Luc Cheung

The classic way to burn through cash is by hiring a lot of people.

This bites you twice: in addition to increasing your costs, it slows

you down—so money that's getting consumed faster has to last

longer. Most hackers understand why that happens; Fred Brooks

explained it in The Mythical Man-Month.We have three general suggestions about hiring: (a)... See more

Self-Attention in Detail

Let’s first look at how to calculate self-attention using vectors, then proceed to look at how it’s actually implemented – using matrices.

The first step in calculating self-attention is to create three vectors from each of the encoder’s input vectors (in this case, the embedding of each word). So for each word, we create a... See more

Curators, Curators

It has become popular to say we live in the information age, and we need curation to help us sort through the mess. But thus far, the conversation around “curation” has been too focused on the content and not enough on the structure. We seem to have accepted the job of the curator as providing a product review, a list of links, a... See more

Publishing, Descriptions, & Hashtags

Once I’m done editing the videos on my laptop, I’ll send them to my phone and turn them into drafts within TikTok.

The only changes I make within the TikTok editor is to add captions so people can read what I’m saying (I suspect many people watch TikTok on silent, so captions help), and I add a text hook to the... See more

In order to build conviction, we rely on founders to tell us a compelling story, almost always in the form of slides. We’ve funded companies almost entirely because of the quality of their seed decks. Poor deck? We’ll likely pass on the opportunity.

Nassim Taleb says if you’re going to panic in investing, panic early. Same goes for your career – if you’re going to quit, quit early so whatever’s next has a shot at compounding.