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@Polymathochist
Serial entrepreneur & early-stage tech investor with a global focus
Oh god are we really doing this? Jeff Dean trained an n-gram model on the entire internet in 2007. Jelinek coined the term "language model" in the '70s. It's called "Claude" because Claude Shannon was estimating the entropy rate of the English language in 1951!
In 2016; a well preserved and complete skeleton of a Basilosaurus (Pre-historic Archaeocete Whale), about 37 million years old (more than 65ft long), found in Wadi Al Hitan, also known as Valley of the Whales in the western desert, Egypt ๐ช๐ฌ. This region was once a part of the ocean in Cretaceous period (65 million years ago). Dozens of rare fossilized whale skeletons have emerged from the sands of the Egyptian Saharan desert. A museum has now opened on the site to help preserve the fossils. Wadi Al-Hitan, Whale Valley, a paleontologicalย site in theย Faiyum Governorateย ofย Egypt, some 150km south-west ofย Cairo, in the Western Desert of Egypt.ย It was designated aย UNESCOย World Heritage Siteย in July 2005,ย for its hundreds ofย fossilsย of some of the earliest forms ofย whale, theย archaeocetiย (a now extinct sub-order of whales).ย These fossils represent one of the major stories of evolution: the emergence of the whale as an ocean-going mammal from a previous life as a land-based animal. Wadi Al-Hitan is the most important site in the world for the demonstration of this stage of evolution. It portrays vividly the form and life of these whales during their transition. The number, concentration and quality of such fossils here is unique, as is their accessibility and setting in an attractive and protected landscape. The fossils of Al-Hitan show the youngest archaeocetes, in the last stages of losing their hind limbs. Other fossil material in the site makes it possible to reconstruct the surrounding environmental and ecological conditions of the time. The first fossil skeletons of whales were discovered in the winter of 1902โ03. The World Heritage property is a strictly protected zone, set within the wider landscape of the attractive Wadi El-Rayan Protected Area. It is an exceptional global reference site because of the number, concentration, quality and accessibility of the evidence of the earliest whales, often in the form of complete skeletons, and the record of the environment that they lived in. #archaeohistories
BREAKING NEWS: @rpoo Ross Nordeen has left xAI, he was the last remaining cofounder. Only @elonmusk is left! Ross played an big part in the compute strategy & bring up of the overall hardware & software layer of xAI datacenters.
Another one's gone Cybercab Manufacturing Ops Lead $TSLA $TSLAQ
China reviews $2bn Manus sale to Meta as founders barred from leaving country ft.trib.al/SHIs4Mx
Yeah, this is our indie game ๐ฝ
