Posts Tagged ‘x78retwee’

Robo-writers: the rise and risks of language-generating AI

April 17, 2021

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00530-0

GPT3

QT:{{”
A neural network’s size — and therefore its power — is roughly measured by how many parameters it has. These numbers define the strengths of the connections between neurons. More neurons and more connections means more parameters; GPT-3 has 175 billion. The next-largest language model of its kind has 17 billion (see ‘Larger language models’). (In January, Google released a model with 1.6 trillion parameters, but it’s a ‘sparse’ model, meaning each parameter does less work. In terms of performance, this is equivalent to a ‘dense’ model that has between 10 billion and 100 billion parameters, says William Fedus, a researcher at the University of Montreal, Canada, and Google.)
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Bottom trawling releases as much carbon as air travel, landmark study finds | Marine life | The Guardian

April 11, 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/17/trawling-for-fish-releases-as-much-carbon-as-air-travel-report-finds-climate-crisis

Let’s Get Rid of Daylight Savings and Time Zones – Bloomberg

April 11, 2021

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-20/let-s-get-rid-of-daylight-savings-and-time-zones

Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever? | The New Yorker

April 8, 2021

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/01/has-the-pandemic-transformed-the-office-forever

Remote Work Is Here to Stay. Manhattan May Never Be the Same. – The New York Times

April 8, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/nyregion/remote-work-coronavirus-pandemic.html

How Remote Work Is Reshaping America’s Urban Geography – WSJ

April 8, 2021

One wonders whether New Haven would qualify as a potential “zoom town”?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-remote-work-is-reshaping-americas-urban-geography-11614960100

Smart cities built with smart materials | Science

April 8, 2021

Is plain-old asphalt a smart, self-healing material?
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6535/1200

Human local adaptation of the TRPM8 cold receptor along a latitudinal cline

April 7, 2021

Stumbled onto this paper. Thought the conclusion that Europeans were more cold-sensitive due to TRPM8 was quite counter-intuitive – but interesting nevertheless
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1007298

cold receptor

funny covid vaccine video

March 30, 2021

https://twitter.com/theflydoc/status/1375836738879377410

How to redesign COVID vaccines so they protect against variants

March 29, 2021

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00241-6