Statiq did Y Combinator Summer 2020 and has since grown to be the largest EV-charging network in India. Today, less than 3% of cars in India are electric, but it's on track to be one of the largest EV markets in the world.

'Undergraduates at top US universities start companies at more than 5x the rate of their British-educated peers.'

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The idea that left leaning women are more motivated to censor science is “unfounded” says Professor Rebecca Sear.

All innovators are unqualified.

'There are many ways of being original. Inventing a plot from scratch is only one of them and never held much appeal for Shakespeare'

- James Shapiro, 1599

World exclusive: In major breaking news, International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC tells me Int'l Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others on charges of war crimes and crimes against

It's nice to have good names for things. I'm proud to have named or been involved in naming a bunch of things at Google over the years, including:

MapReduce
Bigtable
Spanner
TensorFlow
Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)
Pathways
Protocol Buffers
PaLM
Gemini

Scale model testing (exactly 3 years ago)
vs our ocean cleanup system today

Also true of elder care, our fastest growing expense.

The transition to batteries + solar and wind is happening remarkably fast.

The phrase 'your data' conflates two senses of 'your': about you, and belonging to you, and data about you doesn't necessarily belong to you. If I observe, for example, that you're at place p at time t, you don't own that observation.

91% of Americans believe that abortion should be legal in at least *some* circumstances -- a position held by virtually no major anti-abortion groups, including those penning abortion bans.
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The Chinese Communist Revolution consolidated its power by taking land from the elite. In the following generation, the previous elite once again reclaimed their social advantage.

This is not an isolated phenomenon: A Thread on the persistence of status 🧵

every single company in my portfolio that has done layoffs is shipping product faster than they did before

NEW: The Washington Post Editorial Board comes out against the use of DEI statements in academic hiring:

“The last thing academia — or the country — needs is another incentive for people to be insincere or dishonest. The very purpose of the university is to encourage a free

Financial illiteracy is real, people.