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So how does this work after I've read 👇
— Ashok (@adrasakka) May 31, 2020
Do i add thought leader to my Linkedin bio?https://t.co/PbRsOSZHGM
Have you read this post by Peter Levine & @JenniferHli @a16z? https://t.co/X8PJuiyV7R
— Pietro Invernizzi (@pinverrr) May 30, 2020
Introducing DADS, a novel unsupervised #ReinforcementLearning algorithm for discovering task-agnostic skills, based on their predictability and diversity, that can be applied to learn a broad range of complex behaviors. Learn more at: https://t.co/zOeAWIvcJc pic.twitter.com/VVO7PuyMHs
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) May 29, 2020
We helped BERT do better on several structured prediction tasks by learning from a language model that knows more about syntax, showcasing the benefits of structural biases in large-scale models.
— DeepMind (@DeepMind) May 29, 2020
Read about it here: https://t.co/zm418xTGhp
GPT-3: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners, by @notTomBrown et al.
— hardmaru (@hardmaru) May 29, 2020
“We train GPT-3, an autoregressive language model with 175 billion parameters, 10x more than any previous non-sparse language model, and test its performance in the few-shot setting.”https://t.co/qhcHPSH22I pic.twitter.com/ng1Dc6aFg3
Today we’re introducing federated analytics, the practice of applying data science methods to the analysis of data stored on devices, while maintaining user privacy and security. Learn more about this approach below: https://t.co/XAwPLfzfY6
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) May 27, 2020
— Archillect (@archillect) May 27, 2020
One of the founders of General Magic was an economist who coined the phrase "information economy"https://t.co/ykxlu9o0Tx
— Saku Panditharatne (@asteroid_saku) May 27, 2020
Sunset pic.twitter.com/fpLhlqvuJg
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2020
VR is working for games, on a small scale. But it’s not working for anything else, and it’s not clear how it would. That’s not a path to the next platform. https://t.co/tQbodE53al
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) May 25, 2020
How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users https://t.co/C6J8jlkOPd (https://t.co/LRjAfkOQam)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) May 25, 2020
New code example on https://t.co/m6mT8SrKDD, from @NandanApoorv: using @huggingface Transformers for text extraction on the SQuAD question-answering dataset. Trained on TPU, which brings epoch time from ~1 hour on a K80 to only 5min.https://t.co/PeOXBgvG3N
— François Chollet (@fchollet) May 24, 2020
on the security and *privacy* aspects of contact tracing -- covering the frameworks/ approaches out there from various places & players (incl Apple-Google, South Korea); what are the attack vectors; technology & values; more... w/ Joel de la Garza @smc90 https://t.co/upvxDQ2trF
— a16z (@a16z) May 23, 2020
FB, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet & MS spent ~$29 billion on R&D last quarter. And they are sitting on piles of cash. Be it new regulations or a pandemic, it sure looks like the big are going to emerge bigger & "disruption", a far-out event. Good read from @mimshttps://t.co/c0L5T6K1sa pic.twitter.com/VgmLzWwtxE
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) May 23, 2020
Wow 73% growth yoy in games per latest April NPD data. 🚀 This doesn’t even include high growth markets outside the US like Asia https://t.co/WaKELa7Hvy
— Jon Lai (@Tocelot) May 23, 2020
1 of 6: Redfin’s seasonally adjusted home-buying demand is now 16.5% above pre-pandemic levels. Of the listings that accepted an offer last week, 45% had been on the market less than two weeks. At least for housing demand, this is the definition of a V-shaped recovery. pic.twitter.com/zI7K6sc4l7
— Glenn Kelman (@glennkelman) May 22, 2020
Today, we’re announcing updates to how we work at Box. Box employees can work anywhere at least until 2021; we’ve added remote work stipend and health benefits; and we’ll focus on balancing office and expanded remote work, bridged by a digital workplace. https://t.co/wk9yUUQXiP.
— Aaron Levie (@levie) May 22, 2020
It’s happening.@GoldmanSachs: “Implications of Current Policies for Inflation, Gold and Bitcoin” pic.twitter.com/kjTGYSE9za
— Mike Dudas (@mdudas) May 22, 2020
Another chart, via Goldman, showing just how hard retail traders dove into the market right at the bottom pic.twitter.com/Yhyvyo2lwO
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) May 22, 2020
Keras: the next five years. Model training from simple -- e.g. https://t.co/bHXkeiQ73l() for simple experiments -- to arbitrarily flexible, e.g. custom training loop with GradientTape. By @fchollet.
— Reza Zadeh (@Reza_Zadeh) May 22, 2020
Full video: https://t.co/gggMeQCgIu pic.twitter.com/yoU6hPBkuF
Man, the 2004 reboot of Battlestar Galactica was terrific TV. It’s a great thing to re-watch, or to watch for the first time, during quarantine. I’m enjoying it for the second time. It’s not a typical sci-fi show. It’s really a parable about humanity. Brilliant. pic.twitter.com/Ex60bXeuq4
— Walt Mossberg (@waltmossberg) May 21, 2020
But the kind of person who says "they have my interest" wrt to Snyder Cut
— Peter Kafka (@pkafka) May 20, 2020
They now have my interest.
— Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk) May 20, 2020
Great chart of world monetary/fiscal stimulus enacted.
— Dan Tapiero (@DTAPCAP) May 20, 2020
All adds up to $20 Trillion.
Total amount to be injected in just 2 MONTHS equivalent to entire nominal GDP of the US economy.
And dollar still not falling and real US rates not dropping.
Policy will go easier.
+Gold/Btc. pic.twitter.com/JCxNkZhJnv
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘂𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.
— Steve Jurvetson (@FutureJurvetson) May 20, 2020
Prellis assembled this table of currently known mutations of SARS-CoV-2, some with gain of function (virulence & viral load).
I posted summaries from the pre-print sources: https://t.co/l8TcMeHdSj pic.twitter.com/s5b7KAFiKp
In this time of coronavirus, some may have missed our new Masters of Scale season. I am incredibly delighted to that Angela Ahrendts launched our season -- my interview with her was amazing and I learned things that I will apply in future entrepreneurial…https://t.co/ew2S1CDVv0
— Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) May 19, 2020
For a rapid response to COVID-19 and its new mutants, @Prellisbio printed 960 synthetic lymph nodes to generate 300 human antibodies that bind to the #SARSCoV2 spike proteins, all in less than 30 days. This method applies to any new pathogen🦠Today's news:https://t.co/tcUmOLQmeK
— Steve Jurvetson (@FutureJurvetson) May 19, 2020
Wow. Adtech giant NYT ($800m ARR, $6B valuation) to begin selling user data directly to advertisers. Scary, anticompetitive trend led by corporate journalism - local news outlets just can't compete with closed tech platforms like this. https://t.co/GfEvNzf3dm
— Zack Kanter (@zackkanter) May 19, 2020
GrokNet is powering new Marketplace features for buyers and sellers today and we’re testing automatic product tagging on Facebook Pages to help make photos more shoppable. https://t.co/XhJN28J69n
— Facebook AI (@facebookai) May 19, 2020
When a pandemic hits the world's biggest retailer: $WMT quarterly results
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) May 19, 2020
- Walmart’s U.S. foot traffic ⬇️
- Spending per transaction ⬆️16.5%
- Ecommerce sales ⬆️74%
- Additional COVID-19 costs - $900 Mn
- Workers hired - 235,000https://t.co/1tH06mAi44
"He not busy being born is busy dying."
— BobDylan (@Bob41Dylan) May 19, 2020
- Bob Dylan pic.twitter.com/jZG9up0D4q
So I actually read People's Republic of Walmart https://t.co/ebPajy7pVr last year; the basic thesis is that the success of large companies (Amazon, Walmart...) shows central planning is possible and efficient even at very large scales, so we should just plan all society that way
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) May 18, 2020
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell’s advice to a young Steve Jobs:
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) May 18, 2020
“A democracy in a company creates mediocrity”https://t.co/MPMYD0bqVG
I'm working on some material trying to explain matrix calculus cleanly. Do folks have recommendations for good existing resources? I like https://t.co/axqhgtZvTC
— Bharath Ramsundar (@rbhar90) May 17, 2020
“AI gets much of the attention, but advances in biotechnology are poised to be just as momentous. Put those two fields together and they will transform the world.”
— Jorge Conde (@JorgeCondeBio) May 17, 2020
World meet bio. Bio eat world. 🧬 🌎 https://t.co/q6MXYSP4Bl
This week’s newsletter just went out to 139,765 subscribers https://t.co/bNKNAQqmwa
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) May 18, 2020
There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.
— Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) May 16, 2020
— VI Lenin, e-commerce analyst https://t.co/YYChLLK3Wk
Gradually, then suddenly. pic.twitter.com/LbyHcvjE1D
— Trevor Loy (@trevorloy) May 16, 2020
"A key feature of crypto cycles is that each one plants seeds which later grow and drive the next cycle."https://t.co/7bvS6aB4e7
— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) May 16, 2020
Ecommerce Penetration pic.twitter.com/SDnMggQrJz
— Dennis Hong (@DennisHong17) May 16, 2020
To help the #AI/#ML community prepare for the new #NeurIPS Impact Statement requirement, PAI Partner @FHIOxford has created this paper submission guide.
— Partnership on AI (@PartnershipAI) May 15, 2020
PAI staff and Partners from @CHAI_Berkeley @DeepMind @GoogleAI @OpenAI joined in discussion & input: https://t.co/mjVrIaLvzd
The Age of Napoleon by Will & Ariel Durant is an amazing book
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 15, 2020
Another way to end up with this same result is building a new deck by piecing together slides from other decks (vs starting form white canvas). But I am very biased, I really love great decks! https://t.co/9rGjxJVd1H https://t.co/FqeLElzQd3
— Bill Gurley (@bgurley) May 15, 2020
For marketers, almost everything has changed in the past eight weeks. It's critical to use data and customer insight to ground your go-forward marketing strategy.
— Gregg Johnson (@gregg_johnson) May 14, 2020
A few thoughts on how to do that, summarized from this @HarvardBiz piecehttps://t.co/0F3aNplwxQ
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✨🙌 If you have recommendations for blog posts or @Kaggle kernels that you would like to have considered as official #Keras examples, let us know!
— 👩💻 DynamicWebPaige @ 127.0.0.1 🏠 (@DynamicWebPaige) May 14, 2020
More available in the link below: https://t.co/H1kg8whvZD
Disney Plus is getting a Percy Jackson series as Disney continues to mine its IP for new streaming shows https://t.co/UX9PmIl1sF pic.twitter.com/v2ibT7CfZw
— The Verge (@verge) May 14, 2020
The future of AI should be led by people who are bilingual in technology and social sciences, argues @drfeifei in the latest discussion with @azeem https://t.co/f95Jvx2y7r pic.twitter.com/7tkaUE1Cn1
— Exponential View (@ExponentialView) May 14, 2020
Spoke to The Chainsmokers about their new venture fund https://t.co/yLQ5yBqawU
— Katie Roof (@Katie_Roof) May 14, 2020
A quote we can all relate to in @SophiaKunthara's latest feature: "The last thing you want to tell that patient (after a virtual appointment) is get out of your pajamas, put on your clothes, walk down to CVS and stand in line."https://t.co/knnCicoWKq
— Crunchbase News (@crunchbasenews) May 14, 2020
Can now share our @siggraph paper on many-light rendering. I'm super proud of this work, led by @tunabrain. Official @nvidia blog https://t.co/EKyPlfBeVU, the paper https://t.co/Yt7kmwQt0P, and our talented DevTech guys made this super-cool video: https://t.co/SXsb7RIZ3M
— Chris Wyman (@_cwyman_) May 14, 2020
"The insanely cheap future of solar power" ... File this under good news (via @ExponentialView) https://t.co/KO61DjgUDA
— Mark Little (@marklittlenews) May 14, 2020
This superb video has now clocked past 3 million views.
— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) May 13, 2020
It’s a brutal 3-minute summary of New Zealand’s success vs the UK’s failure. Keep sharing it.pic.twitter.com/ABZ6sXbI96
The CFO in Crisis Mode: Modern Times Call for New Tools https://t.co/HmYc28m6eY #tech via @a16z
— Gil Dibner (@gdibner) May 11, 2020
— Archillect (@archillect) May 10, 2020
The more I read abt some of the orgns/ppl behind many of India's big tech platforms & the way they work, the more I am intrigued. And each story is careful to only peel back just a wee bit, driving the intrigue further. Another in that series by @tam_arundhttps://t.co/k9KH4jHWeD
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) May 10, 2020
How a workplace product became a viral social network overnight https://t.co/PCQlWu4ldm
— brianne kimmel (@briannekimmel) May 9, 2020
inbox: a white paper from Pinterest, describing the 4 phases of marketing during the pandemic pic.twitter.com/uFPtdtsZ3J
— Sapna Maheshwari (@sapna) May 8, 2020
It's already happening... https://t.co/VXf4Ll6vKc
— Amit Paranjape (@aparanjape) May 8, 2020
.@jaybradner shares wild, behind-the-scenes science stories with @JorgeCondeBio, @vijaypande & @omnivorousread of the breakthroughs it takes to drug the undruggable—from molecular glues to "garbage disposal" enzymes, engineered cells and genes, and more. https://t.co/KAEbZaoKwD
— a16z (@a16z) May 8, 2020
Steel Processing
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed) May 8, 2020
pic.twitter.com/Od07wCz5BW
COVID-19 has battered blitzscalers like Airbnb, forcing spending cuts & layoffs. But despite strong headwinds, the companies that tack into the wind most successfully will emerge with a stronger competitive position than before.https://t.co/4YDi41J2EG
— Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) May 7, 2020
Finally, for an introduction to reinforcement learning, @Mononofu suggests starting with these @UCL video lectures from his team mate, co-creator of #AlphaZero #AlphaStar & recent #ACMPrize winner, David Silver: https://t.co/mjTyw15A3w #AtHomeWithAI
— DeepMind (@DeepMind) May 7, 2020
This is quite a chart of UK online ad spend. pic.twitter.com/up1d7ClpCo
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) May 7, 2020
From the want economy to the need economy. https://t.co/01Nk33wYNc
— Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) May 6, 2020
This story from @chrissyfarr is absolutely astounding -- UCSF is losing $5m a day while huge areas sit idle. The hospitals that did the right thing are getting punished, and recovery could literally take 3-4 years. https://t.co/Uth81r6ZXj
— Matt Rosoff (@MattRosoff) May 5, 2020
— Sam McRoberts (@Sams_Antics) May 6, 2020
I wrote something thinking about COVID and inevitability debt. https://t.co/deVPIX4wW7
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) May 6, 2020
Archangel-12 pic.twitter.com/s9g69SU1Ju
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 6, 2020
Shopify pic.twitter.com/OZb9u3zlYA
— Dennis Hong (@DennisHong17) May 6, 2020
One for the curve fitters.
— Dr Darren Saunders (@whereisdaz) May 5, 2020
By the always awesome XKCD. pic.twitter.com/nefQMdmdqT
Here’s a fascinating excerpt from the very wise @stevesi’s forthcoming book, “Hardcore Software”. It’s about his long career at the high levels of @Microsoft and the lessons learned there. https://t.co/NFvTF7acAr
— Walt Mossberg (@waltmossberg) May 5, 2020
"The plague sweeping the world has turbocharged the growth of the internet and catapulted us into the future. In the space of March 2020, many businesses fast-forwarded to 2025." https://t.co/rG3XrLEIru via @financialtimes
— Scott Kupor (@skupor) May 4, 2020
4/10 - Cut & paste your surroundings to Photoshop
— Cyril Diagne (@cyrildiagne) May 3, 2020
Code: https://t.co/cVddH3u3ik
Book: @HOLOmagazine
Garment: SS17 by @thekarentopacio
Type: Sainte Colombe by @MinetYoann @ProductionType
Technical Insights: ↓#ML #AR #AI #AIUX #Adobe #Photoshop pic.twitter.com/LkTBe0t0rF
Neural net-generated memes are one of the best uses of AI on the internet https://t.co/QPSo2lkvLh pic.twitter.com/a5gB5KBBMY
— The Verge (@verge) May 2, 2020
When I talk to CIOs, 2 big topics come up: near-term remote work & long-term business transformation. For the latter, I’m hearing: less business travel, kill manual processes, digitize every customer and supplier interaction, and enable flexible work patterns.
— Aaron Levie (@levie) May 2, 2020
Snapchat’s lenses are also a precedent technology.
— Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) May 1, 2020
Put Zoom + game DLC + lenses + remote life together and you get the virtual clothing industry.
People may even start creating their own virtual clothing in open source communities. pic.twitter.com/T4jju6ZIiA
Remote life is just beginning.
— Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) May 1, 2020
Next step after virtual backgrounds and “Touch Up My Appearance” is virtual clothing.
Get new clothes as DLC packs.
New meaning to “buying clothes online”. Fast delivery too.
Go get it, founders. You’ll want one ML expert and one gaming guru. https://t.co/5NqKMm1xEY
"They operate in swarms, collaborating together, making decisions on their own." https://t.co/nkOzrCF8jX
— Futurism (@futurism) May 1, 2020