I watched 7 animes in 2 weeks

but was actually pretty productive too 🤗

🍥 Life

Hi friends! How’s it going??

So uh this is so pretty embarrassing - I ran into a pole and somehow fractured my hand. 😭

Last year I fell off a ledge and sprained my ankle pretty badly. My injuries are so uncool lol.

ANYWAYS, other than that it’s been really good weather in SF and I’ve been walking around a lot and exploring the city. I’m actually thinking about doing a West Coast to East Coast solo road trip, has anyone done it before?

Lmk in comments if you have any thoughts or tips!

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🌻 Interesting Things (I think)

A range of things that I find interesting! 👇

🤖 Tech & AI

Elon Musk’s team at xAI just turned on the world’s most powerful AI training cluster.

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ELI5 if you’re not a hardware person like me: More Nvidia GPUs == bigger supercomputer == more compute == better AI models.

This also means that they will be able to train and ship models faster and we can expect increased frequency of model releases. Elon’s goal is to create the world's most powerful AI by December 2024. Latter half of this year is going to be intense - seems like the calm before another AI storm.

🖊️ Learning

I took my driver’s test and passed YAY! Now I’m waiting for my license. 😊

Still chugging along towards my goal of making better videos and getting 1M/views video. I recently signed up for an intro film making course to fill in the gaps in my knowledge since I’ve never actually ‘properly’ learned scriptwriting, editing etc. I hope this will help build my fundamentals!

🍥 Anime

I’ve been so into anime recently. I mean I always am but especially the past couple weeks I’ve watched:

Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - watch if you really want to cry.

Orange - if you want to cry some more.

Angel Beats - 😭😭😭

Remake Our Life! - makes me feel old but also kinda motivating reminder to follow my dreams.

Psycho-Pass - really cool premise where Japan enforces a system that objectively determines the threat level of each citizen by examining their mental state and criminal intent BEFORE they actually do anything. Season 1 was really good but after that it was meh.

Tower Of God - you’re supposed to climb this tower and if you reach the top you get everything you want. It’s a cool blend between fantasy, action, and humour.

Somali And The Forest Spirit - this was a recommendation from livestream but I’m so sorry I forgot who it was exactly please lmk if it was you! I need to thank you because this was such a beautiful anime. It’s pure art. Like it spoke to my soul.

Btw if anybody else uses Crunchyroll wtf they removed comments…I’m honestly so sad about that because I loved reading people’s comments and analyses. 🥺

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🎥 This Week’s Video

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🐙 This Week’s Livestream

I tried out OpenAI’s new GPT-4o mini. This is a smaller version of GPT-4o that enables developers to build more lightweight products that can handle parallel requests with better response times eg. a near real time customer service chatbot. It’s also much cheaper!

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