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Is Meta Becoming a Trustworthy AI Company?

Among all the Big Tech companies who are planting flags in the red hot generative AI arms race, I think the most trustworthy one may actually be Meta. Yep, Zuck’s Meta. I say this because its recently released large language model (LLM), LLaMA

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2021 Interconnected Wrap-Up: Readership Stats and Breakdown

As we near the end of 2021, it’s time for a wrap-up post on Interconnected. We wrote a similar post last year in “Open Source, Open Stats, Open Development [https://interconnected.blog/open-source-open-stats-open-development/]”, where we provided a rough breakdown of our audience. We

Topics: Meta• Geopolitics•

So What Is The American Dream?

Every July 4th, America’s Independence Day, always puts me in a reflective mood. I’ve sworn the oath to protect the US constitution [https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Oath_Office.htm] three times in my life -- once to become

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Two Week Break; No New Post

Dear Interconnected Subscribers and Readers: We are going on a two-week break (first break since starting this newsletter more than a year ago), because I am working on a few personal and professional transitions, moving to a different city (Seattle), and planning some new

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Announcing: Interconnected Voices

Hello Interconnected Readers: I’m thrilled to launch our audio product: Interconnected Voices. All episodes are hosted on the Interconnected YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJewn4q_5zRmEB-1Jjh5h4A], so please subscribe to it! Each episode is the recording of a discussion I had

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March 21, 2021: Lived Experience Quotient

I debated all week whether to write about tech news and China today, per usual, or share something more personally and philosophical, given the violence against Asian Americans that reached a new height last week with what happened in Atlanta. I decided on the

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Open Source, Open Stats, Open Development

This is a shorter post than my customary Thursday articles, but hopefully no less interesting. My last four posts articulated a “Global by Nature” framework, looking at the forces that will shape a technology-driven (instead of a trade-driven) Globalization 2.0, and where investment

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Building a Bilingual Newsletter: 2020 Edition

I’m taking a departure from my usual deep dive analysis to write this “under the hood” exploration of how I’ve been building this bilingual newsletter. I want to share some behind the scenes information, because I’ve always treated Interconnected as a

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GPT-3: An Abstraction of Time vs Money

Hype or not, GPT-3, OpenAI’s newest natural language AI model, has been percolating in the back of my mind ever since it was announced two months ago [https://openai.com/blog/openai-api/]. This post will be some open musing of what I think

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Why Write A Bilingual English-Chinese Newsletter

It’s been three months since I published my first post on Interconnected. Since then, I’ve been writing articles on a wide range of technology and business topics [https://interconnected.blog/popular-topics/], twice a week in both English and Chinese. In this post,

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