Week 46 of 2023- W462023
All the open browser tabs I get to... not now!!!!!!
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“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” -Aristotle
“Because in a split second, its gone.” -Ayrton Senna
News
This is a choose your own adventure.
AIML
The New Kings of Open Source AI (Oct 2023 Recap)
UK will refrain from regulating AI ‘in the short term’
DeepMind AI accurately forecasts weather — on a desktop computer
GraphCast: AI model for faster and more accurate global weather forecasting
AI churns out lightning-fast forecasts as good as the weather agencies’
Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): From Theory to LangChain Implementation
Painting
One of all-time my favorite paintings.
Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt, 1633
Stolen from the Gardner museum in the early morning of March 18th, 1990
Also served as the cover for one version of one of my favorite books, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, by Peter Bernstein
Crypto
Cyber
It’s Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian
Markets
The Clearest Sign Yet That Commercial Real Estate Is in Trouble
The Trillion-Dollar Win Hiding in Your Mortgage
Wall Street’s Gloomiest Hedge-Fund Manager on ‘a Huge Crash Coming’
The broken US home insurance market
Why Florida has such high auto insurance rates - auto glass lawsuits.
A Short History of the 60/40 Portfolio:
New Nvidia chip announced- H200
Misc
Lost Pet Tortoise Found Alive 5 Miles Away From Home After 3 Years- Good news
Can One Episode Ruin A TV Show? A Statistical Analysis
She Charges $550 for 90 Minutes and Has a Wait List of 7,600 People
The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences
The One Essential Thing Preppers Forget
Short Naps Have Major Benefits for Your Mind
A truly incredible fact about the number 37
How Lithium-Ion Batteries Work
Papers
GPT-4V in Wonderland: Large Multimodal Models for Zero-Shot Smartphone GUI Navigation
On the Road with GPT-4V(ision): Early Explorations of Visual-Language Model on Autonomous Driving
Book
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, Chris Miller
Speech
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more”, Henry V
The speech that launched a thousand…ah, other speeches.
The inspiration for the poem in the 2011 movie The Grey:
Once more into the fray,
Into the last good fight I'll ever know.
Live and die on this day.
Live and die on this day.
Director Joe Carnahan talks about it here
Interview Riddle
The Two Door Riddle: You're in a room with two doors. One door leads to certain death and the other door leads to freedom. You don't know which is which. In the room with you are two individuals. One always tells the truth and the other always lies, but you don't know which is which. You can ask one question to one of them to determine which door leads to freedom. What question do you ask?
10 Anagrams
Astronomer - Moon Starer
The Eyes - They See
Schoolmaster - The Classroom
Conversation - Voices Rant On
Listen - Silent
The Morse Code - Here Come Dots
Eleven Plus Two - Twelve Plus One
Slot Machines - Cash Lost in Me
The Hurricanes - These Churn Air
A Decimal Point - I'm a Dot in Place