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It's pretty easy to make $100K per year doing consulting at half-time or less, and have 50% or more time left-over to do whatever you want. If there is any argument about staying i…

To play devil's advocate, the value these prestigious journals provide is providing an objective function to optimize allocation of resources in academia. To advance one's career i…

The model probably takes into account the state as a variable, and states vary as far as average hesitancy goes and in terms of vaccine distribution strategy.

Unlikely due to the buyers also being sophisticated. "Sequoia and Steadfast Financial bought shares at a $5 billion valuation from some of Zapier’s original investors."

It's strictly speaking correct in that the $5B valuation was established purely on the secondary market and only from sales of shares of investors (not common holders), which doesn…

Not advocating for the pool idea but that reasoning is generally incorrect. Decreasing personal capital/timing risk actually increases founder risk tolerance for bigger outcomes fo…

Impressive to a human is a highly subjective property. Humans generally consider the understanding of language to be an intelligent trait, yet tend to take basic vision which took …

"The mistake SoftBank made wasn’t investing in them, it was investing at a valuation that grossly overestimated the size of the opportunity, and how quickly they would see their re…

Great companies require a great deal of conviction. Waiting two years because it's harder now isn't a conclusion one draws from such a standpoint.

If you're doing something for which the opportunity cost of waiting two years is not very high in the first place, perhaps it's not worth doing at all.

The Spanish flu had a smaller outbreak in the Spring and came back with a vengeance the following Fall, so hold that thought. https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-second-wave-r…

Pretty much my experience as well moving from Russia to the US. Team sports and social deviance seem to dominate the popularity hierarchies of American schools (as of 2003). In Rus…

"I think on average the difference between a high school student from Russia and US is negligible." That's difficult to believe. I went to comparable level early education schools …

beggars can't be choosers

They're probably not even detecting the lane markings or road surfaces as they're baked into the HD map.

"we're definetly at least 15+ years out". Similar statements were made about Go the year it was solved. AV is a vastly harder problem and requires new techniques to get there, but …

more like 0.1% there in terms of the work required to launch

Presenting a subset of the information to let the uninformed jump to favorable conclusions for the presenter is not a new marketing strategy. If there's no indication about the tru…

This demo is not informative as to the readiness for scalable L4 deployment, for which it would be necessary to focus on the breadth/accuracy of perception features under the hood …

Quite a nice result. Along the lines of your point 2., it's not the first time in recent years a problem in operator algebras was resolved by the computer science community using u…

Seriously. The entire annual budget of the NSF if $7.8B. When throwing around that kind of money deep tech becomes a hedge.

I don't think it was meant so literally. just an interesting way of calling someone a unique mathematician

Indeed such a good one when you really think about it, but it's above most readers heads.

That's highly doubtful. If you really think that you should be raising a fund right now.

"the state-of-the-art in computer vision has moved so significantly that it’s arguably now not the primary blocker to commercial deployment of self-driving cars." The state of the …