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Where Were Unicorn Founders Born?
Where Were Unicorn Founders Born?
New result on immigrants & US economy For 1,078 founders of 500 US unicorns, I identified founders' countries of birth. Conclusion: Over four out of ten unicorn founders are first gen immigrants. @StanfordGSB #startups #immigration #unicorn
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Where Were Unicorn Founders Born?
On the Biology of a Large Language Model
On the Biology of a Large Language Model
We investigate the internal mechanisms used by Claude 3.5 Haiku — Anthropic's lightweight production model — in a variety of contexts, using our circuit tracing methodology.
·transformer-circuits.pub·
On the Biology of a Large Language Model
Small Data
Small Data
Small Data Small data appears to be a very exciting movement that is moving the overton window away from Big Data onto much simpler and cheaper solutions ...
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Small Data
LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
In 1623 the German Wilhelm Schickard produced the first known designs for a mechanical calculator. Twenty years later Blaize Pascal produced a machine of an improved design, aiming to help with the large amount of tedious arithmetic required in his role as a tax collector. The interest in mechanical calculation showed no sign of reducing in the subsequent centuries, as generations of people worldwide followed in Pascal and Wilhelm’s footsteps, subscribing to their view that offloading mental energy to a machine would be a relief.
·tomrenner.com·
LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
Remote Work's Long-Term Effects: Why Dell and Amazon Are Bringing Employees Back
Remote Work's Long-Term Effects: Why Dell and Amazon Are Bringing Employees Back
Discover why major companies like Dell and Amazon are ending remote work despite its popularity. This data-driven analysis reveals the hidden productivity and wellbeing challenges of long-term work from home arrangements that are reshaping workplace policies in 2025.
·timestripe.com·
Remote Work's Long-Term Effects: Why Dell and Amazon Are Bringing Employees Back
Mumbai’s Dharavi: What’s life like in Asia's largest slum?
Mumbai’s Dharavi: What’s life like in Asia's largest slum?
Did you know that around 60% of Mumbai’s plastic waste is recycled at Dharavi? It is one of the biggest and most efficient ones in the world. Another thriving micro-economy is Dharavi’s leather industry. This leather industry is such an important part of Dharavi that there are tours that will even take you deep inside the factories where you will be able to see how leather goods are processed, from start to finish.
·timesofindia.indiatimes.com·
Mumbai’s Dharavi: What’s life like in Asia's largest slum?
Dependence on AI may deskill doctors: Lancet
Dependence on AI may deskill doctors: Lancet
Science News: NEW DELHI: It is well known that AI-use in medicine can improve diagnosis and disease management. But a new study published in Lancet Gastroenterology.
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Dependence on AI may deskill doctors: Lancet
An Animated Guide to the Rare 2024 Cicada Co-Emergence
An Animated Guide to the Rare 2024 Cicada Co-Emergence
An animated look at what will happen in the upcoming emergence of Brood XIX and Brood XIII, when more than a trillion cicadas will surface.
·time.com·
An Animated Guide to the Rare 2024 Cicada Co-Emergence
E-Bikes Overtake Buggies for Some Amish - This E-Bike Life
E-Bikes Overtake Buggies for Some Amish - This E-Bike Life
In some Amish communities these days, e-bikes are beginning to outnumber buggies on the roads. Horse-drawn buggies, long a symbol of the Amish lifestyle, are finding less use as more people in Amish communities adopt electric-powered bicycles. In small Amish towns across America such as Sugarcreek, Ohio, Napponee, Indiana, and Kalona, Iowa, e-bikes are gaining Many in the Amish community are turning to e-bikes and their traditional using horse-drawn buggies less. Discover why the Amish love e-bikes.
·thisebikelife.com·
E-Bikes Overtake Buggies for Some Amish - This E-Bike Life
The Nature and Creation of Chaordic Organizations - The Systems Thinker
The Nature and Creation of Chaordic Organizations - The Systems Thinker
e are living on the knife’s edge of one of those rare and momentous turning points in human history. Liveable lives for our grandchildren, their children, and the children’s children hang in the balance. The Industrial Age, hierarchical, command-and-control institutions that, over the past four hundred years, have grown to dominate our commercial, political, and […]
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The Nature and Creation of Chaordic Organizations - The Systems Thinker