Chrix Finne
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@JeremyLNeufeld Without OPT I would not have been able to work in the US after my Stanford PhD in machine learning. Even with OPT as is I actually ran out of money because of the (sometimes) unreasonably long wait times (mine was 8 months) during which you can't work at all
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Multi-modal sensing with lidars, cameras, and radars really helps in achieving the high safety bar we’re setting for ourselves.
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Not a lot of new #palisadesfire info this morning. Images from GOES-West infrared fire temp satellite star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/fulldisk.…
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We recently began serving riders in Austin, and it’s great to see the safety benefits of the @Waymo Driver already playing out for both our riders and other road users.
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Really didn’t expect this moment. What an absolute honor. Cannot wait to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in 44 days. 🇺🇸
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@criccomini OK cool but where's the obnoxious 🧵 with your investment thesis!
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Many of you know I've been angel investing for a while now. Today I'm excited to announce the next step: I've started Materialized View Capital.
MVC is a micro VC fund that lets me continue doing what I enjoy, and take some friends along for the ride.
materializedview.capital
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Shelter inflation is 5.5%; "everything else" inflation is 2.2%. The problem is housing; the solution is more homes.
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Congrats to both @gammaapp and @voicepanel on their recent fundraises!! The @Optimizely alumni community continues to amaze - way to go @koomen and @dsiroker!
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Serious question:
Why are people doing this?
Gia Vang@Gia_Vang
BREAKING: An autonomous Waymo vehicle is intentionally set on fire in Chinatown, according to SF Fire. Firefighters said they got reports around 10 people were involved. Waymo said “a crowd surrounded and vandalized the vehicle, breaking the window and throwing a firework …
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Was given this for my birthday. Really enjoying reading it. Very light. Mashes together math, history, travel, and games.
amazon.com/gp/aw/d/154160…
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These are the media outlets covering the latest allegations of plagiarism within Harvard leadership.
Are any of these "liberal"?
Or is mainstream media avoiding this topic again?
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Okay, a small grievance about music notation: having to read every note of a chromatic/diatonic/octatonic/whole tone/etc. scale is a massive PITA l, especially when every note is the same duration. Wish we had shorthand for that
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Congrats to Nile on the launch today! I remember building my first database backed app using Microsoft ASP/IIS and Access 😮 running on an extra PC in high school. The progress since, now with Nile—a database that is both serverless and tenant-aware—is just amazing.
Ram@sriramsubram
🚀 I am excited to announce that we have raised 11.6M in seed funding led by @ericvishria at Benchmark to build Serverless Postgres for Modern SaaS. thenile.dev/blog/funding-s…
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@chrix Uncertain since nearly all these costs can be dissolved in energy cost.
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If, like me, you toss and turn of an evening wondering what the solar PV cost curve fit would look like if it was weighted by production, wonder no more.
It doesn't make much sense to equally weight production of a few MW of solar in the 1970s, given that the major cost drivers today are occurring on 500 GW/year scale, so I reweighted the curve accordingly. What we see is that the solar cost curve is more like 44% than the usually quoted 25-30%, mostly as a result of finding product-market fit in the last decade.
What is means is that for every doubling of cumulative production, cost declines by 44%! Currently, we're doubling roughly every 2 years.
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