Week 44 of 2023- W442023
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“The more I know, the more I know that I don’t know” -Miguel Angel Avila
Thank you everyone for the kind notes that I received this week after publishing Build Cool Things.
Grateful to have many smart, thoughtful, and articulate people in this burgeoning community.
News
This is a kaizen informational buffett.
Take what you want and leave the rest.
Hey I see you walking out! No to-go plates!
AIML
Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence : This whole document is surreal and would not be out of place in a Neal Stephenson or PKD novel.
Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here
Yann LeCun’s Twitter post on same subject
Working with AI: Two paths to prompting
Nvidia Trains LLM on Chip Design
Can I remove my personal data from GenAI training datasets?
Crypto
Sam Bankman-Fried convicted of multi-billion dollar FTX fraud
The Hunt for Crypto’s Most Famous Fugitive. ‘Everyone Is Looking for Me.’
The People Who Lost Serious Cash on NFTs
Cyber
Okta, again? This time takes 1Password along || 11th edition of ENISA Threat Landscape
SEC Charges SolarWinds and Chief Information Security Officer with Fraud, Internal Control Failures
Markets
Private Equity is Devouring the U.S. Economy
What Returns Should You Expect in the Stock Market?
The Money Has Stopped Flowing in Commercial Real Estate
The Mortgage Market Is So Bad Lenders Want Ex-Employees to Give Back Their Bonuses
Disappointing Bonus Season Awaits Equity Underwriting Bankers
Hollywood Needs to Create Its Biggest Hit Ever. Here’s How the Industry Can Make That Happen
Misc
The Highest-Grossing Horror Movies of All Time
As Space Gets More Commercial, How Can It Be Governed Ethically?
COVID Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure.
The Unlikely Story Behind the NFL’s Most Unlikely Quarterback
How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis
$95 AMD CPU Becomes 16GB GPU to Run AI Software
How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
Why do some of the most expensively made movies in history have trouble depicting a simple flame?
Google can turn ANC earbuds into a heart rate monitor with no extra hardware
Papers
CODEFUSION: A Pre-trained Diffusion Model for Code Generation: Microsoft “accidently” leaks GPT 3.5-turbo parameter count.
Language Models Represent Space and Time
Large Language Models Understand and Can Be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli
DISTIL-WHISPER: Robust Knowledge Distillation via Large-Scale Pseudo Labelling
Battle of the Backbones: A Large-Scale Comparison of Pretrained Models across Computer Vision Tasks
Book Rec
Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall
Poem
Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe