Ten from the weekend 11/20: A few interesting reads that I came across
Focus areas: Blockchain| ML-AI| Data science/Analytics applications |eSports| CRISPR| Design thinking
1. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cerebras-reveals-andromeda-a-135-million-core-ai-supercomputer
2. TSMC approaching 1 nm with 2D materials breakthrough: https://www.edn.com/tsmc-approaching-1-nm-with-2d-materials-breakthrough/
4. https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-alexa-job-layoffs-rise-and-fall-2022-11
5. Nike NFTs//Digital assets: https://www.swoosh.nike/
6. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-11/softbank-vision-fund-loses-7-2-billion-as-writedowns-persist || https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiger-global-slashes-value-of-private-tech-bets-by-billions-documents-show
7. Future of LLMs: https://exchange.scale.com/public/videos/llms-generative-models-foundation-openai-greg-brockman?
8. Crypto carnage: FTX collapse:
a. https://www.nansen.ai/research/blockchain-analysis-the-collapse-of-alameda-and-ftx
b. https://trungphan.substack.com/p/ftx-the-32b-implosion
c. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-11-14/ftx-s-balance-sheet-was-bad || https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-18/odd-lots-podcast-matt-levine-on-sam-bankman-fried-ftx-and-alameda?srnd=oddlots
9. https://jmcdonnell.substack.com/p/the-near-future-of-ai-is-action-driven?
10. Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2206625119
Monolith: Real Time Recommendation System With Collisionless Embedding Table: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07663