Emy

Investor, data nerd, and tech enthusiast.

[Emy @emy_sok]

Focus and finishing are the antidote to shiny object syndrome.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

The person who focuses on one task and sees it through to completion—even if they work in a somewhat slow or outdated manner—beats the endless optimizer who jumps from tool to tool and always hopes a new piece of technology will help them finish what they start.

[Jure Leskovec @jure]

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Join us, & make sense of the world's complex data🚀.

https://t.co/04L9TjSbCc We kick off on June 5th!
#DataScience #OnlineCourse @StanfordEng

[DeepLearning.AI @DeepLearningAI]

OpenAI spent almost a year planning for the launch of its long-awaited GPT-4 large language model (released in March).

Learn what they did in #TheBatch: https://t.co/SXWtMUgVWH

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Excellent essay by my dear NYU colleague Julian @togelius about the existential threats from rogue AI, or rather, about the insanely-overstated likelihood of such threats.
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[Emy @emy_sok]

@indexsy lol

[Emy @emy_sok]

This is why “follow your passion” is terrible advice for someone who wants to start a business. It’s well meaning but not really helpful for what it takes to build a real business, something you could eventually scale and exit.

[Nick Huber @sweatystartup]

A friend of mine was an excellent chef turned failed restauranteur.

A story (and a lesson):

He loved cooking. Was excellent at it. Had friends over often and really enjoyed cooking for them. He would get told by everyone who tasted his food "You should open a restaurant."

Eventually he did. Took out some loans. Quit his 9-5. Opened a restaurant.

He ran it for about 3 years. Worked 60 hours a week. No vacations. No more cooking for friends. Every Thursday through Sunday night. The last one to leave at 1am.

The only time he saw his friends they were in his restaurant and he'd stop by between stressful situations to say hi.

He gave up a few weeks ago. Broke. In debt actually. And broken as a human.

Reading the google reviews for the business it is a little sad...

No raving fans like in those dinner parties in his home. Just customers complaining about cold food or slow service or undercooked steak.

It turns out running a profitable restaurant has very little to do with your ability to cook.

Running a profitable and successful business of any kind in any sector consists mostly of doing the same things:

Recruiting, hiring, training, managing, selling and solving problems.

He wasn't a manager. He didn't enjoy confrontation. He wasn't a people person.

He spent very little time owning a restaurant actually cooking. Almost none of it actually.

The lesson:

Don't start a business for selfish reasons. It isn't about you. It isn't about doing what you want or love to do.

If any business becomes successful the owner will quickly graduate from doing that fun thing...

And they'll find themselves recruiting, hiring, training, managing, selling and solving problems.

Might as well start something that gives you the best odds of making great money while doing those not-fun things.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

When companies that train deep learning models talk about AGI, it's as if a 3D printing company talked about how the next generation of the technology was going to bring universal abundance by enabling arbitrary matter replication -- if we can avoid the grey goo scenario

[David Chapman @Meaningness]

🆕🤖 The “neural network” technology that powers current artificial intelligence is extremely expensive, poorly understood, inherently deceptive, and unfixably unreliable.

In short: it is bad.

Somehow, no one ever says this!

[Emy @emy_sok]

Is it any better than Erniebot? https://t.co/2mVW157xR2

[Santiago Cruz @openaicommunity]

Not that ChatGPT is a very special name but imagine you have ~150k employees and were allowed to choose between all the cool names in the world and you end up with the name “Bard”

[Emy @emy_sok]

Some awesome stats about how much data is generated online; crazy to imagine what it will look like in another 30 years!

[Misha @mishadavinci]

In 1993, the internet barely existed.

30 years later, 5 billion+ users spend trillions of hours living & working online.

Here's the breakdown:

[Nazneen Rajani @nazneenrajani]

Did you know there are other dialog agents like ChatGPT? 🤔
And what if I told you the secret sauce is IFT, RLHF, CoT, and SFT 🤯
We explain each of these terms and why they are relevant to ChatGPT by comparing with 4 other dialog agents.

Check our blog: https://t.co/mZDnPSlybv

[Andrea Bosoni @theandreboso]

So apparently Google said they don’t care if content is written by AI or humans as long as it’s helpful and created for people first 🤔

[Julien Chaumond @julien_c]

Prediction:

there'll be 10 open reproductions of ChatGPT in 6 months

and if i understand correctly, models are quite smaller than LLMs so they might be significantly easier to deploy at scale (maybe even single-GPU)

[Emy @emy_sok]

Happy Festivus!🎄🎉

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

1/Large language models like Galactica and ChatGPT can spout nonsense in a confident, authoritative tone. This overconfidence - which reflects the data they’re trained on - makes them more likely to mislead.

[Misha @mishadavinci]

The world has 8 billion people.

Less than 1% will be ready for 2030.

Here's a list of 20+ terms to get you up to speed (starting today):

[Axios @axios]

✨ A new photo from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the Pillars of Creation — made famous by the Hubble Space Telescope — in vivid detail like never before.

Just compare JWST's photo (left) to Hubble's 2014 version. https://t.co/y5560opESe

[Emy @emy_sok]

Attention web3 developers or aspiring devs: Alchemy University is launching to train new devs in web3.

[Alchemy @Alchemy]

1/ Want to become a web3 dev?

What if we told you we’re releasing the ultimate web3 learning platform… for free?

Chainshot recently joined Alchemy & together we’ve built something new.

Buckle up frens, Alchemy University is here!

A 🧵 on the future of web3 education

[Emy @emy_sok]

@youngblood23 Happy birthday Stefan! 🎂🎉🙌🏽

[Emy @emy_sok]

It is done.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

And we finalized!

Happy merge all. This is a big moment for the Ethereum ecosystem. Everyone who helped make the merge happen should feel very proud today.