Year: 2017

I have always been firmly convinced that human progress is severely constrained by our capability to connect the dots (across multiple disciplines and within a single one).

In the past, it was too hard to get access to the dots.
Now the dots are getting too many.

A 13yo explains relativity. It took her 200h of filming to produce this 3min video. And that’s the kind of effort companies should expect (and allow) from their speakers to create impactful presentations.

https://t.co/xlwzgSC7xI https://t.co/cEZeWYuA3h

I disagree on the “indistinguishable” (you can tell from the last example on the research paper site) but it’s incredibly close > Google’s voice-generating AI is now indistinguishable from humans https://t.co/K5VIxC9vwB

The smartphone case owner. https://t.co/f8TOp9qXkZ

Most people don’t day trade bitcoin, but all of us day trade something. We’re hooked into something volatile, easily measured and emotional. We overdo our response to news, good or bad, and let it distract us from the long-term job of living a useful life https://t.co/X1Q4mFiEwj

From “Deep Learning” (Goodfellow, Bengio, Courville), Chapter 9 (Convolutional Networks) – the bible of #AI / Machine Learning.

This is one of the things I was referring to when I said that asking developers to learn everything is “unrealistic, unfair and won’t work.” https://t.co/Ckv2un3pxy

@virtualsteve https://t.co/xA15J4weBo

FCC approves first wireless ‘power-at-a-distance’ charging system https://t.co/x291iynO0c

On one side, there’s an unprecedented exposure to new discoveries.
On the other side, the pace of discovery is astonishing and accelerating.

It’s more possible than ever to access and build knowledge, but we can’t cope with it. Who finds a way will rule the world.

@anBenedetti And these are groundbreaking books, not just good books.