Related posts

Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  China is more likely to cooperate on AI safety if the US maintains a clear and comfortable lead in AI capabilities.

  AI alignmentChinaAmerica

  Their words

  But given the Chinese Communist Party’s power-seeking nature, it seems much more likely that China would agree to cooperate on AI safety if U.S. capabilities were comfortably ahead.

  America is still beating China in the AI racenoahpinion.blog

Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  AI video can now be generated faster than you can watch it.

  Their words

  Today is a very historical moment for AI video generation You can now generate AI video faster than you can watch it Before it'd take let's say 2-5 minutes to generate 15 seconds of video @fal made a post-trained Minimax H3 variant called Max which is 50x faster than the original but still maintains quality It generates 15 seconds of video in 9 seconds!

  levels.io

Professor at Stanford working on robot learning and meta-learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Most state-of-the-art robot foundation models have no memory at all, and that is what stops them doing long multi-step tasks.

  Their words

  So, you might be surprised to hear that most state-of-the-art foundation models for robotics have no memory or no context. They're just operating on the current sensor observations, the current camera readings, uh, and predicting actions based off of that.

  youtube.com

Physician and neuroscientist at the University of Washington; researches brain health, metabolism and athletic performance.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  We lose cognitive function with age largely because adults refuse to be bad at things, and so stop giving the brain the novel input that maintains it.

  Their words

  potentially one of the reasons why we lose lose cognitive function as we get older is because we stop giving our brain novel inputs or complex inputs that help maintain function, drive neuroplasticity. And I think one of the reasons that that happens is because adults hate being bad at things, right?

  youtube.com

Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The effectiveness of a plot twist depends on how carefully a story's point of view relates to its audience.

  Their words

  Point of view is essential for effective twists. Contrast Frozen with Fight Club, where the narrator's unreliability works because the entire story flows through his perspective and he maintains a direct relationship with the audience through fourth-wall breaks.

  Frozen's Lie: How a Tiny Detail Can Ruin a Storynateliason.com

Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.

• Recommendsrcmnd.app

  Avid Reader: A Life

  Their words

  If you want to understand that in-depth, grab a copy of Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb.

  feld.com

Essayist, journalist and independent researcher on Chinese politics, strategy and cultural history; author of the blog The Scholar's Stage.

• Recommendsrcmnd.app

  The Early Chinese Empires: Han and Qin

  Their words

  Mark Edward Lewis' The Early Chinese Empires: Han and Qin is probably the best companion piece to your Sima Qian readings

  scholars-stage.org

British novelist, author of the His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust trilogies.

• Lovedrcmnd.app

  Pereira Maintains

  Their words

  I think it's the most wonderful novel of the last 20 years. I can't think of anything I admire more.

  fivebooks.com