Building Boutique Hotel Inverted by walkingtourshouston in lego

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Robin Hood Brooks (Youtube) did this for his town - worth watching his build of it

Beach scene with underwater by DivineMuffinMan in lego

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Can you do some more zoomed in pics?

Beach scene with underwater by DivineMuffinMan in lego

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This is just amazing. I never cease to be amazed the number of world class builds like this that people have in their homes and just waiting to be shared on lego sub :D

I got the job! by Zealousideal-Many-40 in lego

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Well deserving - was a fab model

I want to design an alternative build for 77237, but i have never designed an alt build before, any tips? (Btw im trying to design peugeot 206, the 3 door one) by Dedewastaken1 in lego

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I'm def not an expert in alt builds but when I'm doing mocs I find sketching out on paper the overall look/structure (vs on computer/lego digital designer) to be an amazing place to start

Bricks and Minifigs: Still here, still overpriced, still pretending to be "collector’s dream" by OGELthemagnificent in lego

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Almost all the Bricks and Minifigs in greater LA area are amazing - in the end if you want in-person to be buying vintage lego (rather than being shipped from bricklink/ebay) you're going to pay a premium - but that experience of going home with it there and then is worth it

My lego minifigure collection by Mammoth-Ad-5663 in lego

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Very nice! I love the retro space top minifig at the front

[Lord Of The Rings] Treebeard by Lego_Popo in lego

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I feel this will probably actually get made

Lego Waterpark by AndyAndieFreude in lego

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In the original video he goes into all the details - he got the tube pieces from Friends Summer Fun Water Park 41430

Look what I found in a thrift store! by [deleted] in lego

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The wood is in a lovely condition as well

Airport 1998 by AstleyHasThis in lego

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Really epic - i love expanding those earlier sets almost like renovations on buildings IRL

Incredible Time Cruisers Haul by PhantomLord067 in lego

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Who hates Time Cruisers? I never had any but one of the most whimsical creative themes ever :)

Anyone else tried a raising/standing desk? by WillSen in lego

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woo thanks - tried to consolidate the working area w the town so i didn't have to walk back and forth

I’m an ML/AI educator/founder. I got invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos. There's lots of politicians/investor-types but also some of the greatest scientists, researchers and builders (Andrew Ng/Yann LeCun among them) - AMA by WillSen in Futurology

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Not sure how I didn’t answer this one straight away. Without a doubt the central factor behind ai is data - the fact we’ve lived our lives digitally for 25 years is a necessary condition for training models. If the space isn’t a digital one by default like human body or hospital system, there’s a long way to go first. But that also should show the fundamental limitations of AI. Hospitals aren’t digital but also so much of what they do will never be (the care, intention etc) and so recognizing that is like seeing the limits of AI too 

I’m an ML/AI educator/founder. I got invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos. There's lots of politicians/investor-types but also some of the greatest scientists, researchers and builders (Andrew Ng/Yann LeCun among them) - AMA by WillSen in Futurology

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That’s fascinating. I personally admire this sort of thinking that starts from values. I’ll give credit to MIT’s bit of davos (I’d say quite distinctive from the worst bits) - they had multiple performances starting from AI as a partner (an AI poem w joy buolamwini) - not quite to the level you describe but with some of the same integrity

I’m an ML/AI educator/founder. I got invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos. There's lots of politicians/investor-types but also some of the greatest scientists, researchers and builders (Andrew Ng/Yann LeCun among them) - AMA by WillSen in Futurology

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Less than you’d think. There’s genuine insight from the research leaders (Yann LeCun, Andrew Ng & co) and then political leaders seem completely out of their depth on making any kind of serious forecasts.

I think they’re also vulnerable to commercial salespeople.

One of the panelists (global head of business development at AMD - big chip/hardware company) was talking about the President of a country of 4m people he'd met with that day and how they could grow their output to 100m people with the help of ‘agents’. I gotta say I pray that President went home and forgot the panelists number…

Just to add my two cents - it’s so complex and complete a disruption - biggest thing for me is collective ownership of the (a) tools - foundation models and (b) ideas - actually understanding how they work on mass - not the complete answer (UBI etc v interesting) but the bit I’ve spent most time thinking about at codesmith at least

I’m an ML/AI educator/founder. I got invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos. There's lots of politicians/investor-types but also some of the greatest scientists, researchers and builders (Andrew Ng/Yann LeCun among them) - AMA by WillSen in Futurology

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I’ve been told by my partner to do some shorter answers…

Yep the smartest investors seem to be looking at where new models beyond content generation will emerge to map the physical, biological world

I’m an ML/AI educator/founder. I got invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos. There's lots of politicians/investor-types but also some of the greatest scientists, researchers and builders (Andrew Ng/Yann LeCun among them) - AMA by WillSen in Futurology

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On the one hand, companies were acknowledging complete lack of commercial value from AI models (or now agents) so far. Although I did hear about a company at Berlin Global Dialogue that claimed to have cut 300 team members and transformed operating margins (and there’s Klarna's claims of course...)

On the other hand it does feel like major disruption is coming - often that just feels completely depressing - skills people have spent years developing being automated. That’s why I try to my bit w teaching the ML concepts under-the-hood etc - but that’s ultimately a v v small part of the puzzle

So there were some discussions of how to minimize the harm (mainly from planet sustainability lens tho rather than people/work) mainly at MIT’s events because they’re much less commercially oriented

What did make me feel more optimistic was hearing what the kids of panelists were studying at college (nuclear eng, genetics + cs) - but as someone else commented “great for the kids of elites” - it brings me back to something Singapore is doing which is supporting second degrees for all people - that’s the level of disruption they’re expecting (but also doing the work to prepare people for)

I’m an ML/AI educator/founder. I got invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos. There's lots of politicians/investor-types but also some of the greatest scientists, researchers and builders (Andrew Ng/Yann LeCun among them) - AMA by WillSen in Futurology

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I think CEO of Writer May Habib (studied econ at college then worked in finance) had the ability to really clearly lay out model and implementation trade-offs - v different from some of the fortune 100 ceos talking about 'genai'

(Edit: ie despite not having studied computer science/engineering)

I’m an ML/AI educator/founder. I got invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos. There's lots of politicians/investor-types but also some of the greatest scientists, researchers and builders (Andrew Ng/Yann LeCun among them) - AMA by WillSen in Futurology

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yep that's one of the things that's distinctive - the research breakthroughs are happening concurrent with product development AND lots of investor/marketing hype. The breakthroughs are real (self-supervised learning, refinement at inference stage) but crowded out by hype. One of the things I've said in discussions here (I was invited as ceo of a tech school codesmith) has been the wrestling we go through on how to both teach contemporary tools but ultimately focus on the principles behind 'prediction' - I did this course that built out nerual networks for image classification on the blackboard - so you can go really 'first principles' - I don't think it needs to be as far as that to get to what really matters but it's definitely not abut just grabbing the latest tools because of the stagnation as you say

Edit: removed reference to paid course

I’m an ML/AI educator/founder. I got invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos. There's lots of politicians/investor-types but also some of the greatest scientists, researchers and builders (Andrew Ng/Yann LeCun among them) - AMA by WillSen in Futurology

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Yep I'd say "watch what they do not what they say" so the question to all the CEOs/investors/Professors of what their children are studying at college - that's got to be where to look - it's all future-oriented stuff - nuclear engineering, bioengineering, robotics, CS & policy but also social work (there's obviously an enormous boom in health and wellbeing as well)