What’s News For March 11th? As always we search the globe for the news that MSM has missed or ignored for you!
1. ‘Fingerprint’ Machine Learning Technique Identifies Different Bacteria in Seconds https://news.kaist.ac.kr/newsen/html/news/?mode=V…
2. FastFold: Reducing AlphaFold Training Time from 11 Days to 67 Hours https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00854
3. “We present AI as the mathematician’s “pocket calculator of the 21st century”, and how it can be used to derive top-tier mathematical results in areas as diverse as representation theory and knot theory.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZBNdGMG1rQ
4. What we know about machine learning’s replication crisis. A summary of the literature on machine learning replicability/reproducibility. https://youneskamel.substack.com/…/what-we-know-about…
5. Time crystals are mysterious configurations of particles that are perpetually switching and quantum computers can now be used to examine them https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/…/observing-time-crystals
6. Attackers exploit fundamental flaw in the web’s security to steal $2 million in cryptocurrency https://freedom-to-tinker.com/…/attackers-exploit…/
7. In Sri Lanka, Organic Farming Went Catastrophically Wrong https://foreignpolicy.com/…/sri-lanka-organic-farming…/
8. “UVB-76, also known by the nickname “The Buzzer”, is a shortwave radio station that broadcasts on the frequency of 4625 kHz. It broadcasts a short, monotonous audio speaker iconbuzz tone, repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, 24 hours per day. Moreover, sometimes, the buzzer signal is interrupted and a voice transmission in Russian takes place, the start date of broadcasting is disputed. However, it was allegedly reported to have started broadcasting in the late 1970s, possibly 1976.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76
9. Graphcore plans a 10 exaflop supercomputer https://www.graphcore.ai/…/graphcore-announces-roadmap…
10. Metaculus Alerts is a Twitter bot that alerts you when a Metaculus prediction on the Ukraine war has changed drastically in a short time. https://twitter.com/MetaculusAlert
11. South Korea elects an anti-feminist conservative candidate who vowed to take a hawkish line toward North Korea. https://www.dw.com/…/south-korea…/a-61060084
