“Today, we are in a crisis. Silicon Valley’s best — our top operators, exited founders, and most powerful investors — are almost all on bad quests. Exiting your first startup only to enter venture capital and fight your peers for […]
“In October 2016, Richard Dewey and Victor Haghani (of LTCM infamy) published a study titled: Observed Betting Patterns on a Biased Coin … The study is a dazzling illustration of how poor our intuition is for proper bet sizing.” | learn more
Part 3 of the series by Matthew Ball covers bandwidth, latency, and reliability of networks. “If we want to interact in a large, real-time, shared, and persistent virtual environment, we will need to receive a superabundance of cloud-streamed data.” | learn more
The open-source AI image generation tool keeps getting better. This version has better text interpretation, enhanced resolution, better depth handling and more. | learn more
“For a sample of 1,107 US-based VC-backed unicorns, 595 exited as of October 2022. At exit time, an average (median) unicorn was valued at $3.3 billion ($1.5 billion).” | learn more
Related to the link above. “Currently, Austin gets its water from reservoirs in the Highland Lakes along the Colorado River. The new plan is to pump some of that water underground when there’s plenty of it, then pull it back […]
I’m not sure what, if anything, I should make of this. I figure it can’t be that bad, as I learned this via a random link rather than an official notice from my government. | learn more
Humans are intuitive drivers, which often means bad drivers. Machines can do it better. “That’s the initial suggestion from a five-day trial that took place in Nashville last week that saw researchers from the CIRCLES Consortium deploy 100 human-piloted vehicles […]
“The Walkman’s reign over the music industry is long since over, but its impact on popular culture remains both in the way it symbolizes an era and in the impact it had on modern society.” | learn more
An interactive quiz. I admit my score fell below 100%. | learn more