Software developer (@uwaterloo) passionate about AI + NLU. Canadian. Enjoys following SpaceX, Tesla, etc. Appalled by disparity between rich and poor.
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Daniel Bigham retweeted
In 2016,Tesla promised a US$35,000 Model 3, and everyone thought it was impossible.
Today, they’re selling at US$21,000 Model 3 in Canada, when adjusted for inflation and exchange rate.
And this Model 3 Premium is far superior to the first Model 3 cars delivered.
Daniel Bigham retweeted
Read this book!!!!!
Chris cares about humanity as much as anyone I've ever met, and his book embodies the Win/Win spirit as well as anything I've ever read.
Within its pages is the medicine the world needs.
Finally it's here! The book infectiousgenerosity.org goes on sale today. I would dearly love to know what you make of it.
fwiw, I'm convinced that the thesis of this book may well be playing out in real time right here on X. I see plenty of nastiness here, sure. BUT also a growing number of people dedicated to sharing insight, wonder, laughter, and yes... kindness. I would LOVE it if you would come on this journey with me. 1) Get the book and read it. 2) Come join me here in trying to find and amplify the best parts of X of which there are many. Maybe we can even get the algorithms on board. A lot hangs on this.
btw, all author proceeds go to TED (a nonprofit where I've been volunteering last 20 years).
You can pick up a copy here or at your local bookstore amazon.com/Infectious-Genero…
...and if you can't afford a copy, ping me [email protected], and I'll try to get you one.
Daniel Bigham retweeted
2.5 months later...in collaboration with @openAI , ChatGPT gets its "Wolfram superpowers"!
writings.stephenwolfram.com/…
ALT Diagram showing January cover for bringing computational knowledge superpowers to chatGPT then an arrow to the new Wolfram plugin for ChatGPT over an image of the plugin working inside ChatGPT for an example of Jupiter's moons complete with accurate data and visualizations.
Daniel Bigham retweeted
Idea: A drone that flies around your home while you're not around to create a digital model of where everything is, allowing you to later ask questions like "Where is Emma's teddy bear?".
Daniel Bigham retweeted
Idea: AnswersGPT: You ask it a question, and it has models that generate related questions that it can ask Wolfram Alpha, Alexa, Google Assistant, Google search, etc. It feeds the results back into a ChatGPT-like model that reads those Q&As, and then synthesizes a final answer.
Daniel Bigham retweeted
helion sharing a lot of detail on fusion progress: youtu.be/_bDXXWQxK38
Daniel Bigham retweeted
Russian soldier, surprised by good treatment in the Ukrainian capture, started crying during a questioning.
Daniel Bigham retweeted
Randomized prompts from lists with progrock-stable is my new best thing.
"_age_ _adjective_ _job_ _bodyType_ _genre_ from _country_, _adjective_ lighting"
I generated 8000(!) of those this week-end and I have so many ideas to keep on going
#stablediffusion #generativeart #aiart
Daniel Bigham retweeted
On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for an attack on an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam.
As the attack developed, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else:
A massacre.
He decided to act. /1 🧵
ALT a clean-cut Hugh Thompson Jnr, pictured in the sixties, in his army fatigues
Daniel Bigham retweeted
When my friend @zeynep, who is as level-headed and clear-eyed as they come, sounds an alarm, take note.
It should be unthinkable that more people might die of COVID *after* we have vaccines that could save them. Yet, now with even more transmissible variants and little vaccine equity, that's what may happen. The emergency is great and billions are at risk.
nytimes.com/2021/05/28/opini…
Daniel Bigham retweeted
GAN Prior Embedded Network for Blind Face Restoration in the Wild
pdf: arxiv.org/pdf/2105.06070.pdf
abs: arxiv.org/abs/2105.06070
