Topic
artificial intelligence
- Lexica.art
The community around Stable Diffusion, the open source AI project for text-to-image generation, has been buzzing. From nonexistent a year ago to thousands of contributors and forks and spinoffs. There's even a GUI mac…
- Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman on AI
This interview was one of the best overviews and deep dives on the current state of AI / machine learning I've heard yet. Daniel was at Apple in the early work on machine learning in iOS, and Nat Friedman was CEO of G…
- Weekend Reading: The Hour of the State, Location AI, and Mapillary Acquired
💬 The Hour of the State or Explosion From Below? Martin Gurri is one of the best minds we have for the current moment. Make sure to subscribe to his essays on the Mercatus Center's "The Bridge." The American people a…
- Weekend Reading: Virtual Oncology, Waymo Data, and the Future of Programming
🧪 Virtual Oncology A discussion among physicians on how oncology is changing and will likely continue to evolve in the wake of the coronavirus. Testing, chemo, and other treatment steps currently considered to be sta…
- Weekend Reading: Software Dependencies, Conversational AI, and the iPad at 10
🛠Dependency Drift: A Metric for Software Aging We've been doing some thinking on our team about how to systematically address (and repay) technical debt. With the web of interconnected dependencies and micro package…
- Daniel Kahneman on AI Podcast
I don't know what Lex Fridman is doing to recruit the guests he gets on his show (The Artificial Intelligence Podcast), but it's one of the best technical podcasts out there. This one is a good introduction to the wor…
- Weekend Reading: nvUltra, Progress, and Comma.ai
📝 nvULTRA This is a new notes app from Brett Terpstra (creator of nvALT) and Fletcher Penney (creator of MultiMarkdown). I used nvALT for years for note taking on my Mac. This new version looks like a slick reboot of…
- A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think
This is an interesting interview with Been Kim from Google Brain on developing systems for seeing how trained machines make decisions. One of the major challenges with neural network-based based deep learning systems…
- Rodney Brooks on Artificial Intelligence
I enjoyed this interview with robotics professor Rodney Brooks on EconTalk. The conversation around AI and automation in the popular conversation is so charged, it's good to hear a perspective that brings some reason…
- Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
This week was Amazon's annual re:Invent conference, where they release n + 10 new products for AWS (where n is the number of products launched at last year's event). It's mind-boggling how many new things they can shi…
- Weekly Links: Cars, AI Doctors, and the Mac Pro's Future
Cars and Second Order Consequences 🚙 The cascading effect of a world with no human drivers is my favorite "what if" to consider with the boom of electric, autonomous car development. Benedict Evans has a great analys…
- Weekly Links: AI, APFS, and MBA Mondays
Trying out a new thing here to document 3 links that caught my interest over the past week. Sometimes they might be related, sometimes not. It'll be an experiment to journal the things I was reading at the time, for p…
- Voice and the uncanny valley of AI
Great post from Benedict Evans on the state of voice computing in 2017. On wider answer domains and creating the uncanny valley: This tends to point to the conclusion that for most companies, for voice to work really…