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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Google's Gemini just made GPT-4 look like a baby’s toy?
How it’s Made: Interacting with Gemini through multimodal prompting + The Gemini Lie
Idle Arts: Reconsidering the Curator
Here is a 100% free Computer Science curriculum.
Newest videoStunning codex documenting Aztec culture now fully digitized
Grok and starting a mini Twitter/X war
Don’t build AI products the way everyone else is doing it
Personalized GPTs are here, and I have mixed feelings about them
Lessons learned by a software guy venturing into hardware
‘Father of cell phone’ reflects on making first call and history 50 years ago
MIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel
11 Reasons Not to Become Famous (or “A Few Lessons Learned Since 2007”)
We spent the last 30 years building structures on top or instead of the raw links of the web, from Google to TikTok… but now LLMs might read all the links for us.
Edward Witten - How is Mathematics Truth and Beauty?
I'll just say that calculus, I'm sure, has been developed on other planets if there are advanced civilizations. Any civilization that tried understanding the natural world would find that they needed calculus to understand the motion of the planets, and if they happen to live in a solar system with only one planet, they would invent calculus to describe the motion of projectiles or balls rolling down an inclined plane, as studied by Galileo. Or they'd invent calculus for purely mathematical reasons because they were curious about the relation between the volume and the surface area of different shapes. And no matter where they are in the universe, they would come up with the same answer. Yes, calculus is universal.
The Right Chemistry: Reflections on the manufacture of mirrors
South Africa's Slow, Inevitable March Towards Collapse i.e. you disrupt the government by providing 10x better versions of all of the services that it provides.
Paul Graham’s how to do great work
How Sam Altman's OpenAI drama highlighted the debate splitting Silicon Valley: Are you an e/acc or decel?
FDA Approves First Gene Therapies to Treat Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
“Sickle cell disease is a rare, debilitating and life-threatening blood disorder with significant unmet need, and we are excited to advance the field especially for individuals whose lives have been severely disrupted by the disease by approving two cell-based gene therapies today,” said Nicole Verdun, M.D., director of the Office of Therapeutic Products within the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. “Gene therapy holds the promise of delivering more targeted and effective treatments, especially for individuals with rare diseases where the current treatment options are limited.”
Mistral AI bucks release trend by dropping torrent link to new open source LLM
Longer life span for large dogs may soon be possible with new longevity drug
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