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[Link] Our Brains Were Not Built for This Much Uncertainty

Read: 21/11/2021 hbr.org

Prior to the pandemic, the working world already felt to most of us like it was undergoing rapid, unrelenting change — changes in customer preferences, client and employee expectations, and competitive advantages.

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[Link] Meet M6 — 10 Trillion Parameters at 1% GPT-3’s Energy Cost

Read: 14/11/2021 towardsdatascience.com

On June 25, Alibaba DAMO Academy (the R&D branch of Alibaba) announced they had built M6, a large multimodal, multitasking language model with 1 trillion parameters — already 5x GPT-3’s size, which serves as the standard to measure the rate of progress for large AI models.

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[Link] Solar Cells, Half Off

Read: 7/11/2021 hackaday.com

A company named Leap Photovoltaic claims they have a technology to create solar panels without silicon wafers which would cut production costs in half.

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[Link] Meet the Guy Who’s Finessing the Six Flags Meal Pass

Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com

One man’s theme park is another man’s dinner plan.

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[Link] Thailand develops robotic system to up Covid vaccine doses

Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Researchers in Thailand have developed a machine to draw out Covid-19 vaccine doses more efficiently and optimise lower-than-expected supplies as the country struggles with its worst coronavirus outbreak yet.

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[Link] The Weird Strategy Dr. Seuss Used to Create His Greatest Work

Read: 8/8/2021 getpocket.com

Behind the bet that led to your favorite childhood book.

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[Link] Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply

Read: 8/8/2021 getpocket.com

By chopping up large numbers into smaller ones, researchers have rewritten a fundamental mathematical speed limit.

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