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There is a story about the manager of Iron Maiden, one of the greatest metal bands of all time. At a dinner honoring the band, a young agent comes up to him and says how much he admires his skillful work in the music business. The manager looks at him and says, “HA! You think I am in the music business? No. I’m in the Iron fucking Maiden business.” The idea being that you want to *be in the business of YOU*. Not of your respective industry. Not of the critics. Not of the fads and trends and what everyone else is doing.
37 Pieces of Career Advice I Wish I’d Known Earlier
Ryan Holiday
Modern generative models are generic data transformation engines, able to take one type of data (e.g, a script) and port it into another (e.g, a song, a poem). This is a deep and weird idea the more you think about it. What would you do if you can ‘transpose’ anything into anything else? RIFFUSION is a creative example of what happens when you play with this idea.
Import AI 313: Smarter Robots via Foundation Models; Stanford Trains a Small Best-in-Class Medical LM; Baidu Builds a Multilingual Coding Dataset
Jack Clark
Here’s the crazy part though—each side doesn’t see the others’ comments. Even when they keep scrolling down, women don’t see the pro-boyfriend comments. The same goes for men and the pro-girlfriend comments. They don’t see both sides, just their side. It’s like each user is experiencing the crowd’s reaction in their own isolated world.
Digital Déjà Vu
Nick Maggiulli
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