Best of Twitter - Week of December 27, 2021
Happy New Year!
Alright, here is the fintech-pill. Take it, internalize it, and the space will finally make sense:
Every fintech company is just a disguised strategic growth hack where the real goal is to become a bank. Robinhood, Stripe, Coinbase, Affirm, Acorns. Bank, bank, bank, bank, bank.
wow. using ML to generate images from text... is about to get a whole lot weirder thanks to the latest @OpenAI research 😳 arxiv.org/abs/2112.10741
New post: guzey.com/i-solved-food/ (my reasoning, FAQ, and google sheet with details of food are the post)
💸 98 Longevity Impetus Grants were awarded in 2021, thanks to generous donations from @juanbenet @jamesfickel @VitalikButerin @JedMcCaleb @KarlPfleger @FEhrsam and 1 anonymous donor.
I'll summarize outcomes in this thread, awardees listed in prior one:
Martin Borch Jensen @MartinBJensen
^ very interesting
I snapped a photo of a group of people outside today. My iPhone replaced one woman’s head with a leaf. Rest of the photo is fine. No weird settings. I’ve never seen this before.
The last Apple keynote I saw, there was no less than an 11-stage ML pipeline taking place whenever you press the shutter: exposure, white balance, focus, denoising, highlights, compositing, face detection, segmentation...
"At the 1953 meeting of the newly formed Electron Microscope Society, it was agreed that electron microscopy had no future in biology"
I'm *so* curious what today's equivalent is. Cannot get into the mindset where it would be possible to think this.