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From the research side of things, we continue to see a strong correlation between the size of the model and the performance on many popular benchmarks. Universities can no longer compete on this. Academics can still make valuable research contributions by showing new ways to do things that work on smaller, publicly available models. However, it does put a number of research goals out of the realm of possibility without collaborating with large tech firms.

a twitter discussion about zoom fatigue

Music in livestream performances, in this case livestreaming archives (if that is a thing)

A lot of frivolous things were to be seen at the F8 Deverloper's Conference, but behind the fun there is a tech revolution going on which will generate many other applications.

Face recognition, that's that thing Europeans don't want.

"improve the overall intelligence produced by the ecosystem. By providing means and channels to relate and transact value through relationships, platforms are the tools that are augmenting our global intelligence."

A truly innovative product would learn from the mistakes of predecessor platforms and would focus on things like privacy, security and accessibility. Instead, Clubhouse is yet another example of technology designed by, and largely for, privileged, white, Western and able-bodied men.

volumetric video is a thing

The time has come, said Re, for AI scientists to focus on higher-level tasks such as bringing domain expertise to AI rather than twiddling hyper-parameter settings of neural networks.

groups piloting a plane, it's a thing, virtually

futures practice lessons

don't confuse this with node.js. This is about visual programming. The thing is not ready yet for public use, but it's getting there.

Collaboration is one of the things students can learn using Minecraft

"'When someone seeks,' said Siddhartha, 'then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing. [...] Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.' " Hermann Hesse"