Ish Smith

Hoyas 🏀, my island 🇵🇷, education/data/tech 🤓 | @antifiatclub & @mhousedotclub member - NFT & web3 enthusiast

[Ish Smith @maelosmith]

@jspujji ONBOARD

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Context on just how staged this is, Sharon would have had to walk past the WH to get to where her car was parked…

[DoorDash Impact @DoorDashImpact]

Most deliveries don’t end at the @WhiteHouse.

This one did!

Sharon, a Dasher and grandma from Arkansas, made the delivery to @POTUS and shared her thanks for No Tax on Tips — helping millions keep more of what they earn.

When Dashers make their voices heard, real change happens.

Join DashRoots and be part of what’s next: https://t.co/1KxuVSk3hk

[Ish Smith @maelosmith]

@MitcheIl AGENT

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@gregisenberg Would LOVE this!! Great idea

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@businessbarista Claude

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@doctorow So sad I missed my chance at a physical copy of Canny Valley, it’s absolutely beautiful. Thanks for providing the digital collages!

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@tallergraficopr Ni que Amazon best seller 🤡

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Darling Jake dancing on @BarstoolBigCat’s grave

[Jake Marsh @JakeMarsh18]

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[Ish Smith @maelosmith]

@itsmarcosruiz Video

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

Not a lot of people understand this... but you actually don’t have to have an opinion about everything. You don’t have to decide if something is good or bad. Marcus Aurelius says limiting the amount of opinions we have is one of the most powerful things we can do in life.

[Ish Smith @maelosmith]

@AskCoachKev 8

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@carloai @IAmPascio SEND

[Ish Smith @maelosmith]

@vicgasco Estaría interesante ver tu proceso de aprendizaje también! De cero hasta la publicación de la canción. Yo vería una serie de youtube del proceso.

[Ish Smith @maelosmith]

Day 1 of Ship 30 for 30!

[Ish Smith @maelosmith]

@henrythe9ths AI Guide

[Henry Shi @henrythe9ths]

There's a shocking fact about AI that nobody tells you: You can catch up to the public AI research frontier in just 2 weeks. Yes, really.

I've built a $150M annual revenue startup over the last 8 years and If I were to start a company today, I’d drop everything and go all-in on AI.

But like many busy software builders, I felt lost—overwhelmed by the noisy, crowded and fast-moving modern AI landscape. And I wasn’t alone.

So I spent my entire holiday diving deep into AI research—reading 30+ papers, watching hours of lectures, analyzing trends, and catching up to the research frontier.

✨ Here’s what I learned:
- You don’t need months (or years) to catch up.
- You don’t need a PhD or decades of ML experience.
- You need fewer than 20 papers and 2 weeks to understand the major breakthroughs shaping AI today.

It's because the technology is extremely nascent and most techniques that came before are no longer relevant:
- ChatGPT is barely 2 years old and Transformers are only 7 years old.
- Most game-changing discoveries happened within the last 4 years, driven by a few breakthrough ideas, scaling laws, and efficient matrix multiplication.

The biggest secret?
Many groundbreaking AI papers with thousands of citations are surprisingly simple and applied, like adding "let's think step by step" to the prompt, or simply asking the LLM over and over again to improve its answer (Self-Refine).

I realized there are tons of founders and builders in the same boat—wanting to dive deeper into AI but unsure where to start.

I've created an essential AI Guide that helped me catch up, in just 2 weeks, to the frontier of public AI research to figure out where the next opportunities and gaps were:
- Curated list of only the most important papers
- Simple explanations of key concepts
- Clear pathway to understanding the frontier of modern AI

It’s perfect for:
- Founders expanding into AI
- Builders wanting to innovate at the frontier of AI
- Investors looking to separate the signal from the noise

👇 Want the full guide?
- Like and Share this post
- Comment "AI Guide"
- I'll send you the complete guide

(ps, I’m also teaming up with @VishalVasishth, co-founder of @obviousvc with @ev (focused on large-scale societal impact companies like Twitter, Medium, Beyond Meat), to host a small meetup to discuss what's working and needs to be solved in the AI stack in SF. Message me if you're interested)

[Ish Smith @maelosmith]

I just hopped aboard Ship 30 for 30 from @dickiebush and @Nicolascole77!

Can't wait to learn the fundamentals of digital writing & start publishing every day alongside hundreds of others in the community.

Check it out!👇🏼🚢

https://t.co/1EVYztqXfX

[Ish Smith @maelosmith]

@julito77 @axios @TelemundoNews Their last newsletter includes the following headline: “Latinos always have and always will matter”.

Make it make sense.

[Ish Smith @maelosmith]

@axios Axios Latino shutting down is incredibly disappointing and shortsighted.

Their last newsletter includes the following headline: “Latinos always have and always will matter”.

Make it make sense.

[Yelena Hazim @YelenaHazim]

RESULTADOS HISTÓRICOS DEL PIP

1960 - 3.1%
1964 - 2.8%
1968 - 3.5%
1972 - 5.4%
1976 - 5.7%
1980 - 5.4%
1984 - 3.6%
1988 - 5.5%
1992 - 4.2%
1996 - 3.8%
2000 - 5.7%
2004 - 2.7%
2008 - 2.0%
2012 - 2.5% (JD)
2016 - 2.1%
2020 - 13.72 (JD)

2024 - 31.55%********* (JD)

2028 👀