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Rami's Readings #12

SVB Infighting, Intrapreneurship in China, Sony Design, Apple II, Supreme Tamagotchi, Prompt Injection, Excess Car Thefts, and more.

Rami Sayar
Mar 19, 2023
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Rami's Readings #12

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Welcome to Rami’s Readings #12 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, videos, Twitter threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering technology, business, culture, fashion, travel and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.


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The SVB chaos seems to be under control🤞 (😒 I am watching you First Republic and Credit Suisse). This week I will be sharing a variety of reads across my usual themes of Business, Culture, AI, and Fashion.

💼 Business Reads

The Silicon Valley Bank fallout is just beginning

Notes: VC infighting is not surprising. It only took a few days for the initial solidarity to dissipate.

The Men Who Set the Rules in Chinese Tech

Notes: Intrapreneurs are 🔑. I love the startup world and am heavily involved as an advisor and angel, but intrapreneurship is underappreciated in the US vs entrepreneurship. As a frequent intrapreneur myself, I covered different aspects in a few of my previous newsletters.

The masculine ideal in China’s tech world is no longer an entrepreneur, but an “entrepreneurial employee.”

Reddit Post Seemingly Proves That Samsung’s Galaxy S-Series ‘Moon Photos’ Are Fake, and They’ve Been Blatantly Lying About Them

Notes: How many times will this happen? Who is held accountable for these “errors” in a large corporation? Is it marketing, design, or business development?

🎨 Culture and Fashion Reads

Sony Design Gallery

Notes: Great website covering Sony design over time. Sony's design is legendary. Their work inspired even Apple.

‘The Apple II Age’

Notes: An underappreciated perspective on the Apple II.

Designed by the brilliant engineer Steve Wozniak and hustled into the marketplace by his Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, the Apple II became one of the most prominent personal computers of this dawning industry. Instead, as historian Laine Nooney shows, what made the Apple II iconic was its software.

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The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor
Why do people wear these pointless bits of fabric called ties?
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4:37 AM ∙ Mar 12, 2023
47,767Likes7,068Retweets

The Supreme Tamagotchi is a Hypebeasts Best Friend

Notes: Who remembers having a Tamagotchi as a kid? Also, at this point, what will not get the Supreme treatment? Supreme’s 10 Weirdest Items ❤️ Supreme Baby Groot.

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Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash

🤖 AI Reads

Zhejiang Wants Children to Study AI From Younger Age

Notes: STEM and AI in early childhood education remain essential in China.

China is actively integrating artificial intelligence training into schools to groom the next generation of talent.

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Kris Kashtanova @icreatelife
Probably the most eventful week AI has ever seen: Monday: - Stanford releases Alpaca 7B - Google announces Med-PaLM 2 a new medical LLM Tuesday: - OpenAI releases GPT4 - Anthropic releases Claude - Google announces the PaLM API & MakerSuite - Adept raises $350M - Google adds… https://t.co/eASt7uX2oN
5:39 PM ∙ Mar 16, 2023
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Prompt Injection Attacks on Large Language Models

Notes: A good survey of recent prompt injection attacks on LLMs.

Putting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models

Notes: Published a few months. I saw little discussion around it, so it may have been missed.

🛡️ CyberSecurity Reads

Excess Kia and Hyundai car thefts

Notes: Hondas are being targeted in similar car thefts. I think everyone will need Faraday Cages for their car key fobs soon.


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