What’s News For Today? As always we search the planet for the most interesting news we can find!
1. Artificial intelligence system rapidly predicts how two proteins will attach https://phys.org/news/2022-02-artificial-intelligence-rapidly-proteins.html
2. The first indications of robots being able to successfully carry out behaviors that were not in the training data. https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/02/can-robots-follow-instructions-for-new.html
3. Can We Prove the World Isn’t a Simulation? You might think we have definitive evidence we’re not in a simulation. That’s impossible. https://nautil.us/can-we-prove-the-world-isnt-a-simulation-13756/
4. The Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon: “For nearly a decade, the Israeli firm had been selling its surveillance software on a subscription basis to law-enforcement and intelligence agencies around the world, promising that it could do what no one else—not a private company, not even a state intelligence service—could do: consistently and reliably crack the encrypted communications of any iPhone or Android smartphone.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/magazine/nso-group-israel-spyware.html
5. Intel’s woes, and whether it can get out of them. https://stratechery.com/2022/the-intel-split/
6. Why People Care More About Beautiful Animals Than Ugly Ones https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/animals-and-us/202201/why-people-care-more-about-beautiful-animals-ugly-ones
7. Science from a Sheet of Paper: “By curling, folding, crumpling, sometimes tearing paper, Tadashi Tokieda will explore a variety of unexpected phenomena – from geometry and the traditional art of origami, to magic tricks and engineering of materials.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D15L0E1zHJ0
8. Multi-omic rejuvenation and lifespan extension upon exposure to youthful circulation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.11.468258v1
9. “Reasoning Like Program Executors”, Pi et al 2022 (pretraining on source code better for inducing reasoning capabilities?) https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11473
10. December 2021 survey in 10 European countries about immigration https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/idgroup/pages/1703/attachments/original/1643048674/Insa_Presentation_(ID-Party)_-_European_Countries_(December_2021).PDF
11. A new analysis of Large Hadron Collider data measures rare decays of the B meson that behave according to the standard model. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/s8
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