The quietest in the room

When the world can’t stop talking, silence is mistaken for absence.

Here’s your monthly dose of treats, goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert

Follow the white rabbit 🐇

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1. Displaying content as a graph: An exploration

2. The Hidden Life of Embeddings: Linus Lee

3. ML-powered speech recognition directly in your browser

4. Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies?

5. Internet Gaming Disorder

6. Alexithymia

7. LLMs small enough to run on your phone coming this year? That’s gonna be a challenge. Small models, from Microsoft and Apple.

8. Here’s an interview with the head of Apple’s Arcade subscription games service.

9. If you were wondering why are American roads so dangerous — apparently it more about seatbelts, alcohol and smartphones.

10. Why are American roads so dangerous? Apparently, it’s less about the bigger cars and the mileage, and more about seatbelts, alcohol and smartphones.

11. Meta’s Llama 3 LLM is catching up and had 1.2m downloads in the first week.

Started a new YouTube series ⛺ here are some videos I have released this month:

• Phenomenology in 100 Seconds

• Existentialism in 100 Seconds

• Game Theory in 100 Seconds

• Stoicism in 100 Seconds

• Platonism in 100 Second

• Utilitarianism in 100 Seconds

12. Over 30% of Fortune Global 500 companies are investing in generative AI, but 85% of their announced initiatives are focused on incremental innovations, according to Bain analysis.
    

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13. Wireheading city

14. Reviewing Mindscape Holiday Message 2023 | Reflections on Immortality

15. “My life tech stack” — avoid fancy tools

16. How to Use Your Peripheral Vision to Boost Your Productivity

    

17. The quietest in the room

18. Building complex reasoning skills online through open-ended activities

19. Why do we keep making music?

20. Was reading Execution beats strategy every time but I would counter it with Execution is easy. Ideas are everything.

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