such supreme skill, such supreme athletes. but eventually the human body has to give.

Introducing LAWN, a new family of optimizers for deep learning. LAWN can be added to most base optimizers like Adam and SGD to improve generalization performance, even at extremely large batch sizes! Link to paper - arxiv.org/abs/2108.05839

we'd love to hear your thoughts on our work Aaron Defazio Xuezhe Ma (Max)

1/ I hosted a live workshop last Thursday for 60 founders in Brazil It was fantastic...and just a hint at what i'll be doing more of all around the world 🌎!

I had an an engaging conversation with my friend Alex Johnson on Fintech Takes. We walk through large language models (LLMs), constraints in personalization and predictive applications, and AI's ability to reshape banking. fintechtakes.com/podcast/2024-0…

Finally, something on the impact of AI + banking that doesn’t sound handwavy.

This was *exactly* the goal of my conversation with Rohan. What are LLMs uniquely good at? What are their weaknesses? And where are the highest value areas inside of banks that they can be deployed in a compliant, low-risk way? This is the podcast you’re looking for.

Nubank acquires AI-for-banks startup Hyperplane tcrn.ch/3RLyQO1

Brazilian neobanking giant Nubank has acquired vertical AI for banking provider Hyperplane, which just raised its seed round 7 months ago. (h/t Simon Taylor for spotting this one) techcrunch.com/2024/06/26/nub…

7 months after raising a $6M seed round, AI startup Hyperplane was acquired by Nubank for an undisclosed sum. Nubank is usually 12 steps ahead of everyone, so it's worth trying to understand exactly what they do and why it's valuable to Nubank. Here's what you need to know 👇

India makes it to finals. Have a look. #OlympicGames

It is actually *easier* to work out every day than to work out 3x/week

The AI transition is coming - here's how I'm responding. With warnings of mass job displacement due to AI, I've been deeply concerned about the future workforce our children’s generation will enter. As this transition looms, we must devote more attention, experimentation, and

Four more years.