"...learn kind of basic things in mathematics, in modeling, mathematics that can be connected with reality....although you should learn philosophy ...this is done by learning things that have a long shelf life"

"... if you were starting your AI career today, what skills and research directions would you focus on? ---  I get a lot this question a lot from young students or parents of future students. I think you should learn things that have a long shelf life and you should learn things that help you learn to learn because technology is you know evolving so quickly that you want kind of the ability to learn really quickly. "

After 12 years at Meta, Turing Award winner Yann LeCun is betting his legacy on a radically different vision of AI. In this conversation, he explains why Silicon Valley's obsession with scaling language models is a dead end, and why his new company AMI is building world models that predict in abstract representation space rather than generating pixels.

Here is the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u-DXVADyhc

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National Mathematics Day - Birthday of a great mathematician

A person of great Inspiration!

"Every positive integer was one of his personal friends" - British Mathematician John Littlewood.

During my high school days, I watched the movie "The Man Who Knew Infinity". It was the first time I was introduced to an eminent mathematician through a gripping biopic. I was inspired by Srinivasa Ramanujan and began reading about him, which led me to decide to major in math.

A quote by him always lingers - "An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God"

A fascinating scene was the popular Ramanujan anecdote about taxi cab number 1729 - "the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways (1³ + 12³ and 9³ + 10³)". One more scene that intrigues us is the fierce academic challenge between the totally sceptical Major Percy Alexander MacMahon and the supremely confident Ramanujan on partitions [p(200)], which Prof. Hardy relishes from the sidelines.

The poetic justice moment occurs during the committee's discussion to decide on the FRS for Ramanujan. When the fictional Prof Howard (who enacts the Prof Arthur Berry episode in an earlier scene from real biography) opposes FRS for him by saying, "enough is enough with this...this Ramujin", Major MacMahon quickly intervenes and says, "I think he has the finest mind I've seen in my lifetime", and then corrects Prof Howard, "And his name is Ramanujan."

However, the goosebump scene is when Prof Hardy opens the door for Ramanujan, and he is welcomed by all the senior academicians with a ritualistic tapping on the desk - when he is finally elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and a Fellow of Trinity College, signifying that the once-sceptical academic community has fully accepted him as an equal.

A well-made movie worth watching on the birthday of the mathematical genius Shri Srinivasa Ramanujan, December 22, which we celebrate in India as National Mathematics Day in his honour. With a lot of respect and reverence, remembering the genius who lived only for 32 years, but gifted humanity with bundles of mathematical works that still help us in various realms - from ATMs and RADARS to Blockchain encryption layers and Quantum gravity models.

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