The firm, called Gravitilab, flew its specially-modified LOUIS UAV quadcopter to an altitude of 2,000 feet (600 meters) before purposefully dropping a capsule carrying scientific experiments.
At the same time, the court gagged the petitioner against prosecuting the suit âin other forumsâ.
Meta Platforms Inc. (FB.O), the owner of Facebook, wanted court to throw out the suit arguing that it cannot be tried in Kenya. The company said that the local Employment and Labour Relations Court has no jurisdiction to hear the suit lodged by Daniel Motaungâ, a South African national working in Nairobi.
Panelists: michael graziano, jonathan cohen, vasudev lal, joscha bach.
The seminal contribution âAttention is all you needâ (Vasvani et al. 2017), which introduced the Transformer algorithm, triggered a small revolution in machine learning. Unlike convolutional neural networks, which construct each feature out of a fixed neighborhood of signals, Transformers learn which data a feature on the next layer of a neural network should attend to. However, attention in neural networks is very different from the integrated attention in a human mind. In our minds, attention seems to be part of a top-down mechanism that actively creates a coherent, dynamic model of reality, and plays a crucial role in planning, inference, reflection and creative problem solving. Our consciousness appears to be involved in maintaining the control model of our attention.
In this panel, we want to discuss avenues into our understanding of attention, in the context of machine learning, cognitive science and future developments of AI.
Physical non-equilibria can drive cycles of replication and selection chemistries that play a role in the prebiotic replication of DNA and RNA. This Perspective offers insights from astrophysics, geoscience and microfluidics on how various environments on early Earth could have hosted such reactions.
Miraculously preserved in a tomb, the Derveni Papyrus is the oldest surviving Greek manuscript. What can it tell us about Greek thinking before Socrates?
Weâve got a new kind of ice on the block â medium-density amorphous ice (MDA).
Itâs amorphous, which means that the water molecules are in a disorganised form instead of being neatly ordered like they are in the ordinary, crystalline ice you find floating in your Scotch on the rocksâŠ
Amorphous ice is super rare on Earth, but scientists think that it might be the main type found in the frigid environment of outer space â because ice wouldnât have enough thermal energy there to form crystals.
What is time? Does the past still exist? How did the universe begin and how will it end? Do particles think? Was the universe made for us? Why doesnât anyone ever get younger? Has physics ruled out free will? Will we ever have a theory of everything? According to Sabine Hossenfelder, it is not a coincidence that quantum entanglement and vacuum energy have become the go-to explanations of alternative healers, or that people believe their deceased grandmother is still alive because of quantum mechanics. Science and religion have the same roots, and they still tackle some of the same questions: Where do we come from? Where do we go to? How much can we know? The area of science that is closest to answering these questions is physics. Over the last century, physicists have learned a lot about which spiritual ideas are still compatible with the laws of nature. Not always, though, have they stayed on the scientific side of the debate.
Shermer and Hossenfelder also discuss: theories of everything âą quantum flapdoodle âą Is math all there is? Is math universal? âą Uniformitarianism and the laws of nature âą theories of aging âą Emergent properties, or why we are not just a bag of atoms âą Is knowledge predictable? âą Free will and determinism from a physicistâs perspective âą Do copies of us exist? Could they ever? âą Consciousness and computability âą Does the universe think? âą Why is there something rather than nothing? âą What is the purpose of life, the universe, and everything?
Sabine Hossenfelder is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany, and has published more than eighty research articles about the foundations of physics, including quantum gravity, physics beyond the standard model, dark matter, and quantum foundations. She has written about physics for a broad audience for 15 years and is the creator of the popular YouTube channel âScience without the Gobbledygook.â Her writing has been published in New Scientist, Scientific American, the New York Times, and the Guardian (London). Her first book, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, appeared in 2018.
