2022 was a complete blur. I am glad that I ended it with an extended trip back to Singapore to restore some form of sanity, and a break from the mundane daily cycle.
NFTs, generative AI, Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, LLMs, creator economy, something something.
The tech industry right now.
A part of me is numb to the innovations that are happening around the tech industry these days. I rarely browse Hacker News anymore, and lost a part of the curious mind that looks at a piece of technology, and say “let me find out more about how this works”. One of the main goals I have this year is to “un-jade” myself.
But also – these actual innovations are surrounded by way too much noise. I find it difficult to research these topics because of You’ll never believe what ChatGPT did to me… style articles/videos that are ranked higher than actual useful information. It seems like most content creators know how to game the search engine ranking, and the only way to filter out noise is to add a “reddit” prefix before the search query.
I’m glad that respectable folks like Andrej Karpathy are making lecture style videos like this one:
This felt like a lecture that I watched for OMSCS, or the Stanford classes that I attended in 2016. I miss consuming this style of content that dives deep into the nitty-gritty details for a piece of technology, before crunching away with my own version of what’s described.
I want to sustain this sense of excitement for 2023, and this video might’ve just been the very first step to “un-jade” myself.
Bili Xu 