Yang Liu

building End Game - an American company (backed by a16z)
you’re probably following me because of Pokevision

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“An Open Letter to John Hanke & Niantic” by @YangCLiu https://t.co/LvAE7OxMC4

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@ArtOfTheFu @shaunmmaguire hi sir, this is about getting 12M+ colombians access to the internet as 22% of Colombians dont have access to internet at all (not even slightly). Starlink is the only option, much like for majority of Africa

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@markpinc Not the same but - I had a founder I really admired but could not figure out how to get ahold of him during Covid when we were raising (he holed himself up in aspen!) so I had to find someone that used to be part of his book club to introduce me 😝worked out alright in the end

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De nuevo están de moda las rubias con tetas grandes

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@omooretweets @Riyvir do b2b billboards actually work? Or is it just a flex

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@miramurati Grats on the reveal! :)

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@AnjneyMidha It’s been even more impossible to rent B200s!

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@FactoryAI Can you show glm 5.1 and Kimi 2.6?

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@andrewchen 100%. Rented a B200 for the team to test just now. Gotta see if the claims of a local hosted opus 4.6 is true 😅

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@pmarca working on it. Did ~1B opus 4.6 tokens yesterday over 9 hours. Using vector + embeddings for increased/dynamic memory and have multiplexer+load balancer spreading out the work.

Cost is quite manageable already for this setup

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@BetterCallMedhi Of course this pops up on my feed after I posted this 😂

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Drones are used in China to remove accumulated snow from electrical cables. The goal is to reduce the weight so the cables don’t break or fall.

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100%. I think you and I talked about this over a year ago on here before “Chinese tech” became a daily mainstay on X.

I openly discuss this with my colleagues but we’ve gone from having Chinese clone and imitate our tech (west) to us needing to do the same. I showed a Nero’s drone to the same cousin aforementioned and the guy sent me a student project with exact same specs saying it was built with $800. Now, the Neros drone is touted as being $500… but that’s with economy of scale and at least 10,000 MOQ I’m guessing. Students are able to build something a one off at “only” +60% of the price is crazy.

Furthermore, these guys are getting exposure to real world use cases. I think in the last Marc Andreessen podcast posted just yesterday, he mentioned “Thomas Edison thought the phonograph would be used to listen to sermons” hinting that not even the inventors can predict what their inventions are for. This also applies to investors <> investees and consumers <> products…

… where I’m getting at is, when I went to Beijing for the first time. I started talking to taxi drivers - and all of whom had a great understanding of drone limitations, local regulations around them, etc. you do that in the west and you’ll get blank stares.

Now why is that? In China, these drones are already being deployed commercially. They’re being used to inspect and diagnose air conditioning units outside of the 100s of thousands of high rise apartments crowding up cities like Beijing. Anyone walking past these experiments can see in broad daylight what is happening and get inspired for what may be the future.

Furthermore I went outside of the city a bit more to look at “smart grids” - the government is deploying drones to not only diagnose problems, but also already using them for light maintenance. It was crazy to see.I was like “wtf is a smart grid?” And he explained to me that with a city as dense as Beijing, throughput of electricity is not an easy problem to solve and generators are placed 100s of Km away (keep in mind, this is Beijing, which is fortified by many mountains - ex: Great Wall). The “smart grid” essentially optimizes and controls when to send the most power. Ex: residential areas drop usage by as much as 80% during work hours. There was no need to route that much power there at that time. The infra is still old so physical failures still happen (think circuit breakers when u mess with the flow of electricity through it) - it needed to be physically inspected and fixed once in while. system failure would be catastrophic in such a dense city.

They were using the drones to sustainably and efficiently manage the physical part of the “smart grid” that was previously impossible to handle even with the sheer amount of human labor in China.

This was just 1 day of my trip in Beijing. While I came back optimistic about many things that the west DOES do better… understanding the sheer size of what’s being orchestrated on the other side of the world is something every western employee/founder/exec needs to see imo.

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@ns123abc Don’t need to tell Claude you’re doing a bug bounty when you can just edit the Claude master prompt directly.

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Surprise, surprise

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I believe DeepSeek’s recent developments should not be misconstrued as a mere demonstration of Chinese assertiveness or an attempt to undermine Western technology. Rather, it represents a meticulously orchestrated defensive strategy by both China’s private sector and government to forestall the imposition of more severe sanctions by an increasingly “China-hawkish” U.S. administration, exemplified by actions against platforms like TikTok.

A significant challenge in enforcing punitive measures against China to establish a reciprocal technological relationship—ensuring equal opportunities for app launches in both China and the U.S.—lies in the realm of open-source technology.

China is acutely aware of this dynamic. The release of DeepSeek, notably timed on the eve of the Lunar New Year (poor timing for Chinese employees), serves as a preemptive measure against potential U.S. actions. It is not a coincidence that this happened shortly after Trump's inauguration - where many tech have been advising Trump significantly on the topic of US v. China tech.

By introducing Deepkseek, an advanced open-source codebase, China not only showcases its technological capabilities but also complicates the U.S.‘s ability to impose punitive measures, as such actions could hinder global technological collaboration from which the U.S. also benefits.

This scenario underscores China’s confidence in its global positioning. By willingly sharing substantial value now, China aims to continue reaping the benefits of global technological collaboration, thereby deterring potential sanctions, while simultaneously maintaining a closed domestic market for its consumers.

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@venturetwins On the bright side, I’ve never made more new friends than recently by bonding over shared love for this country through topics such as these.

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@elonmusk Fun fact, this company then became the first wholly owned subsidiary acquired by Tencent (China) in the US, for the purpose of "penetrating entertainment in the US"

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Haha multiplayer mmo in three.js is also my test too.

BTW here's a tip that I think a lot people haven't caught onto yet/unvalue:

Microsoft copilot w/ auto public github repo access is extremely good. Also costs way less per token than Cursor.

Try Copilot if you havent, I think you might be pleasantly surprised.

(on a sad note: just wasted 70% of my ultra plan on Cursor due to switching to copilot)

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@martin_casado https://t.co/8sGVu6lvQB cool article if you haven’t seen already!

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