adamquek

Oh! Thanks for sharing. #4 is a winner!

I'm still wondering why the emphasis on the blues scale. Wouldn't knowing the mixolydian (good for building dominant chord) and aeolian (good for natural minor) be more complementary to the current scales?

John Cage 4'33"

Alice in Wonderland - I read it once a year, just to remind me of how interesting imagination and paying attention in little things can be.

I'm also thinking of going back to The Plague by Albert Camus. It felt really surreal when I read it over the pandemic. Want to see how I would feel now that COVID has become an endemic disease.

It's a pretty long read though. I wouldn't want to put myself through it again...

I'm keeping my ChatGPT Plus and Coursera Plus subscription for next year. Will likely cancel most of the other subscription to art and video generative AI.

It's starting to get more attention in the healthcare sector.

The good thing is, you will probably remember that one good one and forget about unsuccessful generations; just like how a gambler will only remember that one time he won something, and never talk about most of the time he lost.

My 3 go-to app this year, after I give up a phone for a tablet, are MoonReader, Paperpile and Google Colab. MoonReader for book reading (lots of great textbooks this year on data science), Paperpile as reference manager (and pretty nifty way to share too), and Colab for coding on the go.

The other essential tools are a good fountain pen, a good notebook and a bottle of water.

Because of reinforcement learning. The reward model add more value for output that sounded formal and professional, and penalise those that are more casual or incomplete.

You can finetune it to change the behaviour somewhat. But ultimately, there will be that AI flavour that you can't get rid of because of the way the LLM is trained.

Seconded. There are a lot of great communities on Stack Exchange, beyond Stack Overflow. I pretty much ask a lot of "stupid" question on Cross-Validated all the time.

Meteor strike and end of the world. LOL. Kidding.

- 2024 will likely see a economic rebounding and more positive growth across most sectors. - Social media will be even more toxic and internet will get even more fragmented. Election year ain't gonna be a help in that department. - AI agents performing automated task to be more common. The biggest buzz this year was obviously Auto-GPT, and still kinda miff that it didn't blow up by the end of the year. Next year should see it going mainstream. - Generative video to be an actual thing. There are some progress on it this year, but is generally crap/unusable.

Insightful. Too bad the author apparently stopped writing for 10 years now.

I would love to see a list of all the websites you hate.

Sounds similar to the popular question: why learn arithmetic when calculator exists?