Week 16 of 2024- W162024
Language is the armory of the human mind
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“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
News
AIML
Llama 3: The most capable openly available LLM to date
How Perfectly Can Reality Be Simulated?
What to Know About Tech Companies Using A.I. to Teach Their Own A.I.
3blue1brown: Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart | Chapter 6, Deep Learning
Posteriors from Normal – Approximate Bayesian inference for large models
Henry Cavill James Bond Trailer Gets 2.3M Views Despite Being an AI Fake
The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived
Painting
the tower of Babel, 1595, Marten van Valckenborch (1535-1612), Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
Cyber
HelloKitty ransomware rebrands, releases CD Projekt and Cisco data
Markets
Why the stock market is disappearing
Inside Amazon’s Push to Crack Trader Joe’s—and Dominate Everything
Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins now
These Home Sellers Are Done Waiting for the Fed to Lower Rates
Boeing’s problems were as bad as you thought
New York’s Rich Get Creative to Flee State Taxes. Auditors Are On to Them
Warner Bros. Discovery Lost Money Last Year. Its CEO Got a $50 Million Payday.
Can Reed Hastings Disrupt Skiing?
Something strange has been happening with jobless claims numbers lately
75% of US shoppers have Amazon Prime membership
Question:
Will I shamelessly promote myself after presenting at great conferences?
Answer:
Thank you 10th Annual Munich Discussion Forum for having me.
And thank you for the Britney Spears mics.
“Vielen dank. Super cool.”
Fo speaking inquiries, I’d like to refer you to my literary and speaking agent. His name is Otakar Hubschmann.
Misc
Humane Pin: The Worst Product I've Ever Reviewed... For Now
Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits
There’s a new form of keyless car theft that works in under 2 minutes (2023)
https://www.netflix.com/helloworld
A brief, weird history of brainwashing
The Secret Retreats That Have CEOs, VIPs and Billionaires Jockeying for Invites