Posts Tagged ‘dg’

Can the West build up its armed forces on the cheap?

July 16, 2023

Describes “How “Lockheed’s law” keeps defence costs down”.

Compare to Moore’s law (e.g. described in
http://lectures.gersteinlab.org/summary/Biomed-DataSci-Intro–20190416-i0hm19)

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/06/22/can-the-west-build-up-its-armed-forces-on-the-cheap

OpenAI’s Sam Altman warns Congress AI could cause ‘harm to the world’ – The Washington Post

May 22, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/16/sam-altman-open-ai-congress-hearing/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social

Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Book Review: “Quantum Supremacy” by Michio Kaku (tl;dr DO NOT BUY)

May 21, 2023

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7321

Chart: The Evolution Of Human Space Flight | Statista

May 12, 2023

https://www.statista.com/chart/24604/number-of-people-launched-into-space-by-year/

was used for:
http://lectures.gersteinlab.org/summary/Genomics-n-DataSci-ENTEX-variant-interpretation–20230509-i0stj/

Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets | The Economist

May 6, 2023

https://www.economist.com/interactive/science-and-technology/2023/04/22/large-creative-ai-models-will-transform-how-we-live-and-work

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/04/19/how-generative-models-could-go-wrong How generative models could go wrong
A big problem is that they are black boxes

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/04/19/large-language-models-ability-to-generate-text-also-lets-them-plan-and-reason How generative models could go wrong
A big problem is that they are black boxes

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/04/20/how-to-worry-wisely-about-artificial-intelligence

Who Owns a Song Created by A.I.? – The New York Times

April 30, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/business/dealbook/artificial-intelligence-copyright.html

Genetics goes to Hollywood | Nature Genetics

November 25, 2022

https://www.nature.com/articles/ng1197-260

https://www.nature.com/articles/ng1197-260.pdf?proof=t2019-8-23

Testing planetary defenses against asteroids, and building a giant ‘water machine’ | Science | AAAS

September 17, 2022

https://www.science.org/content/podcast/testing-planetary-defenses-against-asteroids-and-building-giant-water-machine

https://twitter.com/boron110/status/1570761167232016389

Thought the recent @ScienceMagazine podcast about the asteroid deflection mission dealt well with the effect of science on
sci-fiction and *vice-versa*. Wonder if this interplay happens in other scientific contexts?

https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-s-unprecedented-asteroid-deflection-mission-more-billiards-space-scientists-say

Why world leaders are refusing to give Russia their DNA | The Week UK

March 6, 2022

https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/world-news/russia/955813/why-world-leaders-refuse-give-russia-dna

Thought this story was intriguing in relation to genomic #privacy & how the pandemic has potentially amplified worries about it. It was presaged by an opinion piece we did a decade ago
(https://USAToday.com/story/opinion/tory/opinion/2013/06/27/dov-greenbaum-and-mark-gerstein-on-nsa-and-genetics/2465589)

https://twitter.com/MarkGerstein/status/1500693248179904513

Amazon.com: science – New / Kindle Edition / Coming Soon

January 14, 2020

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=science&i=stripbooks-intl-ship&rh=p_n_condition-type%3A1294423011%2Cp_n_publication_date%3A1250228011%2Cp_n_feature_browse-bin%3A618073011&s=date-desc-rank&dc&qid=1579053503&rnid=618072011&ref=sr_nr_p_n_feature_browse-bin_1

New : Coming Soon : Kindle Edition : “science”