Imagine Impact is an AI-based incubator for entertainment storytellers https://t.co/onLFArUx2g
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) October 31, 2019
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Imagine Impact is an AI-based incubator for entertainment storytellers https://t.co/onLFArUx2g
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) October 31, 2019
To learn more about how AlphaStar achieved Grandmaster status in StarCraft II, take a look at our latest @Nature paper here: https://t.co/cKr8m4sYmz
— DeepMind (@DeepMindAI) October 31, 2019
11 years ago today... pic.twitter.com/SH2cLDmtdQ
— Bitcoin (@Bitcoin) October 31, 2019
#AlphaStar @nature: Grandmaster level as all 3 @StarCraft races on https://t.co/vU1ZeKakSq, w/ a pro approved interface (camera & APM limits). 2 years ago I thought this was impossible!
— Oriol Vinyals (@OriolVinyalsML) October 30, 2019
How? Imitation learning (Diamond) -> multiagent League (Grandmaster)https://t.co/tOw0vV6L5T pic.twitter.com/rcOrRsZ838
DeepMind’s AlphaStar beat all but the very best humans at the fast-paced, strategy sci-fi game StarCraft II. https://t.co/gm1lQgDVoa
— Nature News & Comment (@NatureNews) October 30, 2019
Biology has steadily become an engineering discipline, and imo requires an engineer's problem solving mentality! 👩💻👨🔬
— Sabera Talukder (@SaberaTalukder) October 30, 2019
Pleased to see @a16z's growing presence in the space, and @JorgeCondeBio @vijaypande @julesyoo's belief that biology is eating the 🌍!https://t.co/BhD04ORlP2
Apple and the services platform.
— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) October 30, 2019
In 2015, I wrote for subscribers how Apple will develop the subscription platform.
Glad I was on target. https://t.co/OBCTMMFHjK https://t.co/wtLxyB9GI2
Direct listings – an alternative to the traditional IPO – have been getting a lot of buzz. Check out our blog post where we unpack the trend & discuss what it means for VC-backed businesses. For additional perspectives, check out @bgurley of @benchmark!https://t.co/UHAQdknG6E
— Greenspring (@GreenspringVC) October 30, 2019
One of Amazon’s bestselling products is the AmazonBasics AA battery.
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) October 30, 2019
Amazon won’t say where it’s made, how, or by whom. But @SarahNEmerson tracked its life cycle, starting in Indonesia, and found its environmental footprint shocking. Great story: https://t.co/WTZOP8jF10
Our new @nature paper: AlphaStar is the first learning system to reach the top tier of a major esport without any game restrictions, achieving Grandmaster status in StarCraft II.
— DeepMind (@DeepMindAI) October 30, 2019
Researchers have been working on the StarCraft series for over 15 years. https://t.co/1vnbjIfboR pic.twitter.com/ohOotyrhB0
How to create the best possible simple, interpretable, models : https://t.co/QHtCk3X7ag Try this first before doing anything more complex... pic.twitter.com/WDJo5PgYqZ
— Adrian Colyer (@adriancolyer) October 30, 2019
New blog post! Inspired by my recent trip to China, I dive into 16 examples of how QR codes bridge the online/offline divide and enable a whole new set of mobile experiences. Thread 👇https://t.co/HViUslmzQi
— Avery Segal (@avesegal) October 30, 2019
Google says @TensorFlow Enterprise includes up to 3x improvements in data reading and up to 3 years of support https://t.co/cFRT51mmFH
— Emil Protalinski (@EPro) October 30, 2019
Internet still looks good for 50 https://t.co/nrCTngmJp3
— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) October 30, 2019
I joined a PhD program to write a thesis about the #LightningNetwork (my plan is pathfinding) in Norway!
— Rene Pickhardt (@renepickhardt) October 30, 2019
I was prepping relocation since @lnconf & I'm now on my way to Norway
Thanks to @snyke, @tgottron and to my patrons who helped to make this possible! https://t.co/zCcoe9QqYv
New Peter Thiel talk, starts at 6:52:10https://t.co/gxn1uKUKxb
— Hodler (@Fuzzy_Fog) October 30, 2019
Learning to Predict Without Looking Ahead: World Models Without Forward Prediction
— hardmaru 😷 (@hardmaru) October 30, 2019
Rather than hardcoding forward prediction, we try to get agents to *learn* that they need to predict the future.
Check out our #NeurIPS2019 paper!https://t.co/9K0FDjdXcBhttps://t.co/NR4FL4QKvU pic.twitter.com/XMjNyeRBK2
— Archillect (@archillect) October 29, 2019
Rough summary/takeaways of "Sovereign Individual" (written in 90s):
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) October 29, 2019
The thesis is that the internet is going to lead to unbundling & modularizing of government.
We'll transition from being a "citizen" of gov'ts to a "customer", + the change will mirror other tech revolutions.
Face recognition and the ethics of AI. I wrote this a month or so ago: how do we think about the ethics and regulation of face recognition, and AI in general? What can go wrong, what do we think about it, and are we sure what we think? https://t.co/xl9G8v3Bfc
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) October 28, 2019
Partners at VC firm @a16z observe that one of the most effective competitive strategies is when newcos address the needs of a specific vertical within a platform: https://t.co/cwvKMmhI0u#marketplaces #disruption #platformshift #ecommerce
— Reuters News Agency (@ReutersAgency) October 28, 2019
A stunning view: Sebastian Steudtner, a German pro surfer, rode a wave over 115 feet tall at Nazare, Portugal pic.twitter.com/tF7eKEK3O1
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) October 27, 2019
"Your culture is who you are. Who you are is not the values you list on the wall. It’s not what you say at all-hands. It’s not your marketing campaign. It’s not even what you believe. It’s what you do." Follow our live conversation w/ @bhorowitz on Twitter tomorrow at 6:25PM EST. pic.twitter.com/IfMoPuXcmM
— Company (@Company) October 28, 2019
Waves in the sky, an amazing timelapse of asperatus clouds captured by Alex Schueth over Lincoln, Nebraska. Full video: https://t.co/1vqCqfgM7u pic.twitter.com/Gqgt1FMwrI
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) October 27, 2019
Microsoft furthers $5 billion IoT plan with new Azure features https://t.co/3uXj0yznEL by @Kyle_L_Wiggers
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) October 28, 2019
Stock returns since IPO:
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) October 27, 2019
Microsoft: +144,651%
Adobe: +120,171%
Amazon: +89,840%
Cisco: +63,855%
Nike: +50,499%
Apple: +42,552%
Starbucks: +24,720%
Netflix: +24,984
Disney: +17,222%
Mastercard: +5,774%
Tiffany & Co: +5,156%
Salesforce: +3,400%
Visa: +1,516%
Facebook: +391%
Really awesome overview of Bitcoin's pre-history by @AnselLindner - great job! pic.twitter.com/XCiMuki3MB
— Riccardo Spagni (@fluffypony) October 27, 2019
"The FAA predicts sales of drones for a wide range of commercial purposes to grow from 600,000 in 2016 to 2.7 million by 2020."https://t.co/78Js5581Q6
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) October 27, 2019
Don Valentine, the greatest of all time. I spent the morning watching his GSB talk. Rest in peace:
— Jeff Morris Jr. (@jmj) October 26, 2019
1. If you don't attack a big market, it's highly unlikely you're ever going to build a big company.
(thread)https://t.co/NEOsFnJFAt
You wouldn't want to miss @BHorowitz speaking to @TFerris about Andy Grove, Bill Campbell and #entrepenuership in this gem of an episode - https://t.co/HXZAmYR9an.
— Nabeel Adeni (@NabeelAdeni) October 26, 2019
Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered...
— Luca Moroni (@sfera314) October 26, 2019
I really love the mysterious connections between (complex) algebra and geometry. Here's an example (made with @geogebra) #ididntknowthat pic.twitter.com/w6gswfEGR6
In Rome after being fired twice off Piranha 2: The Spawning
— WILL McCRABB (@mccrabb_will) October 26, 2019
Jim Cameron awoke from a fever dream and drew this...
The Terminator was released on this day in 1984. pic.twitter.com/Tao9Uywfe2
A lot of Americans want @ewarren to break up big tech & drift America toward @BernieSanders’ socialism — while the Chinese government is picking winning companies, removing regulations & giving them war chests to destroy American companies.
— jason@calacanis.com (@Jason) October 26, 2019
Discuss. https://t.co/WPj2IaaIwI
If you can't afford to buy bitcoin because it's too expensive then you should educate yourself for free via https://t.co/BRH28rAc4q
— Jameson Lopp (@lopp) October 26, 2019
Met with Stuart Russell to talk about the future of AI and his new book, Human Compatible: https://t.co/aW082IGAoh
— Kelsey Piper (@KelseyTuoc) October 26, 2019
Reimbursement challenges for novel therapeutics https://t.co/WjP8vBNSdh
— Scott Kupor (@skupor) October 26, 2019
Great podcast for #startup #founders with @bhorowitz of @a16z on "What You Do Is Who You Are". Really great foundational thoughts on management and the expectations of young entrepreneurs.https://t.co/Tr9ol1KfMi
— Hugh Holman (@hughholman) October 26, 2019
via @tferriss #founder #management
The power of "people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together" - great list of inspiring projects by @patrickc, from the Eiffel Tower to Amazon Prime https://t.co/lzfUn1FbbR
— Boris Wertz (@bwertz) October 26, 2019
Silicon Valley was built on the cap table. A way to economically align people from all around the world to build companies like Google.
— Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) October 26, 2019
Crypto allows us to scale the concept of a cap table to millions of people from around the world. https://t.co/STZdgdesQE
The web was built for people, but it’s controlled by corporations. These innovators are thinking up a whole new World Wide Web, one that shouldn’t be so easy to take over. https://t.co/ebAfGM3Wy4 via @WSJ
— Paul Vigna (@paulvigna) October 26, 2019
Google's watershed quantum computing achievement, explained. https://t.co/Ns9Xk3H76v
— Futurism (@futurism) October 26, 2019
"I've said it 100 times.
— WILL McCRABB (@mccrabb_will) October 26, 2019
The biggest risk is to live your life and not use it to do the things you love to do."
---Francis Ford Coppola pic.twitter.com/KwesLZyDgv
American whiskeys leave behind a web-like “fingerprint” as they evaporate https://t.co/LVEaw8ybS0 by @JenLucPiquant
— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) October 26, 2019
"The world of technology thrives best when individuals are left alone to be different, creative, and disobedient." --Don Valentine, founder of Sequoia, RIP
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) October 25, 2019
A reader sent me this old classic - @BillGates yelling at a bunch of MSFT execs about how bad a download experience is. I was at MSFT at the time and remember this well...https://t.co/B93tGh8wHk pic.twitter.com/aQv1g3Sri3
— Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk) October 25, 2019
Other good articles on this site:https://t.co/XaJFaQUzYXhttps://t.co/TtwNKEY1eV
— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) October 26, 2019
Filed in - I'm totally going to use these techniques and reclaim my life...and then totally forget about it...till the next viral tweet https://t.co/jjb7Qhv6rq
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) October 26, 2019
It's a whole new world of cell and gene therapies. Here's a quick take on all the hot topics, big challenges, and interesting conversations happening in the space from this year's Cell & Gene Meeting on the Mesa: https://t.co/NGV9NJPq36
— a16z (@a16z) October 25, 2019
“How To Think About Value” https://t.co/kko9MXHk1e by @jmonegro pic.twitter.com/6yndYWVKy5
— Placeholder (@placeholdervc) October 25, 2019
Is this creepy or what 🙀
— Product Haunt 😼 (@ProductHunt) October 26, 2019
An AI generated 100,000 faces you can use anywhere 👤🖼️ https://t.co/lZwESjyus6
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, “Mission to TensorFlow World” is TensorFlow’s latest game experience that leverages the entire product ecosystem. #TFWorld #MissionToTensorFlowWorld
— TensorFlow (@TensorFlow) October 25, 2019
Get a sneak peek here before the big event! ↓ https://t.co/70eHi4tLrz
Microsoft beats Amazon for $10 billion Pentagon JEDI cloud contract https://t.co/SeleILeX5z
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) October 26, 2019
This is the best essay on negative interest rates I've ever came across. Not a surprise that's written by Howard Marks! https://t.co/pCyVVaDUiP
— Lucas Bagno (@chandrakesarr) October 24, 2019
Definitely one of the most interesting AI papers and demonstrations yet: https://t.co/Mn1UJoVM8A
— Tobi Lütke (@tobi) October 24, 2019
— Archillect (@archillect) October 25, 2019
— Archillect (@archillect) October 25, 2019
A new auction record has been set for the sale of a bottle of whisky, with The Macallan Fine and Rare 1926 60 Years Old selling for £1.5 million today at @Sothebys London.
— The Macallan (@The_Macallan) October 24, 2019
Image: Sotheby’s London pic.twitter.com/VxEyujrHuD
Netflix open-sources Polynote, an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook https://t.co/CCn1vxfXdB (https://t.co/cWqcU414SE)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) October 25, 2019
AWS Polly gains neural voices in U.S. Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese https://t.co/OY3WHa1UrR
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) October 24, 2019
Our new work uses episodic memory to learn language tasks in a lifelong setting. The episodic memory is used in two ways: sparse experience replay during training and local adaptation during inference.
— DeepMind (@DeepMindAI) October 24, 2019
Paper: https://t.co/xbwgSH1ntS
Cyprien, @seb_ruder, @ikekong & @DaniYogatama pic.twitter.com/ST3FjUfadG
[New blog post] Truly awesome discussion with @pmddomingos - Scholar, author of "The Master Algorithm" and Head of ML at DE Shaw
— Matt Turck (@mattturck) October 24, 2019
We discussed his book, the role of ML in finance, what's next in AI and other cool stuff.
Thanks @GaryMarcus for the intro!https://t.co/DGv4r9Yujt
Netflix open-sources Polynote to simplify data science and machine learning workflows https://t.co/gbNaL1vr4M
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) October 24, 2019
1) Bank fees have been rising for a long time - but why is this suddenly mainstream news? Consumers are stretched thin, fees are worse, Fintechs are providing alternatives—and forcing incumbents to respond. Check out @a16z newsletter or listen to the latest #16Minutes for more https://t.co/E2s25u6ngN
— angela strange (@astrange) October 23, 2019
Musk clarifies what he means by "feature complete autonomy" - the level he expects to reach by 2020:
— Patrick McGee (@PatrickMcGee_) October 23, 2019
"Driving from one house to work, most likely without interventions. So it'll still be supervised, but it will be able to drive, it will fill in the gap from low speed autonomy."
Naval and Neal Stephenson talking about the crypto internet.
— Muneeb (@muneeb) October 23, 2019
From the metaverse (Snow Crash) to crypto making these ideas real. pic.twitter.com/skEKW4RqCB
Very proud that our @GoogleAI team has achieved a big breakthrough in quantum computing known as quantum supremacy after over a decade of work, as published in @Nature. Thank you to our collaborators in the research community who helped make this possible.https://t.co/yZUUbZsyA0
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) October 23, 2019
Natural Language Processing (2018) [pdf] https://t.co/BBQm6tJf14 (https://t.co/ZTBy0YVi09)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) October 23, 2019
McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn https://t.co/P5iAX8qvjr (https://t.co/e3rXP97kpv)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) October 22, 2019
I’ve read almost every book on startups, and somehow have just completely missed the chapters that covered this part of the strategy. https://t.co/H41lGA1kLz
— Aaron Levie (@levie) October 22, 2019
"Forcing growth on a product that isn’t yet ready for broader adoption will not ultimately convert to a market of highly retained, happy users." @davidu and @peter_lauten on the importance of first finding Product-User Fit: https://t.co/OGXNLqlqQE
— a16z (@a16z) October 22, 2019
After >5 years of active trading and what was once the largest exchange, Poloniex now shuts its doors to the US.
— James Todaro (@JamesTodaroMD) October 21, 2019
Here is the shifting landscape of cryptocurrency trading volume resulting in @binance domination.
What will it look like by 2021? pic.twitter.com/McfR6oBKLb
"Correlation is not causation" pic.twitter.com/7TcRlwJB1Q
— Ameet Kini, MD, PhD (@AmeetRKini) October 22, 2019
Why WeWork Shouldn't have Blitzscaled: https://t.co/n4pV8tdhlO Since the press keeps blaming WeWork on blitzscaling, @ReidHoffman & I wanted to set the record straight.
— Chris Yeh (@chrisyeh) October 21, 2019
.@benthompson, for the hundredth time, proves that he is the best in the business of dispassionately thinking through and writing about some of the most intricate issues of our time. It is so hard not to learn something new or be challenged from his work.https://t.co/bXCC7Y6Sk1
— Sar Haribhakti (@sarthakgh) October 21, 2019
Our new work on memory uses a neural network's weights as fast and compressive associative storage. Reading from the memory is performed by approximate minimisation of the energy modelled by the network. https://t.co/AS64VqSAjD pic.twitter.com/6uPAD9asgv
— DeepMind (@DeepMindAI) October 21, 2019
Netflix borrowed another $2 billion today. Related: The cost of top programming has increased 30% in one year. https://t.co/368fcOqfIH
— Lucas Shaw (@Lucas_Shaw) October 21, 2019
Time it took to reach US$200 billion in annual revenue:
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) October 21, 2019
Exxon Mobil: 128 years
Toyota: 69 years
Apple: 39 years
Walmart: 36 years
Amazon: 24 years
(Numbers are inflation adjusted) pic.twitter.com/Ywimi2Jtgu
I'm excited to share Google’s new case study on renewable energy auctions. It’s a playbook on how we made 2019 our biggest year ever for buying solar & wind power. We want to help *all* companies go bigger, faster, & cheaper on sourcing clean energy. https://t.co/OHV20Cp6RF
— Urs Hölzle (@uhoelzle) October 21, 2019
when you accidentally find a way to make lightning nodes not leaking any IP or onion address...
— ketominer (@ketominer) October 21, 2019
It has been a long road to get BTCPayServer and everything working on your PIs and Rock! C-Lightning is almost there! (We could not support c-lightning until all middleware on top of it were working properly on other arch!) pic.twitter.com/aP4Ua210gy
— Nicolas Dorier (@NicolasDorier) October 21, 2019
other investors: are you ok?
— Zak Spookoff 👻 (@zck) October 21, 2019
me: yeah i’m ok
my earphones:
When Marc Met Mike—Andreessen Interviews Ovitz
18:04 ━━━❍──────52:49
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volume: ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇ 100%https://t.co/CmXYEchCOM
Interestingly, @pmarca and @peterthiel's take is way diff than Galloway's
— Lucas Bagno (@chandrakesarr) October 20, 2019
"When a reputable venture firm leads two consecutive rounds of investment in a company [...] that's a screaming buy signal, and the bigger the markup on the last round the more undervalued the company is.' https://t.co/7VCoD7LbyR
Synthetic biology will one day enable the design of entire genomes. This will require technology advances that span DNA synthesis, chromosome construction/delivery, and computer-aided design. Let’s get to work! https://t.co/6WNi3SwBJa
— Asimov (@asimov_io) October 21, 2019
— Gopi Vikranth (@GopiVikranth) October 21, 2019
👋🚨[new] I love reading great internal company memos for the insight they give into institutions and behavior. Over the years, I've been collecting public ones and I started putting up a few on my site --> https://t.co/b7kLuSPcdC
— Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk) October 20, 2019
Some previews below.
Netflix's letter to shareholder every quarter is one of the best I have seen. https://t.co/ViEb5bJS1C
— Anu Hariharan (@anuhariharan) October 20, 2019
Facebook isn’t free speech, it’s algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage https://t.co/nFyGZXRvIA (https://t.co/16Qakt3G9t)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) October 20, 2019
A look inside a tree that has been struck by lightning. pic.twitter.com/IGcgu00fYm
— So Fain (@sofain) October 20, 2019
Reading Bob Iger's biography and stumbled onto this 2005 interview with Michael Eisner & Barry Diller. Highly riveting including career lessons, CEOs and risk taking and how research never works in entertainment.
— Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk) October 20, 2019
Start about 31:00 inhttps://t.co/ZasJ5zH01G
('Regulation help incumbents' is a truism that not enough people have really internalised)
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) October 20, 2019
"Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time. Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps."
— Li Jin (@ljin18) October 19, 2019
- Ev Williams on how to build a billion-dollar internet company
(h/t @julien)https://t.co/9yLmBanlhe
"If employees are talented, they can be quirky, as long as they are working for the greater good of the business " https://t.co/49m42v162U
— Andy Weissman (@aweissman) October 20, 2019
This is an:
— Manny Anekal (@mannyanekal) October 20, 2019
Esports. Hotel. Tibet.
Read those 3 words again.
By @EBlueGaming pic.twitter.com/aiPSz08JuP
So true. Product market fit even for ads is relevant. Also a reason why ads are almost useless on social media.
— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) October 20, 2019
The business model should fit the job to be done and Amazon is well positioned here. https://t.co/3pETzgoZbQ
In 2014, Eric Schmidt said Google’s biggest competitor wasn’t Yahoo or Microsoft but instead Amazon.
— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) October 20, 2019
Search ads work best when searching for products to buy. Amazon is a better destination for that than Google. This an existential threat to their ads bizhttps://t.co/L1Dnvc9O2j
Great reads/finds https://t.co/OmoRtOd75W
— Wes Gray 🇺🇸🗽 (@alphaarchitect) October 20, 2019
Complete Semantic Grammar of JSON on one card, from Doug Crockford at @sv_code_camp pic.twitter.com/URu94NqNL3
— swyx 🛫NYC (@swyx) October 20, 2019
Financial History: Sunday Reads
— Jamie Catherwood (@jfc_3_) October 20, 2019
• A Century of Trend Following
• Momentum Echoes
• Financial History Picture Book
• Nation of Gamblers: US Real Estate
• Investment Banks & Corporate Monitorshttps://t.co/fXci7nRvZL
In related a update “do not let metrics undermine your business”. Metrics=goals. 🤔 https://t.co/xDpLCcMK19
— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) October 20, 2019
Goals:
— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) October 20, 2019
Tired. SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound.
Wired. FAST: embedded in Frequent discussions; Ambitious in scope; measured by Specific metrics and milestones; and Transparent for everyone in the organization.
😕https://t.co/W3wjbVceJz pic.twitter.com/II7EPeFtKA
“Having a lot of money doesn’t make you happier, but being poor makes you miserable.”— Daniel Kahneman on https://t.co/O158TUBiJQ
— Shane Parrish (@ShaneAParrish) October 20, 2019
“The reason this blog runs on open source software (WordPress) and is hosted on a server that I control is that I don’t want my voice hostage to one of these tech platforms.” @fredwilson gets it! https://t.co/CH9lE3blFs
— Larry Salibra (@larrysalibra) October 20, 2019
The Fifth Estate https://t.co/PPpDi9YYCg
— avc (@avc) October 20, 2019
We're developing alternative ways to train our AI systems so that we can do more with less labeled training data overall. Learn how our “semi-weak supervision” method is delivering state-of-the-art performance for highly efficient, production-ready models. https://t.co/8tMN6M24LK pic.twitter.com/0ToaSTwp8S
— Facebook AI (@facebookai) October 18, 2019
Reading Szabo's 1997 "Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks" and appreciating its brilliance and foresight. More #blockchain people need to read this closely. @NickSzabo4 https://t.co/mcPfSpt3ZE
— Thomas B. Cox (@TBCox) October 19, 2019
“The system emerging in China looks very different from Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that enthusiasts have championed as tools of emancipation from big banks and governments.”
— Neeraj K. Agrawal (@NeerajKA) October 20, 2019
“The government could soon know a lot more about how people are spending” https://t.co/PoLAJDf3pQ
Mathematics for Machine Learning. Looks like a nice companion book for machine learning and deep learning textbooks. They have a free PDF version on their website, which is nice :) https://t.co/NBFMhcg01s
— Sebastian Raschka (@rasbt) October 18, 2019
Mathematics for Machine Learning [pdf] https://t.co/HqWqmIiwKl (https://t.co/N5vzDaMaMz)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) October 19, 2019
Mark's speech today is well worth your morning read.
— Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk) October 17, 2019
One nit: it's so long and nuanced that I wish he would split it out into separate themes/topics over multiple speeches/events to get each its own air time and discussion.https://t.co/A9JvBt29bC
Features are easily copied. What was a competitive advantage a few years ago can quickly become table stakes when incumbents wake up.
— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) October 17, 2019
Schwab is essentially turning what was a feature/product war into a capital war of attrition. Smart for them. Bad for over priced startups... https://t.co/9dpewjZaY1
The latest in the brokerage wars: Charles Schwab will allow people to buy fractions of stocks https://t.co/8zaq2ZMxA7
— CNBC (@CNBC) October 17, 2019
The fundraising deck I used to pitch Marc Andreessen, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan and investors in Work Life.https://t.co/QfWd4qmzMy
— Brianne Kimmel (@briannekimmel) October 17, 2019
This is the future of fireworks. Choreographed music, with a amazing visual display to light up the sky with no pollution and without bothering the dogs! https://t.co/WGied9o97d
— Manu Kumar (@ManuKumar) October 17, 2019
Staggering stat: “Last year, Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 grossed $725 million in its opening weekend, eclipsing Hollywood’s weekend box office record: the $640 million blockbuster Avengers Infinity War.” Via @andrewchen https://t.co/KIGg8Qw2Np
— Shalin Mantri (@shamantri) October 17, 2019
Daniel Kahneman: Putting Your Intuition on Ice https://t.co/706IlM9BbN via @farnamstreet
— Jason Zweig (@jasonzweigwsj) October 17, 2019
Haven't listened yet, but @ShaneAParrish talking with Danny has to be special.
Disney's revenue in 2017 was the same as it was in 2004. However, it's operating income was up 3.4x. @ballmatthew on how Disney uses affinity leverage.https://t.co/4QGwORUWLW pic.twitter.com/1kAUrdlClm
— Michael Batnick (@michaelbatnick) October 16, 2019
I find it interesting that @Google has begun saying its goal is to get to “Ambient Computing”. This is the future I predicted, by name, in my last weekly tech column more than two years ago. Scroll down to see me discuss both its good & bad sides. https://t.co/juoi4FARnt
— Walt Mossberg (@waltmossberg) October 16, 2019
Neural Structured Learning is a set of techniques that show promise for training more robust or more data efficient deep learning models. https://t.co/rsVZtoSaLF
— François Chollet (@fchollet) October 16, 2019
Maybe some of you experienced first hand what a big cultural force games are with last weekend's Fortnite apocalypse? It was a thing in our family.
— Frank Chen (@withfries2) October 16, 2019
Read this whole thread for how (and why) videogames are reaching ever bigger global audiences. 🕹🌏🎮👾 https://t.co/TIYjc8w6Gt
The games industry is larger than Hollywood & 5X the size of the music industry. From Fortnite to Untitled Goose Game, gaming has become a dominant force—both as entertainment and social network. @andrewchen and @tocelot break down the trends. https://t.co/V5rmtyit5o
— a16z (@a16z) October 16, 2019
Thread: Next-generation games will be bigger than anything we've seen yet. Forget 100M MAU, tomorrow's MMO will target 1B+ MAU (Facebook scale). Why?
— Jon Lai (@Tocelot) October 16, 2019
Here are 6 key ways next-gen games will be different -> pic.twitter.com/7ARv05Vqvv
I’ve never seen anybody share this interview with Marc Andreessen.
— ᴅᴀᴠɪᴅ ᴘᴇʀᴇʟʟ ✌ (@david_perell) October 16, 2019
💰https://t.co/FRxbAutndp
Here is our third quarter letter to investors. https://t.co/trSvbricLC
— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) October 16, 2019
Some highlights 👇
1/
September was a massive swing month for primary factors.
Value and Shareholder Yield thrived, momentum lagged, and quality was mixed... pic.twitter.com/Eg6rjbloJB
Masterclass in the new style of vague longform hit piece where the author delivers an unmistakably negative profile despite being unable to identify any specific criticism of the person they set out to discredit. https://t.co/53iM4DBcVc
— Zack Kanter (@zackkanter) October 16, 2019
Goldman Sachs CEO says Apple Card is the most successful credit card launch ever - CNBC https://t.co/3xQPhSgN7k
— Horace Dediu (@asymco) October 15, 2019
The lines of code that changed everything. https://t.co/rh4RhNwi38
— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) October 15, 2019
Migration Complete – Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database https://t.co/ZO6YL04Mnv (https://t.co/SWdPJO0D1s)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) October 15, 2019
Excited to share what we've been working on at @OpenAI Robotics for the past year: we used RL and a new technique called automatic domain randomization to train a robot to solve Rubik's Cube. 1/n https://t.co/2POhgMLzql
— Peter Welinder (@npew) October 15, 2019
We just shut down the last Oracle database connected to Amazon’s consumer business and migrated 75 petabytes – from more than 100 teams – to AWS. Instead of saying “I have more urgent things to do,” teams worked with the long-term benefit in mind. https://t.co/PqXziuvscq
— Jeff Wilke (@jeffawilke) October 15, 2019
The power of Sun alumni: https://t.co/LaWcNwIamO pic.twitter.com/4NxfO8eexZ
— Jean-Louis Gassée (@gassee) October 15, 2019
We are open-sourcing a new @PyTorch-based platform for the training and deployment of reinforcement learning policies. It's called mvfst-rl and can adapt proactively to ease network congestion. https://t.co/LUY22vttgG pic.twitter.com/7szcX2bd1o
— Facebook AI (@facebookai) October 15, 2019
What’s New in Python 3.8 https://t.co/7kGgznjNwP (https://t.co/2YXblG0Ohi)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) October 14, 2019
Google's AI explains how image classifiers made their decisions https://t.co/V0CfDhx8SX by @Kyle_L_Wiggers
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) October 14, 2019