here’s your weekly dose of treats 💌
a weekly list of goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert
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1. What does GPT-3 “know” about me?
Large language models are trained on troves of personal data hoovered from the internet. So I wanted to know: What does it have on me?
2. Balance exercises: how to train lower leg variability
Challenging the status quo: In 1993, amateur cyclist Graeme Obree’s unusual riding position and homemade bike earned him a maverick status, but little success. You can also watch: Graeme Obree, Athlete or Genius?
4. Applying Utilitarianism: Are Insider Trading and the Bailout of GM Ethical?
5. Nanoplastics can disrupt human liver, lung cells’ processes in lab experiments.
9. In the grim darkness of the near future, there is only AI art. A short story about writing, reading, and searching for a connection and meaning in a post-AI art era.
10. Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness
11. After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration (video) – successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, the agency’s first attempt to move an asteroid in space.
13. Eating ourselves to death: why America is so fat, what our food has to do with it, and what we can do to reverse it.
14. That man is my brother by Thomas Mann Responsibility by association or why all Russians are responsible for Putin's War. Putin is as Russian as Tolstoy or Tarkovsky.
15. OpenAI: “We’ve removed the waitlist for DALL·E. Sign up and start creating immediately!”
16. 3D printing drones work like bees to build and repair structures while flying
17. He lived alone in the forest for twenty-six years before dying last month. What did he experience?
18. A new study in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience provided some of the first evidence that a “memory prosthetic” is possible in humans. The prosthetic isn’t a device; rather, it’s a series of electrodes implanted inside the hippocampus—a structure buried deep within the brain that’s critical for episodic memories—that encodes the when, where, and what of our daily experiences.
19. Sophisticated deviants: Intelligence and radical economic attitudes
Conservative economic attitudes have been theorized as symptoms of low cognitive ability. Studies suggest the opposite, linking more conservative views weakly to higher, not lower, cognitive ability, but with very large between-study variability.
20. Quantifying the potential causes of Neanderthal extinction: Abrupt climate change versus competition and interbreeding
Never turn off the phone. A new approach to security culture.
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I have created a special page related to the Russian-Ukraine war. This list will update as I read more.
👾 some YouTube video essays
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