Ten from the weekend 07/03: A few interesting reads that I came across

Focus areas: Blockchain| ML-AI| Data science/Analytics applications |eSports| CRISPR| Design thinking

1. Fantastic read: The network state by Balaji S (new book also on amazon). https://book.1729.com/tns.pdf |podcast episode| https://tim.blog/2022/07/04/balaji-srinivasan-network-state/

2. http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html || landed here reading an article — and its trove of other items from Paul I wasn’t aware of before http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html

3. https://venturebeat.com/2022/06/22/cerebras-systems-sets-record-for-largest-ai-models-ever-trained-on-one-device/

4. https://ark-invest.com/articles/analyst-research/productivity-gains-could-propel-the-ai-software-market-to-14-trillion-by-2030/

5. https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/why-its-time-data-centric-artificial-intelligence

6. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-04/hackers-claim-theft-of-police-info-in-china-s-largest-data-leak || Feel free to dig through the twitter thread for more links || https://www.wsj.com/articles/vast-cache-of-chinese-police-files-offered-for-sale-in-alleged-hack-11656940488

7. https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000008314175/china-government-surveillance-data.html

8. Target CIO Mike McNamara makes a cloud declaration of independence || https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/target-cio-mike-mcnamara-multicloud#toggle-gdpr

9. DeepFashion-MultiModal: Text2Human: Text-Driven Controllable Human Image Generation: https://github.com/yumingj/DeepFashion-MultiModal

10. Documents reveal McKinsey’s role increasing opioid sales until 2019: https://www.axios.com/2022/07/01/mckinsey-opioid-documents

Semantic Image Synthesis via Diffusion Models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00050