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by mauriziocalo 2mo ago
*Two IMO gold medal winners. Three ISO gold medal winners. Six ISO gold medals collectively :) - Yu Deng: IMO gold [1] - Jacob Tsimerman: 2x IMO gold [2] - John Pardon: 3x IOI gold [3] Fun fact: Tsimerman and Deng both overlapped with Peter
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Systems of Record Are Evolving(cloudedjudgement.substack.com)
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Wealthfront S-1(sec.gov)
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by mauriziocalo 1y ago
Related — these videos give a sense of how someone might actually go about thinking through and solving these kinds of problems: - A 3Blue1Brown video on a particularly nice and unexpectedly difficult IMO problem (2011 IMO, Q2): https:&#x2
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International Math Olympiad 2025 Problems: How Well Will AI Do?(sugaku.net)
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Stanford CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch(stanford-cs336.github.io)
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Proof or Bluff? Evaluating LLMs on 2025 USA Math Olympiad(arxiv.org)
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by mauriziocalo 5y ago
I believe this list was compiled by Andrej Karpathy (director of AI at Tesla). I thought it would be useful to the HN community given its high signal-to-noise ratio: 1) You can get a quick birds-eye view of the general trends / topics
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Stanford CS Curriculum 2021(docs.google.com)
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by mauriziocalo 6y ago
+1. And I'd add to that that sometimes there's significant work in the pre-buy phase as well: - Researching what your options are / what's already out there. - Comparing different alternatives. - "Hopping on a cal
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by mauriziocalo 6y ago
Two other great examples where you can get a peek of early versions of companies/products that ended up being huge: Wayback Machine and Show HN. e.g. Wayback machine: - Airbnb (2008): https://web.archive.org/web/20
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by mauriziocalo 6y ago
Just this week: - Momentus: $1.2B IPO ( https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/07/momentus-the-latest-space-st... ) - Segment: acquired for $3.2B ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24735414 ) - Message
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by mauriziocalo 6y ago
Relevant PG tweet: > assuming I got in [to YC] I would not get sucked into raising a huge amount on Demo Day. > I would raise maybe $500k, keep the company small for the first year, work closely with users to make something amazing
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by mauriziocalo 6y ago
Two observations: 1) Shipping-and-iterating is uncomfortably hard . Putting your product out there in front of users is painful . It's a lot easier to just constantly brainstorm ideas or hide in the coding cave. 2) As a founder, it&#
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by mauriziocalo 6y ago
> bigger pool sizes ensure potential for a breakout company Yes, but the payout gets distributed among a larger number of companies. Increasing the pool size lowers the variance, but the expected value remains the same. Lower variance mi
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by mauriziocalo 6y ago
The FounderPool website specifically mentions: > You contribute 1% of your equity into your pool. My understanding is that if a founder owns 30% (say) of the company when they join the pool, they would contribute towards the pool a num
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by mauriziocalo 6y ago
Have you actually modeled out the potential payouts? How did you choose the 1% number (percent of their equity that each founder contributes) as well as the pool size of < 25? My quick back-of-the-envelope calculation: Expected payout to
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by mauriziocalo 6y ago
> The default YC valuation of $125k/0.07 = ~$1.8M is way too low for us This is the wrong way to look at it. Instead, ask yourself: would you exchange 7% of your company to join the YC community and be able to leverage their resourc