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Frank Slootman • TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story
What’s interesting about blockchain instead is that it enables “frictionless binding contracts,” to use the language of economics.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Google strategy is that anything less than 100M they do not pursue because their scale is a billion scales. Google because of that missed out on opportunities.
Apple • Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the three levels of product work, why most execution problems are strategy problems, and ROI vs. opportunity cost thinking
The bottom line is that small changes in the communication structure can affect decisions.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
New report by leading semiconductor analyst Dylan Patel shows that DeepSeek spent over $1 billion on its compute cluster. The widely reported $6M number is highly misleading, as it excludes capex and R&D, and at best describes the cost of the final training run only.
David Sacksx.comOne of our favorite quotes of his is, “I keep saying that the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. And I’m not kidding.”21 When we look at the amount of digital data being created and think about how much more insight there is to be gained, we’re pretty sure he’s not wrong, either.