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2022 was a remarkable year for the field of Machine Learning AI as years of landmark research ideas culminated into applications with strong PMF. Image generation and dialog systems surpassed most of our expectations, shifting near-term upper-bound on coherence and reasoning abilities of these approaches. Products like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney,
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This is an ongoing note around Pytorch and its quirks. PyTorch is a library for Neural Net model building using Python. It provides: a) an array-based programming model, known as Tensors b) an automatic differentiation engine, utilizing the chain-rule of differentiation c) hardware acceleration through cuDNN, parallelization, and graph optimizers
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Can current blockchain architectures scale securely? Blockchains are a secure database technology suitable for fintech or other peer-to-peer interactions. This ability to interact with peers without centralized intermediaries offers a unique value-proposition: sovereignty. The promise of Bitcoin is sovereign currency, free from any one government's policies. The promise
In some ways, it is back to the roots. Social media posts, even on on informative topics, tend to gravitate toward the platform objectives: followership and engagement. I contributed to one and I appreciate the nuances and care taken to craft a platform that is safe and engaging for all.