ok when is Nat Friedman going to decode Linear-A

The best research on India is written by the ReserveBankOfIndia and it's called the RBI Bulletin (very similar to BOE bulletin) & it's amazing. Go to the state of the economy for charts/details on what's going on in India & then they always have essays on specific issues. Central banks are

Walmart used LLMs to improve 850m piece of data in their product catalogs, something that would have taken them 100x the headcount / time to do without LLMs

"design tinyurl" is still unparalleled as a systems design question despite being the most popular for all these years you simply can't fake it, there's too many rabbit-holes if you just memorize the answer, you'll always trip up and get caught by a good interviewer

Chinese infrastructure projects in Latin America

Tell me you’re not an engineer without telling me you’re not an engineer.

🚨 CDAO is excited to announce contract awards to leading U.S. frontier AI companies – Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI – to address critical national security challenges. Read more: ai.mil/Latest/News-Pr…

Great article from Mark Scianna and Ryan Duffy explaining the FDE model. Mark is one of the original FDEs - he knows what he's talking about.

Opening a restaurant in SF just got easier. A single public health inspector will now manage a restaurant’s application from start to finish—ending the old system of multiple inspectors offering conflicting guidance. It’s another common-sense change that speeds up openings and

Remember when the grid wouldn’t be able to handle EVs? Yeah - turns out it can. And nobody is talking about it anymore because of data centers. 1.3 million EVs sold last year. That’s about 80GWh of energy storage. And 16GW of residential load.

HAPPENING NOW…

Putting out sidewalk tables and chairs for your business is easy: fill out a free form, learn the rules like keeping sidewalks accessible, and you’re good to go. No permit or free required. We want San Francisco’s businesses to bring our streets to life—just follow a few simple

We could have this in the US but you won’t let us build interconnects

SF Supervisor Jackie Fielder is trying to use a cat running in front of an autonomous vehicle as a reason to ban AVs. She has said nothing about the Oliveira family nor Hanako Abe, who were all recently annihilated by human drivers in SF.

Saddest end result of Palantir’s stock performance this year is that this sort of nonsense is called being “Forward Deployed” Everyone works on planes, get over yourself

When you wonder why housing is so expensive in San Francisco, the Bay Area, California, America

spiritually, it feels inevitable that AGI is born in California as a kind of useless and largely uneconomic toy, and then dragged to New York, caged and put to work by men in grey tall towers that poke and prod it until it spills trillions out filtering through PDFs

China has a ~standard viaduct design for high speed rail, and spams it. The US lets every local jurisdiction have an individualized conniption (palo alto boomers are literally designing the route!) Results: every road crossing costs a billion dollars.

China went from catching up, to the dominant academic institutions publishing in NeurIPS (top AI conference). Tsinghua topped all universities, and Peking only trails MIT+CMU. Now is not the time to slash federal research funding, but rather to increase it. This is a Code Red.