What I read this week...

Transformers, Open AI Dev Day, and Humane’s AI Pin

I’ve been reading up on deep learning from first principles of vanilla neural networks (pictured above). Stay tuned :)

• Attention? Attention! (Lilian Weng)

• ViViT: A Video Vision Transformer (Google Research)

• Video Transformers: A Survey (Selva et al.)

• Behold Modular Forms, the ‘Fifth Fundamental Operation’ of Math (Quanta) —shoutout to John Voight!

• Understanding LSTM Networks (Christopher Olah’s Blog)

• The OpenAI Keynote (Stratechery) 

• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks (Andrej Karpathy)

• Tutorial 11: Vision Transformers (Lightning AI)

• TimeSformer: A new architecture for video understanding (Meta AI)

• OpenAI Updates + Datadog Gives the All-Clear? (Clouded Judgement)

• Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI? And is there a dark secret at the core of the entire driverless car industry? (Gary Marcus)

• The Workers Who Make Your Clothes Want Higher Pay. Who Should Pony Up? (WSJ)

• His Job Was to Make Instagram Safe for Teens. His 14-Year-Old Showed Him What the App Was Really Like. (WSJ)

• What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong (Stratechery) 

• Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd Steps Down (WSJ)

• The Time Series Transformer (Towards Data Science)

• Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT (Stephen Wolfram)

• What is Batch Processing? (AWS)

• All Charged Up: EV Battery Sales Soar 54% YoY in H1, CATL Leads (Counterpoint)

• OpenAI Data Partnerships (OpenAI)

• Inside the race to develop $500 "super shoes" (Axios)

• LVMH to Buy Eyewear Brand Favored by the Stars (WSJ)

• A global hit: AI translation tools help singers break down borders (Semafor)

• Plaid Officially Jumps Into Lending (Workweek) 

• Microsoft pushes the boundaries of small AI models with big breakthrough (Semafor)

• New synthetic data techniques could change the way AI models are trained (Semafor)

• The benefits and limitations of generating synthetic data (Syntheticus) 

• Blue Owl’s Dyal Plans $2 Billion Middle-Market Stakes Fund (Bloomberg)

• An AI just negotiated a contract for the first time ever — and no human was involved (CNBC) 

• Eroom's Law (Matt Rickard)

• The Lucretius Problem (Matt Rickard)

• Humane officially launches the AI Pin, its OpenAI-powered wearable (The Verge) 

• Large Language Models Understand and Can Be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli (Li et al.)

• What's the big deal with Generative AI? Is it the future or the present? (Jay Alammar)

• Shein Targets Up to $90 Billion Valuation in US IPO, Sources Say (Bloomberg) 

• AI is Eating The World (Jay Alammar)

• Stunning fall: WeWork files for bankruptcy (Axios)

• The fall and rise and fall of WeWork (Axios) 

• Tech as a Default Career (Kevin Neichen)

• Summary of Steven R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (QuickMBA)

What I listened to this week

• OpenAI DevDay, Opening Keynote (OpenAI)

• Neural Networks Part 13: Attention (StatQuest)

• Neural Networks Part 14: Transformers (StatQuest)

Song of the week

I Gotta Find Peace of Mind - Live by Ms Lauryn Hill

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and I cannot wait. Thanks again for reading, and a have great week yall!