Blue Apron IPO'd in June 2017 at a $2bn valuation Yesterday, it closed at a stock price of $9.01, representing a market cap of just under $120mm What happened and what can we learn?

Sony, Marvel Make Up: Companies Will Produce Third ‘Spider-Man’ Film wp.me/p2WgDE-1jr8GZ

A history lesson for people who think that history doesn't matter: What's the big deal about railroad tracks? The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Well, because that's the way

1/ From 1997 to 2012, less cash was returned to investors than invested in VC. Given where we are in the cycle, revisit this venture study for a sobering read of what a bear market for the industry may look like. Not unlike hedge funds today I suppose. gigaom2.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/vc-ene…

Rage, rage against the dying of the light

A calculation that would take the world’s current-best classical supercomputer 10,000 years to execute was finished in minutes by a quantum computer econ.st/2nTcyyV

1/ "If the product is software and thus can produce software gross margins (≥ 75%), then it should be valued as a software company. If the product... cannot produce software GMs then it needs to be valued like similar businesses with similar margins" FW avc.com/2019/09/the-gr…

Fun infographic on Disney’s worldwide assets.

It has been a year since we founded Fiddler AI, and the journey so far has been incredible. Here is an update on what we've been up to medium.com/fiddlerlabs/se… #ExplainableAI #OurJourneyContinues

"As AI becomes more profound in our lives, explainable AI becomes even more important." Couldn't agree more. #ExplainableAI Story via @forbes forbes.com/sites/cognitiv…

New blog post! The next decade of work will be about passions, not gigs. New platforms and tools allow people to earn a livelihood using their creativity and unique skills. Thread 👇 a16z.com/2019/10/08/pas…

We've been working on #ExplainableAI at Fiddler AI for a year now, here is a thread on some of the lessons we learned over this time.

Santa Fe Institute launches a podcast. Check it out! santafe.edu/culture/podcast

It's official. This is the best essay I've ever read about the Industrial Revolution. No event in human history has been more transformative. Best of all, the essay isn’t just facts and figures It shows us how we can accelerate progress in the future. lukemuehlhauser.com/industrial-rev…

Plan B qz.com/1735908/what-s…

Karthik, let’s do this. #SiliconValleyHBO returns for the final season tonight at 10pm ET on HBO.

Apple, the low cost provider 😄

1/ a. "There are heterogeneous agents. These can be ants in an ant colony, neurons in your brain, or investors in a market." b. "These agents interact leading to a process called 'emergence.'" c. "Reductionism doesn’t work." compoundingmyinterests.com/compounding-th…

Some folks still seem confused about what deep learning is. Here is a definition: DL is constructing networks of parameterized functional modules & training them from examples using gradient-based optimization.... facebook.com/722677142/post…

10 years ago today. The rest, as they say, is history