An Amazon template Email was leaked last week on Reddit. The writing sings, and a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo says listen to this. It is important. pic.twitter.com/ommSTv18HJ
— Sarah AlSaleh (@AlSalehSarahs) January 29, 2020
"Listening to EDM while I worked gave me delusions of grandeur"
— Andy Weissman (@aweissman) January 29, 2020
Regardless of what one may think about Uncanny Valley by @annawiener (I do love it), the prose is magnificent pic.twitter.com/0YICFhhip6
To find out the strangest/worst things that Amazon Mechanical Turk workers have seen, @dmehro hired 1,1100 workers to tell him: https://t.co/AWC4u1tDJQ
— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) January 28, 2020
.@conniechan says short videos are the future of shopping. Here's how this trend is already playing out in China. https://t.co/zBdkQtm9gr pic.twitter.com/HB6YYGUVzl
— a16z (@a16z) January 29, 2020
New paper: Towards a Human-like Open-Domain Chatbot. Key takeaways:
— Quoc Le (@quocleix) January 28, 2020
1. "Perplexity is all a chatbot needs" ;)
2. We're getting closer to a high-quality chatbot that can chat about anything
Paper: https://t.co/r09PQ9ldea
Blog: https://t.co/QgDnNJ2XiP pic.twitter.com/5SOBa58qx3
New blog post by @cdixon:
— a16z (@a16z) January 27, 2020
Blockchains are computers that make commitments. That opens up possibilities that are just beginning to be explored, especially in areas like social networks and marketplaces. Read more:https://t.co/ESBM8THtEv
1/ Today is the 10th anniversary of the launch of the iPad, the last huge, game-changing product of the Steve Jobs era at @Apple, in which he unveiled entirely new products that shook things up every few years. I was there. I also saw the iPad privately before the launch. pic.twitter.com/uNEWXIju9L
— Walt Mossberg (@waltmossberg) January 27, 2020
Financial History: Sunday Reads
— Jamie Catherwood (@jfc_3_) January 26, 2020
• Railway Mania
• The Automobile Boom
• Technological Revolutions
• Speculation & Technology
• Origins of High-Tech Venture Investing
• High-Frequency Tradinghttps://t.co/mfS9283dqr
The banking stack is outdated, head-spinningly complex, and highly regulated. Thankfully, now there's a better way: fintech is providing infrastructure "as a service," and it's revolutionizing the future of financial services. Watch the full video here: https://t.co/rCHk5DkZ5c pic.twitter.com/MU4kn1pOZW
— a16z (@a16z) January 26, 2020
“Books I’ve Loved — Steve Jurvetson (@futurejurvetson)”
— Tim Ferriss (@tferriss) January 26, 2020
Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/LQVLCiNzpD
Listen on Spotify: https://t.co/v81B50dqIh
Other platforms and show notes: https://t.co/8O8WlA2h0U
"The real impact of this paper is that the most reproducible thing you can do is use less coffee. If you use 15 grams instead of 20 grams of coffee and grind your beans coarser, you end up with a shot that runs really fast but tastes great." https://t.co/DuphUHNciS
— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) January 26, 2020
Finally had a chance to read @CryptoHayes piece on crypto derivatives market structure. He's the GOAT at keeping that mad science accessible.https://t.co/asReQLyexV
— Ryan Selkis (@twobitidiot) January 26, 2020
Demystifying Artificial Intelligence with 10 top #AI applications: https://t.co/kX5XYIcXzF
— Kirk Borne (@KirkDBorne) January 26, 2020
———————#BigData #DataScience #MachineLearning #DAIFE #DeepLearning #NeuralNetworks #ComputerVision #Algorithms #DataLiteracy
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Source for #infographic : https://t.co/6hxDoshipW #abdsc pic.twitter.com/UFtALKMnLI
Read more about making smarter decisions and fewer errors here: https://t.co/94l7IjZbAb
— Shane Parrish (@ShaneAParrish) January 25, 2020
Excellent essay with great advice to think about - regardless of where you are in your career.
— Rahul Welde (@RahulWelde) January 25, 2020
“Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.” https://t.co/EFKXv8yMyw
Meme necromancy pic.twitter.com/8aPtXju7gF
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 25, 2020
It’s astonishing to me that landing and re-using rockets like this went from far off science fiction to business as usual so rapidly.
— Dan Romero (@dwr) January 25, 2020
Amazing what a determined group of people willing to ignore the haters, pundits and cynics can accomplish. pic.twitter.com/PF4STrRTgr
Our top picks for weekend reads:
— Messari (@MessariCrypto) January 25, 2020
🔥The Omnibus Model for Custody from @riabhutoria
📕The Year in Ethereum 2019 by @0xstark, @evan_van_ness & @danielzak
🏦It’s Time to Look More Carefully at Monetary Policy 3 (MP3) by @RayDalio https://t.co/81aVBKoIp5
RIP Clayton Christensen. His Innovator's Dilemma was on my top 25 tech books of all time. https://t.co/AXt8JbbMaM
— Dean Takahashi (@deantak) January 25, 2020
This is the manufacturing process of a glass bottle
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed) January 25, 2020
pic.twitter.com/a4ugKeZ29x
HBO started out as a company laying cable under Manhattan. There's no highfalutin advice in this post, just some fun facts for your Friday afternoon web surfing: https://t.co/hWazpMjkmS
— Daniel Gross (@danielgross) January 25, 2020
"If you really want to improve the quality of decision-making, use algorithms", Daniel Kahneman
— Emilio Ocampo (@ocampo_emilio) January 23, 2020
Great interview at The Knowledge Projecthttps://t.co/C9qqrHMUkv
— Archillect (@archillect) January 25, 2020
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
— 〈 Berger | Dillon 〉 (@InertialObservr) January 24, 2020
(Δx Δp ≳ ℏ)
• Implies that there really is no such thing as 'a particle is at 𝑥 with momentum 𝑝'
• That is, the more narrow the 𝑥-PDF |Ψ(x)|², the more broad the 𝑝-PDF |Φ(p)|² will become & vice versa (👇) pic.twitter.com/6AUqy3Mpt1
"It's easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of the time." -- Clayton Christensen, giant of enterprise, RIP
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) January 24, 2020
VCs pivoting into climate tech investing in 2020 after seeing top funds announce their interest in the space pic.twitter.com/zrq3wIoDcL
— let me know how i can be helpful (@vcstarterkit) January 24, 2020
Gradually, Then Suddenly (#12): Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money
— Parker Lewis (@parkeralewis) January 24, 2020
True story, I was informed I was trespassing this AM at the Dallas Fed (District 11) trying to take a pic for this post. District 12 to District 11, you are being obsoleted.https://t.co/YugWectWUl
From Amazon's 2009 Shareholder letter
— Ryan Reeves (@investing_city) January 24, 2020
This is what it means to have customer obsession:
Focus on the inputs (customer experience, lower prices, etc.) and the outputs (financials) will follow. pic.twitter.com/jqVnm35EXe
10 most valuable US tech companies:
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) January 24, 2020
Apple: $1.4 trillion
Microsoft: $1.27 trillion
Google: $1.02 trillion
Amazon: $934 billion
Facebook: $627 billion
Intel: $275 billion
Cisco: $208 billion
Oracle: $176 billion
Adobe: $170 billion
Salesforce: $163 billion
Total: $6.2 trillion
1/ My favorite Clayton (RIP) quote is about CREAM.
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) January 24, 2020
"Chang noted that banks don't accept deposits denominated in ratios. He reminded me there is a simpler way to account for finances: in whole dollars. After all, that is what banks accept ?— dollars."
https://t.co/IRqcX0QN8l
with all the quantum-blah-blah talk that's been circling everywhere, there has been a lot of talk about lattices in cryptography. here's a PHENOMENAL intro to lattices and how they function. https://t.co/kr83VfMHbl
— gabsmashh (@gabsmashh) January 23, 2020
The most exciting innovations coming to consumer tech, according to @conniechan?
— a16z (@a16z) January 23, 2020
1) The rise of super-apps
2) Shopping via short video
3) "Audio-first" design (beyond podcasts)
4) Seamless digital > physical experiences.
Here's why: https://t.co/K1FazojKpv
Tag a die-hard @Apple fan 🤩
— Product Hunt (@ProductHunt) January 24, 2020
An (unofficial) archive of all things Apple just launched 🍎👇 https://t.co/BxKcNz0yHi
My very first tweet/retweet! https://t.co/hth369gT3k
— Thanh T. Lu (@thanh2lu) January 24, 2020
1/ We have analyzed the Digital Asset Custody landscape. Digital assets, like Bitcoin, present new challenges that legacy financial firms aren't equipped or familiar with. We have broken down the custody space into two segments, Institutions and Consumer. https://t.co/oH96andQ1p pic.twitter.com/tAZHbhyUE8
— twan (@dantwany) January 24, 2020
social system hacking 👌🏼 https://t.co/zeNUvqGjJX
— scott belsky (@scottbelsky) January 22, 2020
This is actually a great idea, a cross-platform encrypted backup solution implemented by SDKs each app developer can import. I would certainly pay $5/month, and @backblaze has demonstrated the business model for PC.
— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) January 21, 2020
Like the mirror image of all the privacy-violating ad SDKs. https://t.co/CFdcea5EaV
If you’ve been hearing about the snow in Newfoundland but can’t quite picture it, this is a real time-lapse taken yesterday. pic.twitter.com/TRsBhg9fhd
— Yoni (@OriginalYoni) January 19, 2020
Einstein explaining his famous mass - energy equivalence relation, E=mc². pic.twitter.com/08FYrbpss7
— Physics History (@HistoryPhys) January 19, 2020
Tag a die-hard @Apple fan 🤩
— Product Hunt (@ProductHunt) January 20, 2020
An (unofficial) archive of all things Apple just launched 🍎👇 https://t.co/BxKcNz0yHi
A comical view of they key problem with machine learning, it assumes past results guarantee future outcomes. pic.twitter.com/sP7pijRetE
— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) January 19, 2020
Wanted to write something on #Stadia, and @a16z published an interesting article about cloud gaming, seems like a good time for a thread.
— Igor Baikov (@Killa_ru) January 18, 2020
I'll address some points from the article by @Tocelot and provide my thoughts on cloud gaming, hopefully with interesting information. https://t.co/JeIaAuNqZI
— Archillect (@archillect) January 19, 2020
— Archillect (@archillect) January 18, 2020
Well, Blade Runner inspired the cyberpunk aesthetic. Minority Report inspired the Kinect.
— Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) January 18, 2020
If you go through the films based on his books, he has a claim to being the most influential sci-fi author. https://t.co/KDQ4y3YY5B
It's Saturday! Next week's Exponential View is published in less than 24 hours. Sign-up now. https://t.co/8u0xHklhDb
— Exponential View (@ExponentialView) January 18, 2020
You'd rather have the perfect butler, than the genie in the lamp.--Stuart Russell, Founder of the Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC Berkeley https://t.co/K2fzi3OMEK via @a16z @withfries2 #AI #ML #DeepLearning #DataScience
— David Goldsby (@DavidGoldsby) January 18, 2020
There are broadly two adoption paths for new computing technologies. Inside-out technologies are pioneered by established institutions. Outside-in technologies, by contrast, start out on the fringes. https://t.co/7hw08LX0ST via @cdixon
— Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz) January 17, 2020
The researchers acknowledge their system could be misused for “various malevolent purposes,” like media manipulation or the “dissemination of malicious propaganda.” They suggest the enforcement of legislation to mandate edited videos be labeled as such. https://t.co/zmJxIwf6z5
— Emil Protalinski (@EPro) January 17, 2020
The privacy paranoid among us have long worried that all of our online photos would be scraped to create a universal face recognition app. My friends, it happened and it’s here: https://t.co/qfv5b27mzg
— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) January 18, 2020
Complete the set: William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, _______.
— Slava Akhmechet (@spakhm) January 17, 2020
A recompiled list of startup ideas for 2020: https://t.co/hC6I6g6EGx
— Daniel Gross (@danielgross) January 17, 2020
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. pic.twitter.com/BMmtAfCUJr
— Richard Feynman (@ProfFeynman) January 18, 2020
In honor of Google becoming a $1T company today, presenting its pre-IPO financials...lmao😳
— Andrew Reed (@andrew__reed) January 18, 2020
Just insane pic.twitter.com/kXqwiRkUdo
— Archillect (@archillect) January 17, 2020
Today Microsoft announced an ambitious goal and a detailed plan to become carbon negative by 2030, remove our historical carbon emissions by 2050, and launch a $1B climate innovation fund. https://t.co/wrkkcRCntw
— Brad Smith (@BradSmi) January 16, 2020
I used California's new privacy law to force Instagram to hand over 10 years of my data. Here's what I learned. https://t.co/uAcj3OW8v7
— Kari Paul (@kari_paul) January 17, 2020
Facebook launches PyTorch 1.4 with mobile customization and Java support https://t.co/DyiQHmT0IM
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) January 17, 2020
“If we want to help humans improve AI, we need to understand it. Where are those errors happening? To which part of the data segments? With which part of the model?" —Dr. Harry Shum
— a16z (@a16z) January 16, 2020
Watch his full talk here: https://t.co/i5gxwcoxES pic.twitter.com/tZGgn0JCfo
Send this to a die-hard @Apple fan 😻
— Product Hunt (@ProductHunt) January 16, 2020
An archive of all their ads, videos and historic materials 🍎📺 https://t.co/BxKcNz0yHi
Spent 3 years reading and listening about bitcoin. All roads lead back to:
— Sir William Of Rotherham (Hodler Of Last Resort) (@hodloncomrades) January 16, 2020
The Bitcoin Standard @saifedean
The Bullish Case For Bitcoin @real_vijay
I have no doubt these two works will hold historical significance for generations to come.
Yep!
DeepMind’s new algorithm has uncovered new details about how dopamine helps the brain learn.
— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) January 15, 2020
“It gives us a new perspective on what's going on in our brains during everyday life.” https://t.co/eAOnXvWdje
Fear of artificial intelligence. pic.twitter.com/xOIT8xbiPp
— Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) January 15, 2020
My Conversation with the excellent Reid Hoffman, https://t.co/NEAjVAUlkK, #Cowenconvos
— tylercowen (@tylercowen) January 15, 2020
Things I’m really excited about today
— Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk) January 15, 2020
- both the Flashes meeting in the “Crisis” storyline on CW. Comic book fans could have never predicted this day would come and TV and movie universes merging.
- @Ninja getting his own Fortnite skin.
Some of @DeepMindAI’s most fascinating work happens at the intersection of AI and neuroscience. Our paper published in @Nature today is a good example. It takes inspiration from our recent work in Reinforcement Learning to shed new light on how dopamine works in the brain. https://t.co/fOuA7rnjuQ
— Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) January 15, 2020
More exciting @Nature news today: an example of how AI and neuroscience continue to propel each other forward. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/ba6ZWjF95o
— DeepMind (@DeepMindAI) January 15, 2020
We have 2 papers published in @nature today! 🎉 One describes AlphaFold, which uses deep neural networks to predict protein structures with high accuracy. AlphaFold made the most accurate predictions at the 2018 scientific community assessment CASP13. 1/4 https://t.co/TW1zZypsUT
— DeepMind (@DeepMindAI) January 15, 2020
We've open sourced VizSeq, a Python toolkit that makes it easy to visualize text generation outputs. With a user-friendly interface, VizSeq improves productivity and enables fast evaluation on large data sets. https://t.co/g1xIAHcWPg pic.twitter.com/lz7Ge0mDbe
— Facebook AI (@facebookai) January 15, 2020
Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising and life satisfaction https://t.co/mVaKGz74QE (https://t.co/PL2Wy5fCHm)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) January 15, 2020
A/B tests came up again in my DMs. Now, for everyone: Is it possible to quantify the quality of your product or service? To make changes based on data? Well, what’s the percentage difference between your favorite ice cream flavor and your second-favorite? https://t.co/frVtf7yg9h
— Ken Kocienda (@kocienda) January 14, 2020
I want to shift the narrative around smart contracts.
— Conner Brown (@_ConnerBrown_) January 15, 2020
Here’s my new piece that takes a first principles approach to the smart contract debate, and shows how Bitcoin actually comes out on top.https://t.co/6nF0KX8hhG
Apple's monopsony power with the App Store is finally coming under court scrutiny. Well over due. Here's a nice primer on the term, and why it's a problem. I'm focusing on this problem in my testimony before the House Antitrust Committee on Friday as well. https://t.co/CD1JE7PIeC
— DHH (@dhh) January 15, 2020
Why do collaboration & productivity startups fail?
— Merci Victoria Grace (@merci) January 14, 2020
1. Poor GTM despite high quality product
2. Selling into managers instead of individual contributors
3. Poor performance/reliability
4. No Day 0 value to the end user
5. No compelling multiplayer modehttps://t.co/kxsOFy29ks
Why are #SiliconValley #VCs investing in #biotech? That’s actually the wrong question to ask. The real question should be, are old-guard tech or biotech firms the right investors to evaluate and support the next generation of companies?https://t.co/jKtl8YZO4G @a16z @JorgeCondeBio
— SynBioBeta (@SynBioBeta) January 14, 2020
The word of the day is "ageotypes," w/ a cohort of healthy individuals deeply phenotyped partitioned into 4 types of aging (well beyond Horvath clock or telomeres)
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) January 14, 2020
By @SnyderShot & team @StanfordMed @NatureMedicine https://t.co/ZTK7scSGsj (needs replication, extension, larger N) pic.twitter.com/v3fU4IjvGK
The acquisition of Plaid makes a lot of sense within Visa's value chain (explained here ⬇️) https://t.co/vPBdN5KlI6
— Ryan Reeves (@investing_city) January 14, 2020
Visa connects banks, now it has a clean API that it bought for just over 1% of EV. Looks like Visa continues to diversify away from card-present transactions. pic.twitter.com/GyEIiKZywB
New blog post! The promise of cloud-native games -> a new class of cloud games is emerging that will upend the entertainment experience as we know it and bring us closer to the Metaverse. How? https://t.co/Gq11hdPxbt
— Jon Lai (@Tocelot) January 14, 2020
Those fretting about whether cloud gaming will “kill the console” fail to grasp the technology's true potential. “Cloud-native” games will completely upend the gameplay experience itself, writes @Tocelot, as well as how those games are marketed and sold. https://t.co/jfzyO0nyaK
— a16z (@a16z) January 14, 2020
Sad reacts only pic.twitter.com/R91XgT5zU2
— Product Hunt (@ProductHunt) January 14, 2020
Alphabet/Google set to cross a Trillion Dollars in market cap. Fascinating to see the pace of growth even at scale. $GOOG https://t.co/kUs9Pha1HD pic.twitter.com/yqWZd9T7bE
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) January 14, 2020
We have open-sourced wav2letter@anywhere, an inference framework for online speech recognition that delivers state-of-the-art performance. https://t.co/1W7PsVu8tO pic.twitter.com/9peZPbUNu4
— Facebook AI (@facebookai) January 13, 2020
Might & Magic: Chess Royale is an auto battle royale from Ubisoft https://t.co/vSB2k0FMEG by @jeffgrubb
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) January 13, 2020
Found the ultimate hidden gem.
— ᴅᴀᴠɪᴅ ᴘᴇʀᴇʟʟ ✌ (@david_perell) January 13, 2020
It’s from a talk Mark Zuckerberg gave at Stanford in 2005, back when nobody knew what Facebook was.
He described Facebook as “an online directory for students.”
And the video only has 58 views!https://t.co/tymO202no8
I thought I knew @rsohoni decently well but this @ExponentialView interview was still awesome. (But the image of Reshma as a "tall, really good looking white dude" will never leave my mind) https://t.co/C15FRyEzSG
— Christian Hernandez (@christianhern) January 13, 2020
Came across this photo of Apple launching iPhone SDK in ‘08 (Jobs, Schiller, Forstall on stage - and a ton of empty seats). Seems key moments for the future seldom have an audience.
— scott belsky (@scottbelsky) January 12, 2020
And if you’re fortunate enough to be there, don’t expect fanfare or validation...yet. pic.twitter.com/1lA7OkyeBx
I asked Tony Fadell about the iPod timeline for my fast project page. Summary: 😯. pic.twitter.com/mf0CfbAEtB
— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) January 12, 2020
Just a bear hugging and snuggling his bear pic.twitter.com/1ef64xxGfX
— viralvideos (@BestVideosviral) January 10, 2020
Just finished rewatching Inception on Netflix
— Ben Carlson (@awealthofcs) January 11, 2020
Based on my half-assed research this may be the best movie of the 2000s
Plot is mind-blowing & the cast is outstanding:
Leo, Joseph G-L, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Tommy Shelby, Alfred, Juno, Ken Watanabe, Kobayashi, Jake Taylor
Why TinyML is a giant opportunity https://t.co/VOhs7zkdG7 by @txzhuo & @hustoncollins
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) January 11, 2020
1. Never stop learning.
— Richard Feynman (@ProfFeynman) January 11, 2020
2. See failure as a beginning.
3. Teach others what you know.
4. Assume nothing, question everything.
5. Analyze objectively.
6. Practice humility.
7. Respect constructive criticism.
8. Love what you do.
9. Give credit where it's due.
10. Take initiative.
A visual proof why 1+3+5+...+(2n-1)=n²
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) January 11, 2020
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Vermont’s DMV has been selling personal data to private companies since 2004 https://t.co/foy6O6Vf1B (https://t.co/THKKlC0uxk)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) January 11, 2020
Science is becoming engineering. Full stop.
— a16z (@a16z) January 10, 2020
Here's the complete a16z guide on how to understand this massive trend in bio and healthcare, from foundations and frameworks to tools and systems: https://t.co/Vnpbwl9tsg#JPM2020
The function x²ⁿ + y²ⁿ = 1 is the unit-circle for n=1, but approaches the unit-square as n→∞ pic.twitter.com/AVx8wt8XaY
— 〈 Berger | Dillon 〉 (@InertialObservr) January 10, 2020
Vergecast: a week at CES 2020 https://t.co/NdapkYkOkO pic.twitter.com/uvIXFmetda
— The Verge (@verge) January 10, 2020
I don't remember most tweets, but I remember this one. You could have made so much money investing in Stripe in 2013, despite their (as it then seemed) scandalously high valuation. https://t.co/TtoXVVawjN
— Paul Graham (@paulg) January 9, 2020
Content budgets in 2020:
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) January 6, 2020
Netflix $18.5 billion
Amazon $8.5 billion
Apple TV+ $6 billion
Hulu $4.5 billion
Disney+ $2.5 billion
HBO Max $2 billion
Peacock $1.5 billion
Quibi $1 billion
CBS All Access $1 billion
Source: Bloomberg Intelligence pic.twitter.com/3hsMlIoRr2
Corvus raises $32 million to inject AI into insurance products https://t.co/E4WO5MRHuD
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) January 10, 2020
American firefighters being welcomed by Australians.
— Bruce Watchdog Fenton (@brucefenton) January 9, 2020
Firefighters are a special breed. What’s just as touching as the cheers is how absolutely ready for business these men look - just minutes after a long flight to a new place. Badass
Good luck 👊
pic.twitter.com/9DoTMXMl5v
In '88 the Jordan III changed *everything*
— Rob Petrozzo (@robpetrozzo) January 9, 2020
We can thank it for:
• Lifestyle as a Product
• Brandless Branding
• Viral Product Launches
• Flash Sales
• Retro Aesthetic
• Non-Obvious Product Market Fit
Its why Lebron will always be #2
+it saved Nike
Heres how
1/Thread pic.twitter.com/H22eNTbH79
The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019) https://t.co/45NVXQxIOa (https://t.co/KbOzBrDjgm)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) January 10, 2020
Zuckerberg themes for 2030:https://t.co/3ZfQxISpGb
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) January 9, 2020
• a new private social network
• the next computing platform
• Decentralization of opportunity
• new forms of governance
I note these are good venture capital investment areas too 😎
Want higher routing success for your c-lightning node?@snyke merged the JIT Routing plugin! Go to https://t.co/9UM9UWLl7F and install it for your node (:
— Rene Pickhardt (@renepickhardt) January 8, 2020
Meanwhile great discussions following my rebalancing research to see that it can be combined with AMP #2020WillBeAwesome
Trump memes of the week pic.twitter.com/EcSCvBkqzu
— THE LONG VIEW ⚫️ (@HayekAndKeynes) January 8, 2020
Welcome to the future, where every single transaction will require purchasers to submit to surveillance by opaque psychiatric models in order to reduce insurance risks for the vendor. https://t.co/b8sA3VDZpW
— Jacob Metcalf (@undersequoias) January 6, 2020
Bytedance (which owns both Tiktok + Douyin) released a 2019 data report today on the user behaviors and trends on Douyin.
— Katherine Wu (@katherineykwu) January 6, 2020
It’s only available in Chinese, so I thought it might be interesting to translate and share! SUPER interesting differences:https://t.co/AEm80OTw8l
Delta to launch predictive maintenance platform, refreshed mobile app, and more in 2020 https://t.co/D0a1Kd86o6 by @Kyle_L_Wiggers
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) January 7, 2020
Love this from Marc Andreesen:
— ᴅᴀᴠɪᴅ ᴘᴇʀᴇʟʟ ✌ (@david_perell) January 7, 2020
"The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think."
— @pmarca
This is true: "To a degree still difficult for outsiders to absorb, China is preparing to shape the twenty-first century, much as the U.S. shaped the twentieth." From must read article: https://t.co/O21dwJjqEP
— Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) January 6, 2020
GDPR is working exactly as everyone who knew the first thing about ads thought it would. https://t.co/N0RkgRxI19
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) January 6, 2020
The Munger Operating System: A Life That Really Works https://t.co/wmKX2ideYi via @farnamstreet
— George Cybulski (@cybulski_george) January 6, 2020
TensorFlow has a suite of tools for optimizing your models for faster inference: https://t.co/h3qichyArj
— François Chollet (@fchollet) January 6, 2020
This includes post-training weight quantization, and gradual weight pruning during training for your Keras models. pic.twitter.com/rN5o2516wL
[THREAD] Preparing for 2030: @azeem shares his perspective on the the opportunities and challenges of the next ten years https://t.co/aH0yp8I3NQ pic.twitter.com/og9DZQmRoE
— Exponential View (@ExponentialView) January 6, 2020
Any founder or prospective founder can email me at anytime at shervin@pishevar.com
— shervin@pishevar.com (@shervin) January 6, 2020
founders, email me any time so i can continue to outrun these precious VCs and their rules: jason@calacanis.com
— jason@calacanis.com (@Jason) January 6, 2020
I don't care how you format the email, you don't need an introduction.... just email me the real real. https://t.co/kGh2gM3Xnm
MIT scientists made a shape-shifting material that morphs into a human face https://t.co/QOt1sqcazr by @JenLucPiquant
— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) January 5, 2020
Ted Sarandos: "I have to keep the audience happy because we have a one-click cancel"
— Andy Weissman (@aweissman) January 5, 2020
This conversation is like a masterclass (for free) on the state of media, 2020. Also, Sarandos seems so relaxed yet also so consistent in the ideas he discusses https://t.co/MJ8lZ28ZwW
Elasticsearch from the Bottom Up (2013) https://t.co/p7wzlBDJQm (https://t.co/nXKKnZVMfc)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) January 5, 2020
2019's U.S. TV advertising trends across Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft https://t.co/cpnoSAlSNg
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat) January 4, 2020
A wonderful piece by @lopp on the key properties of Bitcoin.
— Nakamoto (@nakamoto) January 4, 2020
- Consensus
- Trust minimization
- Decentralization
- Censorship resistance
- Pseudonymity
- Open source & collaboration
- Permissionless
- Fungibility
- Forward compatibility
... and morehttps://t.co/xPjb28g6Me
All Nakamoto contributors are pro-Bitcoin (BTC) for the long-term. We believe a commitment to the success of Bitcoin reflects core values of our community. Beyond that, we are ecumenical and publish a variety of points of view. See our contributors here: https://t.co/4AHvgpKAE9
— Nakamoto (@nakamoto) January 4, 2020
Good time of year for security hygiene - 16 steps:https://t.co/1N0pizFhhZ
— a16z (@a16z) January 3, 2020
You absolutely must watch this.
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) January 3, 2020
And then don't use "he" (big mistake people) to reference the pilot.
Captain Brenda Riepsaame Wassink brought this one home. https://t.co/kvmib8erPq
Dive into Deep Learning https://t.co/tJZtj58QjH (https://t.co/Gy1rHmrOLC)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) January 3, 2020
[ 🚨👋] New post - more whimsical ideas for 2020 and beyond. As always meant as part prediction, part provocation and part farce. 😉https://t.co/V0gI6HtIa6
— Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk) January 3, 2020
Thanks Vivek! 🙏🏽 https://t.co/AKK4QKoSLi
— Ryan Reeves (@investing_city) January 3, 2020
I wish @BillGates would #predict for the next 21 years considering how many of his #predictions from 21 years ago have come true. Here is a list: pic.twitter.com/x7wRvELgw1
— Dickey Singh (@DickeySingh) January 2, 2020
“Revelation Space” by Alastair Reynolds and the two books after it are my highest reco for space scifi.
— Jeremy Welch 🔑⚡️ (@jeremyrwelch) January 2, 2020
Delta V is also good but lighter weight and faster read.
FYI: what i read this year (following @vcstarterkit's rule)
— Andreas Klinger ✌️ (@andreasklinger) January 2, 2020
Bold the ones i would highly recommend.
I switched to mainly listening to audiobooks and only "read" for entertainment. Hence mostly space scifi. pic.twitter.com/pcF52X1q21
In 2020, we resolve to communicate that Substack is about more than just newsletters.
— Substack (@SubstackInc) January 2, 2020
Substack gets you:
- A website
- Homepage + archives
- Discussion tools
- Free podcasting
- Subscription tools
All free and much more to come!https://t.co/mPhPaKIEcb
"Everything in life is a negotiation."
— Shane Parrish (@ShaneAParrish) January 2, 2020
Listen and learn from Chris Voss, one of the top hostage negotiators in the world, reveals all the strategies and tactics he developed over his 24-year career with the FBI.https://t.co/1ebw0lquvK
