A walk through The Mission
March 27, 2016
Today we walked from Hannah’s apartment to Potrero Hill. More...
Links - March 27th, 2016
- Andy Grove and the iPhone SE Ben Thompson - Stratechery
- Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco Rebecca Solnit - The Guardian
- Instacart Is... Profitable? Dan Primack - Fortune
- Pigou, Uber & Lyft Rakesh Vohra - The Leisure of the Theory Class
- How a TV Sitcom Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization David Hopkins - Medium
- The Veil of Ignorance Adam Morse
- Make elites compete: Why the 1% earn so much and what to do about it Jonathan Rothwell - Brookings Institution
- Comprehensions in Python the Jedi way Bjørn Friese - GitHub
- Thread pools! How do I use them? Julia Evans
- A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning Pedro Domingos - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Links - March 21st, 2016
- We only hire the trendiest Dan Luu
- Hanlon’s Razor and the Infuriating H-1B Visa System Ryan Shmeizer - Medium
- How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner Erik Dietrich - DaedTech
- My Take on FBI’s "Alternative" Method Jonathan Zdziarski
- The Trouble with Facebook’s Neighbor Steven Perez - Medium
- Machine Creativity: Possibly Sooner than Anticipated Albert Wenger - Continuations
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks Andrej Karpathy
- Adventures in Narrated Reality Ross Goodwin - Medium
Links - March 17th, 2016
- Rock N' Poll Maarten Lambrechts
Why polls fail, explained with interactive graphics
- The web's original sin Peter-Paul Koch - QuirksBlog
- Thomas Jefferson and Apple versus the FBI Daniel J. Bernstein - cr.yp.to
- Illegal Math Prakash Venkat
- Facebook is the new Excel Alex Muir
- Deep or Shallow, NLP is Breaking Out Gregory Goth - Communications of the ACM
- Another Way Of Looking At Lee Sedol vs AlphaGo Jacques Mattheij
- Truth and Quantity Gregor Hochmuth
As Nathan Yau put it, “…what happens when you strip out all context from an NPR newscast and only look at the numbers.”
- Unmasking Startup L. Jackson, Silicon Valley’s Favorite Twitter Persona Ellen Huet and Brad Stone - Bloomberg Business
Links - March 16th, 2016
- The Amazon Tax Ben Thompson - Stratechery
An extremely bullish case from a former Amazon bear. Ben’s writing is usually great, but this one takes the prize for clarity: connecting the dots from Bezos’ famous letter to shareholders in 1997 to the beginnings of AWS in 2006, to today. A must read.
- Ping21: Earn Bitcoin by Monitoring Uptime and Latency Tyler Pate, Andrew DeSantis, Eli Haims, David Harding, and Balaji S. Srinivasan - Medium
Very seriously considering buying one of these. Seems like the investment would pay for itself with a few hours of tinkering.
- The Era of Free Trade Might Be Over. That’s a Good Thing. Jared Bernstein - The New York Times
- Elegant Economic Theories Get Shoved Aside by Data Noah Smith - Bloomberg View
- Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet Amy Harmon - The New York Times
An interesting account of incentives at work. Nobel prize winners, and other already well-known scientist, do not care about the prestige of the important journals, so they get to publish directly. Young, unknown, scientists on the other hand, are stuck with the old, considerably inferior, publishing system to prove their worth.
- After Cash: All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses a Bank Account Megan McArdle - Bloomberg View
- The Changing Value Of ARR Alex Wilhelm - Mattermark
On one hand, the article makes good use of historical data to make a clear point: SaaS has been hit hard by the markets, both public and private. On the other hand, the URL makes good use of pirate jokes.
- On Trade, Angry Voters Have a Point Eduardo Porter - The New York Times
- The macabre truth of gun control in the US is that toddlers kill more people than terrorists do Lindy West - The Guardian
Some things about this country are still baffling to me.