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Amir Husain

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Dec 6

🧵 Wu Dao 2.0 is a massive multi-modal neural network that uses about 1.75 trillion parameters.

This makes it about 10X larger than GPT-3.

It was developed in China by the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence.

And now it has a "child." /1

"Hua Zhibing, Wu Dao 2.0’s child, is the first Chinese virtual student. She can learn continuously, compose poetry, draw pictures, and will learn to code in the future." /2

"In contrast with GPT-3, Wu Dao 2.0 can learn different tasks over time, not forgetting what it has learned previously. This feature seems to bring AI yet closer to human memory and learning mechanisms." /3

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Amir Husain

@amirhusain_tx

Mar 19

"Should I launch my own startup?" I'm often asked this question. On the one hand, the answer is simple; it's what I've chosen to do my entire career and isn't building a business the coolest thing ever?! But on the other hand, I've also experienced sufficient doses of both /1

the +ves & -ves of entrepreneurship to not be flippant in my response. The answer is very individual and situation dependent and there is no panacea. In many ways, whether to launch a startup could be amongst the most crucial decisions /2

someone makes in their life. Deciding to embark on this journey can test every aspect of your life; your friendships, marriage/partnership, relationships with family, physical & mental well-being, health, ability to withstand repeated failure... really, your sanity. /3

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Amir Husain

@amirhusain_tx

Dec 31, 2021

Let me take you on a trip to Murree, Pakistan, a charming hill station at an altitude of 7,500 feet, located in the Himalayan foothills. The town is named after the Virgin Mary. (1/x)

Local legend suggests that Murree is the last resting place of Mary, mother of Jesus. There is a significant and old Church presence here; The Church of the Holy Trinity, established in 1857, and The Convent of Jesus and Mary. (2/x)

@Zaib_Husain

@Zaib_Husain’s mother went to boarding school at the convent, my father studied at Lawrence College in Murree and both of us grew up having summer homes here. It was our magical escape during the mid-year holidays… (3/x)

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Amir Husain

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Dec 28, 2021

Where does “Himalayan salt” come from? A photo thread. Enroute to Islamabad, Pakistan, I stopped to visit the mines in the Khewra salt range; the second largest salt mine in the world. It was discovered when Alexander the Great came through this region in ~330 BC. (1/x)

At that time, salt was highly valued and was even used as currency by the Phoenicians. Interestingly, Alexander’s favorite warhorse, Bucephalus, is buried a few miles from here. (2/x)

This salt mine served the Mughal Empire, and of course the British operated it during their period of colonial rule. It has been actively mined with relatively modern methods since the 1870s. (3/x)

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Amir Husain

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Oct 9, 2021

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What happened to UX evolution? This is the @Xerox STAR, an evolution of the Alto, released 40 yrs ago in 1981. Windows, icons, menus, pointer (WIMP), cut/paste, move, drag, resize. It’s all there, just as in #Windows11. Did we merely change icons & aesthetics for 40 yrs? (1)

UX evolution seems a great example of a search for something better getting stuck in a “local minima”; GUIs are great, but is this paradigm “optimal”? What is the text->GUI-like shift that comes next? Some say VR. But that’s not precise enough. Not universal enough. (2)

There will likely always be a need to see information, unaided, on a 2D surface. Aside from VR, there are speech or voice based interfaces (VUIs) like the popular Alexa, Siri agents. But these are clunky and nowhere close to a general-purpose computing user interface. (3)

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Amir Husain

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Sep 7, 2021

I am a huge believer in the Unix philosophy. Small, composable modules, loosely coupled. If you know your way around a Un*x system, you need little else. Here’s an example. I’ve got an NFS volume on a server and I wanted to backup (1)

all the content to USB drives automatically, every hour. I decided to use the rsync program to do differential backups, but ran into an issue. My server is on a UPS, but the USB enclosure is not. So at times, after a power failure, the USB drives aren’t available and rsync (2)

tries to back everything to the /media folder by creating a new local folder instead of writing to the mounted USB drive. I figured I’d resolve this by checking that both my USB drives were mounted before I ran the rsync backup command. Here’s one solution: (3)

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