Spencer Weiss

🔮🔺 || Penn M&T '20 || TJHSST '16 || Eat, Sleep(?), Repeat

[Spencer Weiss @WeissGuy23]

@chitrakokkirala Lmao the number of people who have asked me this 🙃

[Rodney @_ChanFace]

After many sleepless nights, I present to you: My Washington DC Metro Timeline!

High Quality PDF Link: https://t.co/MXb4BHnnsl

#WashingtonDC #WMATA @wmata

[Spencer Weiss @WeissGuy23]

Getting COVID now that vaccines have been approved but not yet administered to everyone would be like dying in one of the Civil war battles after the surrender at Appomattox but before word of it had spread to everyone

[Spencer Weiss @WeissGuy23]

This is the most mind-blowing mashup effort I’ve heard since danger mouse’s work on The Grey Album. 👏 👏 👏 I think it’s probably best appreciated if you’re very familiar with GKMC and MBDTF but worth a listen even if not.

https://t.co/GDJ7GpyxwG

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

On funding people vs projects in science, a thorough review: https://t.co/6UG4O9HsHF.

[Spencer Weiss @WeissGuy23]

RIP to DOOM

https://t.co/2Z9jki88lN

[Spencer Weiss @WeissGuy23]

AlphaFold2 is even more shocking than the original AlphaFold

https://t.co/7FFs7K1JgF

[Spencer Weiss @WeissGuy23]

Another concept that I hadn’t fully articulated in my head, but is put so cogently here:

https://t.co/Sh3ZLZpa6r

And it turns out there is a beautiful solution!

[Spencer Weiss @WeissGuy23]

@ayyyhuang 100% agree. I guess you have to look for the approach a bit. And such a wholesome guy. 🙃

[Spencer Weiss @WeissGuy23]

I couldn’t have articulated my viewpoint any better, so I’ll link this:

https://t.co/p3Q3wv04m7

And 😍 for all the teachers over the years who take a systems approach and inspire awe

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Shall I compare Smart Reply to a summer’s day? https://t.co/YBFvNmYD9O

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

Meanwhile, this is great news.

[modest proposal @modestproposal1]

Awesome piece by @ballmatthew ostensibly on the history and future of audio. But also a great lesson on how technology shifts impact business models, and new business models impact incentives around content forms, changing the underlying media itself.

https://t.co/yfcuusjJxd

[Lucy L. Gao @lucylgao]

"Double-dipping" - generating a hypothesis based on your data, and then testing the hypothesis on that same data - is dangerous. To see this, let's take data with no signal at all ... 1/

[Spencer Weiss @WeissGuy23]

This is phenomenal. I learned a lot.

https://t.co/mEekeJPv1J

[Spencer Weiss @WeissGuy23]

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https://t.co/LuOuJElrL9

[Spencer Weiss @WeissGuy23]

On under-pricing of and lack of access to IPO shares. I'm not sure that SPACs are the ideal solution, but this is a great analysis of the problem. (Spoiler alert: underwriter incentives are hilariously misaligned.)

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC | Above the Crowd | By Bill Gurley https://t.co/HwawTxaW9a

[Spencer Weiss @WeissGuy23]

And in the nick of time, here’s evidence that Door #4 for a direct listing with capital raise might be on the way!

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

YES!