Share this postBest of Twitter - Week of September 20, 2021bestoftwitter.substack.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailBest of Twitter - Week of September 20, 2021Alexey GuzeySep 29 3Comment 1ShareTessa Alexanian @tessafyiMy roommate is taking intro stats and learning about standard deviations. In retrospect saying "beware summary statistics!" and shoving The Datasaurus Dozen in her face was probably not a helpful instinct, but it was fun to remember these silly graphs autodesk.com/research/publi… Sachin Rekhi @sachinrekhiThe ability for Apple to create M1, for Tesla to create Model S, for Google to innovate on Google Workspace are all predicated on the fact that non-competes are not enforceable in California as each team is led by a previous leader at a top competitor (Intel, Mazda, Microsoft)Marras 🖤 @WeftOfSoulHumans, perfected by evolution to intuit purpose and intention, as a side effect of tool use: "Haha cats evolved to be visually accurate predators but they get hyperfixed on laser pointers" Same humans: "Why did God make us?? What is the meaning of life?? What's my purpose??"Marras 🖤 @WeftOfSoulEvery time I see someone get tripped up by trolley problems, nature of free will arguments or "if a tree falls and no one hears it..." questions I think "haha they love the brain laser pointer, silly beasts"Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963"Drug users use a lot of drugs! So why don't psychiatric patients get bladder injuries? It's because you get bladder injuries when you're taking more like 90,000 mg of ketamine a month, and not when you're taking 280 mg." astralcodexten.substack.com/p/drug-users-u… Lionel Page @page_ecoFascinating experiment in top scientific conference shows the large part of randomness in peer review: Submitted papers went to 2 review committees. 👉50% of acceptance decisions were different! 👇 Correlation between the 2 review scores was only 0.55. arxiv.org/abs/2109.09774 Laocoon of Troy @LaocoonofTroyEducating children: this is the way. Kendra Schaefer 凯娜 @kendraschaeferMy goodness. China's cyberspace watchdog, the CAC, just published a long (and unprecedented) set of draft regulations for recommendation algorithms. The short version: they will be tightly controlled. Key points below. 1/ 国家互联网信息办公室关于《互联网信息服务算法推荐管理规定（征求意见稿）》公开征求意见的通知-中共中央网络安全和信息化委员会办公室cac.gov.cnOwain Evans @OwainEvans_UKWhy do large models do worse? In the image, small sizes of GPT3 give true but less informative answers. Larger sizes know enough to mimic human superstitions and conspiracy theories. Corey A. DeAngelis @DeAngelisCoreyNew CDC Study: "the portion of 5-11-year-olds who are classified as overweight or obese is now 45.7 percent, up from 36.2 percent before the pandemic."Geoffrey Miller @primalpolyIf we prevented all cardiovascular disease, average lifespan would increase only 1.5 years. Prevent all cancer? We get an extra 2.1 years. Prevent aging? We get many extra decades. Yet gov't biomedical research spends almost nothing on preventing aging.... H/T @davidasinclairJohn Arnold @JohnArnoldFndtnThe 24 largest tax-exempt hospital systems made a collective net profit of $11.9 billion in the second quarter alone. They used to be called non-profits; now the correct label is tax-exempt for obvious reasons. Great analysis by @bobjherman imgur.com817 views on Imgur: The magic of the Internetimgur.comAlexander Kruel @XiXiDuTake, for example, the Antikythera mechanism. It is described as the oldest example of an analog computer. Equivalent complexity didn't appear again until the 18th century. arstechnica.com/science/2021/0… Quarantined sectionRichard H. Ebright @R_H_EbrightEcoHealth: "We will analyze all SARSr-CoV..sequences for..proteolytic cleavage sites in S2 and for..potential Furin cleavage sites..[W]e will introduce appropriate human-specific cleavage sites and evaluate growth potential in Vero cells and HAE cultures." drasticresearch.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/defuse… ^ quotes from unfunded DARPA proposal from Wuhan lmao
The bigger GPT models are worse paper is pretty meh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX8phGhG8VQ