Rami's Readings #48 - Swifties take over Japan
Welcome to Rami’s Readings #48 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, papers, videos, and X (formerly known as Twitter) threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering AI, technology, business, culture, fashion, travel, and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.
🤖 AI Reads
Meta Releases Code Llama 70B
Notes: It’s here! The 70B model reaches GPT-4’s initial performance with a larger context window. And there is a fine-tuned Python version.
MM-LLMs: Recent Advances in MultiModal Large Language Models
Notes: Published on January 25th.
Open Language Model: OLMo
Notes: An open source model from the Allen Institute in #Seattle! Paper on arXiv.
Prompting Guide for Code Llama
Notes: I love this prompt engineering guide. They recently updated it for Code Llama 70B.
SQLCoder-70B
Notes: Will SQL ever go extinct? ORMs tried to replace SQL queries, now LLMs. Thoughts?
The Little Book of Deep Learning
Notes: Actually little.
Nvidia CEO Says Nations Seeking Own AI Systems Will Raise Demand
Notes: Expect this trend to continue.
AI in Rx - from Weill Cornell Medicine
Notes: Sent in by a classmate.
A Comprehensive Survey of Compression Algorithms for Language Models
Notes: Also see LLMLingua.
🎨 Fashion & Culture Reads
The Selective Backlash to Fashion AI Last year, around the time of the Barbie movie release, Victoria’s Secret asked Maison Meta, a generative AI agency based in New York, to help them create a Barbie-inspired campaign. Maison Meta created AI images of women wearing Victoria’s Secret products. The brand worried about the AI people looking too real, and asked Maison Meta to make them appear… Back Row · 2 years ago · 15 likes · 4 comments · Amy Odell The Selective Backlash to Fashion AI
My Mom the Janitor: How ‘Invisible’ Workers Keep Our Cities Clean
Notes: From Sixth Tone #China
Japan Assures Fans Taylor Swift Can Make It to the Super Bowl
Notes: Swifties take over the Japanese Embassy in the US. #Fearless Also The Rolling Stones on the matter.
💼 Business Reads
High-End Home Prices Set for Slump From Hong Kong to New York
Notes: San Francisco real estate is still declining. You would think with many RTO mandates that this would stop.
Evergrande’s Liquidation Is a New Low in China’s Property Crisis
Notes: Skeptical this court ordered liquidation will be upheld.
Meta’s $197 Billion Surge Is Biggest in Stock-Market History
Notes: Congratulations to friends at Meta. 😲 But also… Zuck…
Companies Need a Better Read on What Their Workers Actually Do
Notes: The only metric I care about is how often I am in a flow state at work.
One efficiency expert made a splash last year with a book that simply argued that “feeling good” was the best path to productivity.
I dream of coffee shop coding vibes post surfing and hot yoga in San Diego. My best flow-state day ever. (Not me on the surfboard).
That is all for this week. Signing off from Redmond, WA.