Peter Hudson

Currently working on Spacey Stuff. Previously at @numerai. Before that co-founder of @GetShelfie (sold to Rakuten) and @AquaInformatics. peterhudson.eth

[Peter Hudson @HudPeter]

@quanghuynt14 Looks good in general. The escape wheel and pallet fork geometry look a bit crude, but it clearly understands the train wheels and balance. Impressive.

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@nntaleb @JFDais Years ago I ran a startup (@getshelfie) which allowed people to take a pic of their bookshelf (a "shelfie") and it would ID all the books and give you digital / audio copies. A byproduct was a big database of how people organized their shelves. Pic of a section of the graph:

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@garrytan The "latent space" metaphor is a good one. I read this tweet and spent a solid 15 minutes thinking about what belongs in the latent space and if there are layers in a latent space stack.

[roon @tszzl]

the greatest whitepill of all is that local minima are rare in high dimensional spaces

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@theepicmap My friend Guy Edwards did the complete ski traverse of the coast range in 2001. It was over 2000km and took nearly 6 months. It's probably the most epic ski traverse that will ever be completed. https://t.co/civmpoaSxs

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@xxChessMaster Kb5

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@Tablesalt13 Jeremy Frimer (“Jer”) and I were in undergrad together (Eng Phys at UBC, he pivoted to social science for grad work). But this sounds completely on brand for Jer. Jer had zero tolerance for bull shit. If something was true he would say it was true. I can see him fight to the SCC.

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@AdvancedForged A Ferrari doesn’t need a bumper sticker

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Important to retweet this from time to time.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

You can measure the level of intolerance in a society by whether you can say that there are things that are true, but that you can't say. Every society I know of has had them. When the fact that yours has them becomes one of them, you've reached level 2.

[Peter Hudson @HudPeter]

@daltonc This is our generation’s Pascal’s Wager.

(I initially typed that “pascal’s wafer” and was kinda tempted to leave it)

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@KerstinKoepl Second source: @JamesSACorey (pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) used the word “rabbit” in their sci-fi / space opera series The Expanse as an adjective & verb in the belter (people who live in the asteroid belt) patois / dialect / creole for someone running away.

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@paulg I can't tell if this is just a comment about watchmakers or if you're implying that watchmakers were 60 years ahead of the curve that's about to hit all knowledge workers.

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@jhong Kinda cool that our cohort got to live through the elbow of the hockey stick.

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@Andercot @ArthurMacwaters Let's just call it the protomolecule.

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@garrytan @KenneyConor Garry is 100% correct. As a founder, convincing US VCs that investing into a CCPC (Canadian Controlled Private Corporation) is safe / good / efficient isn't a hill you need to die on. Just convert into a Delaware C and get back to building stuff people want. *ask me how I know*

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@garrytan @NRC_CNRC TLDR; there can be reasons to incorporate in Canada early. But if you’re going to raise meaningful US money, incorporate as a Delaware C or bite the bullet and convert to a Delaware C.

Note: if you’re going to YC, you’re “raising meaningful US capital”.

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@garrytan @NRC_CNRC Additionally, many provinces have tax credits to incentivize angel investing but those credits are only available if the investment is made into a Canadian corp. So being a Delaware C early can kneecap the ability to raise local angel money.