Week 48 of 2023- W482023
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“The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want” -Charlie Munger
“Big things have small beginnings” -T.E. Lawrence
News
AIML
Reshaping the tree: rebuilding organizations for AI
Pressure Testing GPT-4 & Claude 2.1 Long Context
The Rise and Rise of A.I. Large Language Models (LLMs):
Brazilian city enacts an ordinance that was secretly written by ChatGPT
Painting
The Grotto of Posillipo at Naples, Antonie Sminck Pitloo, 1826
Crypto
Cristiano Ronaldo sued for $1 billion after promoting NFTs from crypto exchange Binance
Cyber
Cyberattack on US hospital owner diverts ambulances from emergency rooms in multiple states
Markets
Jason Zweig: Charlie Munger’s Life Was About Way More Than Money
Major Asset Classes | November 2023 | Performance Review
Will Tesla's truck recover from its shattering start?
Owners Keep Zombie Malls Alive Even When Towns Want to Pull the Plug
The Biggest Delivery Business in the U.S. Is No Longer UPS or FedEx
New Billionaires Are Inheriting More Wealth Than Creating It — And Shaking Up Portfolios
Misc
The annoying — and hard to solve — problem of stolen packages
How a Notorious Alleged Smuggler Is Trying to Pry Back the Mafia’s Multimillion-Dollar Caravaggio:
Why Do All Chefs Cross Their Arms in Photos?
The Isleworth Mona Lisa: have Leonardo da Vinci fans worshipped the wrong portrait for centuries?
1st Place Solution for the Google - Fast or Slow? Predict AI Model Runtime Competition
Papers
Visual Anagrams: Generating Multi-View Optical Illusions with Diffusion Models:
“tl;dr: We use pretrained diffusion models to make optical illusions”
Website: https://dangeng.github.io/visual_anagrams/
Code: https://github.com/dangeng/visual_anagrams
Source: https://dangeng.github.io/visual_anagrams/ 4. ChatGPT's One-year Anniversary: Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching up?
Book
Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam