Week 25 of 2024- W252024
I have already lost touch with a couple people
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“I have already lost touch with a couple people I used to be” -Joan Didion
AIML
Still Trying to Sound Smart About AI? The Boss Is, Too
What the Arrival of A.I. Phones and Computers Means for Our Data
Apple Is Bringing A.I. to Your Personal Life, Like It or Not
My Memories Are Just Meta's Training Data Now
Mathematical details behind self-attention
Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution.
Latent Expertise: Everyone is in R&D
Rice Farming Gets an AI Upgrade
OpenAI’s former chief scientist is starting a new AI company
Optimizing AI Inference at Character.AI
Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design
Claude 3.5 Sonnet- this model is really good:
Painting
Oscar Gustaf Björck (Swedish, 1860 - 1929), Launching the Boat, Skagen, 1884
Crypto
Hedge Funds Made a Killing on FTX—Then It Got Complicated
Cyber
Detecting and mitigating a multi-stage AiTM phishing and BEC campaign
Adversarial Attacks on Multimodal Agents
AI Is Helping Scammers Outsmart You—and Your Bank
Markets
Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List
Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”
Largest Companies by Market Cap
World breaks 1,400 temperature records in a week as heat waves sweep globe
Trillionaire club throws an indulgent theme party
Wall Street wants boomers to work longer. But nobody wants to hire them.
Why Your Starbucks Frappuccino Is Now Half-Price
Delivery Drivers Got Higher Wages. Now They’re Getting Fewer Orders.
Misc
What My Father Taught Me About Texas Barbecue, and Being a Dad
How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number
I am using AI to automatically drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers
You’re Vacationing All Wrong. Here’s How to Have a Truly Restful Break
The heat day is the new snow day
Books
4 books I’ve read and 5 books I want to read