Rami's Readings #31
Welcome to Rami’s Readings #31 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, videos, Twitter threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering technology, business, culture, fashion, travel and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.
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🤖 AI Reads
Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
Notes: Masterclass in how to write a ML paper.
Llama 2 is about as factually accurate as GPT-4 for summaries and is 30X cheaper
Notes: Wild!
SAM-Med2D
Notes: Segment Anything Model fine-tuned to natural image segmentation with improved results.
LLaSM: Large Language and Speech Model
Notes: LinkSoul.ai, 01.ai (anyone know these two companies?) and Peking University.
AnomalyGPT: Detecting Industrial Anomalies using Large Vision-Language Models
Notes: For friends working in industrial software & embedded environments, read this. Also, from China-based researchers.
💼 Business Reads
The Tropical Island With the Hot Domain Name
Notes: Remember the .ly craze a few years ago?
Dominican Republic’s Income Convergence Signals Path to Advanced Economy Status in Coming Decades
Notes: IMF paper. Time to go visit!
Google invests $1.7B in Ohio data center campuses
Notes: Good news for Ohio.
Congratulations to Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Notes: The President-Elect of Singapore. Member of Board of Trustees of the WEF.
🔀 Other Reads
Blood Donations ‘Urgently Needed’ Ahead Of Labor Day, Washington Officials Say
Notes: For my Seattle-based readers.
Happy Labor Day weekend! That is all for this week. Signing off from Redmond.