Vikas Kumar

[Rony @Ronycoder]

Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2 hour hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.

[Shamim Hossain @shamimai1]

🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft just released a brand-new 18-episode series — “Generative AI for Beginners” 🎓🤖

Perfect for beginners, developers, and AI enthusiasts eager to build a strong foundation in generative AI.

Here’s what you need to know (Save this 🧵👇):

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

Starting today, open source is leading the way. Introducing Llama 3.1: Our most capable models yet.

Today we’re releasing a collection of new Llama 3.1 models including our long awaited 405B. These models deliver improved reasoning capabilities, a larger 128K token context window and improved support for 8 languages among other improvements. Llama 3.1 405B rivals leading closed source models on state-of-the-art capabilities across a range of tasks in general knowledge, steerability, math, tool use and multilingual translation.

The models are available to download now directly from Meta or @huggingface. With today’s release the ecosystem is also ready to go with 25+ partners rolling out our latest models — including @awscloud, @nvidia, @databricks, @groqinc, @dell, @azure and @googlecloud ready on day one.

More details in the full announcement ➡️ https://t.co/hhJoLm5eLV
Download Llama 3.1 models ➡️ https://t.co/rRjvmxqCTC

With these releases we’re setting the stage for unprecedented new opportunities and we can’t wait to see the innovation our newest models will unlock across all levels of the AI community.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

One tiny habit that dramatically improved my life: Grayscale Mode for 90% of the day.

Grayscale Mode removes the colors to make your phone immediately less appealing and addicting.

To turn it on, follow these steps:

(1) Settings
(2) Accessibility
(3) Display & Text Size
(4) Color Filters -> On
(5) Grayscale

If you want to be able to toggle it on and off easily, you can create a simple shortcut:

(1) Settings
(2) Accessibility
(3) Accessibility Shortcut
(4) Color Filters

If you triple-click the side button, you'll be able to toggle Grayscale on and off.

Since starting to use Grayscale Mode last year, I've seen my screen time drop and my focus rise.

Try it for a day. Massive life hack.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Why replacing orange street lights is an aesthetic downgrade — and bad for our health:

[Vikas Kumar @vmathodia]

@danielglenton @MichaelVaughan Yes. Yes

[Vikas Kumar @vmathodia]

@AndreasKoureas_ Wealth/capital is different and not necessarily proportional to income.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

The web of the spiny orb-weaver spider is an amazing feat of engineering, built from multiple types of silk, each with a particular function.

Credit: Rachel Barry

[Vikas Kumar @vmathodia]

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[Vikas Kumar @vmathodia]

@PiyushGoyal @PiyushGoyalOffc Dear Sir, had sent an oxygen concentrator for family consumption, but it is now stuck with FedEx as they want additional charges GST for it. Could you please help (https://t.co/fJLhS5wTW2). This is urgent

[Vikas Kumar @vmathodia]

@FedEx @FedExHelp @FedExOffice Urgent shipment delayed with no clear communication after multiple follow-ups. Could you please help?

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

Wow, this by ITV News is the best footage I have seen from inside the Capitol.

The journalist notes: "America's long journey as a stable democracy appears to be in doubt."

[Vikas Kumar @vmathodia]

Like the detailed analysis from NHS shared with everyone

[Tanmay Bhat @thetanmay]

I enjoyed atomic habits a lot. Recommend more books that I would enjoy?

[Ankit Pansari @ankitpansari_]

If you ever had to create a landing page or marketing asset for a side-hustle or an open-source project, you have struggled to find quality illustrations.

In this thread 👇

I am sharing some of the open-source illustrations we have been using in the last two years.

[Vikas Kumar @vmathodia]

@three_broadband Yes. I was. Can you please confirm you have taken this as a complaint. Your agent blatantly said on the chat that since we can’t find you on system, we won’t take any complaint

[Tiago Forte @fortelabs]

You can’t compete with someone who is having fun

[Vikas Kumar @vmathodia]

London Lockdown

[Vikas Kumar @vmathodia]

Fab response time from @hotstartweets ... all sorted now. Cheers!

[Vikas Kumar @vmathodia]

@hotstartweets getting this message when trying to open the app... not sure what to do?

[Vikas Kumar @vmathodia]

@hotstar_helps Done!