
Isaac Liu
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Isaac Liu
@IsaacJLiu
Data Scientist. Stats & ML @UCBerkeley. WVian. (Romanized) Liu Yi-An.








insane sequence of statements buried in an Alibaba tech report




People don't like being forced into prisoner's dilemmas they didn't ask for and it is macro-level rational for them to feel resistance and indeed resentment toward that.

how did we ever write all that code by hand


I think you can make a case that SF/Silicon Valley is America’s first city. NYC is a much better city as a city; arguably America’s only “real” city. But SF is more important today in terms of its significance, and that has been true for 20 years now, whereas NYC is (relatively) in decline. What, for example. is the last big idea out of NYC? For SF/Silicon Valley this is easy, you can make a whole list of them. But for NYC it’s harder. The city is more a consumption experience now. Same with Los Angeles. The core industry Hollywood is in serious trouble and appears liable to being colonized by SF at this point. LA is extremely livable and has the best “vibes” and weather of any city in the US in my opinion, but again, what’s the last big idea out of LA that you can think of? Like New York, LA is eating the seed corn a bit at this point I love Chicago, it will always be the quintessential “big city” to me because it was the one I visited more than any other as kid growing up in downstate Illinois, but it’s more the past than the future. America’s second city I think is either Miami or Houston or Phoenix or Atlanta. These are the places where the new US civilization is rising most quickly, and which define the US better today than any others

