Mark Pors 🦖

Is everyone in Europe dehydrated? Nobody carries water bottles. Water is expensive everywhere and not free at most restaurants. Bathrooms are scarce and often cost money to use. My theory is everyone is ok with this bleak situation because they’re all massively dehydrated, rarely pee, and don’t know the glory of what 1+ gallons of water consumed per day feels like to the human body.

Noam Shazeer - co-author of the Transformer, T5, and Switch Transformer papers, and one of the pioneers of sparse MoE models - is leaving his VP Engineering / Gemini co-lead role at Google DeepMind to join OpenAI This is likely the most significant AI talent move of the year. It makes you wonder what’s going on at Google

Harshita Arora was 17 when she cofounded AtoB and got into YC. I was 27 when I cofounded Posterous and got into YC. Nicolas Dessaigne was 37 when he cofounded Algolia and got into YC It doesn’t matter what age you are. YC is the community to join to go fast when starting.

有钱就是好，想买啥买啥！ SpaceX 行驶收购 Cursor 的选择权。

My biggest shock today was that America still has post offices, like ones you can actually walk into with your stuff and package it and they help you send it out We don't have them in most of Europe anymore You have tiny little counters in dirty tobacco shop and a tiny DPD or DHL or PostNL branded counter with agressive staff that really do not want to help you, and no they don't have boxes Here's a FedEx post office we walked in today, they have envelopes, boxes, bubble wraps, everything! You'll say but FedEx is private, yes you mean like most European postal companies now that are also private? Just something as basic as this is abundance and we don't have it anymore in Europe