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Two brothers talk about stuff.

Catching Up Abhishu Oza & Vidhey Oza

    • Society & Culture

Two brothers talk about stuff.

    #5 The State of AI

    #5 The State of AI

    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/

    • 1 hr 2 min
    #4 Formula 1, Football, and the State of Sports

    #4 Formula 1, Football, and the State of Sports

    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

    • 1 hr 31 min
    #3 Brainstorming News

    #3 Brainstorming News

    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

    • 1 hr 14 min
    #2 Movie Forensics

    #2 Movie Forensics

    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

    • 1 hr 28 min
    #1 Cryptocurrency and Investing

    #1 Cryptocurrency and Investing

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

    YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/KVd0D_IDjx4





    Azerbaijan GP "drama" (1:10)

    Catching up from previous discussion (6:13)

    Trading strategy sidenote (12:59)

    "Stock" as a company value proposition (16:45)

    "Climate change" tangent (21:16)

    "Crypto" tangent (26:32)

    Content creation sidenote (36:06)

    Crypto = decentralized currency (41:23)

    US China trade war (44:39)

    Crypto = investment "product"? (49:30)

    "Stick to the fundamentals" (1:03:48)

    Tech progress sidenote (1:09:07)

    Wrapping up (1:20:53)



    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

    • 1 hr 22 min

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