lex fridman

Keeping an eye on the broader game I was listening to Lex Fridman’s interview of Marc Andreesen, which was jam-packed with interesting discussion, and I picked up a new phrase for me: “Baptists and Bootleggers”. Essentially, the idea is that in any circumstance in which you see groups lobbying to regulate some activity, some seemingly disparate groups may share the underlying intentions of regulating said activity for some ulterior beneficial purpose, thus permitting them to work together....

I’m no machine learning engineer Duh. I’ve spent long enough reading about and experimenting with machine learning now that I guess I understand the basics more than most, but obviously I have no formal training or professional experience, so obviously take everything I have to say here with massive, Milton-sized grains of salt. Since getting access to ChatGPT, I find I can learn about ML way, way faster though, and I’m really enjoying it....