AI

Matters Of Scale:

• 2^nd anniversary of GPT-3

• TOP500: Frontier supercomputer reports 1.1 exaflops; “NVIDIA Hopper Architecture In-Depth” (for FP8: “H100 approximately 6× the peak compute throughput of A100”)

• 2021 DeepMind budget doubled from 2020 to $1.84b due to ‘technical infrastructure, stock compensation, etc’ (nominal profit also doubled)

• “It Takes Two Neurons To Ride A Bicycle”, Cook2004

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

Recent Evolution:

Engineering:

Statistics/Meta-Science

• “Alfred Lee Loomis (1887^–₈₈1975_49ya): A Biographical Memoir”, Alvarez 1980_44ya (blog; the millionaire scientist-tycoon who bankrolled American science & the radar, a transitional figure kickstarting the Bushian post-WWII American era in which we still live)

• “Forgotten books: The application of unseen species models to the survival of culture”, Kestemont et al 2022

• How to teach statistical tests: they’re all just linear models

Politics/Religion

• The wolves at the door: Kóryos

• German General Staff

Psychology / Biology

Technology

Economics

Philosophy

Fiction

• Aniaria, Harry Martinson 1956_68ya (from when Sweden was on the cutting-edge of Nobel Prize-winning science-fiction epic poetry; adapted into an opera & films; WP: “The sensitive Martinson found it hard to cope with the criticism following his award, and died…after cutting his stomach open with a pair of scissors in what has been described as a ‘hara-kiri-like manner’.”)

Miscellaneous