Ishan
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Ishan
We get stuck in a holding pattern when we believe there’s only one path, or two, instead of those millions of paths that fork and diverge based on our individual strengths and characters. In some worlds you’re happy and curious and feed the parts that make you fully and idiosyncratically yourself. The parts that seek beauty and truth and goodness
... See morePrediction markets work because traders can see all of the standard forecast data and aggregate it along with other idiosyncratic or dispersed information about the election. Traders can aggregate polling data or follow published poll aggregates, and they can add in any other information they think is relevant.
David Rothschild • Something’s Odd About the Political Betting Markets
Pessimism and optimism share a trait: both are self-fulfilling. Your intention influences the outcome. Call it karma or, simply, effort. I would rather inhabit a future that has the possibility of being great.
Only optimists can create a great future. Only optimists can imagine it. Only optimists will put in the effort to make it. If you want to... See more
Only optimists can create a great future. Only optimists can imagine it. Only optimists will put in the effort to make it. If you want to... See more
Steph Ango • Choose Optimism
Iconic successes seemed outright strange at first: Amazon (wait days to receive a product you’ve never seen), eBay (buy beanie babies from someone thousands of miles away), Google (trust an algorithm to answer your questions), LinkedIn (publicly post your resume), Facebook (share personal updates with people you haven’t seen in years), Airbnb (stay... See more
Philip Clark • The end of incrementalism: how AI will reward maximalist start-ups
Sounds fancy. Why do we care? GAR involves taking the source documents and having an LLM enrich them, prior to indexing. For example, the LLM might... * Generate titles for documents that are missing them * Standardize author names/formats* Extract dates, URLs, citations and other elements that might be valuable to search as separate fields* Create... See more
Paul Venuto • feed updates
Think writing is hard? Bill Hader agrees! In this video he discusses writing with a partner, figuring out bad ideas, and sifting through feedback.
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