Gradient Free Optimizers: A collection of modern optimization methods in Python https://t.co/xsClaH6QEF (https://t.co/m1eP8nsHCs)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) March 1, 2021
Peter Thiel allegedly built a $90+ million tax-free Roth IRA.
— Pomp 🌪 (@APompliano) March 1, 2021
The crazy part? The maximum amount you're allowed to contribute to a Roth is $6,000 per year.
Time for a thread 👇👇👇
Why you should be long NFTs, or at the minimum, understand why NFTs are important:
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) February 28, 2021
1) They do away with intermediaries
2) They enable far more granular pricing
3) They make users as owners
Very good read from @a16z's @cdixon!https://t.co/orYW0efrRf
Crypto intersected w social might be the most important new area of innovation in the next decade.@cdixon unpacks it below... https://t.co/AhEvrChZq7
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) February 27, 2021
The equivalent of open source in Software 2.0 land are open datasets. But while plenty of former exists little of high quality latter does.
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) February 27, 2021
2 years ago on stage I was asked “when will Deepfake video/audio impact trust & be believable in social engineering?” My response then was that we were 2 years away from undetectable Deepfakes. I wish my prediction then was wrong. We need synthetic media detection + labels ASAP. pic.twitter.com/yUUOTDepYY
— Rachel Tobac (@RachelTobac) February 26, 2021
If the proximate purpose of technology is to reduce scarcity, the ultimate purpose of technology is to eliminate mortality. https://t.co/STwINhDIr1
— balajis.com (@balajis) February 27, 2021
epic clip 😂 pic.twitter.com/qJP8ovmkgn
— presh (@preshdkumar) February 25, 2021
I was listening to a 2005 Steve Jobs interview this morning and during audience Q+A I was like “wow this guy asking about blogging sounds EXACTLY like my old boss”
— austin petersmith 🇺🇸 (@awwstn) February 25, 2021
Turns out pic.twitter.com/PC0bbLB1Gk
Bill challenged me to try to effect fundamental transformation, but I was new at the company.
— ray ozzie (@rozzie) February 26, 2021
Steve gave me ~$100M/yr discretionary budget: "Do what you believe in."
Those who know me know that speaking doesn't come naturally at all, so this is what I did to prepare myself. pic.twitter.com/CuFKHfKGj6
We’ve invested in DeFi Alliance to help Bitcoin DeFi startups. If you’re interested in using the $1 trillion in BTC capital in DeFi talk to us!
— Muneeb (@muneeb) February 25, 2021
Congrats on the fund @lmrankhan @QwQiao and team: https://t.co/dNAQ5puivY
.@tommycollison started a blog on the classics: https://t.co/hKD1YqRNHl.
— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) February 25, 2021
Playlist of @joinClubhouse appearances:https://t.co/Q2rj9d5nbg@CH_Podcasts
— Naval (@naval) February 25, 2021
I'm discussing “Bitcoin DeFi on the Crypto Internet Show” with @muneeb and @starkness. Tomorrow, Feb 25 at 6:00 PM PST on @joinclubhouse. Join us! https://t.co/3hlatNJzCz
— Jeremy Ruⓑin (@JeremyRubin) February 25, 2021
A plan is coming together... https://t.co/FloufmQMKg
— Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) February 25, 2021
Investing in Optimism https://t.co/90acv4zyFe
— Chris Dixon (@cdixon) February 24, 2021
A full Computer Science curriculum made up exclusively of free online materials.
— Santiago (@svpino) February 24, 2021
100% free, ~2-years worth of content (dedicating around 20 hrs/week).
Here is the link: https://t.co/yWulqUrrao.
Starting from the basics, going all the way to advanced topics.
Via @MIT_CSAIL pic.twitter.com/ehMQ0swm3j
Good set of recommendations from @ericschmidt re American competitiveness https://t.co/hUEj0KrixO
— Scott Kupor (@skupor) February 24, 2021
DeFi for Bitcoin is already here ⚡️
— Muneeb (@muneeb) February 24, 2021
197M STX (185M USD) locked in PoX contract for next cycle. Approx 23.3% APY in BTC for current cycle. pic.twitter.com/NA9V99QIpp
I tend to read older “foundational” books.
— Michael McGill (@mcgillmd921) February 23, 2021
But damn if there haven’t been some extremely valuable books written recently.
Atomic Habits- @JamesClear
The Psychology of Money- @morganhousel
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant- @EricJorgenson
What recent books would you add? pic.twitter.com/CM1hlkB9yM
A distillation of what @naval said on Clubhouse last night:
— Justin Mikolay 💻 (@jmikolay) February 23, 2021
1/ This week's subscriber post on @deepforestsci is out: "The Future of Moore's Law." We look at some projections from TSMC in 2019 on why they think Moore's law may have more staying more than people envisioned https://t.co/1syb3wkVrr
— Bharath Ramsundar (@rbhar90) February 23, 2021
Books and a podcast referenced on tonight's show follow in this thread -- https://t.co/zAURLWEig9
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) February 23, 2021
She was explaining #Bitcoin to us when it was only $20 and we didn't listen. pic.twitter.com/q7Y7VzCxq8
— Documenting Bitcoin 📄 (@DocumentingBTC) February 22, 2021
Finally published my long-overdue third piece on TikTok, "American Idle."
— Eugene Wei (@eugenewei) February 22, 2021
It's about the network effects of creativity, as promised, but also includes a bunch of other thoughts on TikTok as a product and an experience.https://t.co/sJ58HNwP1M
Elon Musk discussing the electric vehicle business in December 2008.
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) February 22, 2021
At the time, Tesla was nearly out of cash and struggling to survive. pic.twitter.com/gGxyTG48EF
The Psychology of Human Misjudgment is the magnum opus on why we behave the way we do.https://t.co/LnsL4sYxKY
— FS (@farnamstreet) February 21, 2021
Catching up on @benedictevans' thinking from a few months back on “the great unbundling” — super useful. https://t.co/5k1BybFeJG via @protocol pic.twitter.com/q6LqC7mto1
— John Maeda (@johnmaeda) February 21, 2021
Read my latest: an ex-ByteDancer walks me through the inner workings of the company's complex content moderation operation and execution in China. They also shared how they felt about developing technologies that censor speech. 1/ https://t.co/x8mK04AK0V
— Shen Lu (@shenlulushen) February 18, 2021
Great piece from @arampell . Tl;dr most legacy banks are a bit like travel agencies in the 80s. Soon you will buy your plane tickets (borrow/ lend your money) direct from the airline (from/ to the government), via an "Expedia"-like layer for banking.https://t.co/2ZFAa4bX93
— Patrick Ryan (@ry_paddy) February 20, 2021
.@ylecun @wellingmax @OriolVinyalsML @69alodi @PeterWBattaglia @StefanieJegelka @WoodyOsher and I are organizing next week the @ipam_ucla workshop on
— Xavier Bresson (@xbresson) February 19, 2021
"Deep Learning and Combinatorial Optimization"
Great line-up of speakers :)https://t.co/c7LJky283I
Ben Horowitz @bhorowitz and I will be back with our new @joinClubhouse show, "One On One with A and Z", Monday, Feb 22 at 7:00 PM PST. Please suggest more great questions for us to answer by replying to this tweet!
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) February 19, 2021
I seriously can't believe @garrytan is running a mix-minus (look this up!) on Clubhouse, I just thought he had a nice mic plugged in. His is design docs are going to power some really top notch shows over the next few years: https://t.co/xOgBaDSkPw
— John Coogan (@johncoogan) February 19, 2021
During livestreaming, each audio clip would be automatically transcribed, compared with a long list of sensitive words, dates, names, as well as NLP models. Algorithms would then analyze whether the content was risky enough to require individual monitoring.https://t.co/5dAvl0X8zn
— hardmaru (@hardmaru) February 19, 2021
1/ New free post out on @deepforestsci newsletter, "A Crash Course in Transistors!" Transistors are fundamental devices that underpin every aspect of modern society, but surprisingly, even CS majors often don't learn about their basic operation https://t.co/NVso0RATLA
— Bharath Ramsundar (@rbhar90) February 19, 2021
— Exponential View 🔮 (@ExponentialView) February 19, 2021
DreamerV2, a collaboration between DeepMind, @GoogleAI and the @UofT, is the first RL agent based on a world model to achieve human-level performance on the Atari benchmark. Read more ⬇️ https://t.co/lFFuHH2Uk9
— DeepMind (@DeepMind) February 19, 2021
Bill Gates’s Green Manifesto: https://t.co/6MhoscpPXP
— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) February 19, 2021
(Featuring Stripe’s carbon capture coalition plus many other interesting/noteworthy projects.)
I’m so excited for a single wearable patch that does what @Levels and @whoop do combined, with the data being using to improve eating.
— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) February 17, 2021
Modern restaurants like @sweetgreen with “modular” and healthy menus can then personalize to your profile.
Hope this is possible before long.
This is a very good essay by @benedictevans that elucidates the core issue that the Australian approach to trying to regulate FB / Google with respect to news gets so utterly wrong https://t.co/Wt0DzNzJCp
— Eric Seufert (@eric_seufert) February 18, 2021
With #bitcoin hitting 50k, it is now 1/10th of my and @cameron's price prediction that we published this summer. 10x more appreciation from here to reach 500k per bitcoin. Let's go. https://t.co/BmDCS3oXlQ
— Tyler Winklevoss (@tyler) February 17, 2021
At @duolingo, the world’s #1 most downloaded language-learning app, experimentation is a key driver of their culture and success.@severinhacker, the co-founder/CTO of Duolingo, shared with FirstMark Guilds how they run experiments at scale📈https://t.co/AuZM2aLAca
— FirstMark (@FirstMarkCap) February 17, 2021
Consumers spent $120bn with Shopify merchants last year - double 2019 and >40% of Amazon 3P. What does that tell us about competing with Amazon? Problems that were already solved? And most of all, about brands and consumers going direct?https://t.co/WYnbsYAGZe
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) February 17, 2021
⏰ by popular demand, here's last night's session with @brian_armstrong on @GoodTimeShowCH
— Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk) February 16, 2021
(this is a one-off just given the amount of interest we had)https://t.co/MHcYU8wr0D
Thank you for joining @bhorowitz and me for "One On One with A &Z" on @joinClubhouse tonight. References made on the show are listed here:
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) February 16, 2021
How Clarity lang used lessons learned from Solidity/Ethereum to give developers safer tools.
— Muneeb (@muneeb) February 15, 2021
Oh, and it’s built on #Bitcoin
Thread 👇 https://t.co/YFd2uwnIjK
Clubhouse, which centralizes creation and consumption into a feedback loop, will do for audio what Twitter, Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video (@benthompson / Stratechery)https://t.co/MITPU4ymNahttps://t.co/RsJttUW17L
— Techmeme (@Techmeme) February 15, 2021
Powerful @ExponentialView podcast about mission-driven innovation in health with @WellcomeLeap's Regina Dugan.
— Juan Mateos Garcia (@JMateosGarcia) February 15, 2021
Feat. advice on how to build multidisciplinary teams able to operate in Pasteur's quadrant of blue skies + high impact research. Kudos @azeemhttps://t.co/tWiZlf8EQJ
— Archillect (@archillect) February 15, 2021
Have a simple website for @deepforestsci up at https://t.co/pnOJmtNO6v
— Bharath Ramsundar (@rbhar90) February 14, 2021
Tonight at 7pm @jcjohnss and I will hang out on Clubhouse for a quasi-CS231n-like reading group going through technical details of paper/code of
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) February 13, 2021
1 OpenAI's CLIP https://t.co/3pj5wW7hhX
2 Google's ALIGN https://t.co/kyGzpM2F4t
3 related image+text friendshttps://t.co/0tfA0s9pnk
"The average player can also now be a developer. Maybe it’s a simple as making a texture map and selling it, maybe it’s as complicated as making a whole level and adding it on to the world, but we’re putting these creative tools in the hands of the masses."https://t.co/NCbgb1osZU
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) February 13, 2021
Edition #24 of my free weekly newsletter, Curated Commons, now out. If tech/business/science/algorithmic future interest you, go ahead, read, subscribe, and share🙏https://t.co/8eYwUpW5CV
— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) February 13, 2021
This time is different :)
— Dan Held (@danheld) February 13, 2021
For those who haven't read it👇https://t.co/Lvqe69qhWY
Must-listen interview with @balajis on voting with your feet, how Asian countries have more state capacity than the US, and how tech will bury legacy media (Substack, Clubhouse and more to come):https://t.co/nhsGkLgF1v
— Marcelo P. Lima (@MarceloPLima) February 13, 2021
South Korean eCommerce giant Coupang filed for a US IPO, reporting $12B in revenue in 2020 vs $6.3B in 2019; a source says the company aims for a $50B valuation (Reuters)https://t.co/arG86LPYzMhttps://t.co/FaqrbFrNe6
— Techmeme (@Techmeme) February 12, 2021
This is a well put together list of books Bill Gates has recommended which gives you the type of books he likes to read.https://t.co/Y2pH5lgmkL
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) February 12, 2021
For business and investing books my go to person is Michael Mauboussin.
Bill and Michael read and love books more than anyone I know.
Self-organising textures from cellular automata https://t.co/D5WepmjSEW (https://t.co/ZFPubifoXT)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) February 12, 2021
Ben Horowitz @bhorowitz and I will be back with our new @joinClubhouse show, "One On One with A and Z", Monday, Feb 15 at 7:00 PM PST. Please suggest questions for us to answer by replying to this tweet!
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) February 12, 2021
"The world's most regularized #AI course..."
— Cassie Kozyrkov (@quaesita) February 12, 2021
A preview of @Google's Making Friends with #MachineLearning... a course for everyone! It's beginner-friendly + designed to amuse experts too.
Sign up here: https://t.co/wWNzyJ2NvO - the first 90min arrives tomorrow!#DataScience #ML pic.twitter.com/ZVk3AK5M3t
So many interesting questions around ‘targeted adverting’ - starting with terminology. Car ads in a car magazine are ‘targeted advertising’, as are gadget ads in Wires. So what *exactly* are we objecting to? 1/ https://t.co/7QK5iLFdCH
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) February 11, 2021
Murmurations tonight. Breathtaking. pic.twitter.com/kpMRGhQSvu
— Maud (@Blahranger) February 10, 2021
The 1990s called and they want their healthcare IT software back. @a16z’s @julesyoo explains what we need from a “new tech stack for virtual-first care” and why the growing digital health market means the opportunity is now. https://t.co/SucIPWO1Jk
— Kathy Quigley (@KathyQuigley9) February 9, 2021
Everything is going to change. https://t.co/aXQThU84en
— Futurism (@futurism) February 10, 2021
1/ @balajis returned to The @RealignmentPod to talk with me and @esaagar about decentralization, the future of Asia, and pretty much everything else:https://t.co/wbKEy4LlTZ
— Marshall Kosloff (@makosloff) February 9, 2021
For insights on launching a venture firm, watch my interview with Steve Jurvetson here (https://t.co/xAZCbaWXuy). We discuss how Steve got into venture, keeping a childlike curiosity, managing VC partnership dynamics, sourcing groundbreaking deals and more. 🚀
— adeoressi (@adeoressi) February 9, 2021
Excellent deck by @benedictevans covering all of the current trends in tech https://t.co/bqbThoy9mz
— Boris Wertz (@bwertz) February 8, 2021
Course: Making Friends with Machine Learning
— Cassie Kozyrkov (@quaesita) February 9, 2021
Section: Part 1 - Introduction
Style: Powerful analogies + humor to help you understand deeply
Length: 90min
Designed for: Everyone
Cost: Free
When: Shared on Friday
Where: Available via newsletter (link below)https://t.co/mHbqtEGpWQ
At least 6% of all Bitcoin, over $50 Billion, is already in corporate treasuries. The real number including unreported private companies, VCs, etc, is probably at least 2x that and growing! pic.twitter.com/cWzOZLw8jW
— Bill Barhydt (@billbarhydt) February 8, 2021
$RBLX is expected to list sometime this year!
— Julie Young (@juliey4) February 9, 2021
I wrote about why I love the company, but also why I'm going to wait a bit before deciding if I want to be a shareholder long-termhttps://t.co/T05kFOLEyD
[Jan 2020] The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite
— Matthew Ball (@ballmatthew) February 8, 2021
---https://t.co/xO8KyzQH6o
Creator economy update: "There are now more than 500,000 paid subscriptions across Substack, and the top ten writers collectively make more than $15 million a year. It’s still early days, but this thing is happening."https://t.co/hIP7kF3tlm
— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) February 8, 2021
Graph theory, graph convolutional networks, knowledge graphs https://t.co/FX3hIJX591 (https://t.co/bHKCm6d2Rj)
— Hacker News 200 (@newsyc200) February 8, 2021
Everything Marketplaces #040 just went out!
— Everything Marketplaces (@marketplaceshq) February 7, 2021
We announced our group chat guest for Tuesday @mduboe (@GreylockVC), shared our new platform, group insights, and more.
Here's a link if you haven't subscribed yet 👇https://t.co/0Idvb5l55b
One of my posts on network effects is: https://t.co/DbzOotHg6J
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) February 7, 2021
Who wants the first 90 minutes of my #MFML course (Making Friends with #MachineLearning) *ON FRIDAY* instead of gradually over months in tiny pieces on YouTube?
— Cassie Kozyrkov (@quaesita) February 7, 2021
Sign up for the newsletter to get it! 👇
(RT if a friend might like it.)#AI #DataSciencehttps://t.co/mHbqtEGpWQ
Apple should be forced to open up iOS: after all, "Google are unlikely to include inappropriate data harvesting" 😂https://t.co/l45XhQ0IFB by @ballmatthew
— Thomasbcn (@Thomasbcn) February 6, 2021
A StarCraft gaming tournament took place 10 years ago and these were the prizes that teams could win:https://t.co/EF0La7UDLy pic.twitter.com/wOeo1r2JuF
— Documenting Bitcoin 📄 (@DocumentingBTC) February 6, 2021
A new post: Retail, rent and things that don't scale. What happens when rent, returns and advertising blur into one? What would it mean to do ecommerce that doesn’t scale? https://t.co/qQf0kWX1UC
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) February 6, 2021
“One On One with A and Z” with @pmarca and @bhorowitz. Monday, Feb 8 at 7:00 PM PST on @joinclubhouse! https://t.co/iqmNN6TJgd
— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi) February 6, 2021
Ben Horowitz @bhorowitz and I will trial a new @joinClubhouse show, "Two on One with A and Z", day and time TBD but soon. Please suggest questions for us to answer by replying to this tweet!
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) February 5, 2021
What we're reading this week:https://t.co/NokVK9aGxa
— Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) February 5, 2021
Update: "The Call of Duty Metaverse Has Arrived"... cause Q4 saw material user growth(?) https://t.co/YDgFgUSOkS pic.twitter.com/xqph6lwFpW
— Matthew Ball (@ballmatthew) February 5, 2021
— M A (@pmarca) February 4, 2021
Golden era for Tech (will retweet annually for next decade+) 🚀 https://t.co/NKh5GC9KAL
— Jeff Richards 🇺🇸 (@jrichlive) February 4, 2021
Berkshire's 964,719,761 shares of Apple (5.7%) have a current market value of $130 billion. https://t.co/Uj4l8gG3G8
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) February 3, 2021
That's pretty good since Buffett bought the shares or $35 billion between 2016 and 2018.
[NEW] Apple, Its Control Over the iPhone, The Internet, And Yes, The Metaverse
— Matthew Ball (@ballmatthew) February 3, 2021
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An essay on platforms, power, prosperity, principles, and profits.https://t.co/MB0VTMxrf2
My conversation with @chamath.
— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) February 2, 2021
We discuss:
- personal finance
- inequality
- value investing
- health care
- climate change
- lessons from Social Capital
Chamath is a central figure in markets in 2021, and this is different kind of discussion. Enjoy!https://t.co/sWFtSiJBkP pic.twitter.com/sKCnFmn3a4
My conversation with @chamath.
— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) February 2, 2021
We discuss:
- personal finance
- inequality
- value investing
- health care
- climate change
- lessons from Social Capital
Chamath is a central figure in markets in 2021, and this is different kind of discussion. Enjoy!https://t.co/sWFtSiJBkP pic.twitter.com/sKCnFmn3a4
