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But, paradoxically, crypto is much *more* reliant on trust than the rest of finance and business. It only works if people believe in it.
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Bloomberg
Rigid adherence to any prioritization model, even one that’s conceptually correct like mine that prioritized the company and team first, will often lead to the right list of priorities but a team that’s got too little energy to make forward progress. It’s not only reasonable to violate perfectly correct priorities to energize yourself and your team, modestly violating priorities to energize your team in pursuit of a broader goal is an open leadership secret. Leadership is getting to the correct place quickly, it’s not necessarily about walking in the straightest line.
Manage Your Priorities and Energy.
Irrational Exuberance
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
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