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Look me in the Eye - John Elder Robison

Links for 2024-05-23 AI: 1. “The next industrial revolution has begun — companies and countries are partnering with NVIDIA to shift the trillion-dollar traditional data centers to accelerated computing and build a new type of data center — AI factories — to produce a new commodity: artificial intelligence,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-first-quarter-fiscal-2025 2. BootsTAP: Bootstrapped Training for Tracking-Any-Point https://bootstap.github.io/ 3. LANISTR: Multimodal learning from structured and unstructured data https://research.google/blog/lanistr-multimodal-learning-from-structured-and-unstructured-data/ 4. “What if everyone, everywhere could have their own personal AI tutor, on any topic? We’re making learning more engaging and personal with our new family of models, LearnLM.” https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/google-learnlm-gemini-generative-ai/ 5. “American AI harmlessness vs Chinese AI harmlessness” https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1793404511601512892 Miscellaneous: 1. Non-neural tissues also do sophisticated information processing. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.09.593467v1.abstract 2. “Results strongly suggest Neanderthal-derived DNA is playing a significant role in autism susceptibility across major populations in the United States.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-024-02593-7 3. Compiler Explorer: “The basic idea behind CE is very simple. Just enter the source code in the pane on the left and the site will immediately show you the compiled output - typically assembly language - in a panel on the right.” https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/compiler-explorer 4. Dyson Spheres: Astronomers Report Potential Candidates for Alien Megastructures—Here’s What to Make of It https://singularityhub.com/2024/05/22/dyson-spheres-astronomers-report-potential-candidates-for-alien-megastructures-heres-what-to-make-of-it/ Politics: 1. “Low birthrates will devastate the global economy if not reversed. A look at what is happening with fertility numbers, why this is such a big economic problem, and what some of the solutions look like. A great primer for the uninitiated.” https://x.com/MoreBirths/status/1793394520727429326 2. How China selects its governing elite. — "When it comes to society’s most critical need and difficult task – running the country – our smartest five percent seem poorly represented. Meanwhile, the opposite is true in China." https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/rule-of-the-five-percent 3. “Contrary the the impression one gets, male academics are quite open to the possibility that genetics can contribute to racial IQ differences (in anonymous polls). There is a large gender gap, with female academics being far more skeptical.” https://x.com/jonatanpallesen/status/1793347204855336978