Posts Tagged ‘dg’

Breaking Eroom’s Law

July 16, 2023

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41573-020-00059-3

anit – scaling !

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