I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
I was close to burning out a few months ago with all the things I wanted to do and the finite time we have. Here is a tip that helped take a step back and evaluate. You don’t land your next role by doing more of what you are already doing. Scaling requires very different …
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Have you seen Google‘s latest text-to-image generator Imagen? Its an AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text As the paper states, ‘ Imagen builds on the power of large transformer language models in understanding text and hinges on the strength of diffusion models in high-fidelity image generation’ ‘Human raters strongly prefer Imagen over other …
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Day 6 – #30daysofWeb3 Learning Challenge Who will control the software that powers the internet with Web 3.0? Can decentralisation move the narrative from ‘Don’t be evil’ to ‘Can’t be evil’? 5 key take-aways Sources below #1 Over the 35 years lifespan of the internet, control gradually shifted from the open-source protocols to proprietary services …
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How do NFTs’ create value? Or simply put – why does anyone pay for a digital piece of art that can be freely downloaded. Who pays for pixels? With working parents, I was raised mostly by my (very financially prudent) grandmother, who looked at ROI on everything she spent. Being widowed quite early, she was …
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How do you think the Metaverse will evolve? Someone had a poll on a superpower to have. It included being able to eat as much as wants or fly or read minds. I honestly think tech could enable each of those within a century. More interestingly, the superpower I would love to have is to …
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Have you seen MIT Tech Reviews’ 10 breakthrough technologies of 2021? #1Messenger RNA vaccines #2GPT-3 large natural language computer models #3Lithium metal batteries that cuts the high price barriers for EVs #4Remote everything #5Multiskilled AI Twenty years ago, MIT Technology Review picked 10 emerging areas of innovation that we promised would “change the world.” This list marks 20 years …
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“You cannot right click and save a community’ That is a brilliant analogy I was just thinking about the astounding pace at which tech around us has grown – wait, not in a decade – but just over the last 4-5 years. Nothing short of magic. ************************************ Ranjani Mani #NFT #reviewswithranjani #technologiesofthefuture
“2020 for web3 was the year 2000 in internet terms” in terms of user growth. Web3 is “group of technologies that encompasses blockchain, cryptographic protocols, digital assets, decentralized finance and social platforms, NFTs, and DAOs—is the third generation of the internet” This A16z report makes some great points about the future we are headed, role …
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Trust. Web 3.0. Metaverse and the Future of Human Race A Thread – Part 1 #1 If you think about it deeply, co-operation is the basis of the rise of human civilization. #2 As nomadic hunter-gatherers, our trust to watch out for each other was primarily social. Over time, this translated into ‘institutional trust’. Think …
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It’s always exciting to talk to students. And nostalgic too. I come away hopeful and enthused about the future of tech. In this free-wheeling conversation we discussed a gamut of themes – from understanding what analytics in real-life looks like, does everything require AI, how folks from PM/consulting backgrounds can add value to data science …
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