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“We released this thing called the Anthropic Economic Index that, in a privacy-preserving way, looks through, you know, and summarizes our usage to understand, you know, in what fields are people using…”
“with the first with with the rag paper I believe was released in 2020 since then we've been trying to build some kind of rag system”
“we utilize called something called fusion and decoder we're big fan fusion decoder that actually the paper came from meta our implementation that help us retrieve information”
“there's this paper about actually transformers in 2019 the decoder encoder model T5 looks amazing let's start building”
“Introducing the LangGraph Functional API”
“The first International AI Safety Report comprehensively synthesizes the current evidence on the capabilities, risks, and safety of advanced AI systems.”
“there's still more work to be done to scale AI models”
“go start using a quantum computer there's so many open source packages go start programming quantum computer go start learning and ultimately just do research and you'll quickly get into the field”
“there's so many open source packages go start programming quantum computer go start learning and ultimately just do research and you'll quickly get into the field”
“great was talking with Ray about his new book which he just published on how countries go broke...really important book awesome well done”
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“today we released with deep learning a course on agentic memory with langraph and so that's what I want to cover today”
“in this course we'll be using a package called langme um which contains a bunch of utilities... it contains utilities for when it's updating to semantic memory”
“the Dale Carnegie School of Public Speaking you know, the way that operates is, uh they get you up there and they realize that the number one problem with public speaking is uh that uh people are very…”
“I'm not going to take us here, but I know you're a big fan of this book, Finite and Infinite Games. I actually had it once at a book club and it blew my mind open. I'm going to link to it. People shou…”
“So I watched The Last Dance, the Netflix special of Michael Jordan a while ago, of course, but there was one scene where he just... made up an insight that someone told him so that he would then go an…”
“there's a really good paper uh or there was a really good paper two years ago out of Stanford uh called uh I think generative agents or something like that... That's a really really good one to go and…”
“one of the things that we actually use is we use this thing called trust call. Um this thing called trust call basically applies large JSON schema updates to things.”
“if we think about kind of like deep research by OpenAI, uh they ask you a bunch of follow-up questions before it actually writes the research report, and that helps yield kind of like better results.”
“if you've played around with chat GPT's memory feature, this is how it works under the hood. So it calls some memory functions to update it.”
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“I had Abigail Shrier on the show. She wrote this book called Bad Therapy, sort of pushing back against therapy culture for kids specifically.”
“I read a uh I read a blog post by uh P. Mark aka Mark Andreessen where he said, 'Don't keep a schedule.' And I took that to heart. So, I deleted my calendar.”
“I think these are the most breakthrough drugs since antibiotics... They also seem to be addiction breakers. They seem to lower many kinds of cancer. They almost metabolically reverse aging up to a cer…”
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“Peter Thiel has this whole thing from Rene Gerard about how mimemetic desires are desires are picked up from other people.”
“that line in No Country for All Men where the killer is waiting for the protagonist... 'if your set of rules brought you here, then what good are your rules?'”
“What is it? 4,000 weeks. That's your lifespan. Um and and yes, we hear that, but we don't remember it.”
“the big benefit of meditation. It creates a small gap between your conscious observation self and your mind and that lets you then look at your thoughts and evaluate them a little bit like you would a…”
“you can even just do it through therapy, you can do it through journaling, you can do it any way you would like, you can just take long walks, you don't have to meditate”
“there's a guy his name is Yannik and he does really cool He's a really cool guy He's like really funny maybe you link it in the in the show notes because I forget the exact name of the channel but he'…”
“what I did as I went and took improv classes... you have to act without a script and you have to be funny... I found that that's the most uncomfortable I have to think on my feet”
“use replet agent even I would say openi deep research will give you an idea of like you know where these tools are coming going”
“I started like playing around with Gemini from Google I would say Gemini Flash is incredibly impressive Really large context window”
“There's a bunch of websites there's composio um a lot of startups I think another one called uh tool MCP tools or something like that Smither AI and other ones provide you model context protocols”
“there are these um platforms where you can sell businesses on acquire.com Yeah Things like acquire.com”
“sonnet 3.7 claw sonnet 3.7 you know everyone who's using cursor whatever thinks it's bad... what I saw in that is an AI that can step back and think... I think what anthropic did is they gave it agenc…”
“that's how I started watching all these online lectures. Uh Andrew Ang's lectures on YouTube.”
“someone told me you know, Andrewing is cool, but there's a British guy who speaks really slowly so watch it at 1.5x. Uh his lectures are even better. That was Jeffrey Hint's lectures.”
“I I really thought thought that TV show Silicon Valley was pretty cool... it's actually pretty true uh it's not just like a humorous show”
“there also the movie on Stephven Hawking so like it's a lot of movies have been made... that's one of my one of my favorite movies”
“not goodwill hunting Google hunting is also amazing.”
“today we brought Gemini 2.0 flash an updated version of it um into production so that developers can actually continue to build with it we announced pricing 10 cents per million input tokens 40 cents …”
“bolt. new just went live I think yesterday with Gemini support cursor has Gemini support now and and is using 2.0 flash hopefully we'll see others like lovable and vzer etc etc have have that support …”
“Long or short Google. Uh, just buy the S&P 500. That's my advice.”
“there's an interview, 60 minutes interview with uh him and someone asked him like um why why didn't you give up... I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or incapacitated.”
“I I don't have um Facebook. I don't have Messenger. Okay. I I don't have a Facebook account and I I kind of recommend this.”
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“If who have you have heard about slide the presentation framework um no one you should check it out it's cool.”
“companies like Ander are companies like Anderoll is because they're making unmanned systems.”
“there's a there's a class of um or or or branch of literature that happened in Latin America called magic realism with Garcia Marcus and a bunch of others. Like reading those things continues to be su…”
“llm.swift by @otabuzzman: a Swift port of this project”
“In this paper, we develop a chip-integrated diamond photonic crystal cavity embedding an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers.”
“the folks at kaggle actually are are pushing on this notion of like um having personal evals and being able to sort of build a platform in which as new models are released and made available to the wo…”
“released the the sort of experimental variant of 2.0 pro which is the the most capable Frontier Model we have... Pro is where you're sort of not bound by costs in a lot of ways”
“we also previewed in December the multimodal live API which allows you to do this sort of collaborative realtime conversational video uh text interface with the models”
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“there's a there's this guy Peter Hubert who wrote this book called Orwell's revenge and he rewrites 1984 and he makes a key change in the technology which is he makes the telescreen two-way”
“there's a great book you might have run into it's by Chuck cluster it's called what if we're wrong... it's amazing you already know you're going to love it”
“Neil Ferguson is a really good guy by the way to read his writings on this he's historian who's quite quite good on this topic”
“there's a Twitter account there's this guy who goes by the name Pliny the Elder p l i n y the Elder on X and his he's an independent guy and uh he jailbreaks all the new AIs on the same day that they'…”
“Apple Intelligence comes to Apple Vision Pro today with visionOS 2.4”
“Reid Hoffman pitches LinkedIn to himself”
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“Archipov and I suggested with Bzon sampling in our paper 15 years ago was just take a bunch of you know photons or other Bonic particles, let them evolve”
“Linear integrates with the very best agent coding tools directly, like cursor and codex.”
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“produced with the assistance of Bolzano, an open-source multi-agent LLM system.”
“Apple Intelligence features expand to new languages and regions today”
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“But he told me this drug was something he felt he had to try. Yeah, it was really, really interesting.”
“And so that afternoon, we were given an opportunity on what would be our final day there to try yet another psychedelic. It is called 5-MEO-DMT, which is a drug that is derived from the toxic secr”
“Apple Intelligence now features Image Playground, Genmoji, and more”
“So, Cleo, you have 6 million subscribers on your YouTube channel. We have under a million. Thank you for having us on your show. Welcome. How did you do it?”
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“gcloud beta logging sinks create $1-to-gcs storage.googleapis.com/$PROJECT_NAME-logs-$1 --log-filter="$filter" --project=$PROJECT_NAME”
“Apple Intelligence now features Image Playground, Genmoji, and more”
“bq mk --dataset $PROJECT_NAME:logs_$1”
“If you haven't read the GDP eval paper from open AI, it is an interesting paper.”
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