The postdoc system is broken. Postdocs should be paid market wages unless the American Medical Association wants to extend its oligopoly to guarantee 1 faculty job per postdoc.

First model with mamba model to outperform transformer-only architectures, with 256k context to boot! Curious if will be better than Mixtral 8x7B in real world testing. ai21.com/blog/announcin…

the AI wearable situation is spiraling into a million Tab copycats (which is the MVP for a LLM device)

but the big swing that *actually unlocks* next gen from factors is silent speech transcription so you can get text input without thumbs, talking out loud, or a brain implant.

Mesmerizingly beautiful (zoom in and out): oimo.io/works/life/

First ever post made just by thinking, using the Telepathy Telepathy device!

Super cool demo, and looks like some great software for running the computer control. I do wonder, why is this hardware? Everything could be done as an app on my iPhone, and have a screen to boot. Presumably, there’s a business reason, but hard to see the product reason.

Does anyone use anything on the GPT Store? I haven’t since trying a couple on launch. I’m curious if there’s something useful on there, or if it’s pretty much ignored by users. techcrunch.com/2024/03/20/ope…

Excited to see this out! Huge effort by Tyler Benster.

Progress in noninvasive SSIs has been extremely fast-paced. In just a few years, we've seen large/open vocabulary WERs go from 68% --> 28% --> 12%.

Suggests we haven't seen peak performance just quite yet :)

Demos like this make AGI look just around the corner. Question is: is it around the corner like autonomous cars (e.g. high-end solutions are fully autonomous under reasonable constraints) or quantum computing (perpetually 10 yrs out).

It’s a story of how academia goes wrong. And how it self-corrects.

A must read for everyone:

2020 - A discovery of room-temperature superconductivity is published in Nature by Ranga Dias

2023 - The second RT superconductor is reported by Dias in Nature

2024 - The first paper…