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Sly as a Fox
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 ∙ 92 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 ∙ 77 LIKES
BowTiedFox
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3d
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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2d
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
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 ∙ 18 LIKES
Susan Ashcraft
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4d
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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4d
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
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 ∙ 421 LIKES
Carol Hasidim
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2d
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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2d
***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.
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 ∙ 54 LIKES
John Fogg
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7d
Brilliant is good (and the above was), but many times better is USEFUL! Thanks so much Jeremy 🩷
❤️ Jenny Blake
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7d
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! 🙏🥳
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 ∙ 9 LIKES
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 ∙ 186 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
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 ∙ 58 LIKES
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
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…
Last Week in AI ∙ 5 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 ∙ 7 LIKES
Thomas Rolfe
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3d
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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4d
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 ∙ 5 LIKES
Samuel Hammond
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2d
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?
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 ∙ 7 LIKES
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 ∙ 88 LIKES
Calvin Marks
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17h
For Fund II, how is the DPI higher than TVPI?
Jeff B
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11h
Bizarre question I know, but are the "8" numerals in the initial graphic upside down!?
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 ∙ 30 LIKES
Steve Fitzpatrick
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2d
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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2d
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!
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 ∙ 28 LIKES
Mick Kelly
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2d
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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2d
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!
Noahpinion
May 11

The death (again) of the internet as we know it

A few big changes are making the online world a more boring place to hang out.
The internet as we know it has already died once. In the 2010s, the rise of smartphones and mass social media (Twitter/Facebook/Instagram) caused what internet veterans refer to as an Eternal September event, for the entire internet. “Eternal September” is an old slang term for when a bunch of normal folk…
Noah Smith ∙ 497 LIKES
Jaundiced Baboon
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4d
Regarding spam/slop, I think a good solution could be to have social media accounts charge some small amount of money to make posts (say $0.001). Would be trivial for average users but could kill the business model of spammers who rely on putting out massive quantities of posts to only make a tiny return per post.
Although I'm sure people would complain about this even if it worked
Arnold Kling
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4d
My takeaway from Noah's essay is that some Internet companies can only increase revenue by worsening the user experience. It's hard to believe that this will end well for them.
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
Due Diligence and Art
May 11

"You are not allowed to think for yourself, peasant", says the Blob.

A short experiment conducted on a long car ride: trying to find one well-known quote using several modern AI chat bots.
During a recent long haul drive in the beautiful American West, my husband and I ran a non-scientific test of large language models (LLMs), aka artificial intelligence or AI. The objective of this study was to find good references for this quote: “Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.”
Sasha Latypova ∙ 374 LIKES
Timothy Winey
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5d
Some years ago in England, I saw a bumper sticker that read 'Think, it's not illegal, yet.'
misc.misc.misc
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5d
A tech person suggested the following to improve search results: Type - BEFORE:2023 - and then enter your search query. I have found this to be effective at improving results. But I agree, Google is virtually unusable since they put Prabhakar Raghavan in charge of search and he started optimizing Ad results over quality. Google recently replaced him, but it was with someone who was in charge of AI, so I wouldn't get my hopes up just yet.
Also, Brave (which I also use and love for ad blocking) is based on Chrome, aka Google.
The Shortcut
May 6

Rabbit R1 review: don't buy this AI device

We'll show you examples of where the Rabbit R1 AI device doesn't work as advertised, even after two updates last week. Our analysis remains unchanged.
Update: May 6, 2024 Good news: I’ve updated my Rabbit R1 review to note that the $199 AI device has longer battery life after two post-launch software updates. Bad news: neither update added the missin…
Matt Swider ∙ 14 LIKES
The Algorithmic Bridge
May 13

OpenAI GPT-4o: The New Best AI Model in the World. Like in the Movies. For Free

Everything you need to know (so far)
A blog about AI that’s actually about people OpenAI has delivered. In just a brief 25-minute live event they’ve changed the landscape completely. Here’s the image that best reflects why:
Alberto Romero ∙ 76 LIKES
Pascal Montjovent
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2d
Kudos for the quick turnaround on this in-depth piece about GPT-4o. It's impressive how you've captured the essence of this release, highlighting not just the technological advancements, but also the economic and societal implications, with such speed and clarity. Your ability to distill complex developments into an engaging narrative stands out. Once again.
Paul Toensing
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2d
Your crystal ball prediction from this last Saturday was fantastic Alberto! Now a couple of dumb questions: 1). Will this mean that everyone can access the GPT store via either 4 or 4o? 2) Will this multimodality change the very nature of the tools that we can create on the GPT store? The first question has great bearing on my new leaf fledgling business, which is to tap the power of custom GPTs. I always worried about perspective clients barking at the $20 a month. Is that now a done deal?
Marcus on AI
May 6

Microsoft and OpenAI’s increasingly complicated relationship

An AI Soap Opera in the making?
You might think that Microsoft owns 49% of OpenAI. But as far as I understand it doesn’t. It has a right to about 49% of a for-profit subsidiary of OpenAI’s profits, up until a very complex point that may require litigation to resolve, but the for-profit hasn’t made any profits, and the for-profit is owned by a non-profit. And I’ll be damned if I can ac…
Gary Marcus ∙ 61 LIKES
Gerben Wierda
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May 6
Is "it's complicated" a civilised way to say 'clusterfuck'? Or might all of thus mean that OpenAI has handed Microsoft the means to fill whatever mini-'moat' OpenAI had? Did OpenAI give away whatever crown jewels they had in that Microsoft deal that got them the compute they needed? Definitely intriguing.
Ko
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May 6
Relation"shop" haha is that deliberate?
Tech-enhanced Life’s Substack
May 13

AI and Older Adults: Help Dream Up Some Good Use Cases

Brainstorming Opportunity. Help Shape the Future.
It’s hard to avoid reading about new developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) these days — whether it’s the potential for AI to turn us all into paperclips, or the idea that AI will solve all of humanity’s problems, or more likely something between those two extremes.
Tech-enhanced Life ∙ 2 LIKES
Linda Bechter
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2d
AI can keep the memories of the elderly alive.
There are no limitations to how it can be used as a teaching tool. Using pix and film clips to keep people's attention.
Scheduled sessions with the elderly can keep track of their cognitive abilities and flag doctors or family when needed. Sessions with those with mental illness can track their progress too.
Linda Bechter
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2d
They will become an easy to access library of knowledge, every library will want one.
Design Better
May 13

AMA: Brad Frost, AI and design systems

Note: this AMA is replacing our May AMA which was originally with Leslie Witt; Leslie will be joining us over the summer instead. Join us for an AMA with Brad Frost, author of Atomic Design and design systems consultant. Few people have influenced the design system space as significantly as Brad. In his most recent work, he's been bringing AI tools into …
The Curiosity Department ∙ 8 LIKES

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