Conor Neill spent years studying why 19 out of 20 speakers lose their audience in the first sentence.3 best ways to start a speech (worst to unforgettable):1. 19 out of 20 speakers open the exact same forgettable way. They say their name, where they are from, and what the talk is about. But all of that is already printed on the paper in front of the audience. By repeating what people already know, you send a signal that now is a safe time to check their phone. The opening that feels safest is th

I've been watching 360 AI Research and their approach is honestly refreshing.They had 6 papers accepted at ICLR, CVPR, ICML, and ECCV this year.Not chasing hype. Just building multimodal AI that actually works when deployed.Security companies think differently. 360 spent decades building systems that can't fail in complex, unpredictable environments. Network attacks don't wait for perfect conditions. Malware doesn't announce itself cleanly.That engineering mindset carries over: optimize for robu

Come on man, we have not forgotten all those unhinged presss conferences he gave.