I was asked to compare US household wealth to Jeff Bezos’ wealth for NYT Magazine. But the problem is, the scale is so so so so vastly different that I either needed a much bigger magazine or I needed for all of you to get much stronger eyeballs. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

NYT Magazine So here’s my solution. If you are a microscopic flake of fingernail dust, then Jeff Bezos is a man who is 5 foot 7.

NYT Magazine If you are the diameter of an Oreo cookie, then Jeff Bezos is the diameter of the Grand Canyon.

NYT Magazine If you are the volume of a quiet library (40 decibels), then Jeff Bezos is the volume of a jet taking off (100 dB - this is a weird one but decibels are a logarithmic scale ok!).

Launching whatthediff.ai 🚀 If you review pull requests, it will blow your mind. It automatically writes a summary of your code changes as a GitHub comment, in seconds. Get started for free!

But this begs the question - when compute is no longer an edge and you have used all the available text on the internet what is the sustainable edge? Unique usage data Unique content Unique talent Unique product Unique business model

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🐙ML Papers Explained An awesome new project with explanations of key deep learning concepts. (by Ritvik Rastogi on DAIR.AI) github.com/dair-ai/ML-Pap…

Ollie Martynov It’s coming

CSS Tip! 🔮 Use scroll-linked animations to create list animations ✨ li { view-timeline: --i inline; } .card { scale: 0.8; animation-timeline: --i; animation: s; animation-delay:cover 40%; animation-end-delay:cover 60%; } keyframes s { 50% { scale:1; }} CodePen.IO link below!👇

People are hard to scale. Generative AI fixes that 🧐

"NFTs archive media!" no, it's all pinned on IPFS or worse. "NFTs are for everyone!" no, check out the gender gap. "NFTs pay royalties!" no, it was just customary for a bit. "NFTs last forever!" ok, yes, if forever means "one year". original diagram: x.com/milesdeutscher…

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ChatGPT cannibalizing their own $20 a month chat service with a $2 per million tokens API is kind of interesting We’ll definitely see open source interface wrappers around the new API now which seems to be much cheaper, $20 would get you 10million tokens

Well Meta's 65 billion parameter language model just got leaked to the public internet, that was fast. Get ready for loads of personalized spam and phishing attempts. Open sourcing these models was a terrible idea

An explainer on what is going on with Silicon Valley Bank: - In 2021 SVB saw a mass influx in deposits, which jumped from $61.76bn at the end of 2019 to $189.20bn at the end of 2021. - As deposits grew, SVB could not grow their loan book fast enough to generate the yield they

3D designers are going to love this. This is ChatGPT for Unity. & It’s available for everyone to try👇

Not your weights not your brain 🧠

Models trained on the current internet will contain an unknown but material amount of synthetic content, which will only increase over time. The orouboros of the modern era, an LLM snake eating its own tail.

I just spoke to myself, and it was weird. You can now clone your voice using a few seconds of audio, give the robot personality, and deploy a clone of yourself. Here is a step-by-step process on how to do this in less than two minutes: