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Chpt 12, the agent and the transformer
Sutskever left Google to join OpenAI
Radioed and Sutskever actually build GPT starting from a Google paper
— Sep 27, 2026 07:05AM
Sutskever left Google to join OpenAI
Radioed and Sutskever actually build GPT starting from a Google paper
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Chpt 13 on language and nature
Gaia sounds so interesting. An agent navigate an nature simulation and learn from perception and trial and the StarCraft thing too
Though during this era is where they lose to GPT
— Sep 27, 2026 07:37AM
Gaia sounds so interesting. An agent navigate an nature simulation and learn from perception and trial and the StarCraft thing too
Though during this era is where they lose to GPT
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Chpt 11 P0 Plus plus
Interestingly their healthcare stab comes from just building a normal notification system called streams and then went on train kidney radio detection and retina, but so sad the data, privacy and AI fear has prevented any of them to go anywhere.
Moose’s applied division has a task ranking system and everything becomes P0 plus plus lol
And he sounds like quite an intolerable boss too
— Sep 21, 2026 04:59PM
Interestingly their healthcare stab comes from just building a normal notification system called streams and then went on train kidney radio detection and retina, but so sad the data, privacy and AI fear has prevented any of them to go anywhere.
Moose’s applied division has a task ranking system and everything becomes P0 plus plus lol
And he sounds like quite an intolerable boss too
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Chapter 10 Out of Eden
Page speciest view is so crazy. Musk and Sam Altman launched openAI. Poor Demis’ singular wished and optimism
— Sep 13, 2026 04:26PM
Page speciest view is so crazy. Musk and Sam Altman launched openAI. Poor Demis’ singular wished and optimism
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Chpt 9 intuition
AlphaGo was produced to beat humans
— Sep 13, 2026 04:07PM
AlphaGo was produced to beat humans
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Chpt 8
Get Google
Woww they went from struggling to raise 60m to sold at 650m
— Sep 06, 2026 06:07AM
Get Google
Woww they went from struggling to raise 60m to sold at 650m
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chapt 7
Thiel trouble
Founder’s found backed out series C’s lead, oh well never put ur eggs in one basket
— Sep 06, 2026 05:44AM
Thiel trouble
Founder’s found backed out series C’s lead, oh well never put ur eggs in one basket
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Chpt 6 Atari
Recruited Mnih who first use memory buffer to overcome the deep learning exposure bias while bridging to RL and second add training and “coaching” separation so that RL does not spiral with infinite expectations
Chose Atari as a benchmark instead of developing its own
— Aug 30, 2026 06:13AM
Recruited Mnih who first use memory buffer to overcome the deep learning exposure bias while bridging to RL and second add training and “coaching” separation so that RL does not spiral with infinite expectations
Chose Atari as a benchmark instead of developing its own
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Chpt 5 founding deepmind
Won the investment of Peter thiel. Always accept equity from startup lol
— Aug 23, 2026 07:07AM
Won the investment of Peter thiel. Always accept equity from startup lol
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Chapter 4 the Gang of three
He’s in the Gatsby Lab founded by Hinton. Shane Legg is in lab too. New Zealand, did some data science and worked for Goertzel. Mustafa Suleyman has an even crazier story of homeless since 15, confronting Muslim upbringing and dropping out of Oxford. Knew demis through his brother and got an landing after following up a gambling celebration’s conversation by noting Sergey Brian wuhuu
— Jul 18, 2026 11:40AM
He’s in the Gatsby Lab founded by Hinton. Shane Legg is in lab too. New Zealand, did some data science and worked for Goertzel. Mustafa Suleyman has an even crazier story of homeless since 15, confronting Muslim upbringing and dropping out of Oxford. Knew demis through his brother and got an landing after following up a gambling celebration’s conversation by noting Sergey Brian wuhuu
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Chpt 3 the Jedi
He founded his first company Elixir and dreamed bigger than capacity. He seemed to be a charismatic Jedi and slave driver despite himself hating to be controlled. Pretty impressive that he can still sell so effusively after the hardware problem at the conference though. Now both Silver and Him is taking a break by doing PhD oh houuu
— Jul 18, 2026 08:48AM
He founded his first company Elixir and dreamed bigger than capacity. He seemed to be a charismatic Jedi and slave driver despite himself hating to be controlled. Pretty impressive that he can still sell so effusively after the hardware problem at the conference though. Now both Silver and Him is taking a break by doing PhD oh houuu