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Leetcode and possibly these problems: https://www.amazon.com/Heard-Street-Quantitative-Questions-I...
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Tech workers might be stricter with their childrens' phone use given that they know how much tracking and manipulation is possible
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This is probably the best use case for this technology. Although I think there's a lot of potential for very realistic fake news
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As for AlphaFold2 and the other DeepMind algorithms, they definitely require lots of compute but not so much that they are blocked by advances in supercomputing. This is evidenced by other teams with fewer resources starting to replicate th
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Ah you're absolutely right. Those examples are more about shifting paradigms over science. I just gave a few examples that came into my head at the moment. Some example of algorithm advances actually furthering science: Compressive sen
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People are too obsessed with more compute. Definitely having more clusters, ghz, flops is a good thing, but in my experience, experiments that take embarrassing amounts of computational resources are extremely low yield. Algorithmic advance
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Very nice! Please add arabic when you have a chance
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I can definitely see the usefulness of a shorts platform for instruction videos or learning a specific skill, but text is much more lightweight for many other queries. If I wanted to find "how to get on my school's basketball team
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Very cool. I'd also recommend Number Theory by Andrews. It's a great comprehensive introduction.
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Stable diffusion could likely get compressed much further with some tradeoff in quality. Then it can run locally on these phones. Like how pixel phones have built in speech to text models that run without an internet connection.
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AIDungeon and similar games may usher in a new golden age for choose your own adventure
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Ive found that if i spend just a few minutes defining what i want to gain out of any content, i can learn at 100x the speed of just thoughtlessly consuming. Sometimes even infinite times if I realize the content isn't worth consuming a
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I agree that images only through AI should be removed from art sites. The issue with AI art is that the only human contribution in those pieces is the creation of the prompt and the curation of the final image. Without sensory and experient
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As someone who has no idea what this monarchy means or what powers it has in the UK government, I was wondering if there was a good resource to learn more?
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Highly recommend the Stanford course notes on AI. I've found these useful: * CS224n natural language processing * CS330 Meta Learning * CS224U Natural language understanding * CS234 Reinforcement Learning * CS221 Artificial intelligenc
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Writing apps and actually getting paid to do so, and then getting investors was a pretty nice motivator. Otherwise, just the ability to play with math using computers was motivating enough (e.g. visualize the behavior of the wave equation o
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Learning from your own mistakes, but also from other people's mistakes Reading widely Reading narrowly Writing well Figuring out when and where I'm most effective Setting up a second brain - Keeping a journal Learning how to touch
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I would suggest taking MIT's Secret of Life course on EdX. Its taught by Eric Lander who was a key figure in the human genome project and was a mathematician beforehand, so he follows an axiomatic approach that is much different than t
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Nice article. It would be great to see a similar one about DeepMind
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It's interesting that the Field's medal award is quite a bit lower than the Nobel Prize's (~$15K vs ~$1mm) and is only awarded every four years, yet it still garners a lot of interest, speculation, and possibly envy from non-
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I guess its called Stokholm syndrome for a reason :)
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Agree! I wonder if a sitcom using only artificial voices is coming soon
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Also check out the Stanford NLU course about this topic: cs224u.stanford.edu There's a section on Shrdlu there too
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Same. Especially the "side project" part
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Personal hack: keep a physical journal and make it my central place to manage everything. Close tabs frequently and write down what information I actually need. No screentime for 60-90 minutes before sleep, and plan out the first 3 hours of
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There is this book by Mariana Mazzucato: The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths I haven't read it, but from the TOC, it looks like these are the technologies that are "invented" by public sector
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Is getting a job so competitive? Last I heard there was a labor shortage
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Your old computer running newer versions of Chrome and Office is a feature, not a bug. More efficient software is better software
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This is all spot on from my experience, and possibly summarized by Will Huntings quote “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.” Also many of the top companies (Tesla, Google, etc.) n
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Most religions have some component of fasting, like Ramadan or Lent. Certainly there's value in doing more with less

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