Humans rock. Did you really think we were going to let the AIs run away with it? Love seeing companies like @PropheticAI @neuralink @PrecisionNeuro_ and now Nudge supercharging our brains.
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Best practices for identifying promising startup ideas
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I wrote last week about why working on a concrete startup or project idea — meaning a specific product envisioned in enough detail that we can build it for a specific target user — lets you go faster. In this letter, I’d like to share some best practices for identifying promising
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Self-taught Nuclear Reactor Builder: Innovation Through Experimentation
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This might be my favorite example of “you can just do things.” @DougBernauer wasn’t trained as a nuclear physicist or engineer, but he wanted to build a nuclear reactor. So he just played with nuclear code until he figured it out.
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California’s SB-1047 Bill Threatens AI Research and Open Source
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I’m deeply concerned about California’s SB-1047, Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act. While well intended, this bill will not solve what it is meant to and will deeply harm #AI academia, little tech and the open-source community.
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OpenAI Cofounder Departure to Anthropic Strengthens Competition
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¿Cómo se debe de sentir internamente cuando uno de los cofundadores de OpenAI se marcha de la empresa para irse a Anthropic? Personalmente me encanta que Anthropic esté ganando fuerza porque lo están haciendo muy bien. Y la competencia siempre nos beneficia 🙂
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Ideas Selection and Execution Skills in Innovation
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I like the sentences "Ideas are cheap, and there are lots of them in the air. Your skill comes in when you decide which one to work on, and how well you execute on it."
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Tech Giants Rise from Economic Downturns: Investment Opportunities
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As I like to remind people, great money was made in the depths of the 2008 recession. Remember, Salesforce and VMware were young companies that rocketed out of the Great Recession https://
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Llama 3.1 Impact Grants Support Global Community Projects
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We’re inspired by the diverse projects we’ve seen developers undertake around the world to positively impact their communities by building with Llama and we're excited to support a new wave of global community impact with the Llama 3.1 Impact Grants.
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Fed rate cuts and startup valuation reset needed
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Look, it's simple: the fed waited too long to cut. To remedy at this point, they'll need to cut at least 75 bps and buy up vc's stakes of all the startups that raised in 2020 at 2020 their prices.
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Legendary Businesses Begin as Simple Solutions
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Some legendary businesses start as simple wrappers