Oz Chicas

lover of coffee, math & art.

[Oz Chicas @ozchicas]

@adamowen1980 Greetings Coach, just purchased you possession theme book on https://t.co/M5qoXGjfRR and I was wondering if you will also be releasing a book on off-pitch preparation per the training session flow chart in the book?

[Naval @naval]

Software will proliferate just as videos, music, writing did.

The market structure will shift from a “fat middle” to mega-aggregators and a long tail.

It’ll be a slower process due to network effects, but many traditional vendor lock-ins will get eaten by AI.

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

Some have been making this point for 39 years. We are not now “At a point where we really ought to question…”.

We were there in 1984. And I was not alone at the time. There were *many* of us. Before this String Theory/ Quantum Gravity mind virus took over.

I don’t know what to call the behavior pattern where institutions look to someone who has *NOT* been making the important point for forever so they don’t have to deal with the fact that they got EVERYTHING WRONG for 4-7 decades in an obvious fashion.

You have to ask yourself “Who are the real cranks when those accused of being cranks turn out to be right?” And the leaders who accused them turn out to be wrong. Over and over. Again. And again.

Glad to have the company however.

[Modest Mitkus @ModestMitkus]

Everyone is saying "Pick your niche"!

But nobody explains how to actually do it...

Here’s my (tested blueprint) on how to pick a profitable niche:

[Ad Professor @The_AdProfessor]

I collect ads like billionaires collect passports

The 10 most creative ads I've collected this week:

[Scottie Wick @scottiewick]

FUTURAMA as a Cyberpunk Movie.

Made using @pika_labs Image 2 Video feature.

[Oz Chicas @ozchicas]

@scottiewick @pika_labs This changes everything!!!

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

What do you think ... Should social media platforms censor presidential candidates? My conversation with @JordanBPeterson was deleted by @YouTube. Luckily you can watch it here on @Twitter (thank you @elonmusk). #Kennedy24

https://t.co/PJFKWH6zmd

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

AI-generated QR codes are the next big thing in marketing.

And it's completely free.

Here's my full tutorial on how to do it in 5 simple steps:

(Try scanning the image below)

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

"There is this idea that the desire to dominate is linked with intelligence.

It is not the smartest among us that want to dominate.

To dominate other entities, you do not need to be smarter than them but you do need to want to dominate them."

🔥👇 with @ylecun

[Caltech Telecourse @telecourse]

Artificial Intelligence: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Free public lecture on May 24 by Professor Abu-Mostafa of @Caltech to explain the science of AI in plain language and assess extreme scenarios.
https://t.co/mzBfmtXUzW
#MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #chatGPT

[Nathan Lands @NathanLands]

AutoGPT? Not useful yet.

Code Interpreter, however, is set to revolutionize data science. And it actually works.

Here are 13 examples that will blow your freakin' mind:

[Mengye Ren @mengyer]

Wondering about how to train deep neural networks without backprop? Check out our ICLR 2023 paper: https://t.co/P9KVcZvSBu

Forward gradient computes gradient information from forward pass. But it is slow and noisy — it computes the directional gradient along a random weight perturbation. Gradient variance explodes with deeper and wider networks.

Our key insight is to utilize local activity perturbation and we introduce a new architecture with many local losses throughout the network so that each loss is associated with a small number of weights.

Both supervised and self-supervised (contrastive) learning works. Much better than a lot of backprop-free methods on large scale problems.

Joint work with @geoffreyhinton @skornblith @lrjconan

Our ICLR poster will be presented on Tuesday May 2, in Kigali, Rwanda!

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Why "centrist" is often used incorrectly:

Imagine that liberalism (in the classic sense: free speech, free markets, equality of opportunity, etc.) is a house. There are lots of people in that house, but let's simplify it to liberal progressives and liberal conservatives.

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[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

The year is 1440 and the Catholic Church has called for a 6 months moratorium on the use of the printing press and the movable type.
Imagine what could happen if commoners get access to books!
They could read the Bible for themselves and society would be destroyed.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Old joke about agnostic technologists building artificial super intelligence to find out if there’s a God.

They finally finish & ask the question.

AI replies: “There is now, mfs!!”

[Chris Anderson (in London) @chr1sa]

Another extraordinary night with ChatGPT4 writing ML code. This flow works best:

"Write code to train x with dataset y"
"I'm getting this error. Fix it"
"Another error" (etc for a while)
"Now improve the performance"
"Now wrap it in a GUI"

Weeks of work done in 2 hours

[Gautam Kamath @thegautamkamath]

My wife complained I don't give her enough attention.

I sent her this picture.

I'm sleeping on the couch tonight.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Mathematical puzzle. Can you find the missing number?

[Oz Chicas @ozchicas]

@Miles_Brundage That made me HA out loud!