Miscellaneous Links #46

AI Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji Robust Autonomy Emerges from Self-Play Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library LLMs and World Models Brain-to-Text Decoding: A Non-invasive Approach via Typing AI is Stifling Tech Adoption Robotics ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-anthropomorphic Robot Biohybrid hand […]

Feb 16, 2025 - 07:48
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AI

Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji

Robust Autonomy Emerges from Self-Play

Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations

AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library

LLMs and World Models

Brain-to-Text Decoding: A Non-invasive Approach via Typing

AI is Stifling Tech Adoption

Robotics

ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-anthropomorphic Robot

Biohybrid hand gestures with human muscles

Tech

Single-cell biological lasers

Did ‘Vertigo’ Introduce Computer Graphics to Cinema?

The origin and unexpected evolution of the word “mainframe”

Big Packages or Many Dependencies: Pick which you prefer, but you cannot be mad about both!

Solar Panels Produce Tons of Toxic Waste—Literally

This alien-like field of mirrors in the desert was once the future of solar energy. It’s closing after just 11 years

New York could back off CARB’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule

Microchip company ceases operations, pet owners urged to re-register

Why I Hate Frameworks, Benji Smith.

Why hasn’t commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s?

What We’re Fighting For – Edward Zitron

Health

Somatic mutation as an explanation for epigenetic aging

More

Changes in the distribution and pest risk of stored product insects in Europe due to global warming: Need for pan-European pest monitoring and improved food-safety

Scientists Produced a Particle of Light That Simultaneously Accessed 37 Different Dimensions (research paper: Exploring the boundary of quantum correlations with a time-domain optical processor)

How Alcohol Founded America

Chimps Love Onions

There’s a ghost town right at the edge of California’s largest airport