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Notes on The History of Menswear
All about the history of menswear, from the Chinese ruling class wearing nail polish to the introduction of modern streetwear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF-fI28KHIM
00:09
nail polish was worn by the ruling class, and pink was a derivative of red
01:09
clothes = protection and status
01:37
Pharaohs be dressin', upper class people tried to dress to match Pharaoh, lower class tried to match upper class
02:19
Frock coats most comfortable for horse riding in 1700s France
02:46
Lower class had yellow tinge to clothes
02:44
Beau Brummel was the first stylist -- wore clothes that fit him well
03:32
Menswear became minimal in 1900s to show that they worked in fields like banking, or something respectable and high status
04:07
young people introduce new style -> wear it till they die, new young people introduce new style cycle
04:44
- King Edward the 8th was a status icon
- 1930s (great depression) menswear code of conduct for tailored clothing (traditionalist)
05:07
mass production of clothing in WW2
05:20
men's fashion industry in ww2 took advertising tips from the auto industry
05:45
- the 60s saw rebellion in the youth
- Michael Fish made first genderbending clothing inspired by 1800s dandy clothes
06:40
Jean Paul Gotye SS85 show rebelled against standards used all sizes genders etc
07:23
Paris collections and Tokyo (Yamamoto) collections
08:20
realistic range of men on the runway, sparking intrigue instead of idealism
09:25
Gucci FW95 shiny suits, the expressive man with subtle sex appeal
10:29
helmut lang SS98 minimalism plus a strong statement piece -- brought males distressed denim
11:41
Raf Simmons SS98 angsty youth collection, graphics on hoodies were new in that era, normal today
12:34
a floating down the river model show -- flowing towards nothingness of mainstream seasonal clothing
13:17
rick owens sent models on stage with their penises out
13:44
celebrate the freak, create the creature
14:09
Watanabe SS06 heralded the start of streetwear, a collab of designer brands with cheap brands like Diekies
15:23
Kanye got a ton of young men into men's streetwear fashion
16:03
virgil abloh SS 2019 we are the world fashion show for inclusion -- full circle to dandy's of the 1800s + streetwear
16:40
fashion is too expensive and predatory; LV is at the head of the predation on status for men
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Notes on OpenAI Q&A Finetuning GPT-3 Vs Semantic Search - Which to Use, When, and Why
A great video about finetuning vs semantic search. Finetuning teaches a model to write new patterns, not to have a theory of mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qq6HTr7Ocw
Overall Thoughts
This is really great video; it was very thorough and had great analogies. I didn't know about the unfreezing of the partial model, that's a neat fact!
I've had many office hours with people coming with finetune related questions that I believe would be better off 99% of the time with semantic search and the Hypothetical Document Embeddings (HyDE) in the rarest of cases perhaps.
Notated Transcript
01:21
a history of transfer learning
01:49
long live NLU, rip NLP
02:30
fine tuning is tweaking a task
03:46
only similarity b/w finetuning is q/a search is that they both use embeddings at some point
04:34
fine tuning unfreezes part of a model -- does not stop confabulation (hallucination)
05:30
unfreezing an entire model is expensive af
06:00
models barf out patterns, they do not have a theory of mind or knowledge
bigger models are more convincing, but a largest model will never know itself (as an information store)
08:20
finetuning is way more difficult than prompt engineering (10,000x harder)
09:20
finetuning at scale is very hard -- how much do we share in alignment
11:11
cost of fine tuning goes up with more data -- needs constant retraining
12:20
instruct -> question + body of info -> is answer in here?
12:58
finetuning teaches model to write a new pattern
14:27
formulate -> research -> criticize -> answer
15:29
dewey decimal is indexing on a smaller set of data, compile all the relevant research and scale it
Just to capture this goated moment on a Kripp vid
Are you on the guest list? x 3
It captures the current time from a YouTube share link and adds 5 seconds to the end time, subtracts 5 seconds from the start time.
Get it here ⬇️
GitHub - bramses/ytclip-10s
Impetus
Alfred
I then wrapped it in an Alfred script to run whenever I type ytc
The average NFL salary is close to $2 million, but players were not always so well compensated. In fact, for much of football's history, players often worked secondary jobs in steel mills, on ranches or as salesmen to make ends meet. The only time a player takes a "second" job now is on TV in the hopes of getting a career once he has hung up his cleats. The high salaries were won through decades of battles with owners as well as due to football's ascension to the status of America's favorite sport. (View Highlight)
Wild, all my life I've associated national level sports with insanely high salaries, mega mansions, and god awful money management
Rival leagues often helped escalate salaries. In the 1960s, it was the AFL, followed by the WFL in the 1970s and the USFL in the 1980s. Salaries jumped due to bidding, including the famous John Brodie case where he was offered close to $750,000 to go to the AFL. He had been making $35,000 in the NFL. (View Highlight)
Game theory of salary increase happens outside the tech world of FAANG and startups too!
Notes on the Insane Biology of Dragonflies
What can we learn from the incredible biology of dragonflies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJi61NAIsjs&ab_channel=RealScience
00:59
most animals succeed at the hunt <60% of the time
02:48
a dragonfly is an odonate -- extinct ones had 70cm wingspans
04:13
dragonflies have muscles that directly connect to their wings
05:20
phased stroking is used for forward flight -- at 50km/h
06:12
dragonflies can fly backwards
07:15
pterostigma acts as a counterweight to flight
09:30
can see orange to ultraviolet
10:30
fly close to water for higher contrast for prey against a blue sky
11:35
dragonflies play tracking to predict prey
13:02
humans can learn interoception ^d31494
14:37
less oxygen, smaller animals
15:06
dinosaurs may have outcompeted larger dragonflies
On Coal Forests
Huge dragonflies lived off of higher O2 air content
Coal forests were the vast swathes of wetlands that covered much of the Earth's tropical land areas during the late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) and Permian times.[1][2] As vegetable matter from these forests decayed, enormous deposits of peat accumulated, which later changed into coal.
Much of the carbon in the peat deposits produced by coal forests came from photosynthetic splitting of existing carbon dioxide, which released the accompanying split-off oxygen into the atmosphere. This process may have greatly increased the oxygen level, possibly as high as about 35%, making the air more easily breathable by animals with inefficient respiratory systems, as indicated by the size of Meganeura compared to modern dragonflies. (View Highlight)
https://youtu.be/OrwBc6PwAcY
00:15
tatsuo horiuchi - 77 year old Microsoft Excel artist
00:42
the same thought behind Processing and generative art
01:34
So Good They Can't Ignore You type vibes -- are you wasting effort on something that's not useful to anyone?
01:59
its so hard to make money with art
https://youtu.be/vtymaSR3T48
02:18
the romans failed to unite europe, the han succeeded in china to connect the country
03:19
EU has a different economic myth to Chinese (communism) and USA (capitalism)
04:35
the EU project has a goal to cooperate and avoid the imperialism eras of the past
06:08
when a european empire falls another quickly rises into its vacuum
07:41
self limiting natonalism came from Turkey in the 1920s
09:04
the holding hands episode at a funeral
11:00
russia destroyed reconciliation multiple times, which caused energy dependence issues on other countries (germany reliant on russia)
13:52
reconciliation is a promise b/w countries to prevent one from becoming an empire and dominating others
16:48
france is clinging on to empire (energy dependance on Africa and price setting wheat)
17:30
national cooperation for post imperial world with countries that europe has fucked the past few 100 years instead of trading mainly with china or the us
https://youtu.be/YsBPqO3pv_Y
01:17
think of moving through the house as circulation, certain areas are heavily used
02:19
think of the arteries of your home (the kitchen is the gravitational well of the home) and try to keep it open
04:24
consider the well trodden paths and the utility of the spaces you are linking by furniture use
05:44
don't want to put study room in bedroom if possible, but if you have a small space place it facing away from the bed