“In the fashion industry, you can’t make something that is really ugly and stupid into something popular. But from all the possible things that could be popular, you can influence what gets to the top.” ~ learn more
I’m thrilled to have heard this interview with Syed Balkhi. He’s been making money on the internet since his childhood, and reading between the lines he had a strong start during the heyday of affiliate marketing’s sketchiest era. His business […]
Indie draws parallels between low budget movies and low budget startups. A quote from producer Jason Blum, who generated $193 million in box-office revenue on its $15k budget for Paranormal Activity: “The single biggest reason people don’t replicate the our […]
“And thanks to power law distribution of winners and losers, the worst VCs are impressively efficient at destroying wealth.” We’re invested in the asset class. I think I will hold on to my rosy expectations for the performance of the […]
The Silicon Valley law firm Gunderson Dettmer built their own internal app for using large language models in their practice. The most exciting “component is the ability of lawyers to query documents they provide using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), a method […]
“Med-PaLM M is a large multimodal generative model that flexibly encodes and interprets biomedical data including clinical language, imaging, and genomics with the same set of model weights. Med-PaLM M reaches performance competitive with or exceeding the state of the […]
“We hypothesize two failure modes of safety training: competing objectives and mismatched generalization. Competing objectives arise when a model’s capabilities and safety goals conflict, while mismatched generalization occurs when safety training fails to generalize to a domain for which capabilities […]
“There are two types of common discontinuities in AI. One is when performance jumps much more than expected – e.g. you double the amount of data you have but triple the performance of the output from that. The other is […]
Researchers in Korea recently published a preprint paper claiming they made superconducting material at room temperature and pressure. This would be a huge deal if it replicates (let’s remain skeptical), because existing superconductors require extreme cold to work. The dramatic bit is […]
At some point we’ll certainly want to tell robots what we want done in the real world. Google’s AI researchers are now one big step closer. “Unlike chatbots, robots need “grounding” in the real world and their abilities. Their training […]