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“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.” Novelist Doris Lessing was awarded the 2007 literature prize when she was 88 years old. She was and still is the oldest person to receive the award.

This year’s #NobelPrize laureate in physics John Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. The Hopfield network can store patterns and has a method for recreating them. When the network is given an incomplete or slightly distorted pattern, the method can find the stored pattern that is most similar. Read more about the research that led to this year’s physics prize: bit.ly/3Bi9H8u

The 2024 #NobelPrize laureates in physics used tools from physics to construct methods that helped lay the foundation for today’s powerful machine learning. John Hopfield created a structure that can store and reconstruct information. Geoffrey Hinton invented a method that can independently discover properties in data and which has become important for the large artificial neural networks now in use. Although computers cannot think, machines can now mimic functions such as memory and learning. This year’s physics laureates have helped make this possible. Using fundamental concepts and methods from physics, they have developed technologies that use structures in networks to process information.

Don’t mistake burnout for laziness. When people show a steady decline in effort and output, it’s often a sign of exhaustion. They don't need carrots and sticks to motivate them. They need people to demand less of them and provide more support to them.

Urging people to be positive doesn’t boost their resilience. It denies their reality. When times are tough, we don’t need good vibes only. We need a hand to keep us steady through all the vibrations. Strength doesn’t come from forced smiles. It comes from feeling supported. link.chtbl.com/RTAdam

A visualization of different sorting algorithms

In your career, the most valuable currency is not how much you know. It's how well you learn. In a stable world, success depended on building expertise. In a changing world, it hinges on evolving expertise. Potential is no longer defined by ability. It's a function of agility.

A sign of emotional intelligence is refusing to let feelings dictate decisions. Feelings are electrical signals in the brain. We don't choose every sensation, but we are responsible for how we react. Emotions are rarely calls to action. They're usually cause for reflection. link.chtbl.com/RTAdam

It’s often overlooked that MLK’s dream was divisive in his day. Resistance is not a signal of failure. It’s often a clue that you’re ahead of your time. Visions for change elicit opposition from defenders of the status quo. Rocking the boat is a precursor to progress.

Hoarding talent backfires. Managers who fail to promote people wind up with weaker teams. Study of 96k job applications: Bosses who advanced their employees attracted more & better internal candidates for open positions. People gravitate to leaders who invest in their growth.

Novices seek praise. Recognizing strengths builds confidence to keep going. Experts crave criticism. Seeing shortcomings reveals avenues to keep growing. Preferring corrections to compliments is a sign of skill. The better you get, the more determined you become to get better.

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The best cure for loneliness is not more frequent interaction. It's more meaningful interaction. Many people enjoy solitude. They can spend up to ~75% of their time alone without feeling isolated. What matters most for well-being is the quality of connections, not the quantity.

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Hugging Face and AMD partner on accelerating state-of-the-art models for CPU & GPU platforms For years, brilliant folks have failed to make deep learning work well on AMD hardware, giving NVIDIA a lead. Time for the open-source community to figure it out? huggingface.co/blog/huggingfa…

QR codes created using Stable Diffusion and ControlNet. This is Art.

Statistics 110: Probability - Harvard Inarguably, one of the classic/world's best probability courses on the web!! youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Alternation and Exploration has been demonstrated in works going back to the 1930s (i.e., well before the early form of RL was published).

Maze design is a key aspect of the experiments! #TIL

Interesting read on 'Memory, Cognitive Maps and Foraging Strategies' psycnet.apa.org/record/1979-30…

A survey of LLMs with a practical guide and evolutionary tree. Number of LLMs from Meta = 7 Number of open source LLMs from Meta = 7 The architecture nomenclature for LLMs is somewhat confusing and unfortunate. What's called "encoder only" actually has an encoder and a decoder (just not an auto-regressive decoder). What's called "encoder-decoder" really means "encoder with auto-regressive decoder" What's called "decoder only" really means "auto-regressive encoder-decoder" github.com/Mooler0410/LLM…

Mathematics. This interesting array is called a Magic Hexagon. Can you figure out why? (It appears to have been discovered in 1895.) Source: tinyurl.com/ycclwmp5