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Current: VC in Europe at Rialto.VC

Previously: Operating partner at Cota Capital; co-founder at Fabrica.land, co-founder of Cloud Academy; CTO at VMware; Tech Evangelist at AWS. @simon on Twitter (yep, early user).

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www.technologyreview.com 19h ago

China's AI models have Trump's AI world at war with itself

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www.stephendiehl.com 19h ago

The case against crypto (2021)

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newsletter.doomberg.com 21h ago

Old Tapes

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en.wikipedia.org 1d ago

The Floating Piers

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academic.oup.com 2d ago

Italy passes obesity law to prevent cardiovascular disease across Europe

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pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 2d ago

Catnip essential oil-based mosquito repellent

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en.wikipedia.org 2d ago

5-MeO-DMT

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www.newyorker.com 2d ago

Mythologizing AI makes it more likely that we’ll fail to operate it well (2023)

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www.apollo.com 5d ago

A Slower AI Payoff Would Be Everyone's Problem

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www.cfr.org 6d ago

The Mar-a-Lago Accord's Economic Ripple Effect Widens

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www.wsj.com 6d ago

The Mind-Bending Company That Gets a Million Job Applications–and Rejects 99.9%

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huggingface.co 6d ago

1-Bit LLM in the Browser

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dernocua.github.io 6d ago

Energy Autonomous Computing

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ens.dk 6d ago

Energy Island in the North Sea

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openai.com 6d ago

Codex Micro

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twitter.com 12d ago

Decommissioning the original Model S and X assembly line in just 46 days

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slashdot.org 12d ago

iPod: No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. (2001)

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www.smithsonianmag.com 12d ago

Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

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elroyair.com 13d ago

Elroy Air to Go Public

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www.youtube.com 15d ago

Arthur Clarke in 1940s predicted satellites and the internet of 2000s [video]

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opportunityinsights.org 15d ago

The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility [pdf]

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flightsafety.org 15d ago

Normalization of Deviance

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www.youtube.com 15d ago

IKEA-Style Wind Turbines Could Change Offshore Energy [video]

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www.chinadaily.com.cn 15d ago

US at 250: A time to return to the founders' wisdom

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abcnews.com 16d ago

Venice mayor proposes dynamic pricing for day-trippers with 50-euro ceiling

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www.sciencedirect.com 17d ago

Urban thermal structures in scenarios of hot weather: The Bologna study

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en.wikipedia.org 18d ago

Toxoplasma Gondii

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en.wikipedia.org 18d ago

1666 Great Fire of London

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news.ycombinator.com 18d ago

Tell HN: Check your subscription renewals (VPNs, etc.). They cost too much

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lynceans.org 19d ago

Aerosmena hybrid thermal airships (2022) [pdf]

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Immich 3.0 7 days ago

Welcome to Immich v3.0.0!

After months of hard work from the team and our amazing contributors, we're thrilled to announce the next major version of Immich: v3.0.0!

A quite amazing open source project, that COMPLETELY FAILS to explain to a newcomer what it is, what problem it solves, etc.

Om Malik has died 26 days ago

Thanks for sharing this one, Jeff. I was a big fan of Twilio since launch, and I think I remember that article (I was at AWS back then, in a Tech Evangelist role, so most "new" startups on the block passed in front of me one way or another).

I'm sure there are thousands of stories about Om, and only some of them are here in this thread.

I briefly met him in 2012 or 2013, but didn't really interact with him much. But I kind of liked him a lot, and kept following his writings.

RIP.

It was one of the most influential civilization in all of recorded history. It's not about glorifying it, or justifying it. I think that a lot of people see it much more "civilized" than many others, before and during it. And perhaps after it too.

Interesting comment, but the comparison with hard disk drives is probably unfair.

The IBM 350 was commercialized 70 years ago; it took 70 years for someone like you to be able to compare that to a multi-TB SSD.

Furthermore, nothing says that Moore's Law will necessarily apply to LLMs, for decades to come.

The business is sucker farming: manufacturing a product whose counterparty is a retail customer who does not understand that he is the one being farmed. It could have played by the existing rules. It has decisively chosen not to.

Bingo.

I absolutely LOVED learning SQL on PostgreSQL, roughly 26-27 years ago (so, close to the 30 years cited there). I think I still retain at least 70-80% of all the knowledge I built back then, and it is the case probably because the way in which I learned was by DOING.

Well done, Drew!! And congrats on building an amazing company. Hope you'll get some rest before embarking in whatever is next.

Coincidentially, I know the new CEO, Ashraf Alkarmi; we met at AWS when he was launching Appstream, I believe back in 2013 if I'm not mistaken. It's funny to recognize a name. I am hopeful that he will do well as a CEO.