wen.eth

Serial entrepreneur | Tech, Classic Cars, Real Estate

[wen.eth @alksnis]

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@financeguy74 tl;dr @jack messed with Wiki?

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Not for everyone 🍺

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Actors are pretty good pitchers, who knew. Know your lines and deliver with Stanislavski level confidence 🎭

[Fireside Alpha @firesidealpha]

Ben Affleck reveals he writes Python, understands convolutional neural networks, worked extensively with GPUs, and used his celebrity status to get private looks at Google and OpenAI’s video models

“I’ve always been kind of into computers since I was young. Then, when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. The visual-effects workflow for many years has included machine learning, so I can write pretty shitty Python scripts and stuff like that.

“With convolutional neural networks, which were the precursors to what the transformer can do, which is much more computation simultaneously, you would do things like look at what’s called a tensor. That’s the numerical translation of a visual image in numbers, like the batch number, the frame number and the red, green and blue values of each pixel in each frame. It’s just that simple. That numeric is called a tensor.

“You’d use a convolutional neural network to identify patterns that reveal what’s called edge detection or feature extraction, which is identifying patterns well enough to know, this is where the window ledge is, so we can more easily take the green-screen image out and replace it with something.

“That was familiar to me early on because, prior to Artists Equity, I had a small visual-effects company. I’ve worked with GPUs a lot too. The visual-effects guys said, ‘Hey, you should see. There are a couple: Google and this other company, OpenAI, are doing really interesting stuff with transformers in video.’

“I’ve learned that I can actually just call up and go, ‘Hey, it’s Ben Affleck. Can I come see what you’re doing?’ Sometimes people say yes, to my astonishment.”

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30 years of innovation 🫠 #muse

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museband

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Duo nobody asked for.

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AI race fundamentally is about stealing all of human knowledge to date, 🧠 requires training data. Only fight left is who will be compensated short term, who left out.

[NIK @ns123abc]

I think the plan is to get researchers to start using their AI with a limited compute budget, then once they have all the academic data, they’ll basically steal all their ideas from underneath them and run the research internally with their unlimited compute budget!

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@Sohrab How about Tiff ? lmao

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@BetterCallMedhi @sama 👀

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@kohlidoteth wen first name

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@rocketinspirit @seedphrase

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@LucaRoland_ @seedphrase @rocketinspirit old era, never picked up

[Jon Shaivitz @JonShaivitz]

The younger generations will never understand just how much fun the first GTA was. And it looked like this.

Gameplay > graphics.

Every time.

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@justbuilding @Sohrab Would have not been fine

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@Sohrab @xai @elonmusk Went through this with https://t.co/umWcOdDqDc even if you did nothing, the sheer act of registration would be framed as bad faith 💀

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@broker_ens @BrantlyMillegan 👏

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@ENSMarketBot game is game