Juan Orbea
@juanorbea
A node in a network
Juan Orbea
When it comes to business and careers, the more interesting people will succeed and capture more upside than ever before.
Because the uninteresting ones will get commoditized (hello 🤖).
And by interesting I mean being capable of analyzing, deciding, and executing in a way few others can.
Generating more unique ideas, understanding complex things
... See moreAs human brains increasingly interact with technology that mimics their own capabilities, the need for students to understand both the science and engineering of intelligence continues to grow as well. Addressing these challenges will require a deeper understanding of how the brain produces intelligent behavior and how we may be able to replicate... See more
MIT • Course 6-9: Computation and Cognition | Brain and Cognitive Sciences
About Hedonova - Your Partner in Alternative Investments
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But I thought a better way of thinking about how we manage our portfolios is to think about it as a funnel. If we do 36–40 deals in a Seed Fund, somewhere between 25–40% would likely see big up-rounds within the first 12–24 months. This translates to about 12–15 investments.
Both Sides of the Table • What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?
Each time one paradigm runs out of steam, another picks up the paceIt is important to note that Moore’s Law of Integrated Circuits was not the first, but the fifth paradigm to provide accelerating price-performance. Or is there something more profound going on?In my view, it is one manifestation (among many) of the exponential growth of the... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Most people who want to pursue a research career feel they need a degree to get taken seriously. But Chris not only doesn’t have a PhD, but doesn’t even have an undergraduate degree. After dropping out of university to help defend an acquaintance who was facing bogus criminal charges, Chris started independently working on machine learning... See more
Robert Wiblin • Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree
Non-trivial | Start solving the world's most pressing problems
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If people stopped pursuing quaint things, we'd have far fewer big things that lead to a better future. Let's hope that never happens.
Julian Weisser • Quaint startups become the next big thing.
Again, this doesn't have to be a deep multi-year fundamental understanding of a market. This often comes from an appreciation of reality as it is . The internet is growing 2,300% and it seems to have legs. Building infrastructure is really hard, and we've gotten really good at it.