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Josh Gross @endtwist

27 Jan 2021

So many folks (esp. the media) are missing the complete backstory on $GME and how we got here. This has been simmering for over a year and the story behind it is great. I’ve been tracking this since September and devoured all of the details from the origin through today.

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12 Mar 2020

RIP Good times - lessons from 2008 sequoiacap.com/article/rip-g…

R.I.P. Good Times

Back in 2008, Sequoia Capital shared with its portfolio companies tips for surviving the economic downturn. Here's the original RIP Good Times presentation.

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1 Aug 2019

The Invention of Money | The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

The Invention of Money

In three centuries, the heresies of two bankers became the basis of our modern economy.

12 Jun 2019

Musings on Markets: Big Markets, Over Confidence and the Macro Delusion aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com…

25 Apr 2019

Local maxima and the fallacy of jumping to fixed-points egtheory.wordpress.com/2019/…

Local maxima and the fallacy of jumping to fixed-points

An economist and a computer scientist are walking through the University of Chicago campus discussing the efficient markets hypothesis. The computer scientist spots something on the pavement and ex…

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17 Oct 2018

Logical Induction - Computerphile youtu.be/gDqkCxYYDGk via @YouTube

AI & Logical Induction - Computerphile

Continuing to address the challenges of AI safety, Rob Miles discus...

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Paul Romer

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8 Oct 2018

A post from July 2016 that bears on the announcement today by The Nobel Prize committee: paulromer.net/conditional-op…

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4 Oct 2018

The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase disq.us/t/36tug8u

The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase | Union Square Ventures

We are not in an infrastructure phase, but rather in another turn of the apps-infrastructure cycle. First, apps inspire infrastructure. Then that infrastructure enables new apps. Platforms evolve...

26 Sep 2018

randomness, probability and free will github.com/elsehow/aaronson-…

GitHub - elsehow/aaronson-oracle: Press the 'f' and 'd' keys randomly. It's easy. Just use your...

Press the 'f' and 'd' keys randomly. It's easy. Just use your "free will." - elsehow/aaronson-oracle

31 Aug 2018

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The Paradox of Karl Popper

The great philosopher, renowned for his ferocious attacks on scientific and political dogmatism, could be quite dogmatic

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4 Aug 2018

Newly open-sourced google.github.io/filament/Fi…

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18 Jul 2018

Dead fish don’t read minds (improbable things happen a lot) teenspecies.github.io/pdfs/N…

6 Jul 2018

After the Fall lrb.co.uk/v40/n13/john-lanch…

John Lanchester · After the Fall: Ten Years after the Crash

Remember that remark made by Robert Lucas, the macroeconomist, that the central problem of depression prevention had...

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MIT CSAIL

@MIT_CSAIL

2 Jul 2018

70 years ago this week Claude Shannon ushered in the field of information theory with his paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", which has been cited over 100,000 times: bit.ly/2H0ZxvR (via @TheSIAMNews)

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MIT CSAIL

@MIT_CSAIL

20 Apr 2018

Which ML algorithm to use, in one chart: bit.ly/2HEPigm (via @RecastAI) #AI #DeepLearning #MachineLearning #DataScience #bigdata

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9 Mar 2018

A Brief Tour of FLP Impossibility the-paper-trail.org/blog/a-b…

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28 Feb 2018

why decisions aren’t transitive: ai.mit.edu/projects/dm/Tvers…

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16 Feb 2018

A Mathematician's Lament maa.org/external_archive/dev…

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MIT Technology Review

@techreview

27 Jan 2018

What’s impressive for computer scientists is the density of the data that DNA stores: a single gram can hold roughly a zettabyte. trib.al/mlTaPRJ

Storing data in DNA is a lot easier than getting it back out

But a method bacteria use to swap genetic information could offer a way.

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12 Jan 2018

“The 3 Tricks That Made AlphaGo Zero Work” by Seth Weidman hackernoon.com/the-3-tricks-…

dThe 3 Tricks That Made AlphaGo Zero Work | HackerNoon

There were many advances in Deep Learning and AI in 2017, but few generated as much publicity and interest as DeepMind’s AlphaGo Zero. This program was truly a shocking breakthrough: not only did it...

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