Sunday links
Violence in New York is up….In the last 28 days (through July 12), compared to last year, shootings have more than tripled (318 vs. 97). (
link)How to Tell GPT-3 from a human? “The lesson here is that if you’re a judge in a Turing test, make sure you ask some nonsense questions, and see if the interviewee responds the way a human would.” (
link) [not so fast, gwern shows how to circumvent this nonsense (
link), also “Tempering Expectations...(
link)”
TV and radio could command our attention the way the speaker in a classroom would, through people paying attention to what others were attending to. But we use 21st-century media in isolation. (
link)The human sperm flagellum rotates the cell to beat equally on all sides in 3D, not an eel-like, side to side motion. (
link)Warlords of the air, Sergey Brin's Revolutionary $19 Airship. (
link)