Luc Cheung

Interfaces used to be the solution. “There’s an app for that” was music to our ears.

But now interfaces are overused. They’re getting in the way. Instead of pragmatic solutions, we’re building clunky apps.

The solution is not a better app. The solution is no app – no interface.

Example: an app to open your car. Krishna explains how such an app can... See more

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

So let’s start with ingredients. How do we cultivate the right ingredients for great idea fermenting?

III: Ingredients

There are two levels of thinking going on in our heads at any time. There’s the more active and conscious part of your brain that’s reading this article and which you think of as doing the “thinking.” Then a subconscious,... See more

what's the minimum you need to launch? We suggest startups think

about what they plan to do, identify a core that's both (a) useful

on its own and (b) something that can be incrementally expanded

into the whole project, and then get that done as soon as possible.This is the same approach I (and many other programmers) use for

writing software. Think... See more

What Marc Andreessen understood at this tipping point was that technological innovations — like in transportation, with Uber, and hospitality, with Airbnb — often emerge when it seems we need them least.

So it’s fitting that exactly a decade later, we’ve come to another watershed moment. Software has eaten the world, and now it’s a commodity. It’s... See more