Week 46 of 2024- W462024

Risk is a type of fuel

Nov 17, 2024

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Risk is a type of fuel - Peter Rive

AIML

BCG: Where’s the Value in AI? -

How AI Could Break the Career Ladder -

“The basic logic of white-collar apprenticeship — grunt work for on-the-job learning — is suddenly at risk.”

Welcome to LLMflation – LLM inference cost is going down fast -

“To a large extent, it is a rapid decline in cost of the underlying commodity that drives technology cycles”

“For an LLM of equivalent performance, the cost is decreasing by 10x every year.”

OpenAI reportedly developing new strategies to deal with AI improvement slowdown - Gasp!, Shock!, (Clenches Chest)…

“In response, OpenAI has created a foundations team to figure out how the company can continue to improve its models in the face of a dwindling supply of new training data. These new strategies reportedly include training Orion on synthetic data produced by AI models, as well as doing more improve models during the post-training process.”

Painting

Chris Austin, imprisoned by a faded memory

Cyber

CAN Injection: keyless car theft -

“This is a detective story about how a car was stolen - and how it uncovered an epidemic of high-tech car theft. It begins with a tweet. “

image credit: Dr. Ken Tindell, CTO of Canis Automotive Labs

The Beginner's Guide to Visual Prompt Injections -

“Visual prompt injection refers to the technique where malicious instructions are embedded within an image.”

Markets

Does Warren Buffett Know Something That We Don’t? - Yes

Young Doctors Want Work-Life Balance. Older Doctors Say That’s Not the Job. -

“There’s a question dividing the medical practice right now: Is being a doctor a job, or a calling?”

Many retailers offer ‘returnless refunds.’ Just don’t expect them to say for which products -

“It’s one of the most under-publicized policies of some of the biggest U.S. retailers: sometimes they give customers full refunds and let them keep unwanted items too.”

How the industry's biggest hedge funds did in October. -

How I ship projects at big tech companies -

“Shipping in a big tech company is a very different skill to writing code, and lots of people who are great at writing code are terrible at shipping.”

Misc

Did Scientists Revive an Extinct Animal or Just Breed a Less Stripey Zebra? -

“A near four-decade quest to bring the quagga back is being heralded as a success, but not everyone is impressed”

This Russian Family Lived Alone in the Siberian Wilderness for 40 Years, Unaware of World War II or the Moon Landing (2013) -

“In 1978, Soviet geologists stumbled upon a family of five in the taiga. They had been cut off from almost all human contact since fleeing religious persecution in 1936”

Vacation day Arbitrage - Shhhh