Ramin G. Far

[Christoph Janz 🕊 @chrija]

ICYMI earlier today - here’s the new SaaS napkin!

https://t.co/0iRHApDTce

[immad @immad]

Y Combinator valuations are up from 1 year ago. Rest of seed market will prob follow

This YC batch:

Pre-revenue in non hot market: ~$15m (was $8m)
2nd time founder and pre-traction: ~$20m (was $12m)
$30k+/month/revenue or hot market: $25m+ (was $15m)

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The median investor in public companies gets below market returns. Investing in startups is at least as hard as investing in public companies, and probably a good deal harder. So why do people think it's going to work out well for individual investors to do it?

[Tim Head, @betatim on the internet @betatim]

Git got two new commands that make it a lot less weird. `git switch` and `git restore` do what their name suggests

https://t.co/WRFvN4uGaa

[Robin Marx @programmingart]

After 6 long years, today the #QUIC protocol has finally become an official IETF RFC, number 9000 no less!

https://t.co/jjdyjsJvNj

To celebrate, I'll be posting #QUIC related threads here over the next week and answering your protocol questions! Ask me anything! #QUICAMA

[Mike Loukides @mikeloukides]

Amazing geekery: building a RISC-V from scratch with discrete 74xxx series ICs. Runs at 500 KHz. https://t.co/REXTlTE688

[Backchannel @backchnnl]

This Chinese Lab Is Aiming for Big AI Breakthroughs https://t.co/YmPsTxGBaV

[Nico Perony @nicolasperony]

ONE TRILLLLLLLION PARAMETERRRRRS!
https://t.co/rm3A04ClGi
#scalinglimitsnope

[Microsoft Research @MSFTResearch]

Microsoft researchers and engineers release Zero Redundancy Optimizer (ZeRO) and DeepSpeed library, a system able to train 100-billion-parameter deep learning models. Learn about this breakthrough and how it led to Turing Natural Language Generation: https://t.co/NY75qYd07a

[Li Jin @ljin18]

New post! To make a living as a creator, you only need 100 true fans, not 1,000.

As social evolves from a "bigger is better" ad-driven model to niche communities with direct user payment, the playbook for how creators succeed also changes.

Thread 👇
https://t.co/eBXkpSzNgE

[Adam Nash @adamnash]

Silicon Valley is rapidly becoming obsessed with remote work, largely due to the housing crisis, brutal talent market, and now Coronavirus.

Hard for me to tell at this point whether it's a real macro trend, or amplification from inside the bubble.

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

“I see this as the beginning of the end for the fossil-fuel system,” Kingsmill Bond, a former analyst with Citibank & Deutsche Bank, and is now with London-based Carbon Tracker. “Who, now, will want to hold the stranded assets of the fossil era?” https://t.co/dzjIzTgsSH

[Ramin G. Far @ramingfar]

OpenAI fine-tuned GPT-2 on The New Yorkers digital archive, nice experiment @jmseabrook @ilyasut @openai https://t.co/n3U0HI42c2

[Ramin G. Far @ramingfar]

"The being prepared for the next thing is so wildly critical"—didn't expect such a deep interview @MKBHD, link to the sec https://t.co/4uB4DlVpuy

[Ramin G. Far @ramingfar]

"You have to incentivize employees on the promise of the upside. Your currency is that promise." Great piece @JohannesReck @chacon @EddieRob235 https://t.co/Foe1NTFUdc

[François Chollet @fchollet]

HuggingFace has ported their very popular Transformer library to TensorFlow 2.0 / Keras.

33 state-of-the-art pretrained NLP models (8 architectures) for 102 languages.

The TF 2.0 conversion unlocks TPU support, TF.js export, TFX serving, and more.

https://t.co/wpqouBJ8Lw

[Zoë Bernard @zoeSaintBernard]

hello i spent the last few weeks speaking to dozens of people who made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and former forbes reporters in order to learn

what it takes to make FORBES 30 UNDER 30

here is the story https://t.co/AtIaBYd8Cl

[Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson]

This is actually my favorite TikTok

[Chad @ChadWestTweets]

Some pay. Others Revolut.