COVID Update July 25: Right now in this crisis, good or bad is less important than early or late. If saving lives is important to your mayor & governor, they need to be early to action. 1/

Gonna be tough getting lunch money from this one.

Trust the process! Welcome to the signature shoe family, Joel Embiid! #embiid1 Under Armour Basketball

Ramón Laureano charges the Astros dugout, a breakdown

It feels like the Lyft (and Uber?) CA pullout in the middle of covid-19 will guarantee passage of #prop22. We need a middle category between 1099 & W-2.

LUKA TURNED EVERYONE INTO A MAVS FAN FOR TWO HOURS HE REALLY IS A SUPERHERO

Some big news out of the University of Arizona (University of Arizona): UA scientists & staff found a coronavirus outbreak on campus *before it happened* — and seem to have snuffed it out. How in the world do you do that? You use wastewater testing.

An irony of Goldman Sachs -- financial masters of the universe -- is that they've never created any meaningful value for shareholders.

Some encouragement to comment on $SNOW IPO. While it would be easy to do normal post wrt mispricing, it is important to understand what is different here from other IPOs. The most important data is broad (40 years of underpricing, 2020 worst year yet), vs. 1 company. [cont]

IGGY IS HERE. He has 14 PTS on 4/4 3 PT 😳 (via NBA TV)

This debate feels like watching Uncut Gems

The price for electricity from solar declined to 6.8 US-cent per kWh (no subsidies). A 5-fold decline in just 9 years. Solar getting cheap rapidly is one of the most important developments in our time. From Hannah Ritchie's excellent work on energy ourworldindata.org/energy

So impressive in so many ways.

Walking around SF and the cheering in the streets is music to my ears...obviously the Rays won

Wow. Feels like this will have some momentum.

My new column, on why Bitcoin's evolution from a cryptocurrency - which is what it was designed to be - to a cryptoasset was inevitable.

Pitchbook charges over $20K for funding insights & doesn’t let you share the information… I say liberate the data! 🔐 So our team put together a list of all 5K+ founders that raised a Series A within the last year. RT this tweet & I’ll DM you the list Here’s our insights🧵

New Anthropic Research: Towards Safeguarding LLM Fine-tuning APIs against Cipher Attacks. Fine-tuning LLMs through APIs can be harmful even if the data used for fine-tuning does not appear to be, often because the data encodes a hidden message.