1. 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice by Kevin Kelly. Kelly has always been a source of valuable information for me. On his 68th birthday he shares 68 bits of wisdom he acquired over the years. 
  2. Common Sense Comes Closer to Computers by John Pavlus for Quanta Magazine. Common sense – and all the implicit information it contains – has been called the “dark matter of AI”. While we get better and better model results, “understanding” itself is still elusive. 
  3. AI and Efficiency at Open AI. Today it takes 44 times less compute to train a neural network to the level of AlexNet as it did back in 2012. Algorithmic efficiency, improvements in hardware and systems architecture as well as cloud resources drive this exponential growth. 
  4. 40 Maps that Explain the Internet by Timothy B. Lee for Vox. Maps that show us the history of the internet as we know it today. 
  5. Harvesting Ambient RF for Presence Detection Through Deep Learning by Liu et al.(2020). The authors used a WIFI router to detect people in a room. Their system outperformed conventional motion detectors based on infrared beams.
  6. The Burn Multiple by David Sacks. The tradeoff between burn rate and growth is a difficult one to navigate. Sacks provides a framework for capital efficiency. 
  7. The Best Virtual Worlds for Hanging Out by Raemon at LessWrong. Raemon’s comparison of virtual settings made me try out Online Town with my friends.
  8. A Product Manager’s Guide to Machine Learning: Core Ideas by Vijay Patha for Towards Data Science. A product manager doesn’t need to understand the details of a model, but needs to understand whether an algorithm solves the job to be done. 
  9. Finding Plastic Patches in Coastal Waters using Optical Satellite Data by Bierman et al. (2020). Researchers trained a naive Bayes model to detect the distinctive reflections of plastic, in order to discover its presence in the oceans.
  10. A Survey of Deep Learning for Scientific Discovery by Raghu et al. (2020). A diligent survey of deep learning models, methods as well as links to libraries and resources.