March 2023 News
March 2023 Gwern.net newsletter with links on TODO
March 2023’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, February 2023 (archives). This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with my Changelog; brought to you by my donors on Patreon.
Writings
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Design: on the popup systems on the link-icons; on the local archives; outbound link-tracking post-mortem
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Trying out Japanese tanka poetry with GPT-3 (
davinci-002
feels almost as creative asdavinci
but more tractable, while not being creatively useless like ChatGPT-3) -
Gwern.net: header-based redesign of desktop theme; within-section backlinks; backlinks can now display original context
Links
AI
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“Anybooru: Synthetic Anime Image Dataset”, lint 2023: using real sets of Danbooru2021 tags to generate fake anime images from Andite’s Anything-v4.5 model (4 per tag-set, showing non-memorization/flexibility in a fair comparison)
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GPT-4 (May 2020 is finally over)
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“Sam Altman on What Makes Him ‘Super Nervous’ About AI” (long interview on GPT-4, arms races, regulation)
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“Sensor Fusion: High Speed Robots”, Ishikawa lab (“All processes that are stable we shall predict. All processes that are unstable we shall control.”)
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“Learning Humanoid Locomotion with Transformers”, et al 2023
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“GigaGAN: Scaling up GANs for Text-to-Image Synthesis”, et al 2023 (>=512px image generation 1b-param GAN, matching Stable Diffusion’s FID—as I predicted, GANs work fine when scaled)
Genetics
Everything Is Heritable:
Recent Evolution:
Engineering:
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“A swapped genetic code prevents viral infections and gene transfer”, et al 2023 (a more virus-proof E. coli)
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“Generation of functional oocytes from male mice in vitro”, et al 2023
Statistics/Meta-Science
Politics/Religion
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How the UAE paid a Swiss firm to destroy an oil-trading firm using negative PR (in part by editing Wikipedia articles about it)
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“The Welfare Effects of Social Media”, et al 2020
Psychology/Biology
Technology
Economics
Philosophy
Fiction
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Why was NGE Episode 26 almost titled “The Only Neat Thing To Do”? How a forgotten Western SF story became a Japanese cult classic
Miscellaneous
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“America forgot how to make proper pie. Can we remember before it’s too late?”, 2021; “The Real American Pie: Mince pie was once inextricable from our national identity. Blamed for bad health, murderous dreams, the downfall of Prohibition, and the decline of the white race, it nonetheless persisted as an American staple through the 1940s. So what happened?”
Books
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Fiction:
Film/TV
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Animated:
Music
MLP:
Doujin:
Misc: