It is the only way

1) The Coin and the Omen: in 1658 Oliver Cromwell issued the largest portrait coin of his Protectorate, this magnificent silver Crown engraved by Thomas Simon. Almost as soon as they were introduced, however, an ominous defect began to appear on the coins...

“The incentive structures of Silicon Valley—and the huge sums that can be gained from selling stories rather than functional products—mean that the door remains open for other people to follow in [Sam Bankman-Fried's] tracks,” Lora Kelley writes. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Love my MNIST socks. Thanks V7 !

📣 Exciting news! 🎉 📣 We are thrilled to announce the launch of PyCon Somalia, the first-ever Python language conference in Somalia! Register now and let's celebrate the power of Python together! 🐍💻✨ 🔗 Link: lu.ma/PyConSomalia #PyConSomalia #PythonConference #Somalia

Humans seeing sparks of AGI in LLMs x.com/Yoda4ever/stat…

“Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.” In a new Personal History, James Somers writes about how A.I. has changed his craft. nyer.cm/RiN5QNr

Le nouveau #Gaston par #Delaf est la ! #gastonlagaffe amzn.to/3QQ8hWJ

Reinforcement learning explained x.com/i/status/17310…

ICYMI, some super exciting biology & medical ML models were recently released 🤩 They span from longitudinal EHR, to antibodies, to biological (taxonomy) classification, to large-scale unsupervised medical imaging models Check them out! 🧵⬇️

My latest column for @LocusMag is "What Kind of Bubble is AI?" All economic bubbles are hugely destructive, but some of them leave behind wreckage that can be salvaged for useful purposes, while others leave nothing behind but ashes: locusmag.com/2023/12/commen… 1/

A teen hacked Nvidia, got arrested, was released on bail under police supervision. Police confiscated his laptop and put him in a motel room. He then used the Amazon fire stick connected to his motel room TV to hack Rockstar and steal GTA 6 clips bbc.com/news/technolog…

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This Griffin Adams paper on entity guided generation seems useful even in contexts outside of healthcare. Very nice work! arxiv.org/abs/2401.02369

If Ronnie O'Sullivan was Alexander the Great

This study by Wu et al. investigated the medical knowledge capability of large language models, specifically in the context of their internal medicine subspecialty multiple-choice test-taking ability. Read it here: nejm.ai/4b29Muo

Life on the Appia Antica #Rome

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