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Ayman

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  • This is wrong. The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for. A good illustration of this is Terence Tao’s conversation with ChatGPT about the recently-discovered counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture. This is not the same ChatGPT I talk to! I couldn’t get to where Tao gets, even with unlimited tokens to burn.
    LLMs reward expertise
  • According to a random site on the Web, about 500 hours of video footage are uploaded to YouTube *per minute*. This is a ridiculous amount of data, much more than is available as text on the entire internet. It’s potentially a much richer source of information too as videos contain not just words but the inflection behind them as well as rich information about physics and culture that just can’t be gleaned from text.
    There Are No New Ideas in AI… Only New Datasets
  • This competitive advantage should ideally be difficult to replicate in the short term, and lean into your inherent unfair advantages. These are the kinds of competencies that set you apart in most competitive environments.
    The competitive landscape has changed, and young people need to adapt
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data. placeholder
    Curius / Onboarding