With podcast host Dwarkesh Patel, he discusses Llama 3 (and 4) and the how regulations around energy production could become the rate-limiter for AI because data centers are power hungry. ~ learn more
“Byron Tau’s Means of Control is a fun look at the world of government entities buying data from private companies for law enforcement and intelligence purposes. For anyone who’s had experience working with data for hedge funds, or using it […]
“People’s inability to maintain their independence is going to have a massive ripple effect on our world, with major implications to our society (loneliness, increased family caregiving demands), economy (rising health costs, lost productivity), healthcare system (stress on our already […]
“When your home has been broken into, you may not initially comprehend all that has been taken, or the damage that has been done. This is the state of apprehension the Linux community now feels with the recently-unearthed xz backdoor […]
This is a nice profile of the low-key tech CEO who’s been in the game longer than anyone. “If Dell isn’t a dynamic, headline-making speaker, it may be because he’s built this four-decade run on listening—deploying his analytical skills and […]
The researchers had access to a giant dataset of 22,743 randomized controlled trials thanks to headline A/B testing on Upworthy. “Although positive words were slightly more prevalent than negative words, we found that negative words in news headlines increased consumption […]
“Approaching its seventh anniversary, the “Attention” paper has attained legendary status. The authors started with a thriving and improving technology—a variety of AI called neural networks—and made it into something else: a digital system so powerful that its output can […]
“I was recently introduced to the idea of tarpit ideas. These are essentially startup ideas that seem like a great opportunity and have been tried many times before but end with the company not working out.” FYI: Scroll down a […]
“Ode to Procore; a case study on niche versus mass-market project management software.” Written by Jackie DiMonte, who happens to be a VC investing in the “niche” market of industrial technology. ~ learn more
This starts out basic and gets complex toward the end. “In this paper, we introduce core concepts, advanced techniques like Chain-of-Thought and Reflection, and the principles behind building LLM-based agents. Finally, we provide a survey of tools for prompt engineers.” ~ learn […]