Few business areas have felt more disruption than enterprise software sales – and few have seen as much rapid adaptation to the current environment. @chandna’s @ForbesTech column outlines the four emerging trends as firms adapt to online selling. https://t.co/rIibUOstxy
— Greylock (@GreylockVC) August 30, 2020
Four seasons on an island in Finnland pic.twitter.com/rFwhNC7Pxq
— Nature is Litπ₯ (@NaturelsLit) August 31, 2020
@DesktopMetal - a leader in Manufacturing 2.0 - is going public and I helped lead their $275M PIPE. I wrote a 1-pager on the key things I liked about DM. pic.twitter.com/DRG2Incc1g
— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) August 31, 2020
The pandemic, but as an opportunity for brands that understand how to get business done using social and digital channels. Jewelery brand Tanishq apparently does ~$13.5 Mn+ in sales in couple of months of lockdown thro video calls and Whatsapp.https://t.co/SGe8e63q7B pic.twitter.com/2dVAEgWNjL
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) August 31, 2020
The Recursive Universe https://t.co/mLJv8y7ma0 (https://t.co/swMkd1wJMR)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) August 31, 2020
The Founders Fund manifesto makes the case that tech has slowed down or reversed.
— balajis.com (@balajis) August 30, 2020
1) Transportation: top speeds have fallen since Concorde was retired
2) Drugs: costs for drug approval have skyrocketed
3) Energy: real costs of energy have also soaredhttps://t.co/F9ixXf4PNQ
Good thread and important discussion. It’s tacitly building off Thiel and Cowen on the Great Stagnation.
— balajis.com (@balajis) August 30, 2020
But we should engage the counterargument, which is https://t.co/unswlWSXMn https://t.co/EuRstc0zu7 pic.twitter.com/9v85Smgoli
Can't find an example of major innovation where experts who knew too much made change happen! Amazon vs Walmart, Tesla vs GM, Spacex vs. Lockheed, Twitter/Youtube/FB vs media, Genentech vs pharma, AirBnB vs hotels, Uber vs. taxis,... Experts can explain "why not" instead of "why" https://t.co/DgdZTrjWBE
— Vinod Khosla (@vkhosla) August 30, 2020
It can also make scupltures appear to dance. https://t.co/XHxrjylxcz
— Futurism (@futurism) August 29, 2020
excellent crypto book by Mike Rosulek, more formal than Serious Crypto and less than Katz/Lindell, and it's free!https://t.co/5jWzS0nE9f pic.twitter.com/CbTt1rfp4y
— JP Aumasson (@veorq) August 29, 2020
Cool insights from @OpenViewVenture about B2B startups offering freemium vs. trial.
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) August 29, 2020
Takeaway: Go freemium if there are network effects, otherwise go trial.https://t.co/J46H11RFpX pic.twitter.com/6MmD8B2nmd
Nice overview of Substack's most popular newsletters, including the amazing work of @sullydish @JonahDispatch @niubi @hc_richardson @mtaibbi and many other talented people!https://t.co/Zbd1Ykg7ot
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) August 29, 2020
The rise of crypto domain names, VR, NFTs, and remote work means the Internet century is actually just beginning.
— balajis.com (@balajis) August 29, 2020
Extremely impressive review of the latest in virtual estate.https://t.co/BAhkdzfqgL
Corsair Gaming is a billion-dollar company, and everything else we spotted in the IPO filing https://t.co/Dyju3qcdt4 pic.twitter.com/epiRUtHlzR
— The Verge (@verge) August 29, 2020
AT&T reportedly trying to sell DirecTV after massive customer losses https://t.co/wleXqpbcvz by @JBrodkin
— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) August 29, 2020
I wrote this last year: abuse on social is today’s malware. MSFT bolted lots of security overhead onto Windows, but the solution was a new software model. Equally, a lot of today’s fixes to social look like anti-virus - we should be changing the model. https://t.co/rIoD0cJLLe
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) August 28, 2020
— Archillect (@archillect) August 29, 2020
Excellent read! Pandemic + automation = time to rethink 'work'!
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) August 29, 2020
"The economic trauma induced by the pandemic has provided us with an opportunity to reimagine our relationship with work and to re-evaluate what jobs we consider really important."https://t.co/zR9BduZGtK pic.twitter.com/ciA7Bv0hsw
Announcing C2D2, a #MachineLearning-based approach to improving colonoscopy screening coverage that performs real-time local 3D reconstruction of the colon during the procedure, and identifies regions outside the field of view of the endoscope. Read more ↓https://t.co/U3nonNBkxt
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) August 28, 2020
In Defense of the IPO, and How to Improve It https://t.co/MND1hYOkpd < this really is a must read ... really. Read it!
— martin_casado (@martin_casado) August 28, 2020
"We are investing in the development of products, services and go-to-market strategies that serve industries beyond gaming, where we believe our long-term potential is many times greater than in gaming."
— Nuno Leiria (@nunopleiria) August 27, 2020
60 out of 716 customers contributing >$100K yearly are outside of gaming.
Coming soon: @netflix CEO @reedhastings joins #INFORUMsf at the @cwclub to talk his new book #NoRulesRules. Join us to hear how the company changed an entire industry and the world! This convo will be moderated by @bhorowitz. Grab your tix here: https://t.co/bMEezQGG8J
— INFORUMsf (@INFORUMsf) August 27, 2020
Secretlab’s gaming chairs can now be wrapped in a low-key SoftWeave black fabric https://t.co/JMrYtVDGx1 pic.twitter.com/hZF008RN6a
— The Verge (@verge) August 27, 2020
We’re getting closer to high-fidelity VR. pic.twitter.com/OKIzqTpbpE
— balajis.com (@balajis) August 27, 2020
This is a picture of Jeff Bezos when started Amazon.
— Pomp πͺ (@APompliano) August 26, 2020
He just became the first person with a net worth of $200 billion.
It doesn’t matter where you start.
You can accomplish anything. pic.twitter.com/vdMc3ebQ9g
Axial-DeepLab is a novel network for image segmentation that enables long-range attention by replacing all convolution layers with sequential 1D height and width self-attention modules, resulting in state-of-the-art performance. Learn more below: https://t.co/N1h9U319Wy
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) August 26, 2020
Anaconda CEO @pwang joins @martin_casado on this new @a16z podcast: Reining in Complexity — Data Science & Future of AI/ML Businesses https://t.co/NHh8pdacxj
— Anaconda (@anacondainc) August 26, 2020
Fidelity offers first Bitcoin fund https://t.co/6SD8TZgL7b.
— Bloomberg Crypto (@crypto) August 26, 2020
Thanks! We love our companies. https://t.co/LXoxfPHjT5
— Michael Arrington (@arrington) August 26, 2020
Where does gaming go now? @andrewchen interviewed @johnriccitiello, CEO of @Unity3D at our most recent Summit and covered all things gaming — from the rise of esports to cloud gaming + other trends.
— a16z (@a16z) August 25, 2020
Listen: https://t.co/3rWkCsTcGx
Here's my new interview with @balajis.
— David Perell (@david_perell) August 25, 2020
First, we talked about how he learns fast and identifies talent. Then we talked about genomics, how to reverse aging, and why living forever is the ultimate goal of technology.
What a wild conversation.https://t.co/trDYm9t2cd
— Archillect (@archillect) August 25, 2020
Interesting article on public VC funding. https://t.co/oAA3UbUvZJ @drapervc #VC #bitcoin
— Tim Draper (@TimDraper) August 25, 2020
"Walmart, Amazon, Target, Home Depot, Lowe’s and Costco accounted for 29.1% of all U.S. retail sales in the second quarter."
— Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) August 25, 2020
πΆhttps://t.co/kd3g0DSJaj
What I’m listening to now:
— Adam Bornstein (@BornFitness) August 25, 2020
Reimagine with @ericschmidt.
This podcast is different and honored that the Pen Name team was able to be a part of the project. Love what @SchmidtFutures is doing to help build a better future.
This is worth your time. https://t.co/NWn6E121d3
'It's impossible to compete with Facebook'
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) August 25, 2020
At a certain point, you really can't just keep dismissing every disproof that comes along by chanting 'survivor bias'. pic.twitter.com/wZVHFwWouD
If you had to plot all e-commerce companies on a 2x2 matrix what would you use for the x and y axes?
— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) August 25, 2020
We’ve released SIMMC, a data set on situated and interactive multimodal conversations, to help conversational AI researchers ground conversations in a co-observed and evolving multimodal context.
— Facebook AI (@facebookai) August 24, 2020
A challenge track at DSTC9 around SIMMC is currently live.https://t.co/09QKGQ6pXF pic.twitter.com/pNYtYjesD1
Semantic MapNet, our new framework for building top-down semantic maps and spatio-semantic memories (“mental maps”) from egocentric observations. This enables remembering where objects are and reasoning about spatial tasks (e.g. find the table). https://t.co/3JpXpK0YCY pic.twitter.com/uxduRnzoOM
— Facebook AI (@facebookai) August 24, 2020
Swift Mini grinder from @LaMarzoccoHome is about as close to flawless as I’ve encountered in grinders (to grasp the breadth of these encounters, ask @nlevchin :) pic.twitter.com/vH5k17frca
— Max Levchin (@mlevchin) August 24, 2020
IT'S FINALLY OUT!
— Vivek Verma (@vcubingx) August 23, 2020
After months of work, I'm happy to announce that the first video in a series on visualizing deep learning is out. It's on visualizing the structure of a neural network.
RTs appreciated :)https://t.co/oXuOPuN0AV pic.twitter.com/9CTrNEOmgB
1/ #Roblox has been on fire this year, as this chart (thanks @ballmatthew) shows: 3B hours per month, 164M users. While user/usage scale gets the headlines, creator scale might be just as important for an aspiring metaverse platform. https://t.co/k2EVTjyQkf
— Ben Decker (@dckr) August 23, 2020
Streaming Is Laying Bare How Big ISPs and Big Tech Work Together Against Users https://t.co/JLq5PJsafG (https://t.co/e2RFGGn8wU)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) August 24, 2020
This is one of the best reads on how significant and how fast the technology industry has grown. @benedictevans https://t.co/Nble0FKUl5
— Josh Elman (@joshelman) August 23, 2020
The origin story of Venmo is a great read (h/t @TrevMcKendrick)https://t.co/ien3cI4usS
— Pomp πͺ (@APompliano) August 24, 2020
My seven part-series on the MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE, why it is so unprecedented yet familiar, so lucrative yet uncontested, so dominant yet inevitably frail.
— Matthew Ball (@ballmatthew) August 23, 2020
W/ former New York Times exec @jonathanglickhttps://t.co/ApmaIiBHlG
AI software economy does not really work as SaaS. Must read by @a16z. It confirms lots of practical exp accumulated working in this space in the last 2 years by coming from academia -- which tends to see AI models isolated from data acquisition and users
— Giorgio Patrini π‘️πΎ (@GiorgioPatrini) August 23, 2020
https://t.co/kA12iotVWK
My latest jam
— Brian Flynn (@Flynnjamm) August 23, 2020
The backstory of $JAMM and how social tokens are a better "Everything Bundle"https://t.co/l7CXYzi5dT
“After ten years of unusual profitability the $100bn of total losses forecast for the next two years is equal to half the nominal net profits the industry raked in since the Second World War...” π³✈️πΈ https://t.co/AHLXEQq3z1
— M.G. Siegler (@mgsiegler) August 23, 2020
Trader Joe’s sales per sqm are 2.5x than the next best (Whole Foods), but a lack of an online strategy will be a big limitation in a post-pandemic worldhttps://t.co/hnavU8iay7 pic.twitter.com/gYrcZ6dab9
— cristina berta jones (@cristinagberta) August 23, 2020
— Archillect (@archillect) August 23, 2020
Public blockchains aren’t just open source, they’re open state & open execution. A glass box where you can trace every read & write made by every algorithm.
— balajis.com (@balajis) August 23, 2020
They provide a new way to design internet services without relying upon centralized corporations. https://t.co/R3d4ok6ir9
MBA students when registration opens for the “Intro to Venture Capital” coursepic.twitter.com/ckJ2vZLKbt
— let me know how i can be helpful (@vcstarterkit) August 23, 2020
A few days ago the wall street journal published an article about how tiktok "bypassed restrictions on Android" to obtain a unique identifier, so I decided to reverse engineer the app and find out what exactly they did.
— rashiq (@rashiq) August 23, 2020
Here’s my findings.https://t.co/SwzCMlesA7
a16z Podcast: Reining in Complexity - Data Science & Future of AI/ML Businesses - Andreessen Horowitz < tons of fun riffing with @pwang on why data companies are different than software https://t.co/uenb4GuoNG
— martin_casado (@martin_casado) August 22, 2020
1/ "The only people who say, ‘Yes, it’s like the 1990s’ are hedge-fund managers who are net short and annoyed. They have no idea.” True. But the people who best understand that period we're operating a business then. What was missing then was cash flow. https://t.co/gkz4NMEdJe
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) August 22, 2020
This day on August 22, 1963 – X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)). pic.twitter.com/kMJG2bcviM
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed) August 22, 2020
Bloodbath not just for small businesses...
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) August 22, 2020
"As of August 17, a record 45 companies each with assets of more than $1bn have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...This compares with 38 for the same period of 2009 during the depths of the financial crisis..."https://t.co/lTTlcLbesj pic.twitter.com/ZpOD9IpCWO
Who are the best citizen-journalists who write about neuroscience? Or alternatively, who are the best neuroscientist bloggers out there? Would love to invite them to Neuralink’s event next week.
— Max Hodak (@max_hodak) August 22, 2020
All the Uber-but-on-the-blockchain pitches from a few years ago will eventually happen. They were just too early.
— balajis.com (@balajis) August 22, 2020
By protocolizing these platforms, we address concerns about both state and corporate power at the same time.
Stitch Fix owns a direct channel to recommend and ship products to 3.5m users (growing 20%/yr). Many are caught up in Pinduoduo’s "social commerce" model, but the real beauty is its ability to directly influence demand and thus optimize its operations and supply chain accordingly pic.twitter.com/o0xGvjwfNF
— Turner Novak (@TurnerNovak) August 22, 2020
Stitch Fix is likely a $100b company within 10 years. Quick thread:
— Turner Novak (@TurnerNovak) August 22, 2020
"It's defensibility doesn't come from the code; it comes from the network that the code creates." https://t.co/sIJNTmWt3g
— Scott Kupor (@skupor) August 22, 2020
As always, very clear-eyed, reality-based, big picture synopsis from @julesyoo @a16z on current healthcare trends. https://t.co/JZpI5uflj9 #digitalhealth
— Aaron Neinstein, MD (@AaronNeinstein) August 21, 2020
One of my fav lessons from @a16z Crypto Startup School was @ali01's on Business Models & Value Capture. Here is that lesson, in a tweet-storm.
— Jesse Walden (@jessewldn) August 21, 2020
This is a deeper dive on an article I wrote earlier this year, on why the biz model for crypto should be familiar vs. Web 2.0 markets. https://t.co/dp8Yu8sCBy
In emails between Sweeney & Apple’s exec team, it's clear Epic was asking for the impossible: let Fortnite bypass App Store fee AND let Epic launch a store of its own. Apple lawyers hit back.
— Nick Statt (@nickstatt) August 21, 2020
Fascinating back-and-forth escalation you can now read here. https://t.co/aFs8mggPFH pic.twitter.com/F3jMp1zhJK
Today is https://t.co/GEOZuodrZj’s biggest day in our four year history. We are releasing our new course, fastai v2, fastcore, fastscript, fastgpu, and the official launch of the book. 1/https://t.co/odaoVM75o0
— Jeremy Howard (@jeremyphoward) August 21, 2020
Leaked Palantir S-1 show the company had 2019 revenue of $742M, up ~25% YoY, and a net loss of $580M, about the same as in 2018 (@dannycrichton / TechCrunch)https://t.co/zVrXr0CwJNhttps://t.co/sDNTzoU5cY
— Techmeme (@Techmeme) August 21, 2020
Amazon: profit up 100%
— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) August 20, 2020
Walmart: profit up 80%
Target: profit up 80%
Lowe's: profit up 74%
Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Google: stock at record high
Small businesses: 21% closed; revenue for rest down 30%
We're seeing a monumental wealth transfer from mom & pops to conglomerates.
This video of pandas just being pandas while a zookeeper desperately tries to rake leaves is the best video on the internet https://t.co/XknWMhEMbk pic.twitter.com/pl1xPh19hP
— Kyle Hill (@Sci_Phile) August 19, 2020
In 2002 I was working in Amazon’s retail division. We were organized by department - books, CDs, electronics, etc - and a separate dept for products sold by 3rd parties. Then Bezos decided 3rd party should appear next to 1st party on the same product page. Here’s what happened:
— Dan Rose (@drose_999) August 21, 2020
— Archillect (@archillect) August 20, 2020
An overview of this week's database news from GCP. @googlecloud https://t.co/JrI3JzfDzt
— Urs HΓΆlzle (@uhoelzle) August 20, 2020
This is going to be my best presentation yet on the topic! =] As ML becomes part of our every day lives, understanding how to remove failure modes is critical. We've written several papers but it's taken many iterations to make this topic accessible to a broad audience.
— Suchi Saria (@suchisaria) August 19, 2020
Join! https://t.co/CkHdDoY8qR
Must read if you are considering going public through SPAC merger. Terms are getting better & better due to competition. Even hearing of companies running a “SPAC-off” too get best deal possible. Will be way cheaper than intentionally underpriced IPOs. https://t.co/HzuiO6RWRI
— Bill Gurley (@bgurley) August 19, 2020
Holy CRAP https://t.co/zpMco5X8bx
— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) August 19, 2020
Apple, Epic, and the App Store https://t.co/Z8iqAP5J1b (https://t.co/O4NktMli69)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) August 17, 2020
Parking in a gif. The math is interesting. pic.twitter.com/T8tqm8wqe6
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) August 15, 2020
"In 2019, Costco brought in over $149 billion of revenue, good for 14th on the Fortune 500 list."
— Pomp πͺ (@APompliano) August 16, 2020
Costco is one of the most fascinating business case studies. Razor thin margins, loyal customers, & the world's largest private label brand.https://t.co/LsvyZxlO6d
refactoring some old code of this demo I made years ago, a neural net adapting its weights to match a dataset you can modify in real time https://t.co/hkOSnW7WbH pic.twitter.com/1iY0Ll64e9
— Junior Rojas (@jrrjd) August 15, 2020
Amazon's ML University is making its online courses available to the public https://t.co/KgnQP1uXgm (https://t.co/pLKcBtl8L5)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) August 15, 2020
Great post by @a16z on the challenging economics of AI / ML + #monetisation best practices.
— Renate Nyborg (@renate) August 15, 2020
- Costs for #AI applications can be 3-5x higher than typical software products.
- Reduce costs by narrowing inputs, optimising models, consolidating data & more.https://t.co/SsFtXrtJId
This answers everything π pic.twitter.com/l4WIIB7p8h
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) August 15, 2020
Without formal access, a college kid got hold of @OpenAI's GPT-3 and created a fake, AI-generated blog under a fake name. Within hours, his first post reached #1 on @newsycombinator. A case study in how people could (ab)use the model in the future. https://t.co/o9tbOC9Uu5
— Karen Hao (@_KarenHao) August 14, 2020
The job of an AI developer is to fit a statistical model to a dataset, test how well the model performs on new data, and repeat. This is essentially an attempt to reign in the complexity of the real world. https://t.co/I36Euz3XjZ via @a16z
— Scott Taylor (@ScottTaylor) August 14, 2020
How to build #products for power users: https://t.co/oO6Nruyrgy @a16z
— Product Manager HQ (@prodmanagerhq) August 13, 2020
Epic's Philosophy and Unprecedented Aspirations
— Matthew Ball (@ballmatthew) August 13, 2020
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What is the goal of the Epic Games Flywheel? Why is Epic spending billions to launch new businesses that remove or reduce all the value in that category - and without shifting the rest to its own pockets?https://t.co/nbj7RULjZJ
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says video games are a threat to his company. Now Xbox owner Microsoft says it competes with Netflix. https://t.co/83r4JQQ1gx
— Peter Kafka (@pkafka) August 11, 2020
This is a long and thoughtful piece from @benedictevans and I'm working on a (hopefully) equally thoughtful response. But definitely worth reading -- and discussing: Would breaking up 'big tech' work? What would? https://t.co/BKderyL6OG #DigitalTransformation #Google pic.twitter.com/fxbEzNtZ6E
— Tim Peter (@tcpeter) August 11, 2020
16 Minutes #38: Teladoc & Livongo, Is Virtual Care Fully Here? w @julesyoo @vijaypande @smc90 --
— a16z (@a16z) August 11, 2020
*why 'big deal', what's hype/what's real
*broader category, taxonomy of terms
*policy considerations, pandemic effect
*implications for incumbents + startupshttps://t.co/rROQG8p5so
From Epic Games: Creators and leaders from nearly a dozen studios share their opinions about the biggest and best innovations to hit this generation, the limitations that held them back or inspired, what the future looks like https://t.co/wzICOAEuJg
— Matthew Ball (@ballmatthew) August 10, 2020
“Teachers who make physics boring are criminals” - Walter Lewin ⚛️π pic.twitter.com/OPdDqz2YM0
— The Mars Girl (@eyeofastronomy) August 8, 2020
Really nice paper analyzing properties of infinite width networks by @GoogleAI researchers @hoonkp, @sschoenholz, Jeffrey Pennington, Ben Adlam, @Locchiu, @ARomanNovak and @jaschasd.
— Jeff Dean (@π‘) (@JeffDean) August 8, 2020
Jascha's thread here has lots of good discussion and a tour of some of the figures. ⬇️ https://t.co/Sgj3DZwCOo
It's been a strange watching it all come apart after so many years of covering China's Great Firewall, like staring at a fault line for a decade, and finally there's an earthquake. The tensions have been there quietly building for a long time. https://t.co/6dR4PVX7by
— Paul Mozur εε»Ίε½ (@paulmozur) August 7, 2020
Fintech Scales Vertical SaaS π this is a very prescient piece @a16z https://t.co/bvU5Af9Rfb
— Alexis Ohanian Sr. π (@alexisohanian) August 7, 2020
Behind the magic π₯
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed) August 7, 2020
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binge watch all the videos here! -->https://t.co/Ysv1cKJXY8https://t.co/UiT4vB2AM5
— a16z (@a16z) August 5, 2020
It took a very long time for US pay TV to start unlocking, but once it happened… Now wondering what movies will look like in 24 months. pic.twitter.com/cnxkFBSV38
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) August 5, 2020
New #BizCard based on today’s episode with @ballmatthew...
— Invest Like the Best (@InvestLikeBest) August 5, 2020
Epic is playing the long game. pic.twitter.com/bLWDsqebDb
In vertical SaaS, most revenue comes from subscriptions. By adding fintech products and services, SaaS businesses can up revenue per customer by 2-5x. @kshenster, @astrange, @seema_amble, & @kimberlywtan explain how & why this can unlock new SaaS markets: https://t.co/YD8Vwndpbn
— a16z (@a16z) August 4, 2020
.@mhabdou76 has functional emails, chat, and video on the Stacks network. Earlier version of this was Dmails which I used regularly.
— Muneeb (@muneeb) August 3, 2020
Given Stacks chain this connects to Bitcoin for security and fairly straight forward to enable Bitcoin address (vs a username) as main ID.
GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters (synapses). Human brain has 100+ trillion synapses. In 2020, it costs ~$2.6 billion to train neural net the size of the human brain. If ML training efficiency improvement trends continue, in 2040, it'll cost $80,000. Video: https://t.co/pVKbPxnbRy
— Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) August 3, 2020
Enterprises and data scientists are using AI to make loans, optimize ads, and hire employees, yet don’t always understand what is driving the decisions in these models. @truera_ai is tackling this "black box" problem. More from @GreylockVC GP @jerrychen: https://t.co/JsT4lzi75G
— Greylock (@GreylockVC) August 3, 2020
GPT-3 is a paradigm shift.
— Sam (@OnlySams69) August 1, 2020
It may not handle certain logical tasks as well as it does certain conversational tasks.
But it is a step in the right direction.
From what I can tell, it at least resembles a person's ability to think creatively.https://t.co/EaQX5Jupnh
The fact that you can use the Fourier transform to speed up string matching has always seemed weirdly magical to me. pic.twitter.com/HPaMGtiIrO
— Pablo Cordero π (@tsuname) August 1, 2020
Apple is about to hit $1.8T market cap with only a few critical products. There’s an urge in startups to broaden your feature set way too soon. In most cases your market is far larger than you realize, and staying focused is far better than chasing more spaces.
— Aaron Levie (@levie) July 31, 2020