Splash in the AI Pool 🔮 Amazon is known for defying the status quo, evidenced by its recent alliance with leading AI research firm, Anthropic. This echo-inducing leap into artificial intelligence could have significant implications for the financial sector, most notably for FTX creditors, who are lenders within the Financial Technology...
The Dirty Truth: The Biased and Unsettling Low-Functioning Pre-Trained Transformers We’re Building Our Future On 🔮 Have you ever put a red shirt in the white load? Pink everywhere, right? That’s what we’re dealing with here. I totally understand viewing the world through rose-colored lenses, but this is...
How Close Are We? 🔮 Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) enables AI systems to learn and understand any intellectual task that a human can, making it a more evolved form of AI than today's narrow or specific AI. In December 2022, a video was made about the path to AGI,...
An Original Recipe for Change 🔮 Algorithms silently guide our daily decisions, influencing and forming the world we live in. From the stock market to medicine, from music to national security, algorithms are becoming more sophisticated and prevalent every day. But what exactly are algorithms, and should we worry about their...
The potential of the future depends on our experiences as humans 🔮 You may or may not have seen, nowadays companies are investing heavily in technologies to improve their employee and customer experiences, designed for allowing for greater access to all. Also of note, there has been a significant rise in...
Embark on the odyssey of ChatGPT, where AI dazzles with linguistic mastery, echoing the human essence. This digital maestro ushers in a new communication era, threading a careful path between technological marvel and ethical canvas, reshaping the tapestry of society's future.
A relationship worth putting time into and nurturing, or else 🔮 Creativity is a process of understanding the end goal or result and the steps in which to communicate it effectively. It also involves original thinking, serendipity, and external influences which include falling down more often than desired and making mistakes....
Is Apple Losing Their Grip? 🔮 Apple, a longtime tech giant, has had an impact on the stock market. This changed in 2022, however, when revenue, profits, and free cash flow all declined, leaving investors concerned about the company's future. With a recession looming, investors wonder if Apple can...
Unlocking the Future of Renewable Energy 🔮 Can We Really Power the World with Renewable Energy? Experts estimate that powering the world with solar energy would require 115,6251 square miles of photovoltaic panels. Surprisingly, this would only occupy 1% of the Saharan desert. However, installing all those panels would be...
As machine learning models become increasingly complex, it has become difficult to understand how these models arrive at their predictions. Moreover, when these models go wrong or go rogue, it becomes even more challenging to identify the source of the error. However, recent advancements in machine learning, specifically in deep...
Code your way to automation and replace yourself 🔮 GitHub has created a tool called GitHub Copilot that helps developers write code up to 55% faster. It is an AI pair programmer that auto-completes comments and code. We’ll look at the launch of GitHub Copilot X, a new AI development...
Imagine typing your way into a hefty salary 🔮 The tech world is abuzz with talk of "command engineering" also known as “prompt engineering”, a new skill with a hefty salary tag of $335,000. Today, we’re going to discuss the basics of command engineering, because that’s...
Artificial intelligence is booming 🔮 It took a major leap forward with Chat GPT's release, revolutionizing education and copy editing. This ignited a "tech war" between Google and Microsoft, each integrating AI into their search engines. Open AI then revealed the next generation of their language model,...
The New Buzz in the Bitcoin World, Ordinals and NFTs 🔮 Bitcoin has been a popular cryptocurrency for years. Its volatility is notorious, yet it has pioneered blockchain technology. Bitcoin is the largest, secure, and decentralized cryptocurrency network. Although other cryptos, like Ethereum, are emerging, Bitcoin reigns supreme. Recent slow development...
The Future of Cryptocurrency: LayerZero and Stargate Finance Explained 🔮 Have you heard of Stargate Finance? It's the first DApp built on LayerZero, a new blockchain that is being developed. It's also the first DApp built on this new blockchain. Stargate Finance has stirred up the crypto...
Remember that time LayerZero shook the ground beneath them? 🔮 Introduction Are you tired of the limitations of transacting on a single blockchain? Want to make easy, fee-free omnichain transactions? LayerZero has released a groundbreaking demo of its new system on testnet. In this article you will learn how this system...
A grateful approach 🙏 What am I thankful for?! For starters, just glad I woke up this morning. A few days in the year people take the time to give thanks?! This pains me to great extent. Valentine’s day is one of just a few examples where most people make...
You need a resume and it’s got to be a good one! 🎖 It all started when I got recruited by a big fancy company. You can Google it. The recruiter initially contacted me on LinkedIn and based on my profile, I fit a certain set of requirements. Most people...
If you want to get ahead, instead of just get some.
Harry Arnett, SVP 🔮 Harry Arnett is a big shot over at Callaway Golf. He’s super important. I had to go through four rounds of emails before I could even get into his calendar. I’m just kidding. Through the luck of the heavens and really good friends, was invited...
You might not enjoy how you get there, thing is, you get there 🔮 Today was one of those days, you know, wondering how you got where you are and contemplating the ideas of YOLO and FOMO :) On my birthday earlier this month, I made a wish. The wish was to...
Caveat Venditor 🔮 Time is precious. Stupid people are plentiful. The following are some guidelines that have served well over the years. Some lessons are harder to learn, others even harder. Thankfully we get to repeat them until we get it right. Either way, here are ten pearls for your consumption;...
It’ll be the best thing you ever do 🔮 The above quote is my favorite quote when making recommendations on deepening the company talent pool, just hire a professional. You’re better off spending the duckets on proper talent than someone you can pay a little less until you can...
Fear Facing Adventure Experience Overcoming Challenges Personal Development Risk Taking Digging a bit deeper, the underlying topics GavanBot has discovered are: Personal Growth through Adventure Overcoming Fear and Challenges Encouragement to Take Risks
“Did he just write that?!” is what Anderson Cooper is thinking 🔮 I’m not even kidding. I’ve got ideas for days and can make it rain month after month. Thing is this, they’re all crazy and large scale ideas that will never make sense to your risk analyst...
Dive into what the future of advertising is in 2020, where culture breeds innovation and video content reigns supreme. Discover the power of involving consumers in the process and tapping into the "why" of your brand to create a cult(ure) of loyal enthusiasts.
And what’s happening Anil Dash? Been noticing the Editor’s Picks on Medium are mostly established bloggers that have platforms to voice their opinions and beliefs, which is awesome. However, I’m also noticing said bloggers are upcycling content from their Greatest Blog Hits of Yesteryear, albeit they are...
The smoothest con man that ever lived. That’s what they say about Victor Lustig pictured above. His claim to fame is that he sold the Eiffel Tower, twice. Yup, that happened. He became fluent in multiple languages, harnessed his ocean liner and started printing money, literally.
A few tips for the heavy traveller.
...and Conneting Dots 🔮 Something mysterious and alluring about the ellipsis. Yeah, that’s what it’s called. You know… that. The three little dots (not to be confused with the geometric figure known as the ellipse). In literary history the ellipse, or ellipses plural, was used to indicate some element...
Recommendations on how to conduct oneself when meeting new acquaintances or business folk.
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