Nature | Ramin Hasani, Mathias Lechner, Alexander Amini, Lucas Liebenwein, Aaron Ray, Max Tschaikowski, Gerald Teschl and Daniela Rus show that it is possible to closely approximate the interaction between neurons and synapses—the building blocks of natural and artificial neural networks—constructed by liquid time-constant ne...

OECD publish a report aiming to improve understanding of the environmental impacts of AI, and help measure and decrease AI’s negative effects while enabling it to accelerate action for the good of the planet.

Quantamagazine - An energy-efficient chip called NeuRRAM fixes an old design flaw to run large-scale AI algorithms on smaller devices, reaching the same accuracy as wasteful digital computers

MIT Review - Dark Forest shows how advanced cryptography can be used in a game—and how blockchains might host decentralized digital worlds.

Quantamagazine - Carrie Arnold writes about supergenes, clusters of genes that lock inherited traits together and are more widespread in animals and plants than previously thought. These genetic units can be both beneficial and risky for species, allowing rapid adaptation but also accumulating harmful mutations.

GitHub scans repositories for known types of secrets, to prevent fraudulent use of secrets that were committed accidentally.

Quantamagazine - The discovery of a hot spot for horizontal gene transfer draws attention to the possible roles of parasites and ecology in such changes.

Lucas Beyer shares the slides of his presentation on Transformers in 2022

Quantamagazine - The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. Quantamagazine have attempted to connect the proton’s many faces to form the most complete picture yet.

Short fiction extracted from qntm's Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories published in 2022

Big Think - Researchers developed a “DishBrain” system that connected neurons to a computer running the classic video game Pong. Within five minutes, the cells began “learning” and improved their performance. The mechanism of "learning" might involve the free-energy principle, according to which the brain seeks to minimize e...

Robert Huang and Matthew E. Kahn examine the U.S electric utility's adaptation to natural disasters and green power mandates using a US electric utility panel dataset from 2013 to 2020. They find that utilities have made progress in adapting to such shocks but face a tradeoff between achieving local carbon mitigation goals an...

Ningyu Zhang, Lei Li, Xiang Chen, Xiaozhuan Liang, Shumin Denga and Huajun Chen introduce the new task of multimodal analogical reasoning over knowledge graphs. They construct a Multimodal Analogical Reasoning dataSet (MARS) and a multimodal knowledge graph MarKG, and evaluate with multimodal knowledge graph embedding and pre...

VIDEO | In a series of videos, Andrej Karpathy walks you through the building steps of ... Ai. Truly amazing resource!

Brian K. Lee, Emily J. Mayhew, Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling, Jennifer N. Wei, Wesley W. Qian, Kelsie Little, Matthew Andres, Britney B. Nguyen, Theresa Moloy, Jane K. Parker, Richard C. Gerkin, Joel D. Mainland and Alexander B. Wiltschko use graph neural networks (GNN) to generate a Principal Odor Map (POM) that preserves per...

In a relatively early post on the subject Tim Dettmers lays out the quantization process, and solutions to overcome key challenges in context of deep learning

Harold Cooper discusses a pattern he noticed in ‘visual’ derivations of the formulas for 1+2+⋯+n and 1^2+2^2+⋯+n^2, which led him to a similar derivation for 1^3+2^3+⋯+n^3.

Yuichi Kano developed a photogrammetry technique for reconstructing the outer coloured morphology of various creatures and published more than 1000 models online

Vaisakh Puthusseryppady, Sol Morrissey, Hugo Spiers, Martyn Patel and Michael Hornberger investigate the spatial navigation abilities of Alzheimer's disease patients in virtual reality (VR) environments as well as in a real world community setting. They found that when compared to controls, Alzheimer's disease patients exhibi...

This project is a perfect illustration of the potential of isochrones : maps showing how far one can get in a given timeframe.

Andreas B. Eder, Franzisca Maas, Alexander Schubmann, Anand Krishna and Thorsten M. Erle explore the motivations for the self-administration of painful electric shocks

WIRED - Every so often, our star fires off a plasma bomb in a random direction. Our best hope the next time Earth is in the crosshairs? Capacitors.

Report of the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention on the evolution of the prevalence of obesity among US adults by race and ethnicity, state and territory between 2011 and 2021

Astronomy.com - What is time? Why is it so different from space? And where did it come from? Scientists are still stumped by these questions — but working harder than ever to answer them.

Chen, Carol presents detailed few-principles reasoning about large language model inference performance, with no experiments or difficult math.