Showing posts with label silicon valley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silicon valley. Show all posts
Thursday, March 07, 2024

Stephen Grugett: Predicting the Future with Manifold Markets — Manifold #55

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  Stephen Grugett is the co-founder of Manifold Markets, the world's largest prediction market platform where people bet on politics...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Upstream podcast with Erik Torenberg: Steve Hsu on the Future of Everything

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  Great conversation with Erik, a well-known SV Founder and investor.  TIMESTAMPS:  (00:00) Intro  (02:01) Political polarization in academi...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

SuperFocus.ai on the Danny In The Valley Podcast (The Sunday Times)

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  In this podcast we discuss AI, Large Language Models like GPT, LLM Hallucination, and my new startup SuperFocus.ai Related: ChatGPT, LLMs,...
Saturday, February 05, 2022

Annals of Psychometry: Wordcels and Shape Rotators

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Fun with psychometrics!  Did it all start with High V, Low M , a 2011 post about Stephen J. Gould? A famous theoretical physicist once compl...
Monday, March 08, 2021

Inside AI/ML: Mark Saroufim

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  Great discussion and insider views of AI/ML research.  Academics think of themselves as trailblazers, explorers — seekers of the truth.  ...
Saturday, June 22, 2019

Silicon Oligarchs: Winner Take All?

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Joel Kotkin is a Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and Executive Director for the Center for Opportunity Urbanism....
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Manifold Episode #12: James Cham on Venture Capital, Risk Taking, and the Future Impacts of AI

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Manifold Show Page    YouTube Channel James Cham is a partner at Bloomberg Beta, a venture capital firm focused on the future of work....
Thursday, February 07, 2019

Manifold Show, episode 3: Noor Siddiqui on Stanford and Silicon Valley

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Show Page    YouTube Channel Noor Siddiqui, Thiel Fellow, on Stanford and Silicon Valley – Episode #3 Corey and Steve interview Noor...
Saturday, March 03, 2018

Big Tech compensation in 2018

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I don't work in Big Tech so I don't know whether his numbers are realistic. If they are realistic, then I'd say careers in Big...
Tuesday, December 05, 2017

How Europe lost its tech companies

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Some perspectives from a Berlin tech guy who has also worked in China. To some extent Europe is like the Midwest of the US : a source of...
Friday, November 10, 2017

23andMe

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I'm in Mountain View to give a talk at 23andMe. Their latest funding round was $250M on a (reported) valuation of $1.5B. If I jus...
Wednesday, November 08, 2017

Pocket AI from Beijing and Smartphones

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I need to replace my old iPhone 6, and, predictably, this led me down the rabbit hole of learning about mobile phones, the mobile industry, ...
Wednesday, November 01, 2017

The Future is Here: Genomic Prediction in MIT Technology Review

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MIT Technology Review reports on our startup Genomic Prediction . Some basic points worth clarifying: 1. GP's first product, announ...
Sunday, December 04, 2016

Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (WIRED documentary)

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Funny, I can remember the days when Silicon Valley was the Silicon Valley of hardware! It's hard to believe I met Bunnie Huang (one...
Monday, October 31, 2016

Peter Thiel at the National Press Club

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More Thiel .
Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Daimler investing 500 million euros in drone delivery (video)

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WSJ : Daimler to Work With Matternet to Develop Delivery Van Drones Auto maker investing $562.75 million to design electric vans that c...
Monday, September 05, 2016

A secret map of the world (Venkatesh Rao / Ribbonfarm)

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This is Venkatesh Rao's conceptual map of the world (as seen from Silicon Valley / the internet). Details in the video and this blog pos...
Saturday, July 02, 2016

Chaos Monkeys: physics to Goldman to Y Combinator to Twitter to Facebook

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Highly recommended! I blogged about this guy 5 years ago here: From physics to Goldman to Y Combinator . The book is hilarious and pretty...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end

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All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beast...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

New Yorker on Silicon Valley (HBO)

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Almost all the startup people I know watch Silicon Valley (HBO), and they agree with me that it unerringly captures the essence of startu...