Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about.
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| McGee relaxing |
- Yes, everything in physics is completely made up – that’s the whole point. "A physicist's task is to constantly create equations that keep up with our observations of physical phenomena."
- High-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain activity. "We demonstrate that our simple framework can reconstruct high-resolution images from brain activity with high semantic fidelity, without the need for training or fine-tuning of complex deep generative models."
- The gray swan: model-based assessment of the risk of sudden failure of hybrid immunity to SARS-CoV-2. "Our findings suggest large jumps in viral evolution may cause failure of population immunity resulting in sudden increases in mortality. As a rise in mortality will only become apparent in the weeks following a wave of disease, reactive public health strategies will not be able to provide meaningful risk mitigation."
- Apparently the AI wants me dead. When science fiction writers are getting scared of AI, it's time to worry.
- We tested 43 old USB-C to USB-A cables. 1 was great. 10 were dangerous. "Here’s why you may want to destroy your entire collection of USB-C to USB-A cables."
- "The narrative had to be baked into the corridors": Marc Laidlaw on writing Half-Life. "Also yeah, he does regret posting that Episode 3 story."
- You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time. They aren't kidding; this is truly strange.
- Recent Submissions to the Oxford English Dictionary. A look about some terms used in printing and typography. My favourite word: "flong".
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