Reaching for lightspeed
Plus, updates on Heyday, training LLMs from the ground-up, and lags in SSH.
We’re back with another edition of Machine Learnings, brought to you by the folks at Heyday.
Heyday is an AI copilot that transforms your documents, notes, and conversations into quotes, shareable content, and a queryable database.
Another set of major updates.
Heyday’s Assistant just got upgraded across the board — conversations, history, and deeper filtering in Topics. Now any of your research, notes, calls, and browsing can be specifically called on to create your work artifacts.
Take a 360 review, for example. If you’ve ever performed a 360 review, you know how time-consuming they can be to do right — interviewing, compiling notes, finding trends, writing up the report. Heyday makes it seamless, giving you a clear path to save 20+ hours of work.
If you’re a management consultant or executive coach, your work requires you to connect the dots. Try Heyday as your thought partner free for the next two weeks. You deserve a helping hand.
What we're reading.
1/ The most fun (scary?) story of the year thus far. What one Microsoft engineer noticed about a laggy SSH system, and how he prevented disaster on his own. Learn more at The Economist >
2/ This week marked an interesting one for GPU processing improvements, specifically by using light. If that’s confusing, it should be, but one thing looks certain – increasing speed will lead to the next breakthrough in AI. Learn more at WIRED >
3/ [Interview] OpenAI has an artist-in-residence on their books, which is both head-scratching and entirely sensible. Who are they? What do they do? And what does that mean for our use of generative AI? Learn more at MIT Technology Review >
4/ Media companies are awakening to the vast amount of data used to train AI models. Here’s 4 earned takeaways on what we need to make it work and what’s next. Learn more at The New York Times >
5/ For Neuralink to work, like really work, we need advances beyond just implanting computers in brains. What those advances are will come into our sight as we have more live test cases. Banger of a lead-in, too. Learn more at The Atlantic >
6/ Every once in awhile a training log can be the most insightful thing you can read. Here’s Reka’s CEO and Chief Scientist on their story training LLMs from scratch. Learn more at Yitay’s Blog >
7/ As we enter election season, we’re going to face more and more questions about ethics. What works for policy? What should we leave behind? Learn more at Benedict Evans’ Blog >
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