Here’s your monthly dose of treats, goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert
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RIP Gordon Moore, just as his law slows down, and we need more computing power than ever. OBITUARY, INTEL BUSINESS PLAN
At 2100+ (not a typo) pages, this is almost all the Math you need for Machine Learning without dumbing it down.
The enduring quality of Richard Feynman's Lectures on Physics lies in their ability to illustrate the process of logical reasoning in physics. It may come as a surprise to some that all of the lectures are available online:
Volume 1: https://feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html
Researchers identify protein that helps skin cancer spread throughout the body
Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes?
In case you missed it, TikTok is back in the news. CEO Shou Zi Chew appeared before Congress yesterday in an attempt to save the app from a US wide ban. Australia has joined the list of Western countries banning TikTok from the devices of government officials, citing “advice from intelligence and security agencies.” Other countries who’ve done the same include Canada, the US, UK, Belgium, as well as the E.U. Commission
Cyber-Resilience On the Cloud by Adopting Digital Immune System and CNAPP
OpenAI is now mostly closed, mostly (it claims) because it's so worried about AI risk. LINK
U.S. regulators rejected Elon Musk’s bid to test brain chips in humans, citing safety risks
And Apple filed a patent for a glass car. LINK
GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models
Death Of a Programmer. Life Of a Farmer
Bloomberg has built its own GPT. Much the most important AI story this week - see this week's column. LINK
AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities
The days are long but the decades are short
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Planning for AGI and beyond
Here’s a list of countries that have banned TikTok so far
The New Guy at the Office Is a Secret Super Hacker🎙Darknet Diaries Ep. 36: Jeremy From Marketing
A research on the admission preferences of Harvard, a university in the United States, revealed that approximately 15% of the admitted students and more than 40% of the white admitted students were not selected based on merit alone. Instead, they gained admission due to their familial connections, financial contributions, or proficiency in non-academic areas such as athletics. LINK
Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367
Podcast on Generative ML with Bill Gates and Kevin Scott (Microsoft’s CTO). Summary: this is as big as the PC or the internet, and opens up the ability to get computers to do things for you. LINK
In this 2000 polemic, Rob Pike notices that big new ideas in computing are rarely coming from the research community. "Invention has been replaced by observation." "The art is gone."
Arc Browser — now released a mobile version
The problem of increasing human energy
Sam Altman’s manifest destiny
360+ new AI tools were released in last 7 days
Framework Laptop 16. Upgradeable, modular graphics and reconfigurable input in a high-performance 16" laptop.
Vicuna: An Open-Source Chatbot Impressing GPT-4 with 90% ChatGPT Quality
Chess is a horrible metaphor
Victor Noir, a french journalist who became a fertility symbol
Why AI experts' jobs are always decades from being automated
My 2022 self (I don't know them) was very wrong about meditation, huge monitors, and... sleep.
Jobs that can help with the most important century
Introducing BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter large language model, purpose-built from scratch for finance
Open-sourcing “Baby AGI”, a paired down version of the “Task-Driven Autonomous Agent” at 105 lines of code.
Three task agents (execution, creation, prioritization) work in harmony… forever.
Stream of Consciousness to Atomic Notes: A Powerful Note-Taking Workflow
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👾 some YouTube video essays
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