What’s News For March 30th?
1. On average, half of all service dogs fail their training. Due to this poor rate, South Korea experimented with cloning service dogs that had already passed their training. The resulting clones passed at rates much higher than average. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6167335/
2. “Evolution can occur really, really rapidly” — Researchers detect genetic changes in response to seasonal change. https://arstechnica.com/…/evolution-can-occur-really…/
3. A Systematic Review of Human Challenge Trials, Designs, and Safety https://www.medrxiv.org/con…/10.1101/2022.03.20.22272658v1
4. NVIDIA has developed techniques for training primitive graphical operations for neural networks in near real-time. https://nvlabs.github.io/instant-ngp/
5. NVIDIA’s New AI: Enhance! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0yEOw6Zews
6. “While the United States has massive resources to measure or draw thousands to millions of neurons brain-wide, our consortium focuses on 1-on-1 mapping, bridging neuroanatomy and neurophysiology with single-cell precision in vivo.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29229-0
7. Free MIT math courses https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/
8. Measuring the impacts of a real-world neighborhood-scale cool pavement deployment on albedo and temperatures in Los Angeles https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac58a8
9. “For the first time, a completely locked-in patient has been able to communicate thanks to a brain implant. The device helped the patient, who was unable to move any muscles or even open his eyes, contact the outside world using only his brain activity.” https://www.technologynetworks.com/…/for-the-first-time…
10. The Value of In-Reservoir Energy Storage for Flexible Dispatch of Geothermal Power https://zenodo.org/record/6377485#.Yjw9NOfMI7c
11. A Conversational Paradigm for Program Synthesis: Trains up to 16B model (named CODEGEN) based on multi-turn conversation using TPU-v4, which outperforms OpenAI’s Codex on the HumanEval benchmark. https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13474
12. One country in Europe has spent decades planning for a potential Russian attack, never letting its guard down. https://www.ft.com/…/c5e376f9-7351-40d3-b058-1873b2ef1924 [archived version: https://archive.ph/xnbYq]
13. “Many people have wondered how the Finns defend Finland today, so here’s a very short introduction to modern Finnish defence policy – and a brief synopsis of how the Finnish military would probably fight if any hostile country decided to invade.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1504407222775914499.html
