An introduction to Art Deco architecture:

The Patagonia founder has donated the entire company, worth $3 billion, to fight climate change. The privately held company’s stock will now be owned by a climate-focused trust and group of nonprofit organizations, called the Patagonia Purpose Trust and the Holdfast Collective.

Of course that's your contention. You're a spreadsheet guy. You just got finished reading about valuation, McKinsey probably. You're gonna be convinced of that until next month when you research what happened to CRM in ‘08

we cringe the hardest at what we fear we are

Where is anyone? I wonder what time this was taken

It's my first time watching TNF Prime Vision. Lousy game, but neat technology application

ML engineering productivity hack: write small self-contained files testing your understanding of any semantics you're fuzzy about (e.g. how CUDA streams interact with a full CUDA queue). Goal should be to turn these semantics into "muscle memory" before working end-to-end.

This is the Bronx River the same year the EPA was founded, a place the city referred to as an "open sewer." This week, three dolphins were found eating fish in the river for the first time in decades. Yeah, environmental protection is actually a great thing.(Camilo Vergara, 1970)

Just a guy with 39 successful combat flight missions on his resume about to dig in with a machine gunner at Omaha Beach on D-Day behind the plate. Two goddamn men.

1/ How to accelerate revenue growth at your early stage startup: I’ve worked with countless early stage startups through consulting (n = 15), angel investing (n = 25), and now as a VC (n = >100). It’s almost universal the primary bottleneck to revenue growth is demand gen.

Today is the spring equinox, but what actually is an equinox? It's one of only two times in the year when day and night are (almost) exactly equal all over the world...

These graphics summarize some of life's hardest lessons. 1/ Distractions fill the space we give them.

This is quite the paper! It gave 25 AI agents motivations & memory, and put them in a simulated town. Not only did they engage in complex behavior (including throwing a Valentine’s Day party) but the actions were rated more human than humans roleplaying. arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03442…

If I was starting another company, I would build a generative AI app that put my friends and me in photos doing fun things. Aside from network effects, one of the fundamental moats of social apps is having an inventory of content—because producing content is so onerous.

It’s tornado season on The Great Plains.

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Watching Andrej Karpathy presentation from today and taking twitter notes, come along for the ride: If you're like only the practical tips, skip to #32 Andrej Karpathy starts with stages: 1 - Pre-training - months x thousands of GPUs 2, 3, 4 - Finetuning stages that take hours or days 1/

WOW! This is the view from the The George Washington bridge running from Manhattan, New York to New Jersey. - This is all stemming from Central Canada, where wildfires are burning in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. - In total there are 211 reported wildfires burning in

Wife went to the salon in town today - found out they have a nurse practitioner on staff NP provides three services: - IV fluids - Prescribes Ozempic - Injects Botox What an incredible racket. Just strip-mining the wallets of suburban anxiety