Ten from the weekend 3/2: A few interesting reads that I came across:
Focus areas: Blockchain| ML-AI| Data science/Analytics applications |eSports| CRISPR| Design thinking
1. https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2023ltr.pdf
2. The Four Wars of the AI Stack (Dec 2023 Recap): https://www.latent.space/p/dec-2023
3. Nvidia Hardware Is Eating the World: https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-hardware-is-eating-the-world-jensen-huang/
4. Christopher Nolan in Conversation: https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/video-christopher-nolan-in-conversation-f4f7f04a02de
5. Klarna’s CEO said its AI can do the same work as 700 people: https://qz.com/klarna-ceo-ai-chatbot-customer-service-700-jobs-layoffs-1851293680
6. EMO: Emote Portrait Alive — Generating Expressive Portrait Videos with Audio2Video Diffusion Model under Weak Conditions: https://humanaigc.github.io/emote-portrait-alive/
7. Intro to DSPy: Goodbye Prompting, Hello Programming!: https://towardsdatascience.com/intro-to-dspy-goodbye-prompting-hello-programming-4ca1c6ce3eb9 || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41EfOY0Ldkc&t=828s&pp=2AG8BpACAQ%3D%3D
8. Complying with the Digital Markets Act: DMA seems to have side effects on security: apple details risks and challenges: https://developer.apple.com/security/complying-with-the-dma.pdf
9. https://stability.ai/news/stable-diffusion-3? || https://pikalabs.org/pika-lips-syncing/ || https://openai.com/research/video-generation-models-as-world-simulators — video wars heat up.
10. https://python.langchain.com/docs/use_cases/query_analysis/
11. OpenAI Isn’t Open Enough for Elon: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-03-01/openai-isn-t-open-enough-for-elon || https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/musk-v-altman-openai-complaint-sf.pdf
12. https://huggingface.co/blog/matryoshka
Watermarking Makes Language Models Radioactive: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.14904.pdf
https://fortune.com/2024/02/28/what-is-price-of-bitcoin-etf-blackrock-record-high/ || https://www.theblock.co/data/crypto-markets/bitcoin-etf/spot-bitcoin-etf-flows
