most worthwhile pursuits boil down to some deeply repetitive—even rote—task building software -> bugfixing
business/sales -> pitch mtgs
teambuilding -> interviews there is no elusive haven of variety the sooner you embrace the repetition, the sooner you'll build great things
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Embrace Repetition to Build Great Things
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FemTech Industry Set for $1 Trillion Growth Despite Taboos
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A subsection of tech is set to be worth $1 trillion. But taboos are holding it back. Check out my colleague @hannahswg making her CNBC digi vid debut, explaining the fast-growing – but woefully underinvested, #FemTech industry. https://
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Advanced Computer Vision Course at UCF Center for Research
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Advanced Computer Vision – UCF Center for Research in Computer Vision, Spring 2023 This is an excellent course on advanced computer vision. Covers recent developments in computer vision, topics like image generation and vision-language learning. I like that the course go
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PaLI-X Combines ViT-22B Vision and Multilingual UL2-32B
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Check out PaLI-X that combines ViT-22B and multilingual UL2-32B!
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Science Over Hype: Debunking AI Claims
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this is not about promotion. it's about science and hype busting.
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Encoder-Decoder vs Decoder-Only Models: T5 Paper Guide
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Additional reading for people confused about encoder-decoder models vs decoder-only models: most wisdom is also from the 2019 T5 paper. it's the bible for NLP literally.
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Europe AI Regulation Key Moment Scheduled Wednesday
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Key moment for AI regulation in Europe happening Wednesday. https://
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Andreessen Horowitz Opens London Office, Signals UK Tech Investment Bet
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VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in London – its first outside the US – signalling a big bet on the UK as a place to invest in technology (and especially crypto / web3).
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Spill Platform Launches with Major Media and Creator Partnerships
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UK government gets access to major AI models
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The UK government was just granted access to the source code for all major AI models: "Today, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic have agreed to open up their AI models to the U.K. government – for research and safety purposes."