From the bloggy blog: a book review -- The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman

https://daveschumaker.net/book-review-the-coming-wave-by-mustafa-suleyman/

Nvidia is currently down 16% today on account of Deepseek creating a SOTA reasoning model for cheap.

A blog post this weekend layed out why they are overvalued (and deep dives into how AI models are developed). An all around awesome read and so perfectly timed.

https://youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com/blog/05_the_short_case_for_nvda

I was playing with Sora and ended up creating a music video about my ACL tear. It’s AI all the way down and took about 3 hours to do. Ridiculous!

https://youtu.be/d4ADXMxUAIw?si=0eq7nhhfmbXYlPik

Apple: Our devices are carbon neutral! In fact, we save 2 baby penguins for each device purchased.

Also Apple: By the way, the wristbands on your watch give you cancer. 😬

https://particle.news/story/smartwatch-bands-found-to-contain-hazardous-forever-chemicals?utm_source=particle

I was so, so, so looking forward to seeing these guys at the Fillmore this week. Alas, my knee had some other ideas. No punk rock shows for me for the foreseeable future.

(Last time I saw them was 2017 in Berkeley — pre-COVID time doesn’t seem real)

Alibaba released their QwQ advanced reasoning LLM that you can run on your own devices. Like OpenAI’s o1 model, it uses chain-of-thought reasoning to solve complex questions.

It’s pretty impressive! However, if you ask it about… oh, let’s say the Tiananmen Square Massacre, it shuts you down cold.

My weekend:
- Play paintball with some friends for the first time ever.
- Get shot in kneecap in first 10 seconds.
- Fall and tweak my leg / knee somehow. Can’t put any weight on it.
- Went to urgent care. Got crutches. Now have an MRI due to concerns about legiment damage.

🙃🙃🙃