Catching Up: Recent Episodes

Abhishu Oza & Vidhey Oza

Two brothers talk about stuff.

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Link to Youtube: https://youtu.be/w8S8sSPHqLw

Formula 1 recap (0:00)

State of AI: a year since gpt3 (9:30)

Origins of Deep learning and Generative AI (12:30)

Intelligence is compute power and model size (19:00)

Gemini, and how to define AGI (29:00)

How ChatGPT thinks (34:30)

Multimodality (40:20)

AI based robotics (46:30)

Impacts on society: Separating Alignment and Safety (49:40)

What we should train deep learning models for (55:50)

Links

Shoutout to rockerpoweredmohawk (F1 related content): https://www.youtube.com/@Rocketpoweredmohawk

The Gemini Lie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90CYYfl9ntM&pp=ygUbZmlyZXNoaXAgY29kZSByZXBvcnQgZ2ltaW5p

Power of Multimodal AI (hints towards AGI)

https://youtu.be/ex1GeX0IhJQ?si=hrYWTE7BREbCszUn

Hinton's whitepaper (backpropagation applied on multi-layer perceptron in 1986): https://www.nature.com/articles/323533a0

LeNet whitepaper (mathematical proof of CNNs in 1990): https://direct.mit.edu/neco/article-abstract/1/4/541/5515/Backpropagation-Applied-to-Handwritten-Zip-Code?redirectedFrom=fulltext

AlexNet whitepaper (first popular practical application of CNNs in 2011): https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3065386

The paper that "transformed" the natural language processing world: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3295222.3295349

OpenAI being inconsistent with model architecture transparency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-4#Criticisms_of_transparency

Andrej Karpathy OpenAI pipeline talk - https://youtu.be/bZQun8Y4L2A?si=Im-cCSfGXhG87Yvz

Alpha fold (Predicting protein structure from sequence) - https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/

GNoME (Material Science AI) - https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/millions-of-new-materials-discovered-with-deep-learning/

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Us nerds got into watching sports a lot in the pandemic. Here we discuss Formula 1, Tennis, Football and more.

Link to YouTube: https://youtu.be/ik-dEVMn80M

Formula 1 (00:00:00)

Ferrari Strategy (00:06:58)

Better race tracks on the calendar (00:23:06)

Abhishu started watching Tennis (00:30:50)

The Big 3 (00:34:20)

Personality doesn't matter in sports (00:40:35)

Oil money in sports(45:49)

Football Pyramid System (52:35)

Football has the most passionate fans (58:01)

Vidhey cant get into 2 sports (1:04:40)

Watching encourages playing (1:21:22)

Sport Documentaries (1:25:56)

Correction: At 00:01:30 its Audi not Porsche

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Two brothers talk about social media and the news - understanding the current landscape, addressing the shortcomings and trying to propose solutions.

Link to YouTube: https://youtu.be/6YqJBlOYMcw

Intro: (0:00:00)

Facebook went down: (0:00:55)

Where do people get their news from?: (0:08:00)

Where Vidhey gets his news from: (0:11:50)

Reddit and the etiquette of citing your sources: (00:16:19)

Regulation of your feed: (00:21:48)

Youtube personalization sidenote: (00:23:23)

The Newsroom shoutout: (00:28:31)

Decentralized news and the monetary aspect: (00:38:19)

Alternative form of news?: (00:47:30)

Comedians delivering news: (00:50:40)

How concentrated or dilute should news be?: (00:54:00)

3 "pillars" of ideal news: (01:01:31)

News as part of education: (01:09:01)

Outro and Abhishu's brain fart: (01:12:13)

Links:

Hank's video about Facebook: https://youtu.be/EJtNmd1kV44Feedly

Feedly (news app): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devhd.feedly

The Newsroom on Hotstar: https://www.hotstar.com/in/tv/the-newsroom/8244

The Newsroom scene: https://youtu.be/ugjCCWdKr8Y

CGP Grey National Popular Vote Interstate Compact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUX-frlNBJY

Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUhbZdvtzcw&list=PLBRvcH-i5Uak4rxEf0QQjz39nVuCoM0Zi

Farmers protest: https://youtu.be/iHpZV7ro7lU

What is open source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c0IrsDsNaw

The state of Open Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jImkk1BxGa4

Johnny Harris Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnnyHarrisvox

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Two brothers talk movies ranging from Haseena Dilrooba to Tenet, and from Rear Window to Justice League.

Link to YouTube: https://youtu.be/B1vFAIZr-f8

Intro: (0:00:00)

Norris in Austrian GP: (0:00:40)

Windows 11: (0:05:43)

What Vidhey has been watching: (0:11:10)

First Bollywood movie...: (0:12:35)

Side-rant on sequels: (0:19:10)

Second Bollywood movie...: (0:23:00)

Originality in writing: (0:26:43)

Moneyball review (minor spoilers): (0:30:47)

Movie as a medium of communication: (0:37:18)

Movie as a way to get entertained: (0:40:07)

Parasite as a pacing masterpiece (SPOILERS): (0:43:37)

Inglorious Basterds review (minor spoilers): (0:46:23)

Marriage Story review: (0:48:59)

Rear Window review: (0:52:26)

Importance of Camerawork: (0:57:33)

Nolan's cinematography expertise: (1:02:27)

Tenet review tangent: (1:06:08)

Arrival review (minor spoilers): (1:13:17)

Justice League review: (1:17:31)

Side-rant about internet extremes: (1:20:23)

Side-rant about Bollywood: (1:21:29)

Heat review: (1:23:22)

SHOWNOTES

Vidhey's movie ratings:

Bhavesh Joshi Superhero - 3/5

Haseena Dilrooba - 2.25/5

Darkest Hour - 4/5

Parasite - 4.5/5

Inglorious Basterds - 5/5

Rear Window - 4.5/5

Tenet - 4.25/5

Arrival 4.5/5

Abhishu's movie ratings:

Moneyball - 4.5/5

Jojo Rabbit - 4/5

Parasite - 4.25/5

Inglorious Bastards - 4.5/5

Marriage Story - 3.5/5

Tenet - 4.25/5

Arrival - 4.5/5

Heat - 4/5

Links -

The 2022 F1 car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBmWJOy9vT4

Windows 11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9643c2P6k

Nerdwriter's video on Arrival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z18LY6NME1s

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Two brothers talk about the Azerbaijan GP, stock market investing, cryptocurrency, and how everything affects climate change.

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/KVd0D\_IDjx4


1:10 Azerbaijan GP "drama"

6:13 Catching up from previous discussion

12:59 Trading strategy sidenote

16:45 "Stock" as a company value proposition

21:16 "Climate change" tangent

26:32 "Crypto" tangent

36:06 Content creation sidenote

41:23 Crypto = decentralized currency

44:39 US China trade war

49:30 Crypto = investment "product"?

1:03:48 "Stick to the fundamentals"

1:09:07 Tech progress sidenote

1:20:53 Wrapping up


Links:

"What happened to Hamilton" (thanks to a friend): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcH6xj5n1Dc&t=302s

AMC stock price movement (in 2021 in general and last week): https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/06/03/meme-stock-amc-new-offering-after-skyrocketing-2900-warns-investors-could-lose-it-all/?sh=43b168b33e97

AMC sells stocks: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/03/amc-files-to-sell-11-million-shares-as-retail-trading-frenzy-continues-to-boost-stock.html

Trading strategy article (VIDHEY'S DESCRIPTION IS NOT FULLY ACCURATE SO PLEASE READ THIS): https://www.investopedia.com/articles/active-trading/11/four-types-of-active-traders.asp

Fiat currency:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat\_money

3Blue1Brown crypto explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4

Ethereum Proof-of-Work: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/consensus-mechanisms/pow/

Ethereum Proof-of-Stake: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/consensus-mechanisms/pos/

CGP Grey meme analogy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC-cMv0e3Dc