Ten from the weekend 04/18: A few interesting reads that I came across
Focus areas: Blockchain| ML-AI| Data science/Analytics applications |eSports| CRISPR| Design thinking
1. Tech Trends of 2021:https://www.nasdaq.com/Tech-Trends
2. Macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. ‘The Great Unbundling’: https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations
3. 2020 Amazon Shareholders letter: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/2020-letter-to-shareholders
4. The a16z marketplace 100:2021: https://a16z.com/marketplace-100/
5. Ten most innovative retail companies of 2021: https://www.fastcompany.com/90600263/retail-most-innovative-companies-2021
6. Covid 19 supercharged advertising tripoly- Google, Facebook, Amazon: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-covid-19-supercharged-the-advertising-triopoly-of-google-facebook-and-amazon-11616163738
7. A recipe for training neural networks: http://karpathy.github.io/2019/04/25/recipe/
8. Google says SOC is the new mother board: https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/03/22/google-says-the-soc-is-the-new-motherboard/
9. Moore’s law for everything: https://moores.samaltman.com
10. Moderation in infrastructure:https://stratechery.com/2021/moderation-in-infrastructure/
11. Two powerful mental models: Network effects and critical mass: https://a16z.com/2016/03/07/network-effects_critical-mass/
Improving Computational Efficiency in Visual Reinforcement Learning via Stored Embeddings: