announcing-20b/
2. Unprecedented New Telescope Image Reveals Nearly 1,000 Mysterious Strands in Milky Way’s Center https://scitechdaily.com/unprecedented-new-telescope…/
3. “The one-electron universe postulate, proposed by John Wheeler in a telephone call to Richard Feynman in the spring of 1940, is the hypothesis that all electrons and positrons are actually manifestations of a single entity moving backwards and forwards in time.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
4. Our obligate dependence on fire is remarkable, given the lack of innate fire-control instincts. Human Adaptation to the Control of Fire https://drive.google.com/…/13u8mS4rwisZ61F63vOsspU…/view
5. “Doug and Bill” (can a biochemist or a geneticist fix a car?) http://www2.biology.ualberta.ca/locke.hp/dougandbill.htm
6. The Swiss cryptography firm Crypto AG sold equipment to governments and militaries around the world for decades after World War II. It was owned by the CIA and the German Federal Intelligence Service. [Posted on February 11, 2020] https://schneier.com/…/arc…/2020/02/crypto_ag_was_o.html
7. Moreover, the conservative advantage in mental health keeps replicating https://kirkegaard.substack.com/…/the-conservative…
8. Physicists report first creation of self-heating plasma for nuclear fusion https://www.axios.com/plasma-nuclear-fusion-energy…
9. Nationalism Debate: Yaron Brook and Yoram Hazony | Lex Fridman Podcast — “Yaron Brook is an objectivist. Yoram Hazony is a national conservative. Furthermore, this is a conversation and debate about national conservatism vs individualism.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q24cpnHzx8I
10. “There is 100 times more solar energy available from a narrow strip around the earth at Geostationary Earth Orbit than the forecast global energy demands of humanity in 2050.” [ft.com] https://archive.fo/uu5jJ
11. In conclusion, Facebook teaches language models to speak ~30 languages https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10668
What’s News For February 4th?
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