"Even moderate social distancing will usually outperform quarantine." Here's why that is using simulations & graphs. (I'm in heaven.) via CCLove washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/…

Farm fresh #chodspot in Wiltshire

I was at Amzn in 2000 when the internet bubble popped. Capital markets dried up & we were burning $1B/yr. Our biggest expense was datacenter -> expensive Sun servers. We spent a year ripping out Sun & replacing with HP/Linux, which formed the foundation for AWS. The backstory:

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The mission is ON 🔥 We now have 1.84m banking data points 26k banks across 21 markets in a new Fintech CEOs dream cockpit.

I believe the most successful companies are surprisingly narrow in their focus, it’s something I wish I’d learned earlier.

A scannable QR code advertisement created by drones above the skies of Shanghai. Beautiful.

Some great stuff from Andrew Gazdecki in here.

A night to remember, celebrating over 100% growth YOY. The re-birth of Cruxy, held in the most sober of environments @67pallmall, marks how we’ve raised the bar. Only upwards. Carrie Osman Adrian Barrett

My son, who has grown up in the post-landline era (we were early to ditch as only scammers and my mother in law used it)

The legend who is Nelson from @67pallmall is schooling us all on Wine + Music at the Cruxy Christmas do at Isabel Mayfair. The man is a legend

What is #dataviz animation good for? A thread with examples.

In Dec. 1945, Picasso created "The Bull", a series of 11 lithographs (stone prints). With each successive print, a bull is simplified and abstracted. Picasso's goal was to find "spirit of the beast". At Apple, employees are taught this philosophy.

Love this thinking

One of the smartest people I know said three interesting things today about GenAI and LLMs:

Great advice

Haha 😂 Google started to index share conversation URLs of Bard 😹 don't share any personal info with Bard in conversation, it will get indexed and may be someone will arrive on that conversation from search and see your info 😳 Also Bard's conversation URLs are ranking as

A thread of accounts I've found most interesting: Rob Miles (in SF) Alec Stapp Tim Urban Sabine Hossenfelder Robin Hanson Amjad Masad Crémieux Blake Scholl 🛫 tylercowen Max Roser Richard Morris Derek Thompson Aaron Levie Ryan Grim Science Is Strategic The Museum of Curiosities