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The Infant Learner
Some stuff I read this week:
A. This week’s Special:-
Interview with Demis Hassabis
Kirsty Young’s castaway is Dr. Demis Hassabis. An artificial intelligence researcher and co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, he is also a neuroscientist, a computer games designer, an entrepreneur, and in his youth, a world-class chess player.
Born in 1976, he was introduced to chess aged four and, by the age of twelve, was the world’s second-highest ranked player for his age. With his winnings, he bought himself a PC and taught himself to code. After taking his A Levels two years early, before going to university he worked on one of the most successful computer games of the 1990s, Theme Park. He graduated from Cambridge with a double first, and returned to the computer games industry, founding his own company in his early twenties.
His passion had long been artificial intelligence and he says everything he’s done has been part of a long-term plan to “solve intelligence” and then use intelligence “to solve everything else”. He gained a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience where he deliberately chose to study topics where AI had failed so far: memory and imagination. After stints at MIT and Harvard, he co-founded his company in 2010, which was then acquired by Google in January 2014. In March 2016 their computer programme, AlphaGo, beat a world champion Go player at the game having taught itself how to play through a combination of two techniques – deep learning and reinforcement learning.
Recently he was interviewed at bbc.co.uk. Click the link given below to listen to the interview:
B. Entrepreneurial Diary
C. Other Stories
Over optimizing the portfolio ( VI )
Why Cities Survive & Companies Die ( CS )
When doing nothing is the best option ( TH )
22 timeless lessons for our 22nd month ( YA )
Goal Planning: For your daughter’s sake ( MW )
Stock analysis – The curious case of HMVL ( SL )
Russell Napier, ASIP: 21 Lessons from History ( CF )
4 Money Tips from 4 Personal Finance Legends ( AM )
Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other ( DK )
Case Study: Nucor Corp, From Bankruptcy To Steel Industry Giant ( AI )
“I read everything: annual reports, 10k’s, 10q’s, biographies, histories, five newspapers a day. On airplanes, I read the instructions on the backs of seats. Reading is key. Reading has made me rich over time” – Warren Buffett
“I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you” – Charlie Munger
You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better”- Carol Dweck