Luc Cheung
@luccheung
Luc Cheung
Writing & publishing system
Focus forces brutal prioritization
Making few bets forces you to make hard decisions. It’s extremely hard to measure the value of something against some abstract and absolute notion of value.
Proponents of diversification argue that it takes the edge off of making a mistake. That would be a good argument if people acted the same way independent of... See more
Making few bets forces you to make hard decisions. It’s extremely hard to measure the value of something against some abstract and absolute notion of value.
Proponents of diversification argue that it takes the edge off of making a mistake. That would be a good argument if people acted the same way independent of... See more
Why Diversification Results In Mediocrity
in time customer expectations inflate. Per Jeff's latest annual letter to shareholders:
One thing I love about customers is that they are divinely discontent. Their expectations are never static – they go up. It’s human nature. We didn’t ascend from our hunter-gatherer days by being satisfied. People have a voracious appetite for a better way, and... See more
Remains of the Day • Invisible asymptotes
Self-Attention at a High Level
Don’t be fooled by me throwing around the word “self-attention” like it’s a concept everyone should be familiar with. I had personally never came across the concept until reading the Attention is All You Need paper. Let us distill how it works.
Say the following sentence is an input sentence we want to translate:
” The... See more
Don’t be fooled by me throwing around the word “self-attention” like it’s a concept everyone should be familiar with. I had personally never came across the concept until reading the Attention is All You Need paper. Let us distill how it works.
Say the following sentence is an input sentence we want to translate:
” The... See more
Jay Alammar • The Illustrated Transformer
Simplicity is difficult because most of us are overcompensating for uncertainty. Adding something is easy. But removing something is hard, because it requires conviction. It’s easier to hedge against uncertainty, entertain multiple paths, and dilute your focus than to develop a strong opinion about what to exclude.
Things I'm thinking about
I think that greatness is best described as “invisibility.” Great writing is invisible. It might take you a minute or two to get into the flow, but once you’re reading it, you’re flowing through it and don’t even realize you are reading words. Your mind is hallucinating the story for you, so seamlessly that it feels like you’re imagining it for... See more
blog.nateliason.com • Great Writing Is Invisible
You and the Algorithm
Doing well on TikTok seems to come down to two main things:
Some people just focus on #1 and get millions of views with a very low follower conversion. Others do great on #2 and have a... See more
Doing well on TikTok seems to come down to two main things:
- Figuring out what the algorithm likes for your niche to get in front of viewers
- Figuring out what those viewers like so they want to follow you
Some people just focus on #1 and get millions of views with a very low follower conversion. Others do great on #2 and have a... See more
