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by jeffhwang 4y ago
This is pretty cool! I'm a visual thinker but also love how lightweight/transportable/open text is. Historically, images have been so hard to edit/update/maintain; plus either they or their tools are proprietary. If
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
Wow, this is interesting iteration in the ongoing divide between "East Coast code" vs. "West Coast code" as defined by Larry Lessig. For background, see https://lwn.net/Articles/588055/
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
This is a conflict between the “customer is always right” mentality among US corporations and claims by a single FCC commissioner—not he entire board. And consumers have spoken by adopting TikTok in big way. Unless many other government off
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
Amazon has benefited from high price/earning ratios for decades; even the growth-adjusted PEG version has been aggressive. Interesting comparison made by Horace Dediu: “Netflix, Apple and Microsoft all have similar P/E ratios. (25
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
https://twitter.com/daniel_loxton/status/1586846370753032192...
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
The linked article challenges simplistic assumptions many Americans have about race, educational accomplishment, and potential to succeed. Another excellent resource is Ellen D. Wu’s “The Color of Success”. https://press.princeto
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
This is the fun stuff I come to HN for!
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
The Vital Question is the only book I've read cover to cover. I got through about 15% my first attempt and decided I had forgotten too much chemistry to truly appreciate it. A few years later I undertook an intensive chemistry self-stu
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
The author profiled in the piece, Nick Lane, wrote a really thought-provoking earlier book called The Vital Question. Addresses some similar points, esp the aspect where biologists have (understandably!) focused a lot on information theory
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
I like how the author emphasizes IA — Intelligence Augmentation as a counterpoint to GOFAI. I’m less inspired by his vision of II (Intelligent Infrastructure); probably bc I’m concerned with the degree of surveillance we already have to liv
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
Does this mean the we're not getting robotic dinosaurs? https://surfacesreporter.com/articles/72322/neom-a-500-billi...
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
Painful quarter as predicted. Gross margin down ~13 percentage points from high 50s to low 40s (depending on if you use GAAP vs Non-GAAP). Given Intel's high fixed costs, the revenue shortfall really hurts.
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
Appreciate the improvements to npm compatibility. Does anyone have a sense of how close Deno is their estimate that 80-90% of npm packages would be working? I think they said this was what they were hoping for back in August.
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
Large macroeconomic changes and even microecon changes that affect large companies usually take months or several quarters to ripple outwards. I think we will see the consequences of overhiring during pandemic at GAFAM etc continue to unwin
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
One of the joys of the last 50 years of biology is learning how evolutionary relationships we long took for granted need revision. First it was confirmation about Margulis’ endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts. Then the dis
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
It’s going to be so interesting to see whose vision of AR/VR/XR/metaverse ends up being most accurate. Personally I think distributed virtual environments ranging from Zoom to Twitter Spaces to Roblox to Call of Duty are all
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
I remember reading City of Quartz many years ago and it changed how I thought about Los Angeles and southern CA. RIP.
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
Is it happening?
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Elon at Twitter HQ(techcrunch.com)
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
Time horizon also matters. If ads juice your financials for the next 5 years but one compromises the internal product-focused culture and relationship with customers longer term this may lead to lower overall profits in 10 years (for exampl
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
Wow I remember the hype and the fundraising circa 2016-2018 given Salesky and Rander’s background in academia, Google, Waymo, and Uber ATG. just another sign that people were too optimistic about achieving level 5 autonomy during the last d
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
Yah on the one hand people are probably more willing to hand over money if they get something tangible/physical in return. That said, if you find the right niche, pure bits are easier to scale. Almost 0 marginal cost to adding more pod
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
Definitely agree that pressure can come online or IRL but I don’t think it’s purely just people. There are many cultures, societies, communities, or heck just small friend groups where there is zero pressure to monetize. Eg I’ve been part o
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
My initial goal was to understand mathematics well enough to have a some grasp of "Deep Learning" (2016) textbook by Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville. I meant like 50-85% understanding of the math depending on the chapter. And
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
By far the single best MOOC I've ever taken is edX's Introduction to Biology taught by Eric Lander at MIT. https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-biology-the-secre... And it's 100% free! Great lectur
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
Thank you for sharing this post! At first glance I was surprised the page was so short and had so few concrete suggestions. Then…I found the “Next” button and saw how much content there was!
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
Yes I think this is correct. For years, MS has made apples-to-apples comparisons with AWS challenging by bundling in cloud app revenue into the overall Azure cloud business. Makes sense bc Office365 SaaS was so much larger than IAAS and PAA
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by jeffhwang 4y ago
Agreed! Although, I admittedly didn’t read the post carefully enough to evaluate how accurate its analysis of the original paper. But all else being equal, we’d live in a better world if papers that get a lot of popular attention are subje