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May 13

3 Steps to 6 Figures: How to Survive AI

Table of Contents Introduction Programming Jobs Job Market What Top Companies Look For The Technical Interview Study Strategy The Wrong Way The Right Way What Companies Are Evaluating Prerequisites for Algorit…

BowTiedFox ∙ 93 LIKES

Jefferderp

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Jan 3

This was great.

Do you have a good litmus test for knowing whether someone would become bored/burnt out after a couple years?

Akash Mohan

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Oct 3

this was very informative. can you write a guide for senior system design interviews

BowTied Bull

May 13

Ultimate Tech Update - Acquiring $200K+ Out of School and Surviving AI

Level 3 - DeFi Virgin Analyst

This is a definitive guide to gettting ahead in Tech. Has been a while and is *extremely* detailed and lengthy. This is only for people interested in: 1) going into tech, 2) making a career out of it or 3) helping someone else break into the field

BowTied Bull ∙ 96 LIKES

BowTiedFox

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thank you as always Bull, forever indebted to you for changing my life

always open to feedback and questions, let me know if I am incorrect or something could be improved

(btw I'm banned on twitter til Friday for telling someone with addiction to try fasting lmao so I will be camping out here in substack comments until then)

BowTied_Raptor

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I've hired a few data scientists at our quant shop.

this is pretty bang on, and works great for data engineers & Machine Learning Engineers too

Rich on Tech

May 18

AI Wars: Google vs ChatGPT

Plus, the best way to send a fax for free.

Dear friends, Busy week in the world of tech. I was up in Mountain View for Google’s biggest event of the year, Google IO. It’s a developer’s conference where programmers learn more about the tools available to build apps, but there is always a more consumer-facing keynote describing all of the neat things Google is working on.

Rich DeMuro ∙ 10 LIKES

The Free Press

May 14

Truth Should Not Be a Casualty of War. Plus. . .

The real problem with AI dating. The commencement speech the class of 2024 needs to hear. And much more.

On today’s Front Page from The Free Press: the commencement speech the class of 2024 needs to hear, our coming dating dystopia, and much more. But first, Free Press senior editor Peter Savodnik on a major story that has gone curiously overlooked.

Oliver Wiseman ∙ 445 LIKES

Carol Hasidim

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Two things:

Anyone who actually believed the casualty figures coming out of the Hamas Health Ministry is a fool, a malicious liar, or both. Government officials the world over fall into the latter category.

Similarly, anyone who believes that students at Princeton or Brown actually went on a hunger strike -i.e. only consuming water for days - is an idiot. Those privileged little pansies wouldn't be able to hold out for 24 hours.

Evans W

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***Yawn***

I have to say that todays drop was about as predictable as me sitting here drinking my coffee.

Same re-hashed Israel/Gaza/Palestine storyline except now yesterdays lies about casualties have been replaced with some new soon to be exposed lies. That whole thing over there is a complete cluster fuck with both sides screaming (and shooting) at each other about what the history and facts are.....who has rights, who doesn't.....you killed this many....no, you killed that many, we were here first.....no, we were here first. It's exhausting to the point of me barely giving a shit anymore. Figure it out and let me know how many hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars it cost and how many thousands of humans got shoved into the meat grinder. I'll be the one sitting over here in the corner playing wordle.

Also, the most privileged kids on the planet.....ever.....since the beginning of ever, still can't believe they aren't the most oppressed human beings ever because they are absolutely miserable after spending 4 years and a quarter million dollars being indoctrinated by tenured psychopaths. I can only assume pharmaceutical industry is drooling over the army of lifetime customers suffering from university professor induced PTSD they'll get to sell SSRI's to for the next 6 decades. Thank god we've allowed 40 million illegals to enter the country as we'll need someone who's actually qualified for employment. Anywho......I'm adding Pfizer to my portfolio today......its bound to be a stone cold lock if you're long.

I'm off to read Public & Racket News.......y'all have a great day.

KERRY CASSIDY NEWS & VIEWS

May 12

Q THE AI

CIVIL WAR.. GIVE ME LIBERTY OR ....

I’m an American and I am wondering where should I move? If we are about to experience anything remotely like the bombing of Japan during WWII I don’t think I want to stay here and wait for it. Because I can’t fight a bomb or a nuke with my bare hands. Can you?

KERRY CASSIDY ∙ 21 LIKES

Susan Ashcraft

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Great “wrap up” Kerry. You have a knack for sorting the threads. I hope something good comes of it.

MaHa ShaHala

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What all of you don’t understand is that every word you speak creates your reality. I’ll say nothing more. Think about it. God did not create the mind. The fall from Its love created the mind, this matrix, and the only way out of all this is to do the inner work, to dissolve the mind, merging it with your Divine heart. I’ve been spewing the same message for decades and it just doesn’t fit the scenario that the dark want to hear….Best

Wonder Tools

May 9

Surprising ways to prompt AI 😳

Push AI to be bolder and stranger for creative inspiration

Summary: AI outputs can be disappointingly conventional. To avoid predictable responses, I like instructing AI engines to be strange. Unexpected, radical ideas can be useful for creative inspiration. Odd perspectives stretch my thinking. Read on for specific ways to prompt AI to break beyond its bland boundaries.

Jeremy Caplan ∙ 59 LIKES

John Fogg

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May 9

Brilliant is good (and the above was), but many times better is USEFUL! Thanks so much Jeremy 🩷

❤️ Jenny Blake

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May 9

These are so good!! I love every example, and the images. Wonderful to meet you last night, and I’m thankful to now be subscribed! 🙏🥳

Interconnects

May 15

OpenAI chases Her

ChatGPT left the textbox and where AI is leading society.

Tom and I recorded an episode of The Retort on OpenAI’s culture shift with this announcement — it’ll be out Friday. Subscribe if that sounds interesting!

Nathan Lambert ∙ 26 LIKES

Marcus on AI

May 17

Jane Goodall, AI Skeptic

Your loyal correspondent goes gaga for Goodall

A bit over a decade ago, the legendary primatologist Jane Goodall and I both appeared in the same documentary, Surviving Progress, executive produced by Martin Scorsese and watched by very few. (Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 71 and describes it as “Stephen Hawking, Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood and others weigh in with their thoughts on whether the pitfalls…

Gary Marcus ∙ 131 LIKES

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What an inspiring life. 90 years old and still growing strong.

Anyways

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Love this for you!

Design Better

May 8

Design Thinking + AI Workshop

Come play, experiment, and future-proof your design job

Update: wow, that happened quickly! This event sold out within an hour of us posting it. We want to make sure everyone who signed up for our premium membership gets access so will be building out more dates shortly. Please fill out this short form so we have you on our list and can get you access.

Eli Woolery and Bobby Hughes ∙ 11 LIKES

The Generalist

May 16

Modern Meditations: Tyler Cowen

The renowned economist shares his thoughts on AI teddy bears, nuclear risk, and darkly plausible futures.

The Generalist delivers in-depth analysis and insights on the world's most successful companies, executives, and technologies. Join us to make sure you don’t miss our next briefing. I’m excited to share today’s Modern Meditations, an interview with Tyler Cowen. For those unfamiliar with his work, Tyler is one of the most inf…

Mario Gabriele ∙ 49 LIKES

The Intrinsic Perspective

May 16

AI-balloon pops, Pasteur fights H5N1 in cattle, Tetris dreams, and the origins of "shut up and calculate"

Desiderata #25: links and commentary

Today’s Desiderata is for everyone. It’s been a while since I permanently locked the series for paid subscribers, so newcomers to The Intrinsic Perspective might not know what they’re missing. It’s a regular round-up of links and commentary, as well as an Open Thread and Ask Me Anything in the comments (feel free to make use of this). If you get somethi…

Erik Hoel ∙ 78 LIKES

Connie Rossetti

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In the 1980's I was a programmer analyst. At times I would spend hours trying to figure out why the logic in my program was not working. Then an odd thing happened, I found at times I would wake up at 2am and the answer would come to me. Then I took it a step further. Instead of banging my head against the wall and staying late at work, I would simply look the program over and go home at 5pm. The next day I would simply have to look at the program and something would tell me that some code or indicator needed to be taken out. The program would then work and I didn't need to bother myself as to logically why. I just went on to my next project. It made my job a lot easier to let my brain figure it out while I slept.

PS. a lot of problems can be solved this way, I call putting it into the brain queue.

Brian Gordon

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Re #9: in high school, I ran track and one day the coach came to me (never sure exactly why) and said we need a pole vaulter for the team. He didn’t have any experience in coaching the pole vault, so he had arranged that I would spend a couple of intensive days learning the basics with another coach at a rival HS who was experienced in teaching the event. We spent about 3 hours or so the first day and then another 3 or 4 the second. Technique-wise, the ‘trick’ to pole vaulting is getting the pole to ‘bend’, which is how you get real height. The whole thing is pretty counterintuitive: you run full speed and jab a gigantic stick into the ground, flip your body upside down while spinning 180 as the world (and your inner ears) tumble around in completely new ways. Well, the night after that second day, after I had first successfully bent the pole, was wild; in my dreams, I was ‘vaulting’ (but not even in a physically realistic way/setting) over and over again as the world contorted in all sorts of unreal ways. It was, phenomenologically, the most unusual dream I can recall. It definitely felt like my brain was trying to figure out how to navigate a new kind of physical space - which it was - very much in keeping with the overfitting hypothesis.

Future of Talent Weekly Newsletter

May 15

Talent Architect or AI Copilot?

New Roles for Recruiters - Part I

What do recruiters do when AI automates most of what they do? What skills should they acquire to survive? How can they continue to add value and ROI?Future of Talent Weekly Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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Glyde Talent

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Good article Kevin. It will be interesting in stage 8 when the hiring manager who doesn't really want to engage in the hiring process has no human to blame for poor results.

Lenny's Newsletter

Apr 30

How Perplexity builds product

Johnny Ho, co-founder and head of product, explains how he organizes his teams like slime mold, uses AI to build their AI company, and much more

👋 Hey, Lenny here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free edition ✨ of Lenny’s Newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month:

Lenny Rachitsky ∙ 189 LIKES

Harshal Patil

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May 1

Love perplexity, use it every day, and Glad to read more about the behind-the-scenes.

Mostafa Fotouhi

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May 3

I like these articles, I got things that helped me in my career, thanks a lot.

I didn't know Perplexity but I would like to test it

Rory’s Always On Newsletter

May 18

AI in the NHS: Pearse Keane, Still Dreaming

The long road from code to clinic

For my second interview in this series about AI and the NHS I have chosen a man who can see both the enormous potential of the technology and the challenges in getting it deployed in the health service. Pearse Keane is a consultant ophthalmologist at London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital and a Professor of Artificial Medical Intelligence. His life changed in…

Rory Cellan-Jones ∙ 21 LIKES

Irene

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I’m hopeful that a change in government will bring a fresh and positive attitude to modernising the NHS. 🤞

Tim Coote

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In mainstream software development, we moved away from documenting the code to using tests to document the code as Test Driven Design evolved and became a mainstay of Continuous Delivery. Prior the shift I reviewed many systems that worked perfectly according to the documentation, and the manual test plans, but which didn't in practice, and which were impossible to change.

TDD/CD have been used to provide auditable implementations in financial services, why not in medicine?

Chamath Palihapitiya

May 14

2023 Annual Letter

Social Capital Performance Summary To the supporters and friends of Social Capital: This is the sixth of our annual letters where we share our reflections, key observations, and learnings over the past year, including how the economic and technological trends of the year have shaped our thinking and our investment portfolio.

Chamath Palihapitiya ∙ 118 LIKES

Calvin Marks

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For Fund II, how is the DPI higher than TVPI?

Jeffrey Carter

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Thank you for writing. We know that government always has an incentive to spend money on new technology. In the case of AI, do we think US spending will make any difference in success versus failure? We know if they regulate AI, it will hurt.

Future Media

May 15

Google's killer AI-steroid is targeting a news site near you

Search as you know it is ending, and being replaced by GenAI results written by Gemini, leaving publishers facing a potentially deadly crisis...

Hello from sunny Sydney where we literally live in the future because it’s tomorrow here already. And on that note, welcome to new readers from all over the world. Welcome then to the European Policy Centre in Brussels, The Open Markets Institute focusing on competition policy in New York, America’s Associated Press and Washington Post, Radio Canada, the…

Ricky Sutton ∙ 11 LIKES

Rory’s Always On Newsletter

May 14

AI in the NHS - Hype or Hope?

First in a series of conversations about AI and healthcare

If there is one area of human activity where artificial intelligence promises the most exciting and beneficial changes it is healthcare - or so my email inbox would have me believe. Even when I left my job as BBC Technology Correspondent two and a half years ago, press releases about robot surgeons or the automation of diagnostics via machine learning a…

Rory Cellan-Jones ∙ 33 LIKES

Mick Kelly

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Back when I was a computer programmer (I’m now retired), AI was regarded as a toolkit of bits and pieces to do boring but necessary tasks - like routing a print-out to an appropriate printer in an organisation with 2,000 of them.

I went on a training course to write full-blown AI systems and my first was a diagnostic system for lung diseases. These were acknowledged to be (on average) slightly superior to doctors but the input was entirely text input, which rendered them all but useless.

The current ‘revolution’ revolves around the ability of the systems to directly read X-rays, blood-tests, patient history etc, eliminating the need for someone to examine the input and tell the computer about it.

So I am very excited about the possibilities.

Stephen Twist

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An excellent, informative interview from Rory with Tom Whicher, brilliantly written as ever. Do I sense that the NHS is improving in recording useful pockets of digital data? Perhaps now we should ensure that they can seamlessly and safely interface? County Durham & Darlington NHS Trust's Organ Donation Committee is seeking to open a digital link between the donation register, the NHS App and the Electronic Patient Record. What are our chances of pulling that one off? Wish me luck!

The Cybersecurity Pulse 🖥️

May 13

Cybersecurity Innovation Pulse #45: 60+ Product Announcements at RSA. AI-Pocalypse. Recentering.

Covering May 2nd - May 11th, 2024

Welcome to Issue 45 of the Cybersecurity Innovation Pulse! I'm Darwin Salazar, Product Manager at Monad and a former Detection Engineer. Each week, I distill the latest and most exciting developments in cybersecurity innovation into digestible, bite-sized updates. If you’re serious about staying at the forefront of the latest in security products and in…

Darwin Salazar

How They Make Money

May 3

☁️ Amazon: Wild Margin Expansion

AI requires billions in Capex but it looks like money well spent

Welcome to the Friday edition of How They Make Money. Over 100,000 subscribers turn to us for business and investment insights. In case you missed it: 🚖 Tesla: Robotaxi Pivot ♾ Meta: The Anti-Apple 🔎 Google: "A Positive Moment" 🍿 Netflix: Engagement Machine

App Economy Insights ∙ 59 LIKES

The Social Juice

May 12

What happened in Marketing: AI Ads for X & Meta, Reddit Search + Unusual partnerships

This Week: AI marries ad creative, Retail media hooks up with new partners and marketers blame Temu.

Happy Mother’s Day to everyone. If you are not a mother, give my wishes to your mother. Be Kind because marketing isn’t. Too many updates…. Hi, writing the newsletter takes time and efforts. If you do like to support my work. You can by choosing the option below to join the paid newsletter. (It’s your decision, I’m not your boss).

Jaskaran ∙ 8 LIKES

Thomas Rolfe

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Lots happening in search and AI. I wonder if SEOs need to start thinking more in terms of being “found” on multiple platforms instead of optimising for search engines. Consumer behaviour and tech are colliding to broaden the search and consideration step in the funnel.

Jen D

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Suuuuuper sad about Sparks & Honey-- incredible group of people truly dedicated to understanding the signals.

Hyperdimensional

May 13

What GPT-4o illustrates about AI Regulation

The important difference between regulating technology use and regulating conduct

We are in hot take territory, so forgive any inaccuracies. Sam Hammond of the Foundation for American Innovation published his 95 Theses on AI last week. I believe that this post, like some of Hammond’s other writing, suffers from misplaced negativity and overconfidence in some assertions (biology, for example, is

Dean W. Ball ∙ 6 LIKES

Sober Chistian Gentleman

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You might appreciate this podcast on the regulation deception:

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/ASYUrdDKEJb

Samuel Hammond

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You've correctly distinguished the difference between use and conduct and the problem with the EU approach (which I've also criticized), but given how you opened the piece, I was expecting you to make the case against model- or input- based ways of triaging oversight. Instead you illustrated my exact point, i.e. that the EU's use-based approach is ridiculously over-broad! I agree a conduct-based approach would be better, but that's still broader in scope, and tangential to, the case for using compute thresholds to pick out frontier labs for oversight. So how does this represent a misunderstanding on my part?

Rhetorica

May 14

AI Has Changed Learning, Why Aren't We Regulating It?

This fall, our students will have free access to OpenAI's most powerful model each time they use ChatGPT. Educati…

Marc Watkins ∙ 36 LIKES

Steve Fitzpatrick

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A couple of observations / reactions to Marc's post. 1) My sense is that most teachers have indeed moved on, whether for the reasons Marc said or for other, more pressing issues; 2) I'm not sure the free upgrade to the most powerful model is going to change the needle, either for teachers or students - many have not necessarily checked out, but they may not immediately see the improvement in the more advanced models which high frequency users take for granted; 3) administrators are mostly clueless and the tech folks who may be pushing for the kinds of regulatory concerns mentioned generally don't have the power or influence to put this on their plates; 4) the horse is already out of the barn and I fear it's already too late for most teachers to catch up given the ubiquity of products and speed with which change is occurring - the changes demoed by OpenAI yesterday were likely ignored by all but the most interested and curious educators; 5) perhaps this is the saving grace, but most students are clueless as well - on the plus side, I did an informal survey (you can view a copy of the survey here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8Bz6ui--7LEkP7L3w3QSPYoAtS4rqZI56YDiPRL2yqW4P1Q/viewform?usp=sf_link) of our HS students and over 80 percent recognized that AI can take away from their learning experience. Only 1/3 claimed they have used it and most (more than 50%) said they did not use because it was against the rules or they were ethically opposed (60/40 split on those two issues). Granted, this is one small survey from an independent school and who knows how honest they were being, but the responses align with what I have been seeing, I would love to see more data across a wider spectrum of schools and students. Bottom line is I'm not sure I see a major change in use this fall barring even more advanced models emerging but I don't think that will do it either. One teacher recently emailed me whether AI was just a fad or she had to learn it. I fear that's the norm.

David Harold Chester

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The useful information and knowledge being provided by the AI probably does not cover all the matters and details that the teacher is providing, so for the present, this personal method of teaching is still important.

In future when AI is more resourceful in what it can supply, the students will need to replace their gained knowledge about the subject of their study with a greater ability to operate the AI medium itself, and to use it for getting better knowledge. This strikes me as being at least as difficult as straight cources of their subject, because of how computer management is taught and how the limited power of AI can respond.

For example, when I ask a question, the Chatbot usually replies about the subject first appearing in my question, but pays little regard to the question itself!

Last Week in AI

May 6

Last Week in AI #269: Better evals for multimodal AI, new OpenAI lawsuits, Meta's AI ads tool troubles, AI startups focus on enterprise, and more!

Reka AI releases Vibe-Eval, 8 US newspapers sue OpenAI, Meta's AI ads tool's overspending problem, AI startups are pivoting to enterprise customers

Top News Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language models Reka AI introduces Vibe-Eval, a new evaluation suite designed to measure the progress of multimodal language models. Researchers from the company have created a set of challenging prompts to test the capabilities of these models, particularly focu…

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TheSequence

May 12

DeepMind’s AI-First Science Quest Continues with AlphaFold 3

The new model can predict the structure of many life's molecules such as proteins, DNA, RNA and several others.

Next Week in The Sequence: Edge 395: We dive into task-decomposition for autonomous agents. Review Google’s ReAct( Reason + Action) paper and the Bazed framework for building agents in TypeScript. Edge 396: With all the noise about Apple’s AI strategy, we dive into some of their recent research in Ferret-UI.

Jesus Rodriguez ∙ 6 LIKES

The official Ryan McBeth Substack

May 16

China, Patriots, AI and Drone Swarms

If China trains it, they will come.

Ryan McBeth ∙ 36 LIKES

Jonathan Teagan

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Now I'm just a Data Science student, who is more focused on the math behind AI than implementation, but I would humbly like to expand why having a model is beneficial, all the photos from the database have another thing in common, they are the center of attention in a war it is verly likely we wouldn't want our tools out in the open, additionally the ideas of lighting come into play, and also having drones that you are training taking the data is far better than the intermediary of a camera.

Daniel Kunkle

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A shotgun might work with a single FPV drone coming at you but we're gonna need some sort of EMP device to fry a drone swarm. I'm not sure even a laser defense system with AI assisted targeting could take out a large swarm fast enough. Then the EMP system need to operate in such a way it doesn't fry friendly equipment. I'm not even sure at this point. It seems like the current tactics being used are on the way to being as obsolete as marching line abreast in the US Civil War.

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