Hungarian Parliament passes bill that gives PM Orbán unlimited power & proclaims: - State of emergency w/o time limit - Rule by decree - Parliament suspended - No elections - Spreading fake news + rumors: up to 5 yrs in prison - Leaving quarantine: up to 8 yrs in prison #COVID19

Pick an option. These will not be flatly distributed 25%/25%/25%/25% when all the voting is complete. I am very curious to know why.

How GANs came to life: Ian Goodfellow: "[Generated images] looked like crap. But we had been looking at crap from generative models for years, and we could tell that this was an exciting, new kind of crap." DeepLearning.AI #thebatch

If someone, a year ago, described January 6, 2021 (and events attending it) & asked you to guess the stock market behavior, admit you would have gotten it wrong. Just so you understand that news do not help you understand markets. Now, work on having a good 2021.

In Denmark, where they DNA-sequence *every* positive COVID case, the B117 variant is growing 70% per week, yes, per week, despite strict lockdown. washingtonpost.com/world/europe/u…

"Decentralization is based on the simple notion that it is easier to macrobull***t than microbull***t. Decentralization reduces large structural asymmetries." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

1/ When I lived in California, I was in a neighborhood with particularly unreliable electricity. There were often outages affecting the whole street.

We spent the last year working closely with OpenAI to build GitHub Copilot. We've been using it internally for months, and can't wait for you to try it out; it's like a piece of the future teleported back to 2021.

I’m fully vaxxed because it effectively eliminates my chances of dying from Covid. But the vax doesn’t make me Superman. So I *also* wear a well-fitted KN95 mask in crowded indoor situations because I don’t want to catch a debilitating virus even if it’s not going to kill me.

SALIENCE (discussion from #TheBlackSwan) The more transparent & free a society, the more imperfect it will appear. Corruption, social media censorship, police violence, government surveillance will be magnified. Opaque societies w/o governance "feel" more just & orderly.

Wow, Windy just received a seal of approval by the highest authority. cc xCbm27 Windy.com

What do you call the tactic when you propose something utterly ridiculous, then tone it down after (expected) backlash, come back with something less ridiculous (the original goal) that will eventually - but otherwise wouldn't - get accepted? What will the real proposal be?

TIL: Nákup na Heureka.cz s dovozom do zásilkovny nevyžaduje moju domácu adresu. 👏 Konečne! Tak už len ostatných 1500 e-shopov.

If you select the least-selected answer, you win.

I don't give a damn about what is or isn't AGI. It doesn't matter. Below is GPT-4's performance on many standardized exams: BAR, LSAT, GRE, AP, etc. The truth is, GPT-4 can apply to Stanford as a student now. AI's reasoning ability is OFF THE CHARTS. Exponential growth is the