Darren LI
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Creator Economy, AI & retail-tech investor | J.D. & J.M. | PNG collector | Musical lover | Happy to chat, using Cal.com link below to book calls (https://cal.com/darrenli)
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Using a new technology comes at a cost. If it’s 1979 and you’re Walt Disney Pictures, you’ve got no reason to explore the VCR. The existing system works great for you — and it works great for your audience. You can always find a movie theater willing to show your movies, your audience is happy to be seen entering that cinema, and the bank gladly... See more
Cory Doctorow • The sex industry isn’t technophilic
Relays on Nostr could then charge subscription fees or serve ads or otherwise select which content to include and exclude.
Pourteaux • The moral imperative of a distributed social layer
GitHub - mit-han-lab/streaming-llm: Efficient Streaming Language Models with Attention Sinks
mit-han-labgithub.comBrowser extensions are the rare exception that allow and encourage users to modify the apps that we use, in creative ways not intended by their original developers.
Geoffrey Litt • Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software
“Shein is so far ahead of its direct (fashion industry) competitors that it's difficult to even compare them.” It’s essentially defining its own category, which Matthew has coined Real-Time Retail.
Packy McCormick • Shein: The TikTok of Ecommerce
Open-source projects—not just commercial open source—have served as a critical driver for the improvement of products for decades. However, some software is going to remain closed source. It’s just the nature of first-mover advantage. But when transparency and extensibility are an issue, an open-source successor becomes a real threat.
github.com • Open Source Does Not Win by Being Cheaper
Specifically, we believe the Pixar of the next century won’t emerge through traditional film or animation, but rather through interactive video . This new storytelling format will blur the line between video games and television/film – fusing deep storytelling with viewer agency and “play,” opening up a vast new market.