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When Did He First Go Through a Machine Learning Course?

Near the end of his studies, one of his best friends sent over the PDF slides for a course called machine learning. He went through them in a weekend. He first says that was 2013, then thinks it was 2014.

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Episode #506: How AI Turns Podcasts into Knowledge Engines ·

Crazy Wisdom

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  1. How Does Snipping Save a Podcast Insight?Snipping saves any insight you hear in a podcast by tapping your headphones.
  2. Can You Already Chat With a Podcast Episode?With any podcast, you can already chat with the episode in text. You ask your questions in text and get the answer back in text.
  3. Why Call Podcasts a Knowledge Capsule?He sees podcasts becoming the knowledge capsule of humanity in a similar way as blog posts. Very few people still write a blog post.
  4. Why Does Episode Chat Skip Vector Search?Chatting with a podcast episode keeps the entire episode in the context.
  5. Why Does AI-generated Audio Sound Like Writing?The optimization behind today's LLMs is not saving costs. The output is optimized for reading, which shows up when generating AI generated audio.
  6. Were Those Finance Models Machine Learning?He would not call what most of the quants, as they were called, were doing machine learning.
  7. What Is the Bitter Lesson as He Understands It?The bitter lesson, as he understands it, is that methods which rely predominantly or exclusively on compute will, in the long run, sooner or later outperform…
  8. Why Is the Founders Podcast Church for Entrepreneurs?The founders podcast by David Senra is still way too unknown.
  9. Why Reject the Claim That AI Will Use Up the Electricity to Heat Your House?He rejects the frame that AI companies are increasing your electricity bill until you have no electricity left to heat your house.

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