akharris

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Fable 5.1 way ahead on revised FrontierSWE long horizon benchmarks(frontierswe.com)
2 points by akharris 15d ago|0 comments
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by akharris 2mo ago
They missed a great chance to call this "To Serve Man."
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The Prophet Index: Ranking VCs by how good they are at predicting uprounds(theventurecodex.com)
1 points by akharris 5mo ago|0 comments
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Missionary Accountants(postround.substack.com)
5 points by akharris 9mo ago|0 comments
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by akharris 1y ago
These are great. I particularly like Waymo because of aggressively most of the media/talking heads wrote them off as "never going to beat Tesla" because google. In the end, they took a fundamentally different approach at all
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by akharris 1y ago
My list wasn't meant to exhaustive. Honestly not much of a list, just a few examples. SpaceX and Nvidia are both examples of deep technical moats, as are some of the others mentioned by commenters. I agree with you that many moats are
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by akharris 1y ago
Fair enough. I definitely should have added nvidia to the list.
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Xero agrees to acquire Melio for $2.5B(reuters.com)
1 points by akharris 1y ago|0 comments
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by akharris 1y ago
Thank you. What I love about that quote is that he knew that, some day, the cure rate would go even higher.
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by akharris 1y ago
Thank you. I've only ever had bad luck creating Wikipedia entries, though it's been a while.
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by akharris 1y ago
Thank you.
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by akharris 1y ago
Thank you so much. He was.
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by akharris 1y ago
Thank you. My sister is an incredible write and he was a perfect subject.
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by akharris 1y ago
Thank you.
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by akharris 1y ago
I don't fully understand how he did it. I know he took a lot from the line in the Talmud that said "whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world." My mom says that his baseline was incredibly high and
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by akharris 1y ago
Thanks for saying that. Here's a bit more about him from the obituary my sister wrote: https://www.northjersey.com/obituaries/pnys1147090
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by akharris 1y ago
My dad started his work as a Pediatric Hematologist Oncologist in the late 60s. He had a firm belief that cure rates could and would climb as a result of research and better clinical care. He spent his life pursuing both. When people would
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Meta confirms $14.3B investment in Scale(nytimes.com)
1 points by akharris 1y ago|0 comments
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Alex Wang's note on his move to Meta(twitter.com)
1 points by akharris 1y ago|0 comments
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by akharris 1y ago
I was six when Flood came out. My brother had a bootleg copy, which I later "borrowed" and carried around with me in my walkman (also "borrowed"). It was so...different than anything any of my friends listened to, and I
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by akharris 2y ago
Much as I’d love to debate you about this here, I don’t think either of us will convince the other - or anyone else - in this format. Always happy to have a real conversation about difficult issues.
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by akharris 2y ago
The overall tenor of this thread, and this comment in particular, is diving right into deep conspiracy theory territory. There’s a huge difference between supporting an ally with common interests and being somehow controlled by them. The id
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by akharris 2y ago
On photography, in no real order, and probably overweight on street photography. - Henri Cartier Bresson - Joseph Koudelka - Gordon Parks - Phil Penman - Alan Schiller - Annie Leibovitz - Micha bar Am - Bruce Gilden - Steve McCurry - Consta
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by akharris 2y ago
Well I do have you to thank for teaching me about combinatorial auctions :). That said, you can think of the auction in two parts - the first gets the relevant people from the starting line to the actual bidding. The second part is where yo
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There's no such thing as a free fundraise(magid.substack.com)
3 points by akharris 2y ago|0 comments
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GPT-4o: Explanation and use cases(blog.roboflow.com)
5 points by akharris 2y ago|1 comments
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What Is a Series A?(magid.substack.com)
5 points by akharris 3y ago|0 comments
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by akharris 3y ago
The editing and music choice for the video are both incredible.
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by akharris 3y ago
There's no perfect mix. In an ideal world, you'd build an order book of every investor that wants in and how much they want. Once you had that book filled, you'd allocate by weighing long term value, price, etc. Realistically
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by akharris 3y ago
Author here: Lost count of the various demo days coming up in the next few months. Happy to chime in on questions of how to deal with the run up to a demo day or the after effects.

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