Links of Interest - August

I've gathered some seriously awesome links for August 2024. Sharing them with my friends and colleagues because, let's face it, who doesn't enjoy a good read? Go ahead, dive in, and have some fun!

“New WP: Can LLMs predict results of social science experiments? Prior work uses LLMs to simulate survey responses, but can they predict results of social science experiments? Across 70 studies, we find striking alignment (r = .85) between simulated and observed effects.? This capacity has several applications for science and practice – e.g., running low-cost pilots to identify promising interventions, or simulating experiments that may be harmful to participants – but also limitations and risks, including concerns about bias, overuse, & misuse.” - https://x.com/RobbWiller/status/1821271270182547916

Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? - https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram-is-not-really-an-encrypted-messaging-app/

The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps - https://a16z.com/100-gen-ai-apps-3/

“Today, we’re excited to introduce?The AI Scientist, the first comprehensive system for fully automatic scientific discovery, enabling Foundation Models such as Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform research independently. In collaboration with the Foerster Lab for AI Research at the University of Oxford and Jeff Clune and Cong Lu at the University of British Columbia, we’re excited to release our new paper,?The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery.” - https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06292

“10 seconds for my first animated film. Image created with #GROK2 Video made with #RunwayGen3 Audio produced with #Udio Editing with #PremierePro “ - https://x.com/ildrwhite/status/1824082474000900534/video/1

Evidence stacks up for poisonous books containing toxic dyes - https://phys.org/news/2024-08-evidence-stacks-poisonous-toxic-dyes.html

AWS CEO Says Most Developers Could Stop Coding Soon As AI Takes Over - https://www.businessinsider.com/aws-ceo-developers-stop-coding-ai-takes-over-2024-8

Leaked Secrets and Unlimited Miles: Hacking the Largest Airline and Hotel Rewards Platform - https://samcurry.net/points-com

Inside the "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach - https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-3-billion-people-national-public-data-breach/

“Death of a Salesforce CRM”: Why AI Will Transform the Next Generation of Sales Tech - https://a16z.com/ai-transforms-sales/

Independent analysis of AI models and API providers - https://artificialanalysis.ai/

If YouTube had channels - https://ytch.xyz/

From Ben Page. What generative AI can learn from the primordial swamp - https://on.ft.com/3LOLHvB

From Juhan Sonin. How To Think About AI.? “We’re moving from a world of?static files?to one of?dynamic information flows. The world we’re stepping into with AI is one where information is constantly updated, combined, and repurposed in real time. This changes everyone’s relationship with information.”

- https://schellingai.substack.com/p/how-to-think-about-ai

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LRBhT3TLr8

From Juhan Sonin.? EP–1320 medieval - https://teenage.engineering/products/ep-1320

Startup investments and the Power of Attraction - https://www.unisg.ch/en/newsdetail/news/the-power-of-attraction-study-about-attractiveness-bias/

Galois Theory | The n-Category Café - https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2024/08/galois_theory.html

The Babylonian Map of the World with Irving Finkel -? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUxFzh8r384&t=7s

DUNE Scientists Observe First Neutrinos with Prototype Detector at Fermilab - https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/08/12/dune-scientists-observe-first-neutrinos-with-prototype-detector-at-fermilab/

Smartphone use decreases trustworthiness of strangers - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167487024000229

Mars to Acquire Kellanova - https://www.mars.com/news-and-stories/press-releases-statements/mars-acquisition-august-2024

Olympics Officials Work to Prevent Motor Doping in Cycling - https://spectrum.ieee.org/motor-doping-cycling

High-end racing bikes are now vulnerable to hacking - https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220390/bike-hack-wireless-gear-shifters

How Europe’s Population Has Changed (1990-2023) - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-how-europes-population-has-changed-1990-2023/

x86re - https://x86re.com/

Reverse Engineering -? https://0xinfection.github.io/reversing/

NetAlertX - https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX

From Juhan Sonin - How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between - https://www.amazon.com/How-Big-Things-Get-Done/dp/0593239512/

Move Over Mr. Ford, Tesla Just Reinvented The Assembly Line - https://youtu.be/3f0Hx-Ncdu8?si=712pyGfGIG8D5IEr

The Crazy Engineering of Venice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77omYd0JOeA

Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the?Lancet?standing Commission - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01296-0/abstract

A Camera That Shoots 40,000 FPS Decided the 100-Meter Sprint Final - https://petapixel.com/2024/08/06/a-camera-that-shoots-40000-fps-decided-the-100-meter-sprint-final-olympics-paris-2024-omega/

Struggling AI Startups Look for a Bailout from Big Tech - https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/struggling-ai-startups-look-for-a-bailout-from-big-tech-3e635927

Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41236273

Strandbeest - https://www.strandbeest.com/

Larry Tesler: Computer scientist behind cut, copy and paste dies aged 74 - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51567695

Acrobatic Artist Bastien Dausse's Incredible Low-Gravity Invention - https://www.core77.com/posts/133036/Acrobatic-Artist-Bastien-Dausses-Incredible-Low-Gravity-Invention

What happened to BERT & T5? On Transformer Encoders, PrefixLM and Denoising Objectives - https://www.yitay.net/blog/model-architecture-blogpost-encoders-prefixlm-denoising

How BYD, Nio And Other Chinese EVs Compare To Tesla – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DLwtGw5yZY

Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery - https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/cure-male-pattern-baldness-given-boost-sugar-discovery

An immersive viewing experience - Svbony SV407 2.1x42 binoculars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvwzibMGws4

What Makes the New Corvette ZR1 Engine So Powerful? An Engineer Explains - https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/engineering-perspective-2024-chevrolet-corvette-zr1/

WHO declares Mpox global health emergency - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg35w27gzno

Consciousness in Unresponsive Patients - https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/articles/consciousness-unresponsive-patients

Scientists find humans age dramatically in two bursts – at 44, then 60 - https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/14/scientists-find-humans-age-dramatically-in-two-bursts-at-44-then-60-aging-not-slow-and-steady

Ancient Calendar, Recently Discovered, May Document a Long-Ago Disaster - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/world/asia/worlds-oldest-calendar-gobekli-tepe.html

Open source web session replay library - https://www.rrweb.io/

Just four companies are hoarding all the Nvidia chips - https://sherwood.news/tech/companies-hoarding-nvidia-gpu-chips-meta-tesla/

Database “sharding” came from UO? - https://www.raphkoster.com/2009/01/08/database-sharding-came-from-uo/

Scientists Discover a New Hormone that Can Build Strong Bones - https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/07/428011/scientists-discover-new-hormone-can-build-strong-bones

Repeated caffeine intake suppresses cerebral grey matter responses to chronic sleep restriction in an A1 adenosine receptor-dependent manner - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-61421-8

McKinsey technology trends outlook 2024 - https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/the-top-trends-in-tech

'Holy grail’ new ‘smart’ insulin that responds to changing blood sugar levels in real-time created by scientists - https://www.the-sun.com/health/12175806/diabetes-insulin-smart-cure-holy-grail/

Segment Anything Model and Friends - https://www.lightly.ai/post/segment-anything-model-and-friends

Drone Technology - https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/jason-rathje-b89b7427_fiona-murray-and-edlyn-v-levine-phds-activity-7227644810814255108-U_wk/

Robot Dog With Gun Turret For Hunting Aerial Drones Being Tested By Army - https://www.twz.com/land/robot-dog-with-gun-turret-for-hunting-aerial-drones-being-tested-by-army

Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean - https://phys.org/news/2024-08-dinosaur-footprints-sides-atlantic-ocean.html

Cringey, But True: How Uber Tests Payments In Production.? “Rather than stressing out over a perfect release, Uber has put in place tools to detect production failures as early as possible, and to roll back to a known safe state quickly and easily. These tools correspond to?three key concepts: To roll out against business metrics, to carefully select a first rollout region, and to make these rollouts progressively.” - https://news.alvaroduran.com/p/cringey-but-true-how-uber-tests-payments

Mizzou scientists achieve more than 98% efficiency removing nanoplastics from water - https://showme.missouri.edu/2024/mizzou-scientists-achieve-more-than-98-efficiency-removing-nanoplastics-from-water/

How Chinese EVs Are Taking Over Mexico - https://youtu.be/mcMNXNhhBuE?si=rCApluOhC5CfxV5t

Welcome to Traffic Cam Photobooth - https://trafficcamphotobooth.com/

Cleaning up the aging brain: Scientists restore brain's trash disposal system - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240815124156.htm

Real-Time Face Swapping and One-Click Video Deepfake Tool - https://deeplive.cam/

Issues with Web UI Generation - https://stackdiver.com/posts/issues-with-web-ui-generation/

What are the Olympics Shooting Competitors Wearing On Their Faces? - https://www.core77.com/posts/133176/What-are-the-Olympics-Shooting-Competitors-Wearing-On-Their-Faces#

Prevention of HIV | Science | AAAS - https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/prevention-hiv

GitHub - dessant/buster: Captcha solver extension for humans, available for Chrome, Edge and Firefox - https://github.com/dessant/buster

Are robots the answer to harmful agricultural herbicides? - https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-07-22/are-robots-the-answer-to-harmful-agricultural-herbicides

How the ultra wealthy travel in Paris - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSvwk9I3ucw

You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well - https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB117856222924394753

What will come first, the?incumbent getting innovation or the startup getting distribution? - https://a16z.com/distribution-vs-innovation/

Bayesian statistics: the three cultures | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science - https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/10/three-cultures-bayes-subjective-objective-pragmatic/

I Hit Every Bike-Sharing Station in Manhattan—and Found a Side to New York Most Tourists (and Locals) Miss - https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/new-york-manhattan-citi-bike-ee2f240e

Via Juhan Sonin – “One of the most tedious (but critical tasks) for software development teams is updating foundational software. It’s not new feature work, and it doesn’t feel like you’re moving the experience forward. As a result, this work is either dreaded or put off for more exciting work—or both.” - https://x.com/ajassy/status/1826608791741493281

Retaining flavor while removing caffeine ? https://theconversation.com/retaining-flavor-while-removing-caffeine-a-chemist-explains-the-chemistry-behind-decaf-coffee-233196

Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands | Martin Janiczek - https://martin.janiczek.cz/2024/07/23/taking-my-diabetes-treatment-into-my-own-hands.html

Starbucks has a sugar problem - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NhtgxjUlgXs

NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards Are Here - https://spectrum.ieee.org/post-quantum-cryptography-2668949802

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (1982) - https://www.nsa.gov/helpful-links/nsa-foia/declassification-transparency-initiatives/historical-releases/view/article/3880193/capt-grace-hopper-on-future-possibilities-data-hardware-software-and-people-1982/

Scientists stop and reverse Alzheimer's by targeting one tiny protein - https://studyfinds.org/stop-and-reverse-alzheimers/

Why is a Guillotine blade diagonal? - https://pepijndevos.nl/2024/08/24/why-is-a-guillotine-blade-diagonal.html

Stanford ECON295/CS323 I 2024 I The Age of AI, Eric Schmidt.? "Say to your LLM the following: Make me a copy of TikTok, steal all the users, steal all the music, put my preferences in it, produce this program in the next 30 seconds, release it and in one hour, if it's not viral, do something different along the same lines. That's the command. Boom, boom, boom, boom…” - https://twitter.com/quasa0/status/1823933017217482883

Uniqueness Bias: Why It Matters, How to Curb It - https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07710

Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet - https://snats.xyz/pages/articles/classifying_a_bunch_of_pdfs.html

These AI firms publish the world’s most highly cited work - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02515-1