Best of Twitter - Week of November 22, 2021
Introducing Rookie Mistakes, a new series with YC’s @mwseibel and @daltonc where they go over stories of rookie mistakes — shared by YC founders — and how to avoid them as an early stage startup.
Catch the first episode, on co-founder mistakes 👇🏽 youtube.com/watch?v=dlfjs_…
^ not just about co-founders
imo learning to code is bad bc it's too easy to get a job and therefore much more difficult to do something weird
NVIDIA GauGAN2, a powerful #AI model that allows anyone to convert simple written phrases like "ocean waves" into a photorealistic masterpiece. Learn more about GauGAN2 now: nvda.ws/3oNitRX
^ a reminder that we live in the future
Once we see artificial life emerge on-chain (a smart contract that automatically finds arb opportunities to pay for gas fees, mutation and reproduction) we will be happy that ETH mainnet has unsustainable gas costs. Solana and other layer2 scaling solutions will be run by bots.
You can buy basically the best phone available for $1,000. If you had $100,000 to spend there isn't anything that is really any better.
Same for computers.
We don't hear about the insane consumer tech of the ultra rich because everything is available at mass market prices.
^ lots of inequality in the world, but lots of equality too.
what are some other recent examples of intense and non-standard interviewing processes?
Maksim Stepanenko @maksim_s
A hard earned lesson for me: giving more reasons in a debate counterintuitively weakens your position.
People who disagree focus on the reasons they *most disagree with* which are often not the strongest reasons.
So, only give the strongest reasons.
Quarantined section
Trying to keep objective.
But looking at the numbers around boosters, my main concern is that the results are being absurdly undersold.
Most people are sick of COVID, sick of being told what to do, and are thinking of boosters are a nice-to-have.
They are transformative.
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The @nextstrain CoVariants.org focal build for 21K (B.1.1.529) is now live.
nextstrain.org/groups/neherla…
As previously, the long branch leading to 21K is clearly visible, making it hard with current sequences to tell much about the evolutionary history.
Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66