Links #4

Richard Ngo on a New State Solution for Israel and Palestine

A list of trailblazing companies and organizations in technology.

Vitara is making an artificial womb to improve the survival rates of premature babies.

How 3 Korean Chefs Make 10,000 Office Workers' Lunch Boxes. Illustrates how a specialized team can make better and healthier food than a home cook with less time. As the value of people’s time rises, I wonder if we might lean more on these services and render the kitchen obsolete. These companies also have far more to gain from automated cooking technology, so efficiency could increase even further.

It looks like someone is starting a site to use dominant assurance contracts to fund public goods.

A book on Contemporary Futurist Thought

Asymmetric chloride-mediated electrochemical process for CO2 removal from oceanwater

Single-particle combinatorial multiplexed liposome fusion mediated by DNA

A nice thread on why automated materials science labs are exciting.

Conventional twin studies overestimate the environmental differences between families relevant to educational attainment. This is suggests that shared environmental effects such as parenting have an even smaller effect on educational attainment than we thought.

Rohit Krishnan made a list of hundreds of innovations throughout history and analyzed the data.

Electron beams have a lot of applications. Wave-particle duality means that electron beams could be shaped and manipulated like light and can be manipulated as qubits. Free-electron Qubits is the first paper I’ve seen suggesting their use in quantum computation. Nanostructuring of electron beams reviews methods of shaping electron beams. This level of control might enable better lithography and electron microscopes.

Superoscillation is cool, the review Optical superoscillation technologies beyond the diffraction limit suggests this could one day be used to improve lithography techniques. Can we do the same for electron beams?

Nanochannel glass materials can be used for lithography, but they also look like interesting supports for chemical catalysts. They bear a resemblance to zeolites, commonly used in the chemical industry.

Materials Discovery using Max K-Armed Bandit

A review of solutions to the extreme bandit or max bandit problem:

Efficient Algorithms for Extreme Bandits

Extreme Bandits using Robust Statistics

Extreme bandits

An Asymptotically Optimal Algorithm for the Max k-Armed Bandit Problem

Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandit with General Reward Functions

Max K-Armed Bandit: On the ExtremeHunter Algorithm and Beyond

PAC Lower Bounds and Efficient Algorithms for The Max K-Armed Bandit Problem

No Regret Bound for Extreme Bandits