A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web This Page is Designed to Last By Jeff Huang , published 2019-12-19, updated 2021-08-24 The end of the year is an opportunity to clean up and reset for the
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We invited Patrick McKenzie to talk about the business side of writing during our 2021 Substack On! conference. Below, you’ll find Patrick’s insights on business matters such as: Which type of busines
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There is an experimentally conversational version of this piece with insightful annotations from my friend Matt at Stanford. Also, this piece inspired a much longer and much more biting analysis of el
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Summary: I share my early experiments with OpenAI's new language prediction model (GPT-3) beta. I explain why I think GPT-3 has disruptive potential comparable to that of blockchain technology. OpenAI
by Jason Crawford · July 13, 2019 · 11 min read The bicycle, as we know it today, was not invented until the late 1800s. Yet it was a simple mechanical invention. It would seem to
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