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I read the title as 5 km S of San Jose (as in bay area) at first

Anyone know how much these founders generally pay themselves / how much they receive in liquidity each raise?

He doesn't need the money though. I bet there's something cultural or structural going on at GDM that made him want to leave.

Going off the other reply, I wonder if a highly-active secondary market means that companies can raise series [A-Z]+ rounds effectively forever, where each "round" just refers to a…

So... Does the Gates foundation get an equity stake?

Unrelated, but I see the use of the phrase "taste" as having a strong Twitter / e/acc smell (in a negative way). I tend to associate it with folks who are prepared to victim blame …

I feel he'd want to rebut the use of an LLM for this task to begin with (i.e. find issues/nitpicks with the LLM judgment whether it said he's right or wrong)

Can't wait to see Gary Marcus's rebuttal

Getting SBF vibes from this. "Earn to give" is an inherently flawed philosophy.

It's Claude Code slop

I can't believe he was calling Greta a potential antichrist when there's... this

This is already the case

Why are we pushing this when we have beans

> He smirked. "Yes, I am."

The comments there are hilarious

+1, the tokens from before a quantum hack will be transferred to a new fork. So at that moment, the value of BTC will go to 0 and the value of BTC v2 will take the value of BTC. Ho…

This and stock buybacks make me question company valuations

Instagram reels are gonna get crazy

Why is apple doing protein folding?

Was a bit scared by the headline at first

To what extent is YC's current strategy a form of "cookie-licking"? I.e. capture a small fraction of every plausible startup created by the next generation of students?

I'm guessing they were looking for preferential delivery to certain cell types, and AAVs just happened to have best profile for those. If anything, LNPs might aggregate in the live…

The issue was not the gene therapy itself, but the delivery mechanism. They used a virus to administer the gene therapy, and this virus (like most bloodstream impurities) aggregate…

Same, ever since AI got big I've started to see typos and signs of amateurism in a positive light. I wonder how long it will be before people start generating slop with typos on pu…

Very cool showing the outputs of hyperparameter search. Hopefully this gets someone out of a tuning tarpit!