— Archillect (@archillect) July 31, 2020
from Twitter https://twitter.com/archillect
July 31, 2020 at 07:22AM
via IFTTT
— Archillect (@archillect) July 31, 2020
Rakuten: Amazon's share of US e-commerce fell to 38.5% in June from 42.1% in January; Target's share grew from 2.2% to 3.5% and Walmart's from 4.2% to 5% (Washington Post)https://t.co/5yUL8lqgOPhttps://t.co/01RZG8jNA9
— Techmeme (@Techmeme) July 30, 2020
How Best Buy saved itself (2019) https://t.co/4a7Hk4Bx6l (https://t.co/9Jj719mTfA)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) July 31, 2020
Kudos to @adamdangelo and the @Quora team for the intentionality in their remote-first transition.
— Darren Murph (@darrenmurph) July 30, 2020
We've enjoyed collaborating and sharing what we've learned at @gitlab
Read/hear more on the @GreylockVC podcast with @davthack (with a @sytses hat tip)https://t.co/PVTFRagpvS
Read Steve Jobs’ emails about why you can’t buy digital books in Amazon’s apps https://t.co/zjlNvccPPi pic.twitter.com/rvQ5dS8p2E
— The Verge (@verge) July 30, 2020
https://t.co/vOM38gkBBK
— Post M. (@Post_Market) July 30, 2020
"I think the best CFOs are business people first, and finance people second. It’s really clearly important to your effectiveness to understand the business you’re supporting. That means, for me, when I started, I had to put on an apron and work the store.
Andreessen, a longtime Facebook board member, has invested in a large number of micro VC funds. One way to stay ahead in the hypercompetitive world of early-stage investing. https://t.co/APeGYjxqCD
— Kate Clark (@KateClarkTweets) July 28, 2020
TensorFlow 2 is fast -- significantly faster than alternatives on 6 key benchmarks from MLPerf.https://t.co/glkVf0vqf3 pic.twitter.com/FWpFIBZycB
— François Chollet (@fchollet) July 29, 2020
Very excited to see the MLPerf 0.7 results released today, where Google TPUs set records in six of the eight benchmarks!
— Jeff Dean (@🏡) (@JeffDean) July 29, 2020
We need bigger benchmarks, because we can now train the ResNet-50, BERT, Transformer, & SSD benchmarks each in under 30 seconds.https://t.co/J6vbZ8srs1
There’s been a meme floating around was that Bezos wasn’t self-made because he started with an investment from his parents.
— Austen Allred (@Austen) July 29, 2020
He makes sure to remind us that those parents are a teenage single mom and an adoptive dad who immigrated from Cuba alone at 16.https://t.co/0w1ZoXj7tv
How did I discover this lovely GIF only now? pic.twitter.com/uqHkxKPV5u
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) July 29, 2020
Big Bird: Transformers for Longer Sequences 🐦
— AK (@ak92501) July 29, 2020
pdf: https://t.co/1ZH5oC2T2e
abs: https://t.co/DLt59rpbps pic.twitter.com/XHuvaqPahM
This graph from @McKinsey. . . wow. 10 years growth in 3 months time.https://t.co/nBhHwNvbnN pic.twitter.com/cfOAeU5DgV
— Chad Dickerson (@chaddickerson) July 28, 2020
One of our users is running a rigorous test of OpenAI's utility in copywriting: https://t.co/G6TYXWUNxN.
— Greg Brockman (@gdb) July 29, 2020
You can sign up on the landing page if you'd like your site to participate.
Will be exciting to see the results!
GPT-3 is the most powerful language model ever. It can write short stories, songs, and press releases. It can write in the style of Jerome K. Jerome. It can even write HTML code. But it won’t bring us any closer to true artificial general intelligence. https://t.co/HJ8BRxoO7F
— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) July 28, 2020
In 2004 I got the opportunity to work with Jeff Bezos to develop the original Kindle. It was Amazon’s first foray into hardware and I learned a ton from my interactions with Jeff. Here’s some of the stories and lessons that I took away from that experience:
— Dan Rose (@drose_999) July 28, 2020
TensorFlow 2.3 is now officially released -- see what's new: https://t.co/4blZ415Wn0 https://t.co/HxZeqK5Xg6
— François Chollet (@fchollet) July 27, 2020
The digital transformation of every large incumbent involves...a tax on the disruptor 🤷♂️🤦♂️https://t.co/lXnZaaRAVk pic.twitter.com/OeIXqYVlzH
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) July 27, 2020
A curated list of how people have been applying OpenAI:https://t.co/mObY5H32oH
— Greg Brockman (@gdb) July 27, 2020
When a bootstrapped competitor is growing faster than your venture funded company pic.twitter.com/u4UnmccO6x
— let me know how i can be helpful (@vcstarterkit) July 27, 2020
Losing track of everything that people are building with OpenAI? A great running list here: https://t.co/y0ptjS5saH
— Greg Brockman (@gdb) July 25, 2020
I've put together a website to curate all the impressive #GPT3 applications in one place!https://t.co/VEFg7rvq9U
— Aditya Joshi (@1adityajoshi) July 25, 2020
Their conversation on the healthcare system as part of an @a16z summit was inspiring & illuminating.https://t.co/yknHgPkHqk
— Nicolas Colin 🇪🇺 (@Nicolas_Colin) July 24, 2020
“M&A or IPO” - fantastic post by @reidhoffman @GreylockVC https://t.co/ZUtDEVKhaA
— Adam Nash (@adamnash) July 24, 2020
If you think the GPT demos with just text are impressive, check this out. I built a model that generates music videos based on text input by replacing the final layers of GPT-3 with a Flow-GAN architecture. [Sound on] pic.twitter.com/YP0GiY4cYZ
— Ben Lindsay (@ben_j_lindsay) July 22, 2020
"The reason speed has value is because time has value; the reason time has value is because human life has value, and lifespans are finite. If you made lifespans much longer, you'd reduce the effective cost of everything."@balajis' latest worth reading.https://t.co/q0GjVzAbce
— Pomp 🌪 (@APompliano) July 23, 2020
A new essay: regulating technology.
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) July 23, 2020
We regulate lots of things, from food to airlines, and now, we’re going to regulate tech. But that means global platforms collide with local regulators, and lots of complexity. This will probably be expensive. https://t.co/xvMJpZChyu
Had a blast talking with @eriktorenberg on Tech Policy and the US-China Cold War. Erik hosts one of my very favorite podcasts and has a gift for probing questions. Check it out. https://t.co/dTfGs5h7da
— Jacob Helberg (@jacobhelberg) July 23, 2020
10/ If you are building a company or have ideas on how to tackle these issues, our door is always open. Together, we can engineer a new paradigm of drugs, diagnostics, tools, and products for the patients and our planet. IT'S TIME TO BUILD!https://t.co/t5jFxkRU2d
— Andy Tran (@andy23tran) July 23, 2020
S&P 500 vs. S&P 5 vs. S&P 495 pic.twitter.com/8jbbyjf8Jo
— Sam Ro 📈 (@SamRo) July 23, 2020
How can we provide agents with stable object representations across time?
— DeepMind (@DeepMind) July 23, 2020
Introducing AlignNet, a model that learns to assign objects to stable slots across time without supervision: https://t.co/PqM28k5h9V pic.twitter.com/7m8LukSf3D
We are beginning to see how powerful AI can catalyze science. In a future coming to you soon: ask the computer to conduct an experiment, interactively probe the results, and then ask for the next experiment, iterating quickly without writing a single line of code or pipetting! https://t.co/aeWVsL7rmN
— Jeff Clune (@jeffclune) July 23, 2020
1/ "Jio spent $32B building a network that covered India, launched with an offer for three months of free data and free voice, and once that was up, kept the free voice offering permanently while charging only a couple of bucks for data by the gigabyte." https://t.co/CVo9UgQPXV
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) July 23, 2020
Good piece today by @benthompson on Jio and India https://t.co/J3bkfu3zOH
— Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk) July 21, 2020
Last week I co-led a $200M PIPE into $FVAC. My first big bet on climate change.
— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) July 21, 2020
This will allow $FVAC to scale the largest rare earth metals mine outside of China - based in California.
Because it was $200M, I decided to write a 1-pager which you can find below...
CoVoST V2 is the largest multilingual data set for spoken language translation. #AIhttps://t.co/iG8B6objhb pic.twitter.com/LMWT0GbmQd
— Facebook AI (@facebookai) July 21, 2020
— Archillect (@archillect) July 21, 2020
How GPT3 works. A visual thread.
— Jay Alammar (@JayAlammar) July 21, 2020
A trained language model generates text.
We can optionally pass it some text as input, which influences its output.
The output is generated from what the model "learned" during its training period where it scanned vast amounts of text.
1/n pic.twitter.com/imM66oyTIC
Introducing OrbNet! #MachineLearning GNN for first-principles #compchem at semi-empirical cost with excellent chemical transferability.
— Thomas Miller (@tfmiller3) July 17, 2020
Awesome collaboration with @AnimaAnandkumar, @EntosAI, and @Caltech. Congrats @ZhuoranQ and @mattgwelborn!https://t.co/7y26tG51Xe pic.twitter.com/TcH6uneHPj
As you go through life you learn a few strange things about this or that. One other person perhaps knows a bit more about this than I do. There are many people who know more about specific parts of this, but I how how it all fits together. That's a weird flex, but it is true. https://t.co/EzlxOL8ABq
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) July 20, 2020
Anytime you hear an AI algorithm is responsible for doing great things in a highly automated way, always assume it is a bunch of low-cost humans half-way around the world doing it, not the algorithm. Exhibit #5738596 https://t.co/3NPjR47M9J pic.twitter.com/stVmi8f7yr
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) July 20, 2020
The transformer architecture of GPT upper bounds its ability at memorization. It cannot learn many algorithms due to the functional form of its forward pass, and spends a fixed compute per token - i.e. it can't "think for a while". Progress here critical, likely but non-trivial. pic.twitter.com/ULJdf35MJU
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) July 19, 2020
Life extension is the most important technology we can invent. To get there, we must build the infrastructure to tirelessly evangelize for technological progress.https://t.co/8xjrrrmHKf
— balajis.com (@balajis) July 19, 2020
Account unlocked on Twitter! 👋
— Muneeb (@muneeb) July 19, 2020
First thought:
Twitter should accelerate the decentralized protocol work.
Jack is already bullish on Bitcoin. Bluesky is already funded.
With proof of transfer 300M users can be registered anchored to Bitcoin.
This day on July 19, 1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention. pic.twitter.com/jkVMe7Z6MJ
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed) July 19, 2020
GPT-3 Does The Work™️ on some business analyst SQL queries given quite a few examples from (https://t.co/65ixaxzdyS). What's wildest is that it knows a few functions like SUBSTR given no examples in that syntax. More to come re: GPT-3 for automating data analytics tasks. pic.twitter.com/3Iwe8WQudD
— ken (@aquariusacquah) July 19, 2020
Hackers tell the story of the Twitter attack from the inside https://t.co/RvMgfequzJ (https://t.co/3ZpIGEuf3H)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) July 18, 2020
Neural ODEs are slow. We speed them up by regularizing their higher derivatives, learning ODEs that are easy to solve:https://t.co/MdSPa9f8Mt
— David Duvenaud (@DavidDuvenaud) July 17, 2020
with @jacobjinkelly @jessebett @SingularMattrix pic.twitter.com/yy6K2JgYD9
New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads https://t.co/Glhl9Y20KJ (https://t.co/JGXIuB8HbQ)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) July 17, 2020
Is it all upside for Netflix during the pandemic? Should anyone pay $65 for YouTube TV? Is there any value to live TV bundles when live sports aren't happening? @pkafka joined us on this week's @WIRED @GadgetLab podcast to talk all things streaming video https://t.co/JyBGyUxuQb
— Lauren Masks Are Goode (@LaurenGoode) July 17, 2020
A ROBOT WROTE THESE ANSWERS! I asked it to pretend to be @VladZamfir, @zooko or @VitalikButerin and it answered in their style, and it's mostly technically correct! It even created a link for more information!https://t.co/PNNnIhQmnZ pic.twitter.com/RrMRZ6WLlm
— Alex Van de Sande (avsa.eth) (@avsa) July 17, 2020
How does "social engineering" work, particularly with hacking phone company employees? @martin_casado joeldelagarza @smc90 covered this in a previous episode of 16 Minutes, right after the FBI's Cyber Division released a notification to private industry:https://t.co/qS08Ldxrs9
— a16z (@a16z) July 17, 2020
Published today, Deep Claim: Payer Response Prediction From Claims Data with Deep Learning. Alpha Health predictive AI research spotlighted @HSYS2020. Deep Claim model demonstrates potential to save U.S. billions in wasted #healthcare spending. Watch now! https://t.co/uvrwL4Fj3V
— Alpha Health (@alphahealthai) July 17, 2020
Cool new idea to learn a space of implicit functions by treating the gradient of a SIREN w.r.t. to a zero vector as the embedding in a conditioning via concatentation framework. In effect, treating the derivative of a SIREN as the encoder and the net itself as decoder! Neat! https://t.co/MMupaL86Vu
— Vincent Sitzmann (@vincesitzmann) July 17, 2020
This was awesome, even without knowing code. This walks you thru the process, if mildly interested in ML or AI, it's worth clicking through the slides. https://t.co/as0TrRmAYN
— Bill Perkins (Guy) (@bp22) July 17, 2020
Introducing Screenshot Essays: All that's fit to print on a single iPhone screenshot.
— Eric Stromberg (@ericstromberg) July 16, 2020
A rare win/win: Less work for me. Faster for you.
First in the series: Hidden Moats in ⁰Consumer Subscription.https://t.co/x4JIvK9m1m pic.twitter.com/jmx08wz49x
what i also call latent network effectshttps://t.co/hvK42rCrmQ
— D’Arcy Coolican (@DCoolican) July 16, 2020
More on our games thesis here:https://t.co/DDifqP0SlG
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) July 16, 2020
and here:https://t.co/8AH7X8LwZJ
At Xbox, we’re committed to putting you first. In September, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members can enjoy unlimited play on your devices—at no additional costhttps://t.co/bCZ0712H87
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) July 16, 2020
Here's tonight's #Seattle #Sunset view. Mount Baker wearing a little #lenticular cap. pic.twitter.com/6J6yrhzBmT
— Sigma Sreedharan (@sigmas) July 16, 2020
Transformer neural networks capture atom rearrangements patterns hidden in large sets of unlabelled chemical reactions.
— Philippe Schwaller (@pschwllr) July 15, 2020
Code/demo: https://t.co/hvuJ98RuyS
Preprint: https://t.co/zFZIPRRO6O@Ben_Hoov @hen_str @teodorolaino @reymondgroup #IOPPposter #chemistry @IOPPublishing pic.twitter.com/M4VvyMEv4X
GPT-3: Creative Potential of NLP by @Merzmensch https://t.co/t0uW0iXxvv
— Towards Data Science (@TDataScience) July 15, 2020
Adorable AI ponies have arrived!🦄
— arfa (@arfafax) July 15, 2020
The model is transfer learned from the furry model, but with 2x the training data, and 2x the network width/height.
Enjoy.https://t.co/IWWAEvEHFg
Pro tip: When @nattyover writes something, read it. You'll thank yourself later.
— Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) July 14, 2020
This article on Gödel's incompleteness theorem(s) is one of the most accessible coverages of the topic I've seen that actually captures the substance of the result.https://t.co/dMLBIQgAYD
The TikTok War
— Stratechery (@stratechery) July 14, 2020
How TikTok exposed Facebook's blindspot, thanks to its Chinese roots, and why that China connection make TikTok a genuine concern.https://t.co/3s9Y6y8twL
— Archillect (@archillect) July 15, 2020
In pursuit of a more equitable and innovative internet, I'm launching something new 🚀
— Jesse Walden (@jessewldn) July 14, 2020
@VariantFund is early-stage venture capital for crypto networks and founders building The Ownership Economy.
Whats that? I explain here: https://t.co/9Yl7U7WW0w
Thread 👇
The bike eater
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed) July 14, 2020
pic.twitter.com/Yxy8aiQUZJ
— Archillect (@archillect) July 14, 2020
New preprint: Data-Efficient RL with Momentum Predictive Representations(https://t.co/AN8St4eSpC)
— Ankesh Anand (@ankesh_anand) July 14, 2020
In 100K steps(<2hrs) on Atari, using self-predictions via a latent model & data aug, MPR:
* improves SOTA human-norm’d score from 26.8% to 44.4%
* exceeds human scores on 6/26 games pic.twitter.com/C0nnoCa665
Out today in Neuron, a new paper on the connections between deep reinforcement learning and neuroscience from Matt Botvinick, @janexwang, @wwdabney,
— DeepMind (@DeepMind) July 13, 2020
Kevin Miller and Zeb Kurth-Nelson!
Neuron: https://t.co/tgIWyrb8yu
Arxiv: https://t.co/X9RYrLL8o6
My explanation:
— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) July 13, 2020
The group of stocks known as “FAANMG” -- the biggest most important stocks in the S&P500 -- are giant tech firms that derive a majority of their revenues from outside of the United States.
5/ pic.twitter.com/riEK6retO3
What is an AGENT? The questions raised in this paperhttps://t.co/JAaLF99JLQ deserve discussion:
— Judea Pearl (@yudapearl) July 13, 2020
(i) what makes a physical system an agent; (ii) the reason for agency's time orientation; (iii) the source of the information generated in choosing an action. Unsure about the answers
Introducing TayPO, a unifying framework that generalises prior work as first order special cases, draws close connections between off-policy evaluation & policy optimisation, and brings empirical gains on a few distributed deep RL agents.https://t.co/csEWLTxS2Y #ICML2020 pic.twitter.com/guI2aQkyc4
— DeepMind (@DeepMind) July 13, 2020
Anyone who would like to build an app on our API, please ping me — may be able to accelerate an invite to you! https://t.co/T6DqWfs4qS
— Greg Brockman (@gdb) July 13, 2020
Made this a few days back. Very helpful to understand damped oscillation and phase space diagrams. pic.twitter.com/ajC7HI6CpR
— Saptarshi (@Saptars96294976) July 13, 2020
Sine is blue, cosine is red. It's such bullshit that today's students get to have the internet explain stuff instead of having to figure it out yourself using incredibly awful textbooks. https://t.co/02itY54Iyb
— Tim Urban (@waitbutwhy) July 12, 2020
“I said, ‘Oh my god, there’s such a huge signal – if I want to build a biomarker for aging, I really have to focus on methylation’ and so I’ve been working on that ever since.”https://t.co/Iqt3piqSGj
— Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) July 12, 2020
I put together a list of books recommended by @FutureJurvetson 😊📚#books #Reading #bookworm https://t.co/z4Rcz69uO3
— Richard Reis (@richardreeze) July 12, 2020
3D printed hexagons 😍
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed) July 12, 2020
📱https://t.co/JImU0DOpf6 pic.twitter.com/pkjpXXMi8P
Business - The United Nations of Uniqlo | 1843 | The Economist @UniqloUSA https://t.co/s6CyHnqPPE
— Tariq S (@tariqshaukat) July 12, 2020
This is how a Fourier series works
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed) July 11, 2020
pic.twitter.com/DEl8ezjUe8
It may be possible to reverse aging. https://t.co/gvnjbUMML5 pic.twitter.com/nB24sAZ9rj
— Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) July 11, 2020
Superb short video by @andycowles1 in which he describes (in under three minutes!) what great design, branding and user experience is, using as an example what he calls "the world's greatest magazine"https://t.co/gjlQ2e8AKS
— Andy Weissman (@aweissman) July 10, 2020
“Innovation is the child of freedom and the parent of prosperity.”
— Naval (@naval) July 10, 2020
From part I of my interview with @mattwridley https://t.co/260MdNjy1i
People are unhappy about social networks and gig-economy marketplaces because they helped build the services as users, and were then shortchanged.
— DFINITY Foundation (@dfinity) July 8, 2020
Participation-based marketplaces could change that.
Full recap of @cdixon's Tungsten panel here:https://t.co/2LvAcVwlEp
Over the past 5 months our 3rd class of Scholars researched how GPT-2 represents grammar, measured the interpretability of models trained on Coinrun, predicted epileptic seizures using brain recordings and more: https://t.co/XmKfSgdLB1
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) July 9, 2020
Interested in automated updating of gene trees with new data from GenBank? Check out @LunaSare's #SciPy2020 presentation! Docs at https://t.co/MA0WJOzGuO, talk at https://t.co/oBTaLr3zq9
— Emily Jane McTavish (@snacktavish) July 9, 2020
Excited to share “Improvement in ADMET Prediction with Multitask Deep Featurization” in @JMedChem’s special issue, "AI for Drug Discovery." #Research originated at @Stanford University w/ @vijaypande. https://t.co/PuIHDCgqlf
— Evan Feinberg (@enfeinberg) July 9, 2020
Are you a user of AutoKeras? Haifeng (main author) would like to know more about your use cases and any new feature you are interested in. Please contact him on Slack! (see README for details)https://t.co/yDJIAKTX7m
— François Chollet (@fchollet) July 8, 2020
Introducing a new approach to RL that uses complex duality to convert problems with a large number of constraints to equivalent, more computationally friendly forms, enabling mathematically principled algorithms that are useful in practice. Learn more ↓ https://t.co/lqPMBocLEe
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) July 8, 2020
.@JeffDean did a beautiful, self-aware, and very important thread about lack of inclusiveness in AI and computer science.
— Abhishek Baxi (@baxiabhishek) July 7, 2020
Do read. https://t.co/y02kMKy8v2
The Traveling Salesman Problem approximation ratio hasn't improved from 3/2 since 1976, via MST + Minimum-Weight Perfect Matching + Eulerian Shortcuts.
— Reza Zadeh (@Reza_Zadeh) July 8, 2020
The 3/2 barrier has been broken after 44 years! The abstract is one sentence, the paper is 85 pages 🤣https://t.co/v9XfNJBLEy pic.twitter.com/PDJLLa6v94
Sources: Walmart+, a $98/year Amazon Prime rival, will launch in July, with same-day delivery, discounts at Walmart gas stations, reserved delivery slots, more (@delrey / Vox)https://t.co/HSmNSSpE3Phttps://t.co/vqJuTmWAnU
— Techmeme (@Techmeme) July 7, 2020
I made a list of my top 10 favorite books (unordered). The books and authors omitted are killing me (no Jhumpa Lahiri? Vonnegut? Pynchon?), but sticking to ten is the point. https://t.co/8uVhWRiYgk
— ɹǝʞɹɐd ʍǝɹpuɐ (@andrewparker) July 7, 2020
Talking with @ianjohnlee at @unitize2020 today at 10:35am PST on creators and blockchain. https://t.co/QfvKuPSyx9
— Kevin Chou (@KevinChou) July 6, 2020
Also, @rally_io's head of network, @amit_by_the_bay published an introduction to how our network tech and economics designhttps://t.co/djhFMZQKiz #Unitize2020
delicious, dishy feature on Quibbi, filled with uh-that-certainly-explains-a-lot anecdotes, but none perhaps more explanatory that this one https://t.co/fgkAbrJVMK pic.twitter.com/5K8NDzbEZ8
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) July 6, 2020
— Archillect (@archillect) July 6, 2020
Ridiculous Math Problems https://t.co/LzvvcLzvOp (https://t.co/I3a8Kp2aRd)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) July 6, 2020
The cost to train an AI system is improving at 50x the pace of Moore’s Law https://t.co/FJsu4yauYs (https://t.co/OuvxpAT2m6)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) July 5, 2020
How McKinsey helps companies avoid responsibility https://t.co/x2L3DSzVGH (https://t.co/yIxwcVxdzb)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) July 5, 2020
Disney’s deepfakes are getting closer to a big-screen debut https://t.co/HMFiJqjXZW pic.twitter.com/aibmckcitj
— The Verge (@verge) July 4, 2020
The pandemic, but as a shot in the arm for ecommerce!
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) July 3, 2020
"Almost two-thirds more new stores were created using Shopify in the six weeks to April 24 than in the previous six-week period"https://t.co/t2KR6e4Fq0 pic.twitter.com/KE0qEl63mD
I love exploring the infrastructure of the modern world. More and more of our world is software. Behooves everyone to study it
— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) July 3, 2020
“It isn’t just that businesses use more software, but that, increasingly, a business is defined in software”
H/t @ericvishria https://t.co/qfDE8clTKD
Deconstructing Pinterest’s reverse-image-search SEO growth hack https://t.co/W0tF8G9wET (https://t.co/uUHARgPTVQ)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) July 2, 2020
👇 How Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurshttps://t.co/wf8HFDK2Rj
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) July 1, 2020
1/ "Wholesale transfer pricing power" is a phenomenon I've written about often. If you don't understand this power, you can't understand something like a YouTube TV price increase. The best way to teach people about it is to tell a story about John Malone. https://t.co/f3AsQRCPqM
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) July 1, 2020
Frictionless Finance
— Steve Jurvetson (@FutureJurvetson) July 1, 2020
Companies with abundant sales data should be able to finance their growth inexpensively — if capital providers could share the same internal visibility as the CFO, and if analytics could drive the financing decisions. A Capital Idea: https://t.co/6cYfMz7vGp pic.twitter.com/0Vqd9NBLOY
Wal-Mart produced ~$15B in cash flow in 2019. They also lost ~$5B to theft/shrinkage. If eliminated, cash flow would increase by >30% or the equivalent of an incremental ~$100B in sales.
— Post M. (@Post_Market) June 30, 2020
Automation is discussed extensively, but the potential benefits of machine vision are 🤯
Much of the world’s progress is due to Contrarians. Today we’re breaking down what it means to be a contrarian thinker with Keith @rabois & @JamesCurrier...and the early mental models behind PayPal, Square, Yelp + more. @NFX https://t.co/6YXrkrh6mU
— Christen O'Brien (@christenobrien) June 30, 2020
Michael Bloomberg started his company in 1981. He was already 39 years old. He faced large incumbents with tens of thousands of installed terminals and by global news agencies.
— NeckarCap (@NeckarValue) June 29, 2020
Let's take a look at how he cracked the code to become the dominant player in financial information pic.twitter.com/y0MeYR82s6