Ian Vanagas
@ianvanagas
Writing about internet communities, products, creation, and crypto.
Ian Vanagas
Bitcoin is always the most honest market in the world, the most efficient market and it was the canary in the coal mine.
ZeroHedge • In Stunning Speech, Peter Thiel Blasts Buffett, Dimon, & Fink As "Finance Gerontocracy"; Sees Bitcoin Rising 100-Fold
Community Design and
In the end, every single person like Nick who votes to deploy their capital into something which doesn’t produce anything beyond capital, is a vote to sit on the sidelines while every single other person works to keep the lights on, or ideally reverse the cycle.
Jake Cooper • The Inward Draw of Capitalism
Today all the gold in the world is worth $12 trillion, while global equities are worth $115 trillion. In 1980, the ratio was one-to-one, with all the gold in the world and global equities having the same value of $2.5 trillion.
ZeroHedge • In Stunning Speech, Peter Thiel Blasts Buffett, Dimon, & Fink As "Finance Gerontocracy"; Sees Bitcoin Rising 100-Fold
The number of them that actually learn all the important stuff in under a month is zero. The number of them that have a self-guided strategy to learn what is relevant is almost zero.
Tyler Cowen • “Context is that which is scarce”
Creativity and
3) What loss supervises the output predictions? What assumptions about the world does this particular objective make?
Eric Jang • How to Understand ML Papers Quickly
I should be able to scroll through the history of my browsing as an enormous branching graph that I can annotate, travel around, share with others, and version.