2025
This month Google, which pioneered the “transformer” algorithms underpinning the current AI wave, launched Gemini 3, a cutting-edge model that outperforms those of its biggest rivals, including OpenAI, on most benchmarks. Crucially, Gemini 3 was trained entirely on Google’s own chips, called tensor-processing units (TPUs), which it has begun peddling to others as a far cheaper alternative to Nvidia’s graphics-processing units (GPUs).
Cervical cancer vaccines prevent over one million deaths in lower-income countries
“A Gavi-led vaccination push protected 86 million girls in lower-income countries from cervical cancer, preventing 1.4 million future deaths and meeting its target ahead of schedule.
The milestone follows a Gavi program revitalization in 2023, focusing on nations that account for 90% of cervical cancer deaths. By the end of 2025, the vaccine will be available where 89% of cases occur.”
This is fricking amazing! - link
readwise highlights categorizing
Categorizing all my highlights from readwise.io account so that I can create Anki cards out of it. Yep, very lazy Sunday afternoon here.. lol
youtu.be/cjZvFY6__… this was amazing!!
Dept.Q
Dept Q in Netflix started out quite boring but from episode 4 it actually makes sense. Not sure why they made a protagonist look like an asshole for 3 episodes for no reason
Validation
Listening to this podcast - overcast.fm/+ABMWbnrd… - I realized that validation is a two way street with AI. I am validating the text generated by AI, whether it’s code or content and AI is emotionally validating me by throwing around praises for everything I ask!