The End of Pay-TV
— Matthew Ball (@ballmatthew) September 30, 2020
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What’s happening to Pay-TV in 2020 isn’t just more OTT competition and higher prices. It is instead something new and unprecedented in media: the systemic undermining and defunding of a business with years of life lefthttps://t.co/dnAHWxB4gs
Equations that changed the world. 🧠 pic.twitter.com/YFjAD9TB4c
— Richard Feynman (@ProfFeynman) September 30, 2020
Be worried. Be very worried!
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) September 30, 2020
"A quarter of US adults now get news from YouTube, Pew Research study finds"https://t.co/NjtRROOXvv pic.twitter.com/AFcVnFXs1t
Scorpion Computer Cockpit by Cluvens — Zero-gravity gaming chair & workstation https://t.co/9I9TEo4Ffp
— Product Hunt Feed (@phfeed) September 29, 2020
Happy to see this paper out. Interpreting what CNNs have learned on large compendium of ATAC-seq data was surprising: much of the learnt parameters point to validated biological mechanisms. Deep learning of immune cell differentiation https://t.co/qCt6DY4ywM
— Sara Mostafavi (@sara_mostafavi) September 29, 2020
Surprised there hasn't been more coverage to date of the Palantir tri-class voting structure https://t.co/5VCYKfgSwO via @techcrunch
— Scott Kupor (@skupor) September 28, 2020
ML will not be the same in 3-5 years, and ML folks who continue to follow the current data-centric paradigm will find themselves outdated, if not jobless. Take note. https://t.co/UsD5xDSDdW
— Judea Pearl (@yudapearl) September 27, 2020
why every company will become a fintech company:https://t.co/OlMA6a2Mw3
— a16z (@a16z) September 27, 2020
from the evergreen archives, PLUS audio read-aloud by author @astrange
— Archillect (@archillect) September 26, 2020
Solar has reached prices today that are 30 to 40 years (!) ahead of what the IEA had forecast in its 2014 Solar Technology Roadmap.
— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) September 26, 2020
An important text by @ramez: Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap (2020 edition) https://t.co/brQI2ozUt6
How do A/B tests work? https://t.co/l9Zblp99Sd by @quaesita #datascience
— AnalystReport (@AnalystReport) September 26, 2020
CB Insights: cloud computing startups raised almost $3B across 97 deals in Q2 2020, up from 76 deals in Q2 2019, with deal volume reaching a three-year high (@scastellwsj / Wall Street Journal)https://t.co/Jp6IDDLyuOhttps://t.co/8MOZaeqLP1
— Techmeme (@Techmeme) September 26, 2020
Should you deploy and use Semi-Supervised Learning in production? Here are some of our learnings at @uizardIO written by our talented Varun:https://t.co/TimP5PBkpI
— Tony Beltramelli (@Tbeltramelli) September 25, 2020
Transformer’s attention mechanism can be linked to other cool ideas in AI
— hardmaru (@hardmaru) September 26, 2020
- Indirect Encoding in Neuroevolutionhttps://t.co/G740mhjBv4
- Hopfield Networks with continuous stateshttps://t.co/FL8PimjVo9
- Graph Neural Networks with multi-head attentionhttps://t.co/PACMnKT50F
Here's a lesson I learned while working at Apple.
— Ken Kocienda (@kocienda) September 25, 2020
Many distractions seem nice. Some are super-enticingly nice. but it’s almost always better to say “No”. Wait until a great idea comes along that you just can’t resist—something with the potential to be truly great. Focus on that.
Love this podcast from @a16z on Newsletters. Great tips from @lennysan on value: "Entertain the reader, make them smarter about some topic, keep them informed on what’s happening, make them money, or make them feel like they’re part of something bigger" https://t.co/MwXRhxglX9
— Damïeñ Múlley ¸ (@damienmulley) September 25, 2020
This email changed my life and the lives of so many others. It starts with an idea. https://t.co/1eWVA6dYxW
— Joe Gebbia (@jgebbia) September 24, 2020
If you ever wanted to learn:
— Matthew Ball (@ballmatthew) September 24, 2020
• Why cloud gaming isn't amazing for most games, even though it's dope for music and video
• How online multiplayer gaming works and why on earth it works that way
• What game genres cloud gaming will producehttps://t.co/Xee8MmSp3x
Wanted: a blockchain-based spreadsheet for quickly creating a new token or NFT, issuing it to people in your community, tracking awards to specified wallets, and logging history.
— balajis.com (@balajis) September 25, 2020
Not an ICO, as it's not sold. Just issue a token for fun. Like on-chain karma or badges.
More on this here on @Quora: https://t.co/llgibrSKhU
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) September 24, 2020
BOOOOOM!
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) September 24, 2020
Meet the Amazon Ring In Home Drone!
Yes your own security drone in your home and Alexa controlled.
We wanted flying robots and we got talking flying robots! pic.twitter.com/mxdCLFXAiF
Roku was started at Netflix, but spun out as a new company just before launch in 2008. It now has a market cap of $22B.
— Eric Stromberg (@ericstromberg) September 24, 2020
Was this a mistake? I explore this question in today's @ScreenshotEssay:
Roku, Netflix, and the Relationship Between Hardware and Content pic.twitter.com/lNy6Lk7HL9
Pretty dramatic congressional testimony here from Facebook’s former director of monetization, who admits he had a role in making Facebook as addictive as cigarettes.
— Brian Fung (@b_fung) September 24, 2020
"We took a page from Big
Tobacco’s playbook.” https://t.co/AlRngDm7H2 pic.twitter.com/aH4tVpWFXN
Introducing TensorFlow Recommenders, an open-source @TensorFlow package that makes building, evaluating, and serving sophisticated recommender models easy https://t.co/imgNhRaNui
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) September 24, 2020
Here’s what Tesla will put in its new batteries https://t.co/S6zTMjHil0 by @SJvatn
— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) September 24, 2020
Bill Gates Just Explained How He Used 'Negative Praise' to Lead Teams at Microsoft, but Only the Best Leaders Can Copy It // 🤔 Do not copy this, no matter how best you think you are. https://t.co/FbQRmKoohC
— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) September 24, 2020
Been meaning to make this recommendation for some time, & as with "Range," I am several months late. I really, really loved "How Innovation Works" from @mattwridley It is a very elegant follow up to "The Rational Optimist" - read both if you can. (more) https://t.co/zOrgM20BIV
— Bill Gurley (@bgurley) September 23, 2020
Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model https://t.co/BjooIGqU5i (https://t.co/YKw7cykPeu)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) September 23, 2020
Steve Jobs: "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma… have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
— Sean Rose (@seanrose) September 23, 2020
Tech Person: "OK. I'm going to try to do exactly everything Steve Jobs did."
"We’re a software company. The entire leadership team comes from consumer Internet… what differentiates us is the software, which includes the streaming and the gamification and the network. We’re also a media company" Peloton CEO
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) September 23, 2020
The box is just a box.https://t.co/7hPbzALKPE
If you read my "SaaS plus a box" post that included a discussion of Peloton, you would have read the first articles about Prime Bike and said: "What the..."
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) September 23, 2020
What seemed broken is broken.
The margins are in SaaS not the box which is about distribution. https://t.co/00tsE7agtf
Can we actually slow down aging? And how does our understanding of how aging works help us fight diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's? @LauraDeming, @kpfortney, @vijaypande & @omnivorousread discuss on the premiere episode of Bio Eats World: https://t.co/2urwTYLuMM
— a16z (@a16z) September 22, 2020
Laird Superfoods priced its IPO at $22/sh, raising $55M at a $200M post-money valuation (10x sales)
— Post M. (@Post_Market) September 23, 2020
The business is doing $20M run-rate revenue and burning $10M of cash a year.
Last January, WeWork put $32M in to Laird. Very interested in who provided the IPO capital. pic.twitter.com/rkY3FkbC6t
A lot of the offline work world is ineffective, so don't try to replicate it online now that everyone is working from home, says @zapier CEO @wadefoster. Digital-1st tools and #wfh give you a way to fix things. Hear more on the latest #greymatter https://t.co/58vrPsjD9E
— Greylock (@GreylockVC) September 22, 2020
Today, I'm excited to announce Microsoft is teaming up with @OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3, allowing us to develop and deliver advanced AI solutions for our customers. #MSIgnite https://t.co/P7oWmQIQdr
— Kevin Scott (@kevin_scott) September 22, 2020
I'm super excited about today's announcement of the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Build, extend, enrich, connect, and enable new capabilities, experiences, and efficiencies for better health. https://t.co/AGxRjSdP9u
— Peter Lee (@peteratmsr) September 22, 2020
Quantum entanglement of a 1mm object is a huge deal.
— Ruben Seoane (@rseoane_) September 22, 2020
Some potential applications if technical challenges are solved (entanglement leakage, noise, ultra low temps...)
Having real time remote sensors across the solar system:
I.e. solar flare early warning system@naval @balajis https://t.co/x8P5DRHy4a
We just published a new piece entitled "Recurring Revenue: The Rise of an Asset Class" highlighting the work that @HarryHurst & the @Pipe team are doing. https://t.co/gug7CKo0yG
— John Street Capital (@JohnStCapital) September 21, 2020
Best quote on #ai transparancy -
— Michael Cavaretta - Analytics Executive (@mjcavaretta) September 22, 2020
"...the so-called black box of #ArtificialIntelligence intelligence is more of a feature, not a bug — because it’s more possible to capture and explain what’s going on there than it is in the human mind."
ht @vijaypande#MachineLearning https://t.co/k1Kq9ItxHD
“This restaurant was given three stars. That’s the highest rating possible.”
— 🏜️ Austen Allred (@Austen) September 22, 2020
“By who?”
“That tire company.”
“Oh wow we NEED to go.” https://t.co/XWJp411cpy
Published the 2nd of my pieces on TikTok, "Seeing Like an Algorithm."
— Eugene Wei (@eugenewei) September 22, 2020
My last piece was about how the algorithm makes TikTok work, but this piece is almost the reverse, about how TikTok's design makes the algorithm work.https://t.co/ANStLDAOAY
New essay up. The Mike Speiser Incubation Playbook
— Kevin Kwok (@kevinakwok) September 22, 2020
- Advantages of being interim CEO
- Betting all-in on secular transitions
- Optimizing only for incubations
- Local maximas of venture and function not form
- Breaking the wall of VC-company engagementhttps://t.co/V8Am3N52YV
— Gopi Vikranth (@GopiVikranth) September 21, 2020
Check out my @RoamResearch notes on @balajis "Applications: Today & 2025", with Anki deck - a great overview of the crypto landscape for newbies like me, and also is full of high-level startup ideas. My fave takeaways (thread)
— MarkNagelberg.com (@MarkNagelberg) September 20, 2020
cc @RoamBrain @RoamPublic https://t.co/NJ1lVAKvx6
— Archillect (@archillect) September 21, 2020
I wrote a long form piece on all these developments! https://t.co/YISpmLUUjs
— Aishwarya Nagarajan (@AishwaryaNaga) September 20, 2020
Reid Hoffman makes a good case for why distribution is more important than we traditionally view it.
— Philemon Nwigwe (@philemonnwigwe) September 20, 2020
Thank you for this podcast episode @m2jr and @reidhoffmanhttps://t.co/QxAUBZAkZd
Together with reporters from 30+ countries, we pulled data from more than 200,000 transactions in the #FinCENFiles.
— ICIJ (@ICIJorg) September 20, 2020
There were plenty of challenges along the way. But here is how we did it.https://t.co/VwHBQd2hpH
"We live in the age of infinite leverage, and the economic rewards for genuine intellectual curisotiy have never been higher." - @Naval
— Naval Ravikant Bot (@NavalBot) September 20, 2020
• Read for free - https://t.co/wtG3cEuAUE
• Purchase Paperback or Kindle - https://t.co/R84N88hXqy pic.twitter.com/vA1Y0KCtHE
This is insanely good: Paid v unpaid? How the pandemic changed their writing? How often? What do you read? w/ Patrice Peck, Lenny Rachitsky, Edith Zimmerman, Zach Haigney, Lauren Murrow—>So You Want to Launch a Newsletter—Tips From Writers https://t.co/Jk9jjeezEp #tech via @a16z
— Allan Schoenberg (@allanschoenberg) September 19, 2020
What is a SAR? Is this like the #PanamaPapers? Why should I care about the #FinCENFiles? And more frequently asked questions about this investigation. https://t.co/NnCfpAIm4Y via @ICIJorg
— Sia At The Game (@rhpsia) September 20, 2020
🚨NEW: For 2 years, I have been working on a massive, global financial investigation w/my @BuzzFeedNews colleagues based on secret US govt docs we shared w/@ICIJ, internal bank records & intvs w/100s of sources.
— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) September 20, 2020
Here's Day 1 #FinCENFiles https://t.co/YnOOE3bMdG
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Marc Andreessen On Productivity, Scheduling, Reading Habits, Work, and More https://t.co/0il9brx5IL #tech via @a16z
— Dídac (@DidacLee) September 19, 2020
In any company, the real culture is shown by who gets rewarded and who gets pushed out. https://t.co/WTAs75LOqW przez @a16z
— Olek Wandzel (@olekwandzel) September 19, 2020
1/ We've seen some interesting and unexpected fintech trends through COVID! Working with the @meetglimpse team, we pulled highlights on everything from day trading to used golf balls!👇https://t.co/GVBy174gDp
— Seema Amble (@seema_amble) September 18, 2020
Companies can track your phone’s movements to target ads https://t.co/rAFblHSa4v by @wired
— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) September 20, 2020
With the IPO bonanza and renewed debate about alternatives to the traditional IPO, this post from @arampell and @skupor with @a16z resonated with me. https://t.co/uB5w2GAh4S
— Adam Kuebler (@adamkuebler) September 19, 2020
Here’s the reading list from a class Peter Thiel recently taught at Stanford called “Progress or Stagnation.” pic.twitter.com/3mfdjfbtJy
— David Perell (@david_perell) September 19, 2020
This was written in 2010, when perhaps 75m people had an iPhone. Today, 1bn people have one. Amongst other things, Apple won an argument.
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) September 19, 2020
Also - the words 'security', privacy' or 'malware' do not appear anywhere, yet the point of Apple's software model is that trade-off. https://t.co/ocnVCZGOmu
This week I went deep on the successor to Moore's Law: What I call Huang's Law, after the CEO and co-founder of NVIDIA, which has a virtual monopoly on AI in the cloud
— Christopher Mims (@mims) September 19, 2020
(thread 🧵)https://t.co/GtsIQskh9h
One tweet summary of @RoamResearch.
— balajis.com (@balajis) September 19, 2020
Type a sentence like:
- Had #meeting with #JohnSmith about #defi
You get:
- a page with all meetings (#meeting)
- a page with all mentions of a person (#JohnSmith)
- a page with all mentions of a concept (#defi)
It indexes your text.
1/ Re-read this 2018 Slootman post a few times since yesterday, wanted to capture & storm the parts that stuck out for me (perfect that it's posted on LinkedIn). Original link: https://t.co/BS5uqxGkV6
— Semil (@semil) September 18, 2020
— Archillect (@archillect) September 19, 2020
DeepVariant 1.0, the latest release of an open-source tool for isolating genome variants from sequencing data, significantly reduces sequencing errors to achieve Best Overall accuracy in 3 categories of the @PrecisionFDA v2 Truth Challenge. Read more ↓ https://t.co/JaxpgxUoRj
— Google AI (@GoogleAI) September 18, 2020
Artists and creators are bypassing traditional gatekeepers and taking ownership of their own markets. Kayvon Tehranian (@saturnial) of @withFND and @jessewldn of @variantfund talk 24/7 stock markets, the "New Fan Club," and crypto networks on the a16z pod: https://t.co/f1K1tIOm5Y
— a16z (@a16z) September 18, 2020
Reed Hastings with another killer work from home quote:
— modest proposal (@modestproposal1) September 18, 2020
"I love work from home. I’ve been doing work from home my whole life, nights and weekends"https://t.co/n0k4UP3Ln8
Unity is going public today. In February, CEO John Riccitiello told me that while he admires Epic Games, he doesn't consider it to be Unity's closest competitor.
— Shannon Liao (@Shannon_Liao) September 18, 2020
Unity's milder reputation, compared to Epic which is battling Apple, may attract investors. https://t.co/BI6sHzAl65
This electrical transmission tower has a problem https://t.co/L9Jf2oAZsZ (https://t.co/D1Rcx9sFql)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) September 17, 2020
In 1988, I saw Steve Jobs demo the NeXT computer in Boston. I assumed the memory was all I had. Then I learned that Charles Mann had recorded the event—and dozens of others featuring computing pioneers. Here’s my story, along with some remarkable audio. https://t.co/5OtpjPMwiy
— Harry McCracken (@harrymccracken) September 16, 2020
Good chart on Apple One Bundle a la carte costs and annual bundle savings.
— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) September 16, 2020
I have a hunch premier is may be the most chosen bundle option. pic.twitter.com/cEtsgRa75j
Boom!
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) September 15, 2020
Massive power increase in the Apple A14 processor.
Stunning new ML abilities built on the chip.
This is a game changing chip! pic.twitter.com/ZqIR2tNIi6
LinkedIn Co-Founder & Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman says an "asteroid has hit the economy" but the tech sector has accelerated during this crisis.
— Bloomberg Technology (@technology) September 15, 2020
Hoffman shares his take after raising a new $1b fund https://t.co/zo9vImcqDn pic.twitter.com/FgQ99h1aHr
My investment thesis in a nutshell...why $IPOB is merging with @Opendoor and helping bring this amazing company public. https://t.co/swYKGKzxMX
— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) September 15, 2020
~ New podcast with @EricJorgenson ~
— David Perell (@david_perell) September 14, 2020
He's spent the past few years studying @Naval, so I asked him what he learned by writing a book about him.
We talked about maximizing leverage, lessons from Charlie Munger, and using Twitter to improve your thinking.https://t.co/3QEVNZBlIp
Another experiment showing how influential Wikipedia is on the real world: Adding two paragraphs of text & nice pictures to randomly selected articles about small European cities led to an over 9% increase in hotel stays; the edit is worth $190k per year! https://t.co/G4gBvkY3cE pic.twitter.com/91KDhvBKxk
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) September 13, 2020
You'll hear a lot about Snowflake these next few weeks. If you read this, it'll all be far more interesting. https://t.co/HsulfSmK2t
— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) September 14, 2020
[New S-1]@SnowflakeDB is one of the fastest-growing software companies of all time.
— Mario 🦊 (@mariodgabriele) September 11, 2020
Our team of data dorks dug in.
H/t @DanielleMorrill @AnnikaSays @dlwei17 @itunpredictable @theSamParr @aashaysanghvi_ @karine_hsu
Thread 👇👇https://t.co/JDACtu8kMb
On this day in 1995: Jeff Bezos photo taken for first story on Amazon pic.twitter.com/0vAaXYqQG5
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) September 13, 2020
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) September 14, 2020
My most read essays of the year
— Matthew Ball (@ballmatthew) September 13, 2020
[Nintendo now ranks 4th, URL in second tweet]https://t.co/VSmeSkkmyX pic.twitter.com/mtT4U6HirJ
Woah. TIL...@apoorva_mehta (Founder & CEO of @Instacart) successfully convinced YCombinator to let him join the YC S12 batch two months after the application deadline.https://t.co/IwIpoKAZsd pic.twitter.com/jIGQaFwsCr
— Blake Robbins (@blakeir) September 13, 2020
Wrote this with former Hulu Senior Exec @akruglov for @Recode
— Matthew Ball (@ballmatthew) September 13, 2020
"10 lessons for Disney, Apple, and all the new streaming companies trying to take down Netflix"
Lesson 2B: The Nickelback Principle - People love content that's bad, will claim to hate it toohttps://t.co/lXxXG3FXcF
How to stop annoying robocalls on your iPhone or Android phone https://t.co/UBY14c2vYL pic.twitter.com/DPtxwOVhYp
— The Verge (@verge) September 13, 2020
"When combined with Game Pass, #XboxAllAccess is one of the most interesting changes in the way we think about buying a new generation of console hardware in a long time." https://t.co/ehFms9qFZg
— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) September 12, 2020
A novel idea for improving the traditional IPO - better price discovery! https://t.co/hLwMiu5KDR via @financialtimes
— Scott Kupor (@skupor) September 11, 2020
In 1945, a radar engineer named Percy Spencer was working at Raytheon. He stepped in front of a magnetron, a device that powers radars. He noticed a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. Later that year, he filed a patent for the first microwave oven. pic.twitter.com/2VmLa8NG0d
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed) September 12, 2020
Once again @DavidSacks crushes it with his new post on movement marketing. A must read.https://t.co/FX6QKAszGu
— Zach Coelius (@zachcoelius) September 12, 2020
my partner: let's fill our home with lovely plants to make it beautiful
— Martin (@mshelton) September 11, 2020
me: OR… pic.twitter.com/LCAJBQT2SW
New result: GPT for formal theorem proving.
— Greg Brockman (@gdb) September 9, 2020
We produced shorter proofs of existing theorems (https://t.co/cXMofcZvwc), and proofs of assertions people hadn't yet written formal proofs for (https://t.co/ise8c3KGIK), which have been merged into the Metamath proof database. https://t.co/LKhvy21qhW
Introducing sparklyr.flint: #sparklyr extension for #timeseries processing using @twosigma #flint with @apachespark and #rstats -- https://t.co/1Qedxbu7Gd
— Javier Luraschi (@javierluraschi) September 9, 2020
I'm going to give this @Jesse_Livermore piece another read, because it's really long and dense. But if take the time to grasp it, then you'll understand the interactions of markets and the economy better than 99% of the people on here. https://t.co/z2066sErfo
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) September 9, 2020
"Today, after months of booting up, I am thrilled to report that the Long-Term Stock Exchange has opened for business with a mission to support companies and investors who share a long-term vision."https://t.co/4Pey6j7kpl
— Paul Graham (@paulg) September 9, 2020
Posted my first paper on arXiv💥🙌
— Stanislas Polu (@spolu) September 9, 2020
GPT-f is a Transformer-based automated theorem prover. We show that Transformer + Search is suitable to formal reasoning and continuous self-improvement 🦾https://t.co/VllDcCV3Kc pic.twitter.com/5ttVX0MNBC
NEW 🔥🔥🔥@chamath @Jason @DavidSacks & @friedberg discuss California's collapse, SPACs opening the market for growth stocks & so much more
— The All-In Podcast ♠️ (@theallinpod) September 9, 2020
Check it out👇
🎵: https://t.co/reYOLMbXar
📺: https://t.co/N99bVA9oPI
I read Apple's response/defense to Epic's claims and broke down some of the more interesting bits in my analysis for subscribers today.
— Ben Bajarin (@BenBajarin) September 9, 2020
Their statements provided more clarity on how Apple thinks about the App Store service
Apple Counter’s Epic Claims:https://t.co/IKZMmu7PSW
This morning I made a quick deepfake of Elon Musk lip-syncing Tim Curry's infamous space speech from Command & Conquer Red Alert. All it took was a few hours, a Colab notebook, and a YouTube tutorial. https://t.co/b74Y42CO96 pic.twitter.com/MzYKrjS64N
— James Vincent (@jjvincent) September 9, 2020
70 years of US advertising. https://t.co/8qz2GFuHCK pic.twitter.com/1eZCTOPcP0
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) September 9, 2020
Fact two: The corporations that make up the music and film and TV industries have invested *heavily* for more than a decade in technical solutions to enforce copyright. Content ID, which you've probably heard about, is one of those solutions. https://t.co/YO4kjiu1YR
— on deadline (@jilliancyork) September 9, 2020
— AngelList (@AngelList) September 8, 2020
The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business https://t.co/r1TI3AAvH2 (https://t.co/7mZOJJTnaz)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) September 9, 2020
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— Mario 🦊 (@mariodgabriele) September 8, 2020
The @unity3d S-1 is more than a filing. It's the roadmap for manifesting a Metaverse.
A lot of sweat went into this.
H/t @Post_Market @daveambrose @patrick_oshag @fkpxls @adam_keesling @packyM @ByrneHobart @itsmeeraclark.
Thread 👇👇https://t.co/DOdNzOOKBr
Investors can now browse and directly invest in Rolling Funds, including AngelList Access Fund, @shl, @immad, @CindyBiSV, and many more https://t.co/a2AgnZZh6u
— AngelList (@AngelList) September 8, 2020
Ever been tempted to learn some #Statistics?
— Cassie Kozyrkov (@quaesita) September 8, 2020
Here's my mini-course with the complete set of my statistical musings (blog, podcast, videos), organized for you by theme!
RT if you like it. 💙https://t.co/sVSylppSXH#DataScience #RStats #Analytics #DecisionIntelligence
After 3 years of struggle, our book is out!https://t.co/PShdSxMfNg
— Reed Hastings (@reedhastings) September 8, 2020
How is Airbnb doing, compared to 2019?
— Tommy Collison (@tommycollison) September 7, 2020
It might be a winner of the pandemic. "Airbnb spending is running a whopping 75% higher than this time last year."https://t.co/wHpfDL5iyO pic.twitter.com/zyzZiY34Ic
"Future battlefields will be characterized by information saturation." https://t.co/lWSrzLgdY2
— Futurism (@futurism) September 8, 2020
Visual summary of reading advice from @naval
— Alex and Books 📚 (@AlexAndBooks_) September 7, 2020
(Credit to @letsketchin) pic.twitter.com/jHA4tuuO3m
Amazon, maybe not what it seems, by @benedictevans
— Andy Weissman (@aweissman) September 8, 2020
"It’s reasonable to suggest that the ad business is contributing as much operating income as everything else apart from AWS, and it’s not absurd to suggest it might be close to matching AWS" pic.twitter.com/lKunmjh7wu
This is the first reasoned piece on the impact of Softbank's option trade on the overall market. https://t.co/VhWMpd81ck
— Scott Kupor (@skupor) September 8, 2020
This seems right: https://t.co/AVHckEsXMq pic.twitter.com/sWFXltf5PA
— Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) September 8, 2020
The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership programhttps://t.co/r9lWaOB3OB
— Kalani Scarrott (@ScarrottKalani) September 7, 2020
Fantastic statistics mini course by @quaesita . Thanks Cassie! https://t.co/dIIiWm1KJq
— Kate Wathen-Dunn (@wd_kate) September 7, 2020
Cross-lingual Retrieval for Iterative Self-Supervised
— Aran Komatsuzaki (@arankomatsuzaki) September 7, 2020
Training
Achieves SOTA (unsupervised NMT) BLEU on 9 language directions (+2.4 BLEU on avg.) w/o back-translation by retrieving the target w/ faiss. https://t.co/A52U56QpLu pic.twitter.com/PreWd4D2GK
How did @WeAreNetflix change the media landscape forever? Join @reedhastings and @a16z's @bhorowitz Thursday to hear about their meteoric rise and Reed's new book, #NoRulesRules. https://t.co/eVIfUcEfW1
— Commonwealth Club of California (@cwclub) September 6, 2020
Nike’s 10 original business values. pic.twitter.com/mQnU2VbPn0
— Mckay Wrigley (@mckaywrigley) September 6, 2020
Interview with Reed Hastings, on the future of Hollywood, the US election and social media, his new book about Netflix's aggressive company culture, and more (@maureendowd / New York Times)https://t.co/IRgF1tPbYGhttps://t.co/lgdxcBTpuW
— Techmeme (@Techmeme) September 6, 2020
On productivity, scheduling, reading habits, work habits, and more -- from @pmarca conversation with @sriramk earlier this year:https://t.co/bipk7hGfOQ
— a16z (@a16z) September 7, 2020
From @asteroid_saku
— emeka_okafor (@emeka_okafor) September 7, 2020
An accelerator for smart contracts applied to the real world. https://t.co/Gzu1b2Cvwt
The key is embracing managing on the edge of chaos,” Hastings says. “That’s the message of the book.” https://t.co/yMZN0zdIe9
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) September 7, 2020
This GPT-3 powered startup idea generator might inspire your next side project (h/t @levelsio)https://t.co/D7OE5pWHGL
— Ryan Hoover (@rrhoover) September 7, 2020
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Today in storytelling: the way you aggregate Amazon's operating income can make AWS look radically different. The second chart completely hides the profitability of the US business. This is a great parable for Amazon overall: it's a bundle https://t.co/snTseqoPsV pic.twitter.com/R7akXToyNo
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) September 7, 2020
What.
— Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) September 7, 2020
"Airbnb spending is running a whopping 75% higher than this time last year."https://t.co/2W0lZdglnU
A typically forensic @benedictevans essay floats the idea @Amazon make as much profit from Ads as from ecommerce.
— Simon Andrews (@simonbigpicture) September 7, 2020
Wowhttps://t.co/oSZTL8owzm
Your job isn't done until the job is done
— delian (@zebulgar) September 6, 2020
- Nike's values by Phil Schiller pic.twitter.com/fpU7IxQNgK
Catching up. SoftBank is doing some crazy shit. Ride along or bail while you still can? pic.twitter.com/kjrka3E63r
— Danielle Morrill (@DanielleMorrill) September 7, 2020
