RT Alex ImasThis is the best (short) explainer that I've seen on the vastly different levels of learning efficiencies between humans and LLMs. This will have…
Narration: the data efficiency black hole. 00:00:00 – What is really driving AI progress?00:03:11 – Comparing human vs AI sample efficiency00:08:46 – Does sample efficiency matter?Also…
Copyright was invented by the Inquisition.Before the printing press, copying a book was too expensive and labor-intensive for anyone to worry about cheap unauthorised versions.But the…
RT Alexander BergerCome work with me! I’m hiring a Senior Operations Associate in the office of the CEO at @coeff_giving (reporting to my awesome chief of…
The massacre that shaped Machiavelli's thinking.In 1502 at Senigallia, Cesare Borgia betrayed his men, massacred his guests, and violated sacred oaths made before God - and…
In the Renaissance, the people actually wanted nepotism in government. When Pope Paul III appointed a competent general to lead his armies instead of a family…
Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake by the Inquisition in 1600. But it wasn't his first trial. They’d found his radical writings before, and every…
Machiavelli learned politics by trying to save his city from Cesare Borgia - a conqueror so terrifying and charismatic that people thought he was the Antichrist.Machiavelli…
Machiavelli was the opposite of Machiavellian: he was a selfless patriot.When the Medicis exiled him from Florence, they ordered him to a hamlet in the middle…
It was really interesting to learn that The Prince was not unique for its time for being a book written for only a single person to…