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Smarter about the future. Strategic consulting, product leadership, emerging tech and generative ai.

[Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn]

The 2021 AI Index Report has just been released!

We analyze global trends in technical performance, economics, R&D, diversity, education, ethics, and more.

Check it out:
https://t.co/ols5XY3cRD

@indexingai @StanfordHAI @DigEconLab #AI #MachineLearning

#AIIndex2021

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

"Theory is when you know something, but it doesn’t work. Practice is when something works, but you don’t know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don’t know why." - Unknown

[Figma @figma]

With the 2010's coming to a close, we didn't want to miss the opportunity to reflect on a major shift in tech this decade -- The rise of design.

12 industry experts explain how it happened.

Take a seat, grab a coffee and read our 3,137 word recap 😅: https://t.co/SvBs5GwYVl

[Chad Rigetti @ChadRigetti]

Technology moves fast.

April 1, 2010: quantum computers on Amazon Web Services is an April fools day joke. https://t.co/XhJDzN3L8P

December 2, 2019: quantum computers are live and available on AWS, powered by @rigetti 🎉🎉

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[Bloomberg Opinion @opinion]

Netflix owes $32 billion in coming years for TV series and movies, plus debt repayments, lease costs and other expenses.

That's 115 times Netflix’s peak year of cash generation https://t.co/tfdEICZqeP

[Fate meh @Fatalmeh]

Did it go unnoticed that @Libra_ Association recently changed its Articles of Association ("AoA")?

New AoA have way more details, and several notable changes - other than nicer prose - which are worth highlighting.

I list some of them in this thread (1/21)
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[Brave @brave]

"Brave has an unapologetic focus on user privacy and comes with a radical reimagining of how online advertising ought to work" in "What is the Brave Browser, and How Does It Compare to Chrome?" via @howtogeek - https://t.co/9kvYdkzZvo

[Dessa @dessa]

💥That feeling when: your work is the subject of a @nytimes TV episode! It's been amazing working on this with @davidbarstow and @TheWeekly to spread the word about deepfakes & their impact on society. Watch the full episode on @FXNetworks this Sunday: https://t.co/msPKftgDdC

[The Verge @verge]

Snap Spectacles 3 review: here we go again

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

Honey, GoodRx, FabFitFun, Kite, Dave, Sweetgreen, SpaceX, Riot Games, Tinder, Snap, etc etc.

Nothing happening in LA folks, move right along.

The common theme seems to be wildly misunderstood businesses outside the SaaS mold of the Bay.

[MIT Technology Review @techreview]

You can like technology *and* the humanities. https://t.co/8M1znXpegs

[New York Times Books @nytimesbooks]

Few previous books have surveyed the history of user-centered design from the origins of American product design as a profession in the 1920s to the latest wearables and beyond https://t.co/9JFEb5qaVO

[Julien Bergounhoux @JBergounhoux]

"Extreme augmented reality" demo from @nvidia at #MWCLA19 thanks to 5G and the cloud. Announcement of the Cloud XR SDK, in early access today.

[Bloomberg Economics @economics]

Why Zillow went from online real estate ads to flipping homes https://t.co/yR9lpqdmvx

[›VĄŘ8Åΰ˚ @varbaico]

"Here’s what happens when you give the system a one-sentence prompt and invite it to write the rest of this article" https://t.co/u1pmr3gqVu

[Mario Klingemann💧💦 @quasimondo]

Hammertime. 😱
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[Nathaniel Popper @nathanielpopper]

Blockchain folks like to say the tech eliminates single points of failure. Bruce Schneier points out that blockchains have just introduced several new single points of failure: "the cryptography, the protocols, the software, the computers and the network" https://t.co/8dEJBTa9OJ

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

You can read the AI Transformation Playbook here https://t.co/5OSTcnoSeY

[›VĄŘ8Åΰ˚ @varbaico]

The Executive’s AI Playbook https://t.co/7n8wXoHdMg