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New Substack article: "Fragments of a Cyberpunk Novella". https://open.substack.com/pub/aforestpassage/p/fragments-of-a-cyberpunk-novella?r=2lobnr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

A while ago I played with the idea of writing a cyberpunk/thriller novella, inspired by (and hopefully not borderline plagiarised from) chapters from a fictitious work called 'Jacob's Shadow' that appears in the original Deus Ex game from 2001. This was created in the style of William Gibson by Chris Todd, one of the game's writers, and can be found at this link. I originally published these in separate Telegram posts, with continuations in the comments, but due to Chinese crypto-spammers (this is why we can't have nice things) I shut these down. Some of you seemed to like them, so here they are again on Substack.

Links for 2024-05-12 AI: 1. How much LLM training data is there, in the limit? https://www.educatingsilicon.com/2024/05/09/how-much-llm-training-data-is-there-in-the-limit/ 2. Fishing for Magikarp: Automatically Detecting Under-trained Tokens in Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05417 3. Don't Trust: Verify -- Grounding LLM Quantitative Reasoning with Autoformalization https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18120 4. RadOnc-GPT: Leveraging Meta Llama for a pioneering radiation oncology model https://ai.meta.com/blog/radonc-gpt-meta-llama-2-mayo-clinic/ 5. From LLMs to Actions: Latent Codes as Bridges in Hierarchical Robot Control https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04798 6. “openai search this, openai voice that, this is what i am really holding my breath for” https://x.com/ericjang11/status/1789574686205980724 Nuclear power: 1. The Dual Fluid Fission Reactor: Our most promising way to solve the world’s energy problems? https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featurereinvented-the-dual-fluid-principle-9952766/ 2. “Since … 1948, U.S. Navy nuclear program has developed 27 different plant designs, installed them in 210 nuclear-powered ships, taken 500 reactor cores into operation, & accumulated over 5,400 reactor years of operation.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_naval_reactors Technology: 1. Few- and single-molecule reservoir computing experimentally demonstrated with surface-enhanced Raman scattering and ion gating https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk6438 Miscellaneous: 1. Contextual and combinatorial structure in sperm whale vocalizations https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47221-8 2. What is Closed Form? The Horse Numbers are an illustration https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2024/05/what-is-closed-form-horse-numbers-are.html Politics: 1. Autism & the Internet will defeat the Monoculture https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/autism-and-the-internet-will-defeat

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Links for 2024-05-09 AI: 1. Google announces AlphaFold 3: A state-of-the-art AI model for predicting the structure and interactions of all life’s molecules. 🧬 https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-deepmind-isomorphic-alphafold-3-ai-model/ (Video: “This Will Change Everything!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz7Qp73lj9o) 2. OpenAI Is Readying a Search Product to Rival Google, Perplexity https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-07/openai-is-readying-an-ai-search-product-to-rival-google-perplexity [no paywall: https://archive.is/CfzzE] 3. xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory — “Exponential gating and modified memory structures boost xLSTM capabilities to perform favorably when compared to state-of-the-art Transformers and State Space Models, both in performance and scaling.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04517 4. Microsoft presents You Only Cache Once: Decoder-Decoder Architectures for Language Models — “The design substantially reduces GPU memory demands, yet retains global attention capability.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05254 5. ScrapeGraphAI: LLM-Based Web Scraping — ScrapeGraphAI is a Python library that automates data extraction from websites, documents, and XML files using Large Language Models (LLMs). https://github.com/VinciGit00/Scrapegraph-ai 6. Cheat Sheets for Machine Learning and Data Science https://sites.google.com/view/datascience-cheat-sheets 7. Microsoft made an ‘air-gapped’ AI for spies that’s walled off from the internet https://qz.com/microsoft-offline-ai-service-chatgpt-gpt4-us-spies-1851462266 Miscellaneous: 1. Regeneron administered two completely deaf children single shots in their ears and, after just a few months, they're able to hear. https://investor.regeneron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/latest-db-oto-results-show-dramatically-improved-hearing-normal 2. Full-colour 3D holographic augmented-reality displays with metasurface waveguides https://www.computationalimaging.org/publications/holographicar/ 3. The Bizarre Behavior of String on a Spool https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/05/08/the-spool-paradox/ Questions: 1. Questions about biotech https://atelfo.github.io/2024/04/01/biotech-questions.html 2. Open Questions https://gwern.net/question 3. I Have Questions https://axisofordinary.substack.com/p/i-have-questions

Links for 2024-05-10 AI: 1. New AI search engine Upend (https://upend.ai/) emerges from stealth, powered by 100 LLMs https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-ai-search-engine-upend-emerges-from-stealth-powered-by-100-llms/ 2. “We're having a massive moment with Tesla's FSD progress right now, yet so few people have any idea that it's even happening.” https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1788396600273821715 3. Humanoid Parkour Learning: “we propose a framework for learning an end-to-end vision-based whole-body-control parkour policy that overcomes multiple parkour skills without any motion prior.” https://humanoid4parkour.github.io/ 4. Evaluating Real-World Robot Manipulation Policies in Simulation https://simpler-env.github.io/ Compute: 1. Apple releases the M4 chip at the ‘Let Loose' event with powerful AI capabilities. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-introduces-m4-chip/ 2. Brain-Inspired Computer Approaches Brain-Like Size: Gestalt design yields flexibility and neuromorphic computational scale https://spectrum.ieee.org/neuromorphic-computing-spinnaker2 Miscellaneous: 1. Ten years of neuroscience at Google yields maps of human brain https://research.google/blog/ten-years-of-neuroscience-at-google-yields-maps-of-human-brain/ 2. All living beings are descended from a single gene that existed around 4 billion years ago https://www.vineyardbooks.blog/p/adam-and-eve-existed-they-created 3. It shouldn’t be easy to buy synthetic DNA fragments to recreate the 1918 flu virus https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/08/shouldnt-be-easy-buy-synthetic-dna-fragments-recreate-deadly-1918-flu-virus/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/pAhq4] Math: 1. Small probabilities add, big ones don’t https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2024/05/10/small-probabilities-add/ 2. A very short proof of the infinitude of primes https://fermatslibrary.com/s/a-very-short-proof-of-the-infinitude-of-primes 3. An even shorter proof of the infinitude of primes: n(n+1) has a larger set of prime factors than does n because n+1 > 1 is coprime to n, so it has a prime factor that does not divide n. Politics: 1. South Korea considering £59k incentive for each child born amid declining birth rate https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/east-asia/south-korea-birth-rate-cash-incentive-b2533188.html 2. France to offer young people fertility checks to combat falling birth rates https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/08/emmanuel-macron-plan-declining-birth-rates-fertility-checks/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/ChWe0] 3. "When the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh and expelled its inhabitants, 15,000 Swedes greeted their victory by spontaneously celebrating in the center of Stockholm." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#Sweden 4. Changes in belief of what causes Black economic underperformance over time. https://x.com/sebjenseb/status/1788687560325181762