I write games so ugly that I am showered with contempt, and yet I make money! Iāll have a full, lifelong career! If I can have so many flaws and still succeed, you can too!
Figure out what you are really good at doing. Sell that.
A major limitation exists for spaced repetition software (e.g. Anki, SuperMemo, or other flashcard-style systems), in my experience using them for several years for long-term memory: it's neither necessary nor sufficient to use this software to learn certain topics.
Several excellent physics and math students I worked with have never used spaced... See more
Code wins arguments. If we tested a feature and didnāt like it, we rebuilt it until we landed on the best version. For some surfaces, like the activity feed, we rewrote it three times before we finally landed on an implementation that felt good enough.
Ben Smith, who ran BuzzFeed News during the height of the Twitter era, describes the moment in simple terms. The platform āwas a kind of central, essentially elite conversation where political and tech leaders and journalists and activists and others talked to one another,ā he says. āIt was never complete or āreal life,ā but it was actually a more... See more
Adriene, who is just one person, is beating the largest Yoga Magazine in the US on every single metric. She is more popular, she has a much better model, and she can charge 10 times the price. Unlike traditional publishers, she doesn't have a problem attracting young people to her channel.
So, if Yoga Journal came to me to ask: "Hey Thomas, we have... See more
The OpenAI chief executive officer planned to spin up an AI-focused chip company that could produce semiconductors that compete against those from Nvidia Corp., which currently dominates the market for artificial intelligence tasks. Altmanās chip venture is not yet formed and the talks with investors are in the early stages, said the people, who... See more
Simple. You provide something nobody else can ever provide. Something cool and distinctive that people will rather pay money for your game than get someone else's for free.
Consider me. I'm an OK programmer. I'm not good at art and visual stuff, and I haven't been since I was a kid.
But I can write well. I make good settings... See more
@TF_Global Now, Sam is one of those unstoppable forces so he may very well soon enlist other backers and leave but⦠for now it looks like OpenAI split into two, and Microsoft has managed to seize both halves.