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Israel is starving little children and babies to death. The entire population is at risk. Doctors are collapsing from hunger as they attempt to save lives. What will bring this horror to an end??
Israel is blocking 6,000 UNRWA trucks from entering Gaza while children die of hunger. The world can still prevent further catastrophe if it chooses to act, writes @JulietteTouma.
972mag.com/gaza-starving-chi…
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Climate change is deeply misunderstood. The news media is on a mission to scare us into action. In doing so, they lie and misrepresent the facts.
A new book shares a treasure trove of data that'll blow your mind.
10 lessons from "Not the End of the World" by Hannah Ritchie:
Nonopa Vanda retweeted
Do it all.
Because you’ll die eventually and life will make you slow down.
But up until then, eat the world.
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The best time management advice I’ve ever followed:
Be easy to find, hard to reach...
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The drums of a World War are beating. Beware of the military industrial complex and the warmongers who exploit tragedy to advocate for more war. A global war would lead to immeasurable suffering.
Diplomacy, conversation between leaders is the way out ❤
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The software engineering behind the X "algorithm" is epic. It has to distill 500 million daily tweets down to a personalized handful it shows each person. This algorithm runs ~57,000 times a second 🤯 ... and each execution takes 220 seconds CPU time, but runs in 1.5 seconds real time on average, which means compute is distributed across 12+ million CPU cores working continuously.
Each step of recommendation algorithm pipeline is fascinating: maintaining real-time interaction graph, embedding spaces for clustering interests, ranking via 48M param neural net, etc. I love that it's mostly been made open source, and hope more companies do the same!
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The casualties in Gaza are devastating to see. And I am a lifelong supporter of a two-state solution. But those calling for an unconditional ceasefire must explain how Israel is (a) to prevent Hamas from simply reloading and going again, as it always does; (b) rescuing the >200 hostages held by Hamas. Why are people not calling for the immediate return of the hostages or disarmament of Hamas?
Here's my conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, his 3rd time on the podcast, but this time we talked in the Metaverse as photorealistic avatars. This was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. It really felt like we were talking in-person, but we were miles apart 🤯 It's hard to put into words how awesome this was for someone like me who values the intimacy of in-person conversation. It gave me a glimpse of an exciting future with many new possibilities and fascinating questions about the nature of reality and human connection ❤
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:52 - Metaverse
15:27 - Quest 3
30:16 - Nature of reality
34:54 - AI in the Metaverse
51:51 - Large language models
57:49 - Future of humanity
Nonopa Vanda retweeted
In tennis, if “the ball is in your court”, and you don’t return it, you lose the point.
In life we have many courts, from health to wealth to relationships.
If you’re feeling some anxiety, have a quick check of your courts, my guess is there’s some balls that need returning.
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In the last 20 years, software ate the world.
In the next 20 years, AI will eat software.
