Catching Up

By Abhishu Oza & Vidhey Oza

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December 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/
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1h 3min
July 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
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1h 32min
October 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
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1h 15min
July 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
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1h 29min
June 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
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1h 23min

FAQs about Catching Up:

How many episodes does Catching Up have?

The podcast currently has 5 episodes available.