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  1. From the video on progress -
    1. material progress as an engine of destruction
    2. risk averse
    3. recent economic growth in living memory
    4. reinforcing cycle
    5. tech enabled progress
    6. culture as a driving point for progress
    7. lack of foreign aggressors
    8. when people don't have bigger problems a look at the available problems and make the bigger
    9. techno optimism
    10. manifestation of malaise in the society
    11. shared value
    12. history evidence logic and data
    13. set up conditions that are deliberate and intentional
    14. controlling the narrative
    15. how do we create the state of optimism
    16. feedback relationship between regulation and cultural attitude
    17. invisible costs
    18. social utility outcomes
    19. social value versus economic value
    20. high status high prestige jobs
    21. solution to a problem
  2. product
    1. tools of the trade
    2. opportunity solution trees
    3. continuous discovery
  3. from twitter
    1. trading facilities for predictability
  4. digital whip
  5. the failures reveal the path forward.
  6. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-case-against-travel
    1. travel’s dehumanizing effect
    2. you can’t rely on introspection to detect a delusion.
  7. detached awareness
  8. Life
    1. uncover decision makers
      1. linked in sales navigator
    2. that was a humbling experience
      1. sid from VB
    3. high stakes consulting
    4. grow or go
  9. Amazon
    1. Reduce operational complexity
    2. Internet performance impact
    3. reduce mean time to repair
  10. Shoppify
    1. Accelerated commerce development
    2. Opinionated yet flexible
  11. LinkedIn
    1. Build trust by verifying your identity
  12. Shared
    1. shared characteristics
    2. shared beliefs
    3. shared geography
    4. shared history
    5. shared context
  13. Diffuse the sales pressure
  14. source and transform
  15. prompts
    1. https://youtu.be/_ZvnD73m40o?si=oAxSj_MiW5VoWrfw
    2. metaphorical mirror
    3. socio-linguistics
    4. Eliza
    5. shrdlu
    6. 2010 deep learning
    7. hallucinations are a sneak peak into their thought process
    8. text embedding represent the meaning of words
      1. create embedding api
  16. i don't value the difference
  17. build the execution muscle
  18. smart enough to accept the wisdom though it comes from a different culture
  19. question statement factual
  20. start with customer experience and work backwards to Technology - cassey Kozrikov
    1. Knowing about technology also improves the imagination of the experience that we can provide to the customer
  21. just because I didn't express well, it doesn't mean that my underlying point was not great
  22. Mitra session
    1. accelerating the field
    2. formulating game play
    3. photorealistic
      1. computational photography
    4. it is just a neural network
    5. nerfs
    6. segment anything
    7. multimodality
    8. embedding space arithmetic
    9. cohesive and coherent
    10. complexity is not in the math but in the scale
    11. not all accuracy is same
  23. Gunanka
    1. much like the protagonist in "The Star Thrower," I endeavor to leave a positive imprint in every situation I encounter.
  24. efficiency of representation
  25. data representation could be the key to solving the problem
  26. math is same irrespective of small or big models. but the compute increases combinatorial so becomes very costly at higher numbers
  27. world is compositional
  28. From a meeting
    1. you asked a good question
    2. i don't want to give you a wrong answer
    3. let it come from our head only
  29. decomposing the drivers of progress
  30. we hone in on the nub of the problem.
  31. there is a difference between knowledge and intelligence
    1. intelligence tests not contaminated by knowledge
  32. common but differentiated responsibility
  33. digital demand
  34. big picture designer versus low level tinkerer
  35. density of data from one region to another
  36. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcJKxPXYudE
    1. people should have a framework for when to question such dogmatic ideas
      1. when is your ideal hurting you versus when is it helping you
    2. frameworks that offer different set of tradeoffs
    3. this industry should produce new frameworks and new abstractions
    4. we shouldn't have to pick between monolith and microservices, there has to be something in between
    5. i have a deep fear of dependencies
    6. it is very hard to replicate luch
    7. if you care enough about your craft and curious about how stuff works
    8. an idea of what goods like
    9. figure how stuff works, make software better
  37. planet scale
  38. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5HH1BPN4o
    1. at conferences everbody talks about the new things they are working on but back at office everbody is working on legacy stuff :P
    2. uber has 2000 services?

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