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#16: Notes on Arithmetic in GPT-4
A few weeks ago, I had a list of dollar amounts that I needed to sum up. I thought: “GPT is good at converting formats,” and copy-pasted them into…
Feb 20
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January 2024
#15: Maybe You Should Invest in Translation
One of the traditional applications of artificial intelligence is in translating between languages. It’s so common now that it’s boring: Google…
Jan 19
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December 2023
#14: Why Europe Fails to Create Wealth
This Friday, the European Union passed the AI Act, an EU-wide, landmark set of regulations on the usage of artificial intelligence. As you’d expect, it…
Dec 11, 2023
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November 2023
#13: A Timeline of the OpenAI Board
Yesterday, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were fired from the Board of Directors of OpenAI. Following, all of Tech Twitter was abuzz with one question…
Nov 18, 2023
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September 2023
#12: What I Wanted from WeWork
I’m traveling and working from a WeWork today. It’s a nice space: two floors, well-designed, skyline views. It’s prime real estate. And I’ve got a great…
Sep 6, 2023
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August 2023
#11: Approaches to Software Engineering that Worked For Me
I have now been writing software, reasonably consistently, for about eleven years — from my second year of college to the present day. Along the way…
Aug 21, 2023
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July 2023
#10: Why is there no Government-Built Social Media?
The Arab Spring of 2010 was a sweeping wave of protests that ended up toppling the rulers of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Yemen. These protests were said…
Jul 5, 2023
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May 2023
#9: 15 Years of Market Gaps for Browsers and Browser Extensions
One of the great secular trends of the past fifteen years has been software moving from the desktop to the browser. In 2010, you would install Microsoft…
May 2, 2023
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April 2023
#8: Bundling and Unbundling of Email
Email is the most important software in my life, and probably in yours, too. Curiously, even though email is an aging technology, it is only becoming…
Apr 5, 2023
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March 2023
#7: AI Creates Returns to Taste
Many contemporary thinkers are pointing out that advances in AI are giving creators more leverage. This is true for broad definitions of “creators…
Mar 29, 2023
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#6: Avoid Polish to find Product-Market-Fit
There are many ways to take a product to market and find product-market fit (PMF). The conventional wisdom is to run a tight feedback loop, and optimize…
Mar 23, 2023
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#5: SVB and to Build on the Shoulders of Giants
One of the great strengths of the Silicon Valley ecosystem, and the US in general, is the ease of doing business. Specifically for startups, the…
Mar 12, 2023
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