Deep Hathi

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[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🇺🇸 How many Big Macs could a U.S. worker earning the federal minimum wage buy with one month’s take-home pay:

1985: 334 🍔

2026: 196 🍔

[Ram Vedi @ramvedii]

Ye congress Handle hai Ya BJP???😂😂😂😂

[Jordan Crowder @digijordan]

I guess we should also be asking…

Why does Stanford have secret classes about controlling society…

[Chirag Barjatya @chiragbarjatya]

See the comments below. People are saying "itna dheere se to mara hai" instead of "haath kaise lagaya"

this is what i am concerned about as a parent. People around us find it completely ok and normal to slap and cause sudden fear in child. Scary world out there.

[Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD @malpani]

Good to see young citizens use tech so that India becomes better and safer

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

I am bewildered, and not very impressed, by the visceral, naked, irrational hatred spat out by some defenders of Jason Arday. If a Cambridge professor is accused of being an unqualified charlatan, the accusation might be racially motivated. On the other hand it might not, depending on the evidence. The correct question to ask is not, ”What is the colour of his skin” but “Is it in fact true that he is an unqualified charlatan?” Please examine the evidence before leaping to the assumption of racism.
As for the idea that journalists “piled in on him” and “hounded him to his death”, most attacks were against Cambridge University. Jason himself was widely regarded as an unfortunate victim of foolish promotion way beyond his ability to cope. In appointing him to a professorship for which he was manifestly unqualified – in ludicrously describing him as “the best in the world” – certain senior members of the university showed a level of patronising condescension towards black people that could fairly be described as racism, while at the same time making him tragically vulnerable to such attacks as came his way.

[Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD @malpani]

The reason https://t.co/1HCnDepvPI shut down

The Prevention of Corruption Act requires that the IP address of the complainant (even if he is anonymous) be logged in by the website host server so the authorities can identify the complainant. Giving a bribe is also a crime !

[Fidji Simo @fidjissimo]

I disagree with Dario on most things, but this is spot on: “At this point, saying that AI will cure cancer is more a cliché than it is inspiring, and most people think it is deceptive. The thing that will work is actually curing cancer.”

The thing that frustrates me is that some people often draw a straight line from smarter models → cures, without acknowledging how much infrastructure is missing in between. We’ve still got a lot of work to do, people.

The regulatory bottleneck gets a lot of attention. But the bigger bottleneck may be that in many places, we’re lacking the right biological data. AI can’t reason its way to cures if we haven’t generated the data required to understand the disease in the first place.

Ironically, that’s why I’m most bullish on AI making dramatic progress in cancer first: decades of investment have produced extraordinary datasets across genomics, pathology, imaging, clinical outcomes, and more.

For complex chronic diseases, much of that infrastructure simply doesn’t exist yet. The good news is that many companies (including @ChronicleBioAI) are racing to build it.

But model intelligence and biological infrastructure are going to have to scale together. I really do believe AI can cure all diseases but only if we build the infrastructure to translate intelligence into cures at the same pace that models improve (which is a high bar!). Otherwise, we risk having superintelligent AI with an incomplete picture of human biology, and delay that promise by years.

[नम्रता @_Namrataa]

Even if he manages to amend constitution, he won’t win because there is a problem called Barack Obama.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

For about 10 years now, I have argued that the *only* way forward is for AI technology to be widely available, shared, and open.
Like the printing press and the Internet, AI amplifies human intelligence and efficiency by improving access to knowledge.
To empower individuals, societies require a high diversity of AI systems with different value systems, linguistic abilities, philosophical/political biases, and specific expertise.
We need diverse AIs for same reason we need a diverse press.

Given the cost and complexity, this can only be achieved through open foundation models on top of which anyone can build systems with their languages, biases, expertise, and value systems.

I have been more vocal about this over the last 4 years, since AI popped into the public discourse.
I have made the argument in various forums: corporate C-suites, AI safety discussion groups, professional meeting, the US Senate, the UN Security Council, and the public sphere through media interviews, podcasts and social media posts.

I totally agree with @finkd Mark Zuckerberg's recent piece in which he writes: "the notion that AI is so dangerous that the only safe path is an extreme concentration of power seems inherently problematic. Historically, hoping that an absolute power will benevolently provide for humanity if sufficiently enlightened has not led to safe or positive outcomes.”

When @DarioAmodei writes: “some may object that we can simply keep AIs in check with a balance of power between many AI systems, as we do with humans", he is talking about me, among (thankfully) many others. It is the only good path forward.

There will be nefarious uses of AI, as there have been with every technology ever invented.
But it will be your Bad AI against my Good AI.

[Deep Hathi @DeepHathi]

Will be grateful if something like this is possible. Again, thank you for everything that you do.

[Deep Hathi @DeepHathi]

@neetcode1 hi Neetcode, big fan/ avid follower. I want get the pro subscription. The lifetime is at 600 USD and the yearly one is around 200 (3x). For my country reduced rates for yearly is at 60. Lifetime is 300 (5x). Can we get lifetime at reduced rate of 180(3x)?

[Aviral Bhatnagar @aviralbhat]

Ashok Talpatra was my hostel mate at IITB

His parents earned less than 10K/month, and they lived in a slum for 500 INR/month

He cracked AIR 63 out of 4.7L students, and is now a Staff Software Engineer at Google in Zurich

IITs are India's biggest social mobility enablers

[Deep Hathi @DeepHathi]

@nigelpoulton Hi Nigel, would we get 2023 update for pluralsight docker deep dive course?

[Deep Hathi @DeepHathi]

This.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

It’s hard enough to get a social network off the ground: it’s literally a once-in-a-decade black swan event.

If you’re making it decentralized and requiring your users to setup a wallet to participate, you’ve reduced your already low probability of success to effectively zero.

[Toby ☕️ @tobydoyhowell]

I have read 7,043,678,890 books and listened to 43,002,567 podcasts this year.

Here are my 10,000,000 favorite ones of 2021:

[Deep Hathi @DeepHathi]

🐐

[Magnus Carlsen @MagnusCarlsen]

YES.

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

An example of good advertisement for Diwali.