S2 Ep6. Bam! The mantis shrimp’s powerful punch could change the way we build cars and planes. The little crustacean has inspired lighter, more impact-resistant materials. These shrimps are ferocious predators which use their forelimbs to hit their prey with one of the strongest weight-for-weight punches on the planet. The design of their punching limb has caught the attention of scientists and could transform the way we create strong materials for the car and aerospace industries.
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In episode three of On Our Watch, we examine the records that were unsealed by this transparency law to piece together what exactly happened on September 14, 2014 when Pedie Perez was shot and killed outside a liquor store by a police officer, Wallace Jensen.
The broader crypto sector encompasses more than just policies and price action: Decentralized technology has given rise to immersive play-to-earn digital economies where players can maximize their gaming experience.
In this “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW takes a step back from the recent regulatory focus to take a look at the world of gaming. He reads the piece ”A Play-to-Earn Account Beats a Bank Account“ from Beryl Li, co-founder of Yield Guild Games.
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The modern Olympics have been celebrated for over 100 years. Since their beginning in 1896, there have been over 100,000 athletes who have competed at the Olympics and thousands of medals have been awarded.
At every Olympics, just like clockwork, the same debate is initiated: who is the greatest Olympian of all time?
Join me as I try to answer this unanswerable question, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
We discuss Chapter 7 of Autonomous Technology: “Complexity and the Loss of Agency.” Ed couldn’t be here for this episode, so we’re joined again by David Banks, who really stepped up to provide some great insights into understanding our socio-political relationship to complex technical systems designed to keep us in the dark about how and why the things we rely on actually work—and who they work for. We explore the dialectic between increasing complexity and diminishing agency, the poverty to cultural criticism vs. political analysis, and why technologies are not enchanted objects that grant us magical powers. You can find a free pdf of the whole book here: https://www.ratical.org/ratville/AoS/AutonomousTechnology.pdf
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El Salvador’s decision to make bitcoin legal tender shocked the world. Soon, the dust will settle and catchy headlines will become real, lived experiences for Salvadorans.
Join hosts Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Stephanie Murphy for a read-through and thoughtful conversation of El Salvador’s bitcoin legislation in full. The hosts discuss the highs and lows of the bill and potential risks to the country, its citizens and bitcoin globally.
Though many had predicted governmental adoption of bitcoin would come, none had predicted it would happen so soon. The rest of the world has watched attentively as El Salvador embarks on a nation-scale trial run of bitcoin as legal tender. This unprecedented circumstance brings an abundance of technical and social challenges.
What will the great successes be with this experiment? Where can it go wrong? And how will the Lightning Network factor in? Most worryingly, will El Salvadore’s trust fund be the world’s biggest honeypot?
The bitcoin bill is set to go in effect very soon. Will El Salvador be able to address these concerns in time?
Today's show featured Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy and Adam B. Levine. This episode was edited by Jonas, with music by Jared Rubens and Gurty Beats.
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:49) – Self-supervised learning
(16:24) – Self-supervised learning is the dark matter of intelligence
(20:17) – Categorization
(28:50) – Is computer vision still really hard?
(32:35) – Understanding Language
(42:14) – Harder to solve: vision or language
(48:59) – Contrastive learning & energy-based models
(52:59) – Data augmentation
(57:19) – Fixed audio spike by lowering sound with pen tool
(1:05:33) – Real data vs. augmented data
(1:09:16) – Non-contrastive learning energy based self supervised learning methods
(1:12:54) – Unsupervised learning (SwAV)
(1:15:37) – Self-supervised Pretraining (SEER)
(1:20:44) – Self-supervised learning (SSL) architectures
(1:26:43) – VISSL pytorch-based SSL library
(1:29:38) – Multi-modal
(1:37:06) – Active learning
(1:42:45) – Autonomous driving
(1:54:12) – Limits of deep learning
(1:58:19) – Difference between learning and reasoning
(2:03:26) – Building super-human AI
(2:11:14) – Most beautiful idea in self-supervised learning
(2:15:02) – Simulation for training AI
(2:18:27) – Video games replacing reality
(2:19:40) – How to write a good research paper
(2:24:08) – Best programming language for beginners
(2:25:01) – PyTorch vs TensorFlow
(2:28:26) – Advice for getting into machine learning
(2:30:31) – Advice for young people
(2:32:58) – Meaning of life
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