Gordon Wintrob

The contest I compete in an annual predictions contest with a group of friends. Each January, we make a series of guesses about the economy, politics, etc. to see who is most accurate at the end of the year. Beyond the cash prize, the winner gets a green Masters jacket

* 2024 in AI, with Nathan Benaich - The Gradient * This podcast dropped in December and was the first time I heard about DeepSeek. A lot of the Chinese research happens in local language papers that aren't ending up on arXiv or Hacker News. It's funny that

I'm starting a series on the podcasts, audiobooks, etc. that are grabbing my attention. I'll curate the best of what I'm listening to and pull out some good quotes that stuck with me. Here's the first edition: * The Startup Teaching 2-Year Olds

AI Twitter and WhatsApp groups mostly cover two things: frontier labs battling for AGI supremacy and startups building AI infrastructure. Essentially, there’s a large buffet of AI capabilities and tools to serve them up, but the world needs founders to build real apps that give people tangible value. I

Pseudonymous researcher Gwern had a fascinating interview on the Dwarkesh podcast. He is very optimistic on AGI in the next several years and given that timeline believes that we should only do things in one of three categories: 1. Things we enjoy because we like them 2. Things where we