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By yielding a generational wealth creation opportunity that was a strange hybrid of a lottery jackpot and self-made fortune, crypto created an ideolog

For example, it was 30 years after the invention of film that someone first tried telling stories with it — before that, film was mainly used as a dem

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How do you explain the web to people who have never used it? You make it as simple and as accessible as possible.

编程这项工作非常适合 AI 增强或替代,原因如下:1/ 编码本质上要求工程师将问题分解成更小、更易管理的任务;2/ 有大量现有的训练数据;3/ 任务需要判断力和基于规则的工作相结合;4/ 解决方案利用可组合的模块(比如开源软件库等);5/ 在某些情况下,工作成果可以通过经验测试其正确性。这意味着可靠

我们看到了做AI Coding的三种方法,这三种方法对应三个挑战:1/ 如何创造更强的上下文感知能力?2/ 如何让AI Agent在端到端编码任务中做的更好?3/ 有人押注于编码模型,这能否带来长期的差异化?

编程这项工作非常适合 AI 增强或替代,原因如下:1/ 编码本质上要求工程师将问题分解成更小、更易管理的任务;2/ 有大量现有的训练数据;3/ 任务需要判断力和基于规则的工作相结合;4/ 解决方案利用可组合的模块(比如开源软件库等);5/ 在某些情况下,工作成果可以通过经验测试其正确性。这意味着可靠

AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence. Emphasizing the collectivity (som

LLM解决了输入端的感知和思考问题,“具身智能”落地关键在于解决输出端的行动能力

涉及生产力本身、特种劳动力/军队、新一代复杂硬件链主的大国产业竞争,同时也是中国制造业优势再次出海的契机

赛道特点?1)劳动力替代/补强需求下的大市场(TAM),远期2C场景是万亿规模产业链;2)人工智能技术驱动下高进入壁垒(特别是偏具身模型的算法公司);3)存在规模效应带来头部集中(类比新能源车竞争格局);4)目前智能发展阶段仍然较早

For Bandersnatch, the crew filmed 250 video segments comprising over 5 hours of footage to account for the film’s 5 endings. Budget and production tim

AI creator Abel Art reported a ratio of ~500 videos for 1 minute of coherent video. Image consistency also usually starts to fail after a minute or tw

And while generative video quality can be inconsistent today, the popularity of vertical shorts such as ReelShort and DramaBox has already proven that

Specifically, we believe the Pixar of the next century won’t emerge through traditional film or animation, but rather through interactive video. This

Most AI backlash is economic anxiety coated in a veneer of social justice. Alfalfa farming consumes 19 times the water that data centers do; there’s n

“Diffusion lag” reflects a lack of product-market fit. Even AI optimists are still hitting practical roadblocks. That’s why detailed case studies are

Here are some things I’ve asked chatgpt recently: “why is Toblerone so popular at airport duty-free stores?” “give me a recipe for a chickpea tagine

The issue is delivery, not content or capture. There’s a lot of raw footage roughly of this quality, it’s just been impossible to get to consumers wit

it depends on your budget. if you have $5k to burn then the canon 180 vr setup is prob one of the best on the market right now: https://www.usa.canon

spatial, on the other hand, is much easier to do bc the field of view is more limited. so you can use "traditional" iphone-quality lenses and sensors.

Canon's Yasuhiko Shiomi believes this would require a camera capable of a "100-megapixel resolution at 60 frames per second." It's the refresh rate th

国产VR游戏的海外发行主要包含以下四个部分:1.本地化:麟阁灵境能够为CP提供优质的英文及其他语种的本地化支持,同时理解海外VR游戏玩家对产品的需求,帮助CP调整产品细节。2.市场营销:通过对VR垂类Youtuber和头部Twitch Streamer的全覆盖及体系化管理,麟阁灵境能够根据游戏类型为

Design For Awareness | Cap_able Design

scientific investigations of the boundaries between conscious and unconscious systems are urgently needed, and they cite ethical, legal and safety iss

The TESCREAL Bundle

Conviction Partners

Main OpenAI dev day takeaways: (1) Existential crisis for AI wrappers and middleware. (2) Opportunity for people with good taste in UI and can figure

The core problem is not that open source projects are not sharing the money received. The problem is that, in total numbers, open source is not gettin

Open source projects, the infrastructure of digital public goods, have long relied on unsustainable funding sources like Github Sponsors, Open Collect

Open source projects, the infrastructure of digital public goods, have long relied on unsustainable funding sources like Github Sponsors, Open Collect

Similarly, I wonder whether the creator economy, as it matures, will resemble less of its original promise (a way for people to do the things they lov

Instead, Professor Kahneman favored an alternative that he termed “adversarial collaboration.” When people who disagree work together to test a hypoth

Generative AI’s Act Two

Aggressive growth projects often lead to UX cruft, slowly degrading long-term user engagement and retention. Yes, you can move short-term metrics by t

Founder Mode

Language models need auteurs and creative directors, not “thumbs up if you liked this personality”

When startups start taking off, the founders usually can't tell what's changed. It's some combination of all the random things they did to make it ta

If we give them the room to breathe, creative works can live multiple lives. The works will stay online for years, decades even. It will make someone

What they don’t see, and what we continue to experience, is that while collaborating can be hard, it’s also a more rewarding, fruitful, and uplifting

I’ve been thinking about the enduring, perhaps increasing currency of personal recommendations (practically artisanal craft now if you think about it!

Knowing where to go and what to do is the currency that, in the modern aspiration economy, makes curators more important than influencers. They guide

Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress - by kyla scanlon

The game has shifted, and the winning strategy with it. It’s no longer about understanding specialized details; it’s about grasping the high-level glo

What we do with our freedomThe examples of the excruciating etiquette of the aristocratic courts, the marriage market Rhimes dramatised, the civil ass

📇 50+ AI founders you should know on X: (I know I missed a lot. Comment below if I did. I want to know you 🤝) - Sam Altman > @sama > Open AI (

What people think are winning backgrounds: - Ivy League grad - good grades - after school activities Actual winning backgrounds: - compet

How the Greatest Entrepreneurs Hire (h/t David Senra) Steve Jobs stated that each new hire became a percentage of the company, so why wouldn’t you tak

What is “talent?” Well, I suppose it’s the ability to do that which is excellent (that which astounds, amazes, and so on). It’s a bit circular, real

DeFi, dApps and DAOs: The Key Differences

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Digital Object ApplicationsFor the first time in human history, blockchains empower any digital object to enjoy the properties of verifiable scarcity,

We live in a world where movies aren’t considered art, but intellectual property. They’re “content,” little chunks of stuff that can be licensed, exte

The job for any studio is to create a great story and exploit it across as many channels as possible—theme parks, merchandise, games, movies, TV, TikT

We all know we’re overstimulated and want to stop, but we can’t. We use app blockers, throw our phones away, and build rigid routines. But none of it

humans don’t have fixed identities. we’re constantly testing. trying different versions of ourselves. seeing what gets rewarded. adjusting based on fe

I feel like there’s something so soulless about our culture—something deeply, deeply missing in people’s experience of life, a kind of superficiality.

Productive Fees : Valuable Protocols / Extractive Fees : Valuable Companies

A Political History of DAOs

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For example, it was 30 years after the invention of film that someone first tried telling stories with it — before that, film was mainly used as a dem

So when people opt to devote their energy to tracking the latest TikTok star or scrolling content instead of nurturing interpersonal relationships, th

Social media stopped being primarily about connecting socially a long time ago. People still use a range of technologies to connect to friends and bui

Taste for Privacy: How Context, Identity, and Lived-Experience Shape Information Sharing Preferences

The social-platform layer offers the feeling of encounter with the friction surgically removed. As one analysis of Gen Z’s parasocial turn put it, onl

Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale

Hyperconnected 'Kakao Kingdom' - "Everything is hyperconnected on KakaoTalk. It connects people, as well as numerous services affiliated from taxi-ha

anxiety surrounding AI art is less about computers becoming humans and more about humans becoming more robotic. social media is robotic, formulaic. ev

As Kevin Abosch, the Irish conceptual artist and pioneer of blockchain art, aptly put it: “The wise artist doesn’t fear emergent technology, but rathe

LibLibAI - AI-Powered EPUB Library and Ebook Reader

The existence of AI models means that openness is a bigger liability for user-generated content companies. The existence of a successful company in so

The natural end state of marketplaces and social media is the eventual shift from user generated supply to professionalized supply/content. They can f

The usual cycle with social media sites is that they start out being very flexible and open, and are happy to have users even if those users are shari

Razorfish Study Finds 52% of Gen Z Gamers Feel More Like Themselves in the Metaverse than in Real Life

A Year of New Avenues

Two myths currently limit our collective imagination: the myth that advertising is the only possible business model for online companies, and the myth

When evaluating a company, one of my favorite questions to ask is whether it has an aesthetic. We don’t talk about aesthetics as the highest form of

13 Creative Commandments: 1. Talent is an important differentiator, but talent needs to put in the hours to excel. 2. Question everything. Question wh

“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”

We no longer learn about the world from institutions, or even the illusion of them. We learn about the world from people we care about. This binds our

The problem with non-hierarchical models is human beings are not non-hierarchical creatures. Like all anarchist ideals, the dream of infinite digital

I like thinking small. I like thinking of my reader as an individual.And even if I did this out of sheer stubbornness at first, I’ve come to think thi

So much value and love for the process of writing and what it does for the coherence between heart, brain, imagination, lived reality, unseen, and see

You can’t write a viral essay that says “it’s complicated and I’m not sure.” But this is the only path to truly novel insight.

Writing is a task that takes both objective and subjective intelligence. LLMs ace the objective parts the same way they ace every test; you can’t faul

10 key insights from Lenny Rachitsky on building a successful newsletter: 1. What do people ask you about that you don't have a great answer to? Vi

The Substackerati

Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills tha

Parnell shows that authors of color and queer authors are much more likely to have their work flagged as “adult content,” largely due to problems with

The whole thing about the Kardashians — the resistance they’ve kind of induced in people — is that it doesn’t feel consensual. You absorb information

Ugh, I can’t believe I had to live/work through the deaths of both print media AND online media and now possibly television and film too?? Can I just

The problem in media isn’t the business model. The problem is that most of the content sucks.

the answer for publishers in the age of AI is no different than it was in the age of Aggregators: build a direct connection with readers. This, by ext

the answer for publishers in the age of AI is no different than it was in the age of Aggregators: build a direct connection with readers. This, by ext

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The subscription model means content providers are paid regularly no matter the quality and quantity of the product. Makes sense – being paid on a reg

What tradition or practice from another culture or era do you think we should widely adopt?I wish patronage were widely adopted as an explicit social

Media and Machines.

If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook Professionals understand that the project is the whole project, not simply the fun

Hindsight is 2020I don’t mean “hindsight is 20/20.” I’m talking about the year 2020.See, early in 2023, I wrote an article about starting and growing

A solid foundation requires a robust team structure. Hiring individuals who not only have the requisite skills but also align with the company’s cultu

Don’t shrink the vision to fit the doubt

It’s about the same trap in professional life: doing the thing for years, getting more experienced, and staying stuck at the same level. You can work

I don't know if I'm ever going to get rich doing this but I am going to keep making things that I want to exist, in a way that seems fun and to a leve

What we see as an agency in our work with creatorsWe work with a lot of creators around the world for different brands, markets and niches and the one

So who survives?First, creators who publish citable work. Newsletter writers who go deep on one thing. Analysts who publish original data. Technical w

Start in the future and work backward

If you pay attention, you’ll see that today’s winning brands understand the customer’s story is the only one that matters. Your most important job as

Solving a problem for your user is great, but easing their cognitive dissonance can have a much greater emotional impact. There is likely something th

The Questions Before the Questions

startups: build it and nobody will come until you figure out distribution which is way harder

Decentralized investor communities gain traction in biotech

The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine

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The question is not whether algorithms can ever foster greatness—they cannot. Their design is fundamentally at odds with the qualities that define gre

The algorithms that shape our cultural landscape are not inherently malicious. They are indifferent. Their purpose is not to destroy art but to optimi

The Shawshank Redemption failed at the box office but went on to gross more than $100 million as a cult classic. The 48 Laws of Power missed the bes

The freedom of information the internet brings helps us expose idiot intellectuals quickly and more accurately than ever before. But the internet also

“As a medium, the internet is defined by a built-in performance incentive. In real life, you can walk around living life and be visible to other peopl

I am tired of seeing speed as a selling point. I’ve wanted to talk about this for a long time. I think one of the main reasons many of us feel anxio

From Lily Chambers: I genuinely do not care if AI tools make me more productive. I am tired of seeing, "increased productivity" as a selling point. I

Today’s thread is on “VC backchanneling” — how you can use it to your advantage as a founder. When I was a founder I knew that VCs all talked w/ eac

The stages of CEO & how to evolve as your company does:

The internet is already over

this quote from Jodi Kahn, Neiman Marcus’s vice president of luxury fashion: “Cores, or micro trends, often occur at the intersection of content creat

the online trend that links all of these disparate digi subcultures together: namecore, AKA the internet’s insatiable appetite for naming things.

"There are no solutions in life, only tradeoffs." — Thomas Sowell

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it,

Zoom’s simplicity is a strength when it comes to the company’s ability to grow its network. When the product concept and value is simple to describe,

The best software businesses are networks. When every new user that joins makes the network more valuable for the other users, it leads to a sort of a

If there's any kind of lesson in all this, it's mostly some advice I want to give myself. The lesson is simply: speak up. It's OK to slip into advocac

look at how the word “community” itself has been warped in recent years into a cynical marketing cliché to rival “storyteller” — annexed as the torche

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.