Brian Shih

On sabbatical; writing while figuring out what to do with my life. Prev: Pocket Gems, Google, YC. I like games, history, finance, tech, and Dr Pepper.

[Brian Shih @bshih]

@weareyourfek @bmorrissey @rafat @chaykak I have their names tattooed to my forearms so I never forget

[Brian Shih @bshih]

A board game about Taiwanese tea designed by an actual Taiwanese person instead of a European white dude... sign me up! https://t.co/GiH48Oba2E

[Brian Shih @bshih]

ok what if:
- paul = eren yeager
- jessica = grisha yeager, minus the timeline spanning communication (or maybe not?!)
- fremen holy war = the rumbling
- arrakis = paradis
- new film chani = mikasa (including maybe the end of AoT so they don't have to make Dune 6)

[Brian Shih @bshih]

I wrote a recent thing on AI in games that I ended up being pretty happy with. It involves Flappy Bird.

https://t.co/Ulm2aTZdWA

[Brian Shih @bshih]

Tony Tulathimutte in 2016: “It is some wonder how a decades-old, $21 billion industry that outperforms Hollywood could still be considered culturally marginal, but there’s no games editor at the New Yorker — is there?”

7 years later, we’re getting there?
https://t.co/gMouSVDXB6

[Brian Shih @bshih]

the 10th circle of hell

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i have never heard whitman's "i contain multitudes" used to describe dr pepper, but as a fellow enthusiast i simply must agree
https://t.co/4m1RPdQJDR

[The Strange Log @TheStrangeLog]

Babies will no longer become invisible in a mirror when picked up by a vampire.

[Brian Shih @bshih]

At Gencon for the weekend! Time to board game and eat zero vegetables for four days straight.

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the first step towards skynet raising funding for itself https://t.co/Y4qQH16Fjy

[sophie @netcapgirl]

superconductivity so good
slay haha
zero resistance at room temperature
gang gang
yes yes yes so many use cases including ultra efficient energy transmission
thank you lopez
you’re right we do need to wait & see if these results can be reproduced
scientific method so good

[Brian Shih @bshih]

watching season 2 of Jack Ryan... it's like they expanded the last 30 minutes of Bad Boys II into an entire season of TV

[Brian Shih @bshih]

1) What

https://t.co/YHSGT2px95

[Brian Shih @bshih]

@terronk @chrix @dadiomov “How long have they been promising us self driving cars!? You don’t hear much about that from Silicon Valley anymore!”

that's because we're promising autonomous vehicles instead!

as a layman i don't know the difference

[Brian Shih @bshih]

@chrix @terronk @dadiomov Have you ridden in a Tesla with full self driving on? It definitely gets stuck missing lane changes frequently because it is optimizing for safety vs aggressiveness (which I can't say I'm opposed to), so... yeah kind of agree with you.

[Brian Shih @bshih]

I'm taking a sabbatical! As part of this change, I recently started writing online again at: https://t.co/fqIgepINVk

It is (so far) an eclectic mix of musing on tech, culture, and whatever I'm inspired by while trying to figure out what to do with my life.

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

We all know TSMC uses a lot of power, but still shocking to see the growth year-by-year. In 2018, it was using 4.6% of the Taiwan grid. By 2022, it had jumped to 7.5%.

(The units for power consumption is in 100 millions 億 of kWh)

[Brian Shih @bshih]

@chen_yenhan Blue Sky getting a lot of credit here

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How Pandora music hasn't rebranded from "personalized" to "AI powered" is beyond me. Everyone else is doing it!

[Brian Shih @bshih]

AI music gen coming along, though it still feels much further behind relative to text and images

https://t.co/m7zEVivVN1