Ian Vanagas
@ianvanagas
Writing about internet communities, products, creation, and crypto.
Ian Vanagas
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By thinking about a ML problem first as a set of inputs and desired outputs, you can reason whether the input is even sufficient to predict the output.
Eric Jang • How to Understand ML Papers Quickly
Many people think of onboarding only when a member first joins a community, but onboarding happens every time a member re-enters a community space. Communities should always be onboarding. Onboarding is the process of providing members with the context necessary to function in the community. It is needed because context changes constantly.
Ian Vanagas • Always Be Onboarding: Creating Community Arcades
When she was laid off from her role at a fintech startup in the pandemic panic of early 2020, Paris doubled down on driving traffic to her DePop store to make money. She saw TikTok as an untapped fount of opportunity, and made creating videos for it her full-time job. She posted dozens of times a day, drawing viewers in with her... See more
Elizabeth de Luna • The business of being Victoria Paris
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”
5) Are the claims in the paper falsifiable?
Eric Jang • How to Understand ML Papers Quickly
A person with this perspective is one who witnessed the more orderly society functioning, yet did not witness the building of the more orderly society , and thus does not understand the mechanics of the more orderly society. In other words, this person has a distinctive blind spot —he knows what could be reaped from a more orderly society, yet not... See more