Andrei Stoica

TEMPLATES AND THE OBVIOUS FLYWHEEL OCCURRING

I’m not sure who exactly made the initial flows that you could select from... but it already showed the flywheel that’ll soon be on its way within FLORA.

Here’s a story I’m already sure is playing out:

Folks come to FLORA to explore typography styles for their project, but they need something more... See more

Likewise, half the American Dynamism portfolio is not manufacturing or defense, but edtech and SaaS, including a DEI startup and park discovery platform.

Exporting your way out of a recession is fine and good — it’s basically how Germany and South Korea shrugged off the Great Recession in the early 2010s.3 But China’s export boom is heavily subsidized, both with explicit government subsidies, and — more importantly — with ultra-cheap abundant bank loans. Subsidies are distortionary — they mean that... See more

Rest in Peace David Foster Wallace, you would have loved Barbie. We swim in a wretched sea of meaningless mush, and when you have to trudge through nothing but slop all day, every day, it gets harder and harder to not numb out. I really cannot emphasize it enough: there’s so much and it just keeps coming. There’s lots to do. There’s lots to buy.... See more

• There are all kinds of wrinkles and complications that affect trade, called “ frictions ”. These include things like home bias in both consumption and financial investing, sovereign default, currency market frictions, and so on. Economists argue back and forth about which of these frictions cause the various “puzzles” in international trade —

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Whereas philosophers, psychologists, and the like search for models of human cognition and behavior, the field of artificial intelligence aims to take such models and turn them into useful tools in reality. As the salience of vibes as a way of (not) explaining experience has grown, so too have the applications of machine learning and neural... See more