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Elad Gil
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A few shifts in the last 60 days: 1. Companies are starting to move back to the Bay Area again (mainly AI ones) 2. Lots more Bay Area dinners, events etc 3. YC batch back live in Bay Area Negatives: -Still lots of crime, homelessness, lack of safety
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Exciting from Perplexity - the ability to talk to your search engine! 🔥
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Announcing a major update to Perplexity Ask: the world’s first conversational search engine! Now, you can read answers with up-to-date sources and ask follow-up questions to dig deeper. In other words, you can chat with your search engine! Try it out at perplexity.ai
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My conversation with Benchmark’s @milesgrimshaw We discuss: - “physicist” vs “biologist” investors - the genetics of good and bad businesses - half life of information in software When you ask around about Miles, you hear “that guy is SMART” Enjoy! joincolossus.com/episodes/29895
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1/ Phase 3 of our Incentivized Testnet is live! Whether you want to keep your information public or private, that should be your choice, on any chain. This final phase debuts our multi-asset support. Learn how to join here 👇 ironfish.network/blog/2023/01/1
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Three years after NeRF was born at Google Research, we see it used in McDonalds TV commercials:
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The first NeRF in a TV commercial! It starts with a scene of a younger version of me, and then transitions to present-day me Directed by @nortondirector using @LumaLabsAI for @McDonalds *at least, it's the first commercial that I know using NeRF, if you know of another lmk :)
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It was terrific to see old friends and make new ones. I’m really glad that Elad is doing this for the community.
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Excited for Fireside Chat **tonight 6pm** w @reidhoffman Topics: -Big tech & AI -AI market structures -Startup opportunities -Society, humanity & AI Watch the live stream (6pm PT): youtube.com/watch?v=6QySKW
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Notion is built on computing ideas from the 70s, when GUI & PC just became possible. We believe AI opens another such decisive era — one that demands new interfaces created w/ imagination & craft. If this excites you (it should!), join / to make it come true!
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Life update🎉 I'm very excited to be joining @NotionHQ to continue prototyping and researching ways AI can help us be more creative, thoughtful, and productive! Looking forward to learning from the team and bringing some of my ideas from the past year to a tool loved by many 👇
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Given recent articles about people microdosing I decided to start microdosing sugar by eating old Hanukkah gelt. So far highly recommend - 10/10
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🔥🔥 Developer Report out!
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1/ Time for the 4th annual @ElectricCapital Developer Report! This year we are also proud to launch developerreport.com -- showcasing the data behind the report. We analyzed 250m code commits and 300+ people contributed to this year's report. Let's dig in👇
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One of the biggest mistake deep tech companies make is not shipping something fast enough. A big mantra at has always been "months not years". The best deep tech companies find short term deliverables somehow or the other, and operate at a software-like cadence.
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Fireside Chat: CEO of , w/ youtu.be/b022FECpNe8 The past and future of AI startup opportunities & OpenAI Topics: - History of AI - LLMs, transformers, and unsupervised learning - Startup opportunities - Incumbent companies and AI - AI safety - ML
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Harisha's 2nd law - "The best way to change data to fit your narrative, is to change definitions"....
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UBS on the coming February revision to the CPI calculation: "The new approach to weighting inflation will use consumer spending from 2021.... US inflation will start to give more emphasis to the prices that are weakening, heightening downside risks to consumer price inflation."
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As a startup employee, your hope should be that if your company fails, it does so quickly, within 6-12 months, versus slowly and painfully over multiple years. The opportunity cost and psychic pain from slowly dying companies is real.
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we've told kids that Lucky Charms are healthier than whole milk, more than twice as healthy as beef, and better for you than a baked potato or cooked green peas. and when that leads to obesity, we pump them full of expensive drugs and invasive surgeries. this is diseased
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Children struggling with obesity should be evaluated and treated early and aggressively, including with medications for kids as young as 12 and surgery for those as young as 13, according to new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics. apnews.com/article/health
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