What’s News For March 21st? As always we search the globe for your news that MSM has missed or ignored for you!
1. A New Type of 3D Printing May Bring It Into the Mainstream: “With the equivalent of 2.4m pixels projected in each square, the machine can print parts with layers just 25 microns (millionths of a meter) thick at a rate of 3kg an hour. This is ten times faster than a typical L-PBF machine at such a fine resolution, says Mr. DeMuth. Production versions of the area printer are now being built, and future generations of the machine should end up being 100 times faster. All that, says Mr. DeMuth, means area printing will be competitive with mass-production factory processes, such as machining, stamping and casting.” [The Economist] https://archive.is/zyaxd
2. “When Pigs Cry: Tool Decodes the Emotional Lives of Swine” (Project SoundWel: NN predicts happy/unhappy audio with 90% accuracy) https://www.nytimes.com/…/science/pigs-oinks-grunts.html
3. “In New Math Proofs, Artificial Intelligence Plays to Win” (finding counterexamples in combinatorics; Wagner 2021) https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-new-math-proofs…/
4. ML training compute has grown by a factor of 10 Billion (10’000’000’000) over the last 12 years. Whereas high-performance computing performance only by a factor of ≈200 https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05924
5. The Future is Vast: Longtermism’s perspective on humanity’s past, present, and future https://ourworldindata.org/longtermism
6. Molecular Engineers Show How To Make “Computer” Out of Liquid Crystals https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abg9060
7. Female astronomers disproportionately serve on the DEI committees. “I’m trying to think of a woman who is not an activist.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1504468998112522244.html
Additional war links:
8. Rheinmetall Air Defence: Skynex truck-mounted engaging drone swarm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb5_F4_Eod8
9. Not Out of the Woods Yet: Assessing the Operational Situation in Ukraine https://rusi.org/…/not-out-woods-yet-assessing…
10. “Russian generals are running out of time, ammunition, and manpower. That’s not based on any inside intelligence — it’s clear from open source information and my own experience. I could be way off, but I am confident of this assessment.” https://cepa.org/the-next-10-days-will-decide-this-war/
11. Ukrainian forces have defeated the initial Russian campaign of this war. Its culmination is creating conditions of stalemate throughout most of Ukraine. https://understandingwar.org/…/russian-offensive…
12. “Our suspicions were correct. This ‘missile warehouse’ in Western Ukraine was actually a farm in far Eastern Ukraine. The target was destroyed at least a week ago. Entire area has been shelled. We have satellite imagery to prove it” https://www.thedrive.com/…/we-have-questions-about…
13. In Belarusian Morgues And Hospitals, Clues To Russian Military Losses In Ukraine https://www.rferl.org/…/belarus-morgues…/31760144.html
