Catching Up

Abhishu Oza & Vidhey Oza

Two brothers talk about stuff.

Episodes

  1. 12/22/2023

    #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/

    1h 3m

  2. 07/18/2022

    #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

    1h 31m

  3. 10/24/2021

    #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

    1h 14m

  4. 07/15/2021

    #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

    1h 28m

  5. 06/10/2021

    #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

    1h 23m
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Two brothers talk about stuff.

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  • Creator
    Abhishu Oza & Vidhey Oza
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    5
  • Rating
    Explicit
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