tech, startups, internet

It’s all about that Chain of Thought.

An emergent behavior of large language models: they are better able to respond to “chain of thought” prompts to reason step by step and derive more accurate answers. Google researchers: “We will show that sufficiently large language models can generate […]

fun facts

It’s a good day to be 5’ 7″.

A brief Googling suggests Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron, Olof Scholz, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky are all 5’7, it’s an unprecedented consolidation of European power in the hands of short kings

better doing

Less obvious frameworks.

From Chris Paik, a variety of ways to think about businesses and markets. I like that these aren’t the most obvious ones. Also that it’s a Google Doc filled with comments from the internet. | learn more

tech, startups, internet

When big tech buys small tech.

While I wasn’t paying attention, “FTC ordered Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft to provide data on every single acquisition they made from 2010 to 2019, and published some aggregate data as a report in September.” Benedict Evans analyzes the […]

under the microscope

Google’s DeepMind opens its protein database to science.

“The new data­base of rough­ly 350,000 pro­tein se­quences and struc­tures rep­re­sents a po­ten­tial­ly mon­u­men­tal achieve­ment for the life sci­ences, one that could has­ten new bi­o­log­i­cal in­sights and the de­vel­op­ment of new drugs. Deep­Mind said it will be free and ac­ces­si­ble […]