Michelle Liu

Analytics by Design Founder, MasterCard Advisors Canada, Product + Analytics professional, Inclusion Advocate, Art Lover

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

Still true in 2025 and many years to come

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

The hottest new programming language is English

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

This is so awesome! It makes me excited about raising a child - how odd for me to say that.

[AshutoshShrivastava @ai_for_success]

This is the future of education.

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

Definitely feel a bit creepy when you see a human brain in the box and being marked as the predecessor

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

Excited for this !

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

🥁 Llama3 is out 🥁
8B and 70B models available today.
8k context length.
Trained with 15 trillion tokens on a custom-built 24k GPU cluster.
Great performance on various benchmarks, with Llam3-8B doing better than Llama2-70B in some cases.
More versions are coming over the next few months.

https://t.co/EkU9aIHdZE

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

It is so sad to see Canada takes aways entrepreneurial dreams when the country really needs it. The future of our economy is dependent on these bold souls who build, innovate and give.

[Mike Murchison @mimurchison]

It’s not about a tax on capital gains.

This is a tax on Canadian ambition.

At a time when we need it most.

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

What a crazy story 😱

[Rui Ma @ruima]

Crazy story of the week:

The tragic incident surrounding the Netflix adaptation of the "Three Body Problem" series is not widely known among its fans. Lin Qi, a visionary and brilliant young billionaire, acquired the rights to the "Three Body Problem" with the ambition of creating various products from it. He enlisted the expertise of Xu Yao, a distinguished lawyer, appointing him CEO to spearhead the business operations, including securing a deal with Netflix—a feat for which Lin compensated Xu with a salary of nearly $3 million. However, Xu's performance did not meet expectations beyond the Netflix agreement, leading Lin to reduce his salary to $750,000 and bring in additional executives to enhance business operations. Xu, retaining his CEO title, was reportedly infuriated by this demotion and further aggravated by not being credited as a producer on the Netflix project.

Driven by revenge and inspired by the TV show "Breaking Bad," Xu meticulously planned Lin's murder. He purchased 160 phones and established a company in Japan to acquire the necessary chemicals for his scheme, testing them on animals. Xu then poisoned Lin and his colleagues, disguising the lethal substances as an advanced probiotic. Lin unsuspectingly consumed it and soon after was hospitalized, where it was immediately apparent he had been poisoned, though the specific toxins were unknown. The police quickly suspected Xu, who, had he disclosed the nature of the poisons (later found to have included exotic substances such as pufferfish poison and mercury and at least three other poisons), could have saved Lin's life. However, he chose not to, ensuring Lin's demise. Just a few days ago, as the show was premiering globally, Xu was finally sentenced to death for the murder of Lin and attempted murder of two other colleagues, who survived but with lifelong injuries.

Lin Qi, credited as an executive producer on the Netflix project posthumously, passed away at the age of 39. RIP 🕯️

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

Definitely will be my weekend reading materials

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

I’m very excited to share our work on Gemini today! Gemini is a family of multimodal models that demonstrate really strong capabilities across the image, audio, video, and text domains. Our most-capable model, Gemini Ultra, advances the state of the art in 30 of 32 benchmarks, including 10 of 12 popular text and reasoning benchmarks, 9 of 9 image understanding benchmarks, 6 of 6 video understanding benchmarks, and 5 of 5 speech recognition and speech translation benchmarks. Gemini Ultra is the first model to achieve human-expert performance on MMLU across 57 subjects with a score above 90%. It also achieves a new state-of-the-art score of 62.4% on the new MMMU multimodal reasoning benchmark, outperforming the previous best model by more than 5 percentage points.

Gemini was built by an awesome team of people from @GoogleDeepMind, @GoogleResearch, and elsewhere at @Google, and is one of the largest science and engineering efforts we’ve ever undertaken. As one of the two overall technical leads of the Gemini effort, along with my colleague @OriolVinyalsML, I am incredibly proud of the whole team, and we’re so excited to be sharing our work with you today!

There’s quite a lot of different material about Gemini available, starting with:

Main blog post: https://t.co/NzSycJl7aE

60-page technical report authored by th Gemini Team: https://t.co/CEdMRyYSLo

In this thread, I’ll walk you through some of the highlights.

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

I would say I really enjoy watching the interaction with Gemini, abstract thinking, pattern recognition and creativity. What else can we ask for ?

[Ralph Brooks @ralphbrooks]

It looks like Gemini has advanced capabilities in responding to multimodal input.

[John Collison @collision]

The new Poor Charlie’s Almanack launches today. Before Charlie passed, I had the opportunity to sit down and ask the many questions I had for him. I love how much he pulls from business history at every point of this discussion: https://t.co/hCXaCegMMd

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

@SiteGround I cannot access to the account to make any changes nor I need the service any more for the yearly plan - inactive for the past 10 months. I just got charged the full year’s plan on a locked credit card. It is impossible to get attention from your customer services - plz help!!!

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

In the time of annual performance review, the advice on criticism comes in handy- strong critiques open our minds, never attack identity.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Not all criticism is constructive. Not all critics are thinking critically.

Weak critiques attack your identity. Decent critiques challenge your ideas. Strong critiques sharpen your thinking and improve your ideas.

Listen closely to the people who care enough to help you grow.

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

Woohoo!

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with current and authoritative information, complete with direct links to sources. It is no longer limited to data before September 2021.

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

@liqian_ren 5kg pork means more to underprivileged families. Especially in an environment rewards “quick money” and adolescents flock to factories, this indicates a vital path of pursuing academic excellence in making family life better. No thing with it !

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

@HoltRenfrew Thank you for getting back. The customer service told me that someone would reach out last week but never did.

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

@HoltRenfrew you never delivered a package, your sales rep never call back. Even that might be the mistake made by your delivery partner, you are still responsible for this 1). Customer pays to u 2). Customer never has a say on what delivery company to use #fails

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

@HoltRenfrew my holiday gift package has been missing for over a month, and your sales rep blamed the third party delivery partner, promised a response a week ago but now say nothing they can do then hung up the phone ? #holiday

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

@HoltRenfrew my holiday gift package has been missing for over a month, and your sales rep blamed the third party delivery partner, promised a response a week ago but now say nothing they can do then hung up the phone ? #holiday

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Being appreciated doesn't just make you feel good. It helps you get stronger.

Evidence: receiving gratitude improves cardiovascular stress responses, boosting resilience and performance by turning threats into challenges.

Being thanked fortifies our bodies along with our bonds.

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

Mind blowing 🤯 need to listen to this after I land …

[Alex MacCaw @maccaw]

This is pretty mind-blowing: a podcast that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence where Joe Rogan interviews Steve Jobs.

https://t.co/JPeKZ8ylxk

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

@ruima So the left screenshot is from Douyin ? Fascinating 🤨! How does it work ? Embedded ads in videos ?

[Michelle Liu @Minnoval]

@nifferkin also it took at least twice the effort to persuade a female founder to say “yes” than a man. Best of luck on finding your replacement.