Ten from the weekend 09/20: A few interesting reads that I came across

Gopi Vikranth
1 min readSep 21, 2020

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Focus areas: Blockchain| ML-AI| Data science/Analytics applications |eSports| CRISPR| Design thinking

1. The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program:https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/3/18511544/amazon-prime-oral-history-jeff-bezos-one-day-shipping

2. Your startup is a movement, how founders think about marketing: https://sacks.substack.com/p/your-startup-is-a-movement

3. Marc Andreessen On Productivity, Scheduling, Reading Habits, Work, and More: https://a16z.com/2020/09/07/on-productivity-scheduling-reading-habits-marc-andreessen/

4. Designing a culture of reinvention- Netflix: https://a16z.com/2020/09/15/a16z-podcast-designing-a-culture-of-reinvention/

5. Amp it up: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amp-up-frank-slootman

6. An experiment to edit Wikipedia about a few small towns description and pictures in Europe increased hotel stays by 9% http://marit.hinnosaar.net/wikipediamatters.pdf

7. 75 years of US advertising — trends: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2020/6/14/75-years-of-us-advertising

8. Long term stock exchange open for business: https://blog.ltse.com/the-long-term-stock-exchange-opens-for-business-38b13f51e87b

9. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (ebook): https://navalmanack.s3.amazonaws.com/Eric-Jorgenson_The-Almanack-of-Naval-Ravikant_Final.pdf

10. Statistics: The complete mini course: https://decision.substack.com/p/statistics-the-complete-mini-course

GPT-f: can now prove math theorems on its own: Generative Language Modeling for automated theorem proving: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03393

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Gopi Vikranth
Gopi Vikranth

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