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Marvin Chang @marvelously

#fintech #REtech #mortgagetech #proptech #payments @CarnegieMellon @CornellMBA @CornellMosaic #runners, history nerd, husband, dad of 3 boys. Opinions: my own

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Check out my latest article: Taiwan: The Scale-Up Nation linkedin.com/pulse/taiwan-sc… via @LinkedIn

Taiwan: The Scale-Up Nation

By Marvin Chang and Gregg Schoenberg On a cold February morning in 1974, seven men gathered in a Taipei soy milk shop. Breakfast was simple: youtiao, elongated beignets torn and dipped into bowls of...

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BOLO for a hit and run driver in an Audi SUV with NY tag LEM-8132. Incident occurred at the corner of Stewart and University in Ithaca NY at 10:30pm on 10/23.
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Counting the days until Elon crashes his Cybertruck into the HUD lobby. housingwire.com/articles/new…

New CFPB director Bessent orders agency to stop working

In his first official action as acting director of the CFPB, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ordered staffers to stop working.

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When a college friend won time on the Cray X-MP at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, his first thought was to see if he could extract acceptable performance from an arcade game written in interpreted code on what was then the world's fastest computer. ft.com/content/e670a4ea-05ad…

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For the former, this bit of news has not altered the value of the company's full solution stack and even breath further life into its prior generation, likely fully capitalized, products. For the latter, driving down the costs of training will increase the demand for inference.
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This is the story of technology... the best pirates become the navy, then run the risk of ambush by the next wave of pirates. #deeplearning #generativeAI #LLMs #deepseek #AI #artificialintelligence
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Here’s a thought… The Chinese capital markets are less developed, efficient than in the US. My first response to many quant algorithms from there that I come across is, “there’s no way they would work here.” venturebeat.com/ai/deepseek-…

DeepSeek-R1’s bold bet on reinforcement learning: How it outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost

DeepSeek-R1’s Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. This story focuses on exactly how...

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We conduct initial life sciences research on yeast or drososophila, simple analogs of higher life forms, because their short life spans mean that experimental cycle times are short, and frankly they are expendable. Just imagine if we started all experimentation with monkeys.
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Maybe AI orthodoxy has had us working with primates… #DeepSeek #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #LLMs #generativeAI
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Wow, this hasn't not aged well… Good time to recall that the tech moguls’ treasures were built, not on armies of H1Bs, but by leveraging the true American Exceptionalism of the three-legged stool of academia, industry and government, two wobbly right now. wsj.com/opinion/american-exc…

Opinion | American Exceptionalism Is Back

Trump has assembled a potentially powerful coalition of tech moguls and populists.

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With all the talk of reshoring, I’d like to offer up another category - engineering graduate-degree holders. Over 70% of current grad students in fields like electrical/computer engineering, computer science are international.
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Unless we can keep more of these graduates “near shore" and encourage more domestic candidates, we run the risk of seeing more disruption of the #DeepSeek variety.
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In the time since we started watching Arrested Development, the saga has meandered from Fox to Netflix. Now twenty-one, achieving adulthood, it's ready to settle down for good, apparently in its the parent's bedroom. wsj.com/economy/what-happens… via @WSJ

Essay | What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up?

As American 30-somethings increasingly bypass the traditional milestones of adulthood, economists are warning that what seemed like a lag may in fact be a permanent state of arrested development.

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Is the west assuming the role of Luddite in the next era of technology? axios.com/newsletters/axios-… #axiosai

Axios AI - Western countries pessimistic about AI at work

New data from 17 countries shows workers in Asia are embracing generative AI tools for productivity to far greater degrees than Western workers — with Americans among the least positive about AI's...

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NEW: we don’t reflect enough on how severe the housing crisis is, and how it has completely broken the promise society made to young adults. The situation is especially severe in the UK, where the last time house prices were this unaffordable was in ... 1876.
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