Ten from the weekend 11/23: A few interesting reads that I came across
Focus areas: Blockchain| ML-AI| Data science/Analytics applications |eSports| CRISPR| Design thinking
1. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bill-gates-how-to-accelerate-history/id1227971746?i=1000456128625|| How did Bill Gates scale BOTH a global business and a global philanthropy? He spotted an inflection point in history — and accelerated it
2. https://stratechery.com/2019/the-google-squeeze/The thesis of the article is not that Google’s revenue and profit growth were over; rather, like Microsoft in the 2000s, Google would continue to grow but that its relevance had peaked, in large part because brand marketing would become much more important on the web.
3. https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service|| https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/11/4/status-update
4. https://a16z.com/2019/10/01/google-maps-for-money/|| When you enter your desired destination into Google Maps, the app plots out the fastest, most efficient route, even adjusting for traffic and coffee stops along the way. You don’t even need to enter your current location — Google Maps already knows where you are. What if that same predictive software existed for our finances? Imagine a future where you could outline your goals as a student — say, graduate, move to your dream city, save for a house, plan for kids — and an app would execute your optimal financial plan, rerouting and adjusting for “traffic” along the way.|| https://a16z.com/2019/11/22/the-case-for-forfeiting-margins/
5. https://apple.news/A9kelQrs1Rmu7rcIC4Gctmg||Shopping malls are dying, Taking their place are luxury lifestyle hubs
6. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/13/magazine/internet-china-wechat.html|| Chinas internet is flowering — -“not sure about the future comment in the article”
7. https://ai.facebook.com/blog/open-sourcing-reagent-a-platform-for-reasoning-systems/|| Open-sourcing ReAgent, a modular, end-to-end platform for building reasoning systems
8. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1724-z.epdf|| Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
9. https://venturebeat.com/2019/11/21/openai-safety-gym/|| OpenAI releases Safety Gym for reinforcement learning
10. https://towardsdatascience.com/a-deeper-look-into-gradient-based-learning-for-neural-networks-ad7a35b17b93|| Alternatives to the gradient descent algo
11. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21495685|| Pytorch at tesla — how tesla’s NNs are structured and trained.
