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[Daniel Mahncke @MnkeDaniel]

Charlie Munger is one of the most brilliant minds in the world.

Despite his inborn potential, it was reading that fueled his genius.

Here are 7 Books that he recommends to rewire your brain👇🏼

[/MachineLearning @slashML]

I pretrained 16 language models from scratch with different tokenizers to benchmark the difference. Here are the results. https://t.co/EQkttTGvLD

[abhishek @abhi1thakur]

But I want to fine-tune a Llama2 model in free version of Google Colab
Say no more! With AutoTrain Advanced, you can 😱 Now anyone can use colab to finetune LLMs just by uploading data and tuning parameters! 🚀 1/N

[Rishabh Srivastava @rishdotblog]

We just open-sourced SQL Coder, a 15B param text-to-SQL model that outperforms OpenAI's gpt-3.5! When fine-tuned on an individual schema, it outperforms gpt-4. https://t.co/zgMT0C2g4q

The model is small enough to run on a single A100 40GB in 16 bit floats, or on a single high-end consumer GPU (like RTX 3090/4090) with 8bit quantization.

We are also open-sourcing our framework for evaluating LLM-generated SQL. SQL can be tricky to evaluate (see here for why: https://t.co/tYEabtnWyn). With rigorous, open and reproducible testing, we hope to advance the frontier of OSS text-to-SQL solutions.

The model weights have a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. You can use and modify the model for any purpose – including commercial use. However, if you modify the weights (for example, by fine-tuning), you must open-source your modified weights under the same license terms.

There's an interactive demo + link to Colab if you would like to play around with it. I'm always hungry for feedback! :)

Working on this was intense (a lot of 3AM git commits 😅). So grateful for our amazing team. @JP_smasher, @manshar_, @medha_basu, and @wendyaww are incredible to work with!

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

A 22-year-old follower recently messaged me asking for career advice.

Here are the 5 pieces of advice I shared:

1. Swallow the Frog: This is one of the greatest "hacks" to get ahead early in your career. Observe your boss, figure out what they hate doing, learn to do it, and take it off their plate. Easy win.

2. Do the "Old Fashioned" Things Well: There are simple things that still stand out. Look people in the eye, do what you say you'll do, be early, practice good posture, have a confident handshake. It sounds silly, but these things are all free and will never go out of style.

3. Work Hard First (& Smart Later): It's in vogue to say that working smart is all that matters. Wrong. If you want to accomplish anything meaningful, you have to start by working hard. Build a reputation for hard work—take pride in it. Then you can start to build leverage to work smart.

4. Build Storytelling Skills: World-changing CEOs aren't the smartest or most talented in their organizations. They are exceptional at: (1) Aggregating data and (2) Communicating it simply & effectively. Data in, story out. Build that skill and you'll always be valuable.

5. Build a Rep for Figuring It Out: Early on, you'll be given a lot of tasks you have no idea how to complete. There's nothing more valuable than someone who can just figure it out. Do some work, ask the key questions, get it done. People will fight over you.

Embrace those 5 pieces of advice and I guarantee you'll stand out and be on the right track.

If you enjoyed this or learned something, follow me @SahilBloom for more in the future.

[Daniel Mahncke @MnkeDaniel]

François Rochon is one of the most successful modern Value Investors in the world.

Over the last 30 years, he returned 5,355% vs 1,177% for the S&P.

Here's how he values stocks and invests👇

(+ Free PDF of all his Shareholder Letters!)

[Sam Curry @samwcyo]

New blog post on hacking EPP servers:

How we could've taken over the .ai, .bj, .bw, .ci, .gl, .ke, .kn, .lb, .ly, .mr, .ms, .mz, .ng, .pyc, .rw, .so, .ss, .td, and .zm TLDs.

https://t.co/rDDUHBEv0L

Work from @rhyselsmore, @bbuerhaus, @infosec_au, and myself.

[Value Theory @ValueInvestorAc]

Michael Burry Is One Of The Greatest Modern-day Investors

A net worth of over $3000 million.

He is, on the contrary, a trained doctor.

Everything he has learned about stocks & investing, he has learned on his own by reading.

His Top 12 Book Recommendations:

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[Mark Jung @TheMarkJung]

In 2018, an Amazon employee shared the company’s “7 Tips for Business Writing.”

They’re a must-read for anyone who wants to write more clearly.

1. Use fewer than 30 words per sentence

Constraints drive clear thinking.

And the best constraints force you to use less words, not more.

If you can explain something in simple terms, you likely understand it well.

2. Use subject-verb-object sentences

The goal of writing is to transfer your thoughts to another person with as little lost in translation as possible.

It’s a big game of telephone.

The simpler your sentences, the more accurately your ideas will be translated.

3. Replace adjectives with data

“Customers love Prime.”

“Customers with Prime spend on average 3x more than those without and we retain 90% of them year over year.”

Specificity leads to clear results and quick decision-making.

4. Pass the “so what” test

The reader should immediately know what action you want them to take.

Make sure to answer who, what, and when.

Otherwise, you’ve wasted your time and the reader’s.

5. Eliminate weasel words

Most weasel words are adverbs.

“Nearly,” “Significantly,” “Almost.”

These words are imprecise. They may mean one thing to you, and another to your boss.

Get rid of them.

6. Avoid clutter words

Utilize → use

In order to → to

Until such time as → until

Due to the fact → because

Getting rid of clutter focuses your message on the parts that matter.

7. Avoid jargon and acronyms

Companies are littered with internal jargon.

But this excludes new employees and anyone external to the company.

When wanting to use an acronym, write it out the first time it’s used in any document.

Clear > clever

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The best marketers are relationship builders — strong internal alignment separates good from great.

So I got interested in Amazon’s writing.

Because writing is communication and communication is alignment.

Follow @TheMarkJung for more content like this on marketing and media.

[Itamar Golan 🤓 @ItakGol]

One-click DeepFake 🤯

Take a video and replace the face in it with a face of your choice. You only need one image of the desired face. No dataset, no training.

That's it. Amazing.

https://t.co/2SCRHlF0vG

[Andrew Gazdecki @agazdecki]

You rarely hear about bootstrapped startups getting acquired for billions or hundreds of millions.

I'm talking tres comas exits.

Billion dollar outcomes. No investors.

However it's happened. It's possible.

Here's 10 of the largest bootstrapped startup acquisitions to date: 🧵

[Nick Gray @nickgraynews]

List of business books mentioned at the 2022 Berkshire Hathaway meeting in Omaha

📕 Trillion Dollar Triage — Warren Buffett referenced this several times on stage

📗 The Caesar’s Palace Coup — this was Charlie Munger's pick

📘 Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism

📕 Capital Allocation: The Financials of a New England Textile Mill

📗 Margin of Trust: The Berkshire Business Model

📘 Running With Purpose: How Brooks Outpaced Goliath Competition

plus a 17 more. Attached photos of the book list from the Berkshire Hathaway book store

[JACK BLY @TheJackBly]

Every fitness lesson I learned after 9 years in the gym:

1. If you're not horny, you die earlier.

[Real Madrid C.F. @realmadrid]

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[Real Madrid C.F. @realmadrid]

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[Real Madrid C.F. @realmadrid]

🏆 #CHAMP14NS 🏆

[Kacie Ahmed @kacieahmed]

As a web3 dev, it took me 4 months to find my first job 💰

But it can be hard to get into web3 without a strong portfolio.

Here are 4 projects you can add to your web3 portfolio in less than a week.

A thread 🧵

[Vimal @vimalthickvijay]

@ujjwalscript @kriskoishigawa @LinuxSeb Ok am using for more than a year, pretty good for office laptop

[Vimal @vimalthickvijay]

@nchokkan @njganesh ha ha

[Santiago @svpino]

Mathematics for Machine Learning. ← Everything you need.

University of Berkeley.
100% Free.

Download it here: https://t.co/pN19lhtEg0