Ashwin Vasan

Distributed Systems, Deep Learning, Music and the Art of Filmmaking! SDE at AWS, CU Boulder alum

[WallPapers 🔥 @Papers_app]

This wallpaper is Fire 🔥 💘

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

You are the author of your own life, and it’s never too late to replace the stories you tell yourself and the world. It’s never too late to begin a new chapter, add a surprise twist, or change genres entirely.

[Emmett Shear @eshear]

You have 168 hours per week.
For most, sleep takes 56 of those.
A full time job is anyone 40.
Food, grooming, exercise add another 18 if you’re reasonably efficient.
Misc obligatory bullshit paperwork like taxes or errands, another 7.
This leaves you with 47 hours!

[Paddy Galloway @PaddyG96]

A few months ago I moved to the USA after 27 years in Europe.

As a creator and founder, here's a few random thoughts:

1) USA is a country of extremes, the best and the worst, in every category.

2) There are simply way more creators/entrepreneurs in America. Especially in the big cities.

3) People and institutions take creators more seriously here. Even things like getting a mortgage in Europe is hard as a creator.

4) Money seems to matter way more here, people talk about it more, care about it more. Sometimes feels a bit shallow.

5) People spend more money, less frugal than Europe for sure.

6) Creators here on average seem more growth and business focused than a lot of EU creators.

7) Americans like to complain about it, but tax is significantly lower here than most of Europe.

8) There's a real motivating and encouraging feel in the air in America, and it's pretty infectious.

9) I'm going to trigger people with this, but the average driving standard in USA is significantly lower than in Europe. I can't believe the things I see on the roads.

10) Americans are way better at selling themselves, we're terrible at this in Europe, particularly Ireland haha.

11) I've rarely felt unsafe in a big European City, quickly learned you need to be much more careful here.

12) Flights are so expensive, a 3 hour flight can cost $1k, in Europe I'm used to spending $100.

13) The service I've got here, from restaurants, to business services, to events etc. is just on a whole other level to most of Europe.

14) That said though, the general quality of life in Europe feels better, Europe feels ''richer'' - roads, city centers etc.

Overall I loved Europe, and love America too. If you live in either of these places, you are luckier than 99% of people who have ever lived.

[Soumith Chintala @soumithchintala]

i might have heard the same 😃 -- I guess info like this is passed around but no one wants to say it out loud.
GPT-4: 8 x 220B experts trained with different data/task distributions and 16-iter inference.
Glad that Geohot said it out loud.

Though, at this point, GPT-4 is probably distilled to be more efficient.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Nearly 40,000 foreign-born graduates of U.S. universities were recruited to Canada from 2017 to 2021. The USA is forcing some of the smartest people leave.

The likelihood of getting an H1B went down from 1 in 4 to now 1 in 7 due to completely arbitrary caps set long ago.

[Stability AI @StabilityAI]

We are excited to announce the release of Stable Diffusion Version 2!

Stable Diffusion V1 changed the nature of open source AI & spawned hundreds of other innovations all over the world. We hope V2 also provides many new possibilities!

Link → https://t.co/QOSSmSRKpG

[Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27]

John Mayer improvising a song live is the most incredible thing you’ll see today:

[Adam Pickard @adampickard]

I used DALL·E 2's inpainting feature to make a version of Eames Powers of Ten, leaving the prompts in to explain each of the 57 steps. #DALLE @OpenAI #AI

[Tech Burrito @TechBurritoUno]

Technology + Time = Progress

[Yams Charania @BostonJerry]

This is cute and funny but the real amazing thing about this video is that elephants are so intelligent they understand the concept of a joke and can make one up themselves.

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

India's new pledge to get to net-zero by 2070 is a pretty big deal. While usual caveats apply for any such long-term commitments, it would be consistent with a world where warming is limited to well-below 2C by the end of the century in-line with Paris Agreement goals.

[Dan Toomey @dhtoomey]

the Balloon World Cup was last week

watch this space

[AK @_akhaliq]

ADOP: Approximate Differentiable One-Pixel Point Rendering
abs: https://t.co/npOqsAstAx

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The WHO approved the first ever malaria vaccine, which could save tens of thousands of children in sub-Saharan Africa. The quest for this vaccine has been underway for a hundred years, a WHO official said, and is a "historic event." https://t.co/i1hcYBhbvb

[Rebecca Weiser @rebweis]

crazy that u can have a job where u are responsible for saving a human life or u can have a job where u need to send an email but dont

[Julia May Jonas @Julia_May_Jonas]

Whenever I feel guilty about buying another book, I like to remind myself that I just purchased 1-5 years of that person’s life for 26 dollars.

[christine! 🌱 @kitschchris]

🌱 Peek-a-boo! 👀🌱

[Pathfinder @Pathfinder]

A scannable QR code advertisement created by drones above the skies of Shanghai.

Beautiful.