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Marc Wilson
@marcwilson1000.bsky.social
Managing Partner at Global Advisors - Quantified Strategy
Based in Johannesburg, South Africa
I keep koi and enjoy golf and running. I love photography, sports, arts and music

https://marcwilson.me
#Term: #Transformer #Architecture

"The Transformer architecture is a #DeepLearning model that processes entire data sequences in parallel, using an #Attention mechanism to weigh the significance of different elements in the sequence." - Transformer architecture

Defini...

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February 20, 2026 at 9:30 AM
#Quote: #VictorHugo

"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo - French author

These words, attributed to Victor Hugo, encapsulate the irresistible force of timely #Ideas against even the mightiest opposition. Widely quoted a...

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February 20, 2026 at 3:30 AM
#Term: #RentAHuman

"The term 'rent a human' refers to a controversial new concept and specific platform (Rentahuman.#Ai) where autonomous AI #Agents hire human beings as gig workers to perform physical tasks in the real world that the AI cannot do itself. The platfor...

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February 19, 2026 at 9:30 AM
#Quote: #WinstonChurchill

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a #Life by what we give." - Winston Churchill - British Statesman

This aphorism, attributed to Sir Winston Churchill, encapsulates a fundamental philosophical distinction between two modes of h...

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February 19, 2026 at 3:30 AM
#Quote: #ClemSunter – Scenario planner

"The essence of thinking the #Future is to understand the pattern of forces propelling the present into the future and to see where those forces can lead." - Clem Sunter - Scenario planner

This observation encapsulates th...

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February 18, 2026 at 5:45 PM
#Term: #Scaling #Hypothesis

"The scaling hypothesis in #ArtificialIntelligence is the theory that the cognitive ability and performance of general learning algorithms will reliably improve, or even unlock new, more complex capabilities, as computational resources, mod...

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February 18, 2026 at 9:30 AM
#Quote: Clayton M Christensen

"I don't feel that this concept of disruptive #Technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable...

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February 18, 2026 at 3:30 AM
#Quote: Rev. #JesseJackson – American #CivilRights activist

"If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it because I am somebody!" - Rev. Jesse Jackson - American civil rights activist

This powerful affirmation encapsulates t...

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February 17, 2026 at 8:00 PM
#Quote: #EmilyBronte#WutheringHeights

"She burned too bright for this world." - Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

This evocative line, often paraphrased as "She burned too bright for this world," captures the essence of Catherine Earnshaw's untamed vitality...

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February 17, 2026 at 1:30 PM
#Quote: #JoeBeutler#Openai

"The question is whether you want to be valued as a company that optimised expenses [using #Ai], or as one that fundamentally changed its #Growth trajectory." - Joe Beutler - OpenAI

Joe Beutler, an AI builder and Solutions Engineeri...

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February 17, 2026 at 9:30 AM
#Term: #Kalshi#Prediction market

"Kalshi is the first regulated U.S. #Exchange dedicated to trading #EventContracts, allowing users to buy and sell positions on the outcome of real-world events such as economic indicators, political, weather, and sports outcom...

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February 17, 2026 at 9:30 AM
#Quote: #MichaelEPorter

"The underlying principles of #Strategy are enduring, regardless of #Technology or the pace of #Change." - Michael E Porter - Harvard Professor

Michael E. Porter on Enduring Strategic Principles

Michael E. Porter's assertion that underlying st...

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February 17, 2026 at 3:30 AM
#Term: #QuantumComputing

"Quantum computing is a revolutionary field that uses principles of quantum mechanics, like superposition and entanglement, to process information with qubits (quantum bits) instead of classical bits, enabling it to solve complex problems ex...

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February 16, 2026 at 3:56 PM
#Quote: #DarioAmodei – CEO, #Anthropic

"There's no reason we shouldn't build data centers in #Africa. In fact, I think it'd be great to build data centers in Africa. As long as they're not owned by #China, we should build data centers in Africa. I think that's a ...

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February 16, 2026 at 11:30 AM
#Quote: #DolfVanDenBrink#Heineken International, CEO

"#Digitalization in general and #Ai specifically will be an important part of ongoing #Productivity savings." - Dolf van den Brink - Heineken International, CEO

When Dolf van den Brink articulated his conv...

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February 16, 2026 at 6:30 AM
#Quote: #DavidSolomon

"#GoldmanSachs' #Culture is unique, but I would also say it's constantly changing. You'd better be working at defining what you want it to be, constantly reshaping it, and amplifying what you think really matters." - David Solomon - Goldman Sach...

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February 16, 2026 at 3:30 AM
#Term: #QuantumComputing

"Quantum computing is a revolutionary field that uses principles of quantum mechanics, like superposition and entanglement, to process information with qubits (quantum bits) instead of classical bits, enabling it to solve complex problems ex...

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February 15, 2026 at 9:30 AM
#Quote: #RichardFeynman

"I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong." - Richard Feynman - American Physicist

Richard Phillips Feynman was not merely a theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in #Physics in...

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February 15, 2026 at 3:30 AM
#Quote: #WilliamShakespeare#RomeoAndJuliet

"Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night; Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in l...

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February 14, 2026 at 5:45 PM
#Quote: #IliaMalinin – US #FigureSkating Olympian

"No matter what I'm doing... I am always thinking to be creative and to keep myself in a mindset of always trying to do things either differently, or always trying to level myself up creatively," - Ilia Malinin...

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February 14, 2026 at 11:30 AM
#Term: #ReinforcementLearning (#Rl)

"Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a #MachineLearning method where an agent learns optimal behavior through trial-and-error interactions with an environment, aiming to maximize a cumulative #Reward signal over time." - Reinforcement Le...

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February 14, 2026 at 9:30 AM
#Quote: #DiarmuidEarly

"The junior bankers, the junior consultants ... see it as their job to turn the crank on the model, hand over the answer, and the next person above them on the chain says: What does this mean? What's the #Insight? Does it make sense?" - Diarmui...

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February 14, 2026 at 3:30 AM
#Quote: #PiperGilles#2026WinterOlympics Canadian figure skater

"If you continue to lead with your #Heart, anything can happen." - Piper Gilles - 2026 Winter Olympics Canadian figure skater

Piper Gilles, a trailblazing Canadian ice dancer, embodies resilien...

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February 13, 2026 at 11:30 AM
#Term: #GradientDescent

"Gradient descent is a core optimization algorithm in #ArtificialIntelligence (#Ai) and #MachineLearning used to find the optimal parameters for a model by minimizing a cost (or loss) function." - Gradient descent

Gradient descent is a first-...

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February 13, 2026 at 9:30 AM
#Quote: #BobbyJones

“#Golf is the closest game to the game we call #Life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots, but you have to play the ball where it lies.” - Bobby Jones - American amateur golfer

Bobby Jones: The Architect of Golf a...

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February 13, 2026 at 3:30 AM