1) My presentation @ our annual a16z Summit this year bit.ly/a16zFintech The "Amazon Web Services" era has arrived for financial services. Who benefits most? Consumers! -> more choice, better & more affordable products, regardless of geography or socioeconomic demographic

my s/o has brought this to the beach club as a beach read 😏 Aurélien Geron TensorFlow

If you make a NFT of a real diamond, and the diamond itself gets destroyed in a fire tomorrow, you still have the same asset. Because the token still exists and is in limited supply just as before. Nothing has changed. What NFT is doing to the concept of asset, few understand.

If you’re over 30 and don’t get why all the kids are talking about web3: - set up an ETH address (just google it) - reply with it here - we’ll airdrop your first crypto $BOOMER tokens

gm web3 fam. I've got big news today 🔥 a16z is leading @AlchemyPlatform's $250M Series C @Nikilster and Joe Lau have built the leading developer platform for web3. Alchemy is the operating system that's enabling developers to take web3 mainstream 👇 a16z.com/2021/10/28/inv…

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$ENS has launched! Eligible users can claim their $ENS governance tokens at: claim.ens.domains No rush: You have until *May 4, 2022* to claim your tokens. Claiming costs gas, so feel free to wait for favorable gas prices. ens.mirror.xyz/5cGl-Y37aTxtok… Blog or 🧵 for more👇 1/

We are excited to announce the release of our Wonderland Governance Framework. You can read more about it on our blog: medium.com/the-defi-wonde…

1/ This crazy year is almost over and so it’s time to do a little retrospective. This 150-page report is full of charts, timelines, infographics, maps, etc. It’s the work of 30 research analysts we now have at The Block. Let’s dive in: Download here: tbstat.com/wp/uploads/202…

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How to read a smart contract—and why you’d want to in the first place. 🧵

Thank you Raoul Pal Real Vision always a pleasure!

What do: • $4 billion in missing $BTC • Female rapper RAZZLEKHAN • Forbes magazine • the US Department of Justice Have in common? A thread on the 2016 Bitfinex hack, its resolution, and the implications. The strangest crypto story of the year (so far, at least): 🧵👇

I think systems like ChatGPT would be a lot less controversial if they cited references. Eg when querying “What are the origins of AI”, sure have it provide a summary. But also append the sources where it learned this info from. To a) give credit & b) so we can validate the info

"Most of the skills programmers need to work with LLMs are the skills they already have, but some of them will become more important, especially problem decomposition, reading code, and speaking the meta-language of programming." allendowney.com/blog/2023/04/0…

This is an interesting overview of what it is like to actually build production software with today's LLMs. It also shows how weird LLMs are to work with from a software perspective & how much we have to learn. It is why I stress co-intelligence for now. oreilly.com/radar/what-we-…

📽️ New 4 hour (lol) video lecture on YouTube: "Let’s reproduce GPT-2 (124M)" youtu.be/l8pRSuU81PU The video ended up so long because it is... comprehensive: we start with empty file and end up with a GPT-2 (124M) model: - first we build the GPT-2 network - then we optimize

2) Understand the problem you are trying to solve To create the best prompt for a problem, you should truly understand it. Domain experts should be the best prompt engineers.

The rise of foundation models has incentivized a diversification of skillsets in both software engineering and AI research itself. For most software engineers, being well rounded is more important than pure technical mastery. This was already true, of course — see Patrick McKenzie's