This might be the most eventful week AI has ever seen:
Monday:
-Stanford Alpaca 7B
Tuesday:
-GPT4
-Anthropic releases Claude
-Google's PaLM API
-AdeptAI raises $350M
-Google adds GenAI to workspaces
Wednesday:
-Pytorch 2.0
-MidjourneyV5
Thursday:
-Microsoft 365 Copilot
Big news: signups for our new course "From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion" are now available.
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An interpolative search engine.
Now, just like Google has changed the world twenty years ago, you should expect deep learning to have incredible impact. It doesn't have to be intelligent at all to be tremendously useful when you scale it up to an immense corpus of data.
Deep learning takes data points and turns them into a query-able structure that enables retrieval and interpolation between the points.
You could think of it as a continuous generalization of database technology.
Steve Jobs was undeniably a genius.
But Tim Cook took Apple from $153B to $3T over the last 11 years. (20x increase)
Here are 9 lessons from the underrated CEO:
There's something deep and borderline unintuitive about most real-world problems just happening to be (informally) NP-Complete: hard to solve but easy to verify a solution to. It's this asymmetry that makes progress possible, as culture can record previous computational work.
RECAP
8 small habits that make you respect yourself effortlessly:
1. Make others feel better
2. Let go of self-critical thoughts
3. Adjust your posture
4. Use your intuition
5. Use humour
6. Sharpen your appearance
7. Stop lying
8. Slow down.
Here's a curiosity: the mathematician Henri Poincaré developed special relativity independently of Einstein. Poincaré's paper was published just 2 weeks after Einstein’s.
The Parzen-Rosenblatt window estimator approximates a probability density using a sum of kernel functions centered as the samples. This corresponds to convolving the empirical measure with a smoothing kernel. https://t.co/pxurSkNzxP
Jeff Bezos said:
“There is no way to write a six-page narratively structured memo and not have clear thinking.”
Here’s the writing framework Bezos uses (that you can too):
I've been asked about this a lot, so let me provide a quick FAQ.
Q: What's the nature of the issue?
A: Anyone who has bought my book from Amazon in the past few month hasn't bought a genuine copy, but a lower-quality counterfeit copy printed by various fraudulent sellers.
Given that 90% of scientific research is about understanding the work of others and building on it, and given the v. high long-term returns of science, it's surprising how little attention is dedicated to systemically optimizing scientific communication and knowledge discovery