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Nick Crocker 🐘

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Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content

Trung Phan (@trungtphan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Since Studio Ghibli is trending, worth noting the mind-boggling effort Hayao Miyazaki and his team put into a film. Each has 60k-70k frames, all hand-drawn and painted with water color. This 4-second clip (β€œThe Wind Rises”) took one animator 15 months to do. In the documentary

Pratap Ranade (@pratapranade) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In honor of Y Combinator's 20th anniversary, here are my 6 favorite lessons: 1. The 7 minute espresso rule: Our first meeting with Sam Altman lasted just seven minutes. The batch hadn’t even officially started yet and my cofounder Ryan Rowe and I drove down from Mountain View to the

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since 1996-97, teams that have trailed by 7+ in the final 50 seconds of the fourth quarter or OT in the playoffs are 4-1,702. we have 3 of those wins, and they're all this year.

since 1996-97, teams that have trailed by 7+ in the final 50 seconds of the fourth quarter or OT in the playoffs are 4-1,702.

we have 3 of those wins, and they're all this year.
Ilya Sukhar (@ilyasu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Who designed the setup wherein the prime years of career leverage overlap with the most engaging years of having children? Very inconvenient. I’d like to speak to the manager.

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Today's essay is three big questions, asked and answered: 1. Are we sure GLP-1 drugs are this broadly effective? 2. Literally, how can one drug do "everything"? 3. If the drugs actually do "everything" at what point should we all be on versions of them? derekthompson.org/p/why-does-it-…

TechDev (@techdev_52) 's Twitter Profile Photo

β€œIf I put $100 in Bitcoin in 2010 I’d have $2.8B now.” No. If you bought $100 of Bitcoin in 2010 and watched it go to: $1k β†’ $100k β†’ $1.7M and did nothing Then watched $1.7M go to $170k and still did nothing Then watched $170k go to $110M and still did nothing Then

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Nick Crocker 🐘 As of last week: 1. Brad Banducci, Recent Woolworths CEO 2. Jack Zhang , Airwallex 3. Hartley Pike, Sitemate 4. Ahmed Fahour, Former Aus Post + NAB, CEO 5. Tim Doyle + Alex Badran Bonus: Niki Scevak 's March 2022 ep on high flyers is number #8, which is incredible 3+ years on