Week 41 2023- W412023
Week 41 2023- W412023
All the open browser tabs I get to when... the Khumbu Icefall is backed up
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These linkfests (YAML- yet another magical linkfest- too much? where my programmers at?) are meant to be your companion for when you get a minute “in between”. The way I think about articles is that if I get one incremental piece of useful knowledge from them, then it’s been worth my time. Pick and Choose. Read what you want, when you want.
I recommend Stephen King’s On Writing this week. It’s one of my all-time favorite books. I’ve read the hard copy, listened to it on audio, and given it out to my friends. It’s a love letter to writing, and to the immense power of books.
Thank you all- if you are reading this then you’ve supported me in my nascent writing endeavour. I’m grateful. Let’s see where this goes.
I will leave it to Mr. King to lead us out.
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” -Stephen King
News
AIML
'Too dangerous': Why even Google was afraid to release this technology
Multimodality and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs)
Artificial Empathy Is Coming. Are You Ready for Emotions From AI?
AI Hurricane Predictions Are Storming the World of Weather Forecasting
THESE 183,000 BOOKS ARE FUELING THE BIGGEST FIGHT IN PUBLISHING AND TECH
How ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing
Cyber
Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398 million rps
Crypto
Sam Bankman-Fried sues US insurer over legal bills
Markets
Tougher Return-to-Office Policies Are No Remedy for Half-Empty Buildings
Retail investors have a surprising new favourite: Treasury bills
U.S. VC funding hit lowest level in 6 years in Q3
Options for Calculating Risk-Free Rates
MISC
First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by 21yo computer science student
So long, computer science — Chaos Studies is the hot new college degree
The science of 'superbolts,' the world's strongest lightning strikes
Interactive Jane Street Interview Question as seen in Going Infinite book
The lifesaving, Nobel Prize-winning discovery that almost didn’t happen
This simple design turns cardboard into an emergency bed in seconds
Papers
iTransformer: Inverted Transformers Are Effective for Time Series Forecasting
From Transcripts to Insights: Uncovering Corporate Risks Using Generative AI
Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models / The Annotated Diffusion Model
A Mathematical Theory of Communication