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Umar Akram
@helloumar
i build technologies and design businesses. Writing short stories at https://t.co/8FotbD3RLJ
🌍 Katılım Mart 2007
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Naval: “We have to nurture optimism. We have to reward optimism. We have to be irrationally optimistic, because that’s the only way out of this anyway.”
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Winston Churchill's collected works. Somehow he managed to write all of these as well as being a politician. He mostly dictated them, but that's just as much work for the brain, if not for the hand.
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I am hiring for the coolest, funnest job ever (speaking from experience, here).
If you’re an operator and want to break into VC, reach out!
Perks: free housing in Silicon Valley & traveling the world w me to meet global founders.
(We support relocation ✨)
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The EUs ability to make the absolute worst decisions for the consumers, businesses and entrepreneurs is unparalleled.
"Starting February 18, 2027, new smartphones and tablets must be designed so that end users can remove and replace the battery themselves using standard tools. Adhesive bonds that require heat to be removed will then be largely prohibited."
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We are proud to double down on our seed investment in Scout by leading their $100M series A. Colby and Collin are world-class entrepreneurs and technologists.
Between seed and Series A, Scout’s vision language and action (VLA) model was deployed in the field by their government and commercial customers.
Freedom is not free. Edge intelligence is the future, and its applications range from industrial security, deterrent for global conflicts, and cyber security.
With Scout, the world is a safer and better place for everyone.
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No country has a fully mature, large scale commercial thorium reactor fleet yet.
Umar Akram@helloumar
Nuclear energy as a Service and the waste must be reutilised. Norway sits on 15% of world’s #thorium. A small minor fraction is enough for the whole world to consume for years. #energy #nuclear #future
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@samhogan 1. A language model can learn everything we have the knowledge to teach it.
2. It cannot create new knowledge.
3. We will always need to create new knowledge for the LLM to learn and utilize
Our knowledge creation is the bottle neck of the LLMs, which is good for both of us :)
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LLMs will need to become a lot more biased to be useful for decision-making.
The current “even Steven” neutrality makes them great for high school essays and code, but almost useless when an actual decision has to be made. Decisions require bias and choosing one view of the world over others and acting on it.
“Attention is all you need” as the now famous genesis paper on LLMs implies exclusion. To focus is to ignore. That’s how creativity works, how businesses operate, and how scientists decide what to pursue: by committing to a particular belief about how the world works or might unfold.
Much of that bias will be wrong. That’s unavoidable. But some of it will be right. There’s no way to know which without trial and error.
In other words, even AI have to obey the laws of physics and what Wolfram calls computational irreducibility.
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@peterrhague There is no argument against exploring the frontiers.
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I am trying to steelman anti-space arguments for an article, but I am genuinely finding it tough because these people have got so far out over their skis. They’ve had uninterrupted feedback from only people who agree for so long that it’s hard to find where their arguments connect to reality.
People get to the point of publishing entire books without ever having encountered an opposing view, it seems
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Me: “please say space laser, please say space laser, please say space laser.”
K2 Space Corporation@K2SpaceCo
In its recently submitted budget, the Space Force calls out K2 Space by name for an important collaboration in 2027: demonstrating optical data links (laser communications) in MEO for emerging space architectures, including Golden Dome. Dr. John Plumb, K2’s Head of Strategy, spoke this week with SpaceNews to describe how K2’s high power, affordable satellites are accelerating the Pentagon’s ability to conduct these laser comms demonstrations from MEO, including both space-to-space and space-to-ground links, as part of our Trinity mission in 2027. Check out the full discussion here: spacenews.com/space-force-ta…
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should we build this as a public service to founders?
Nikunj Kothari@nikunj
@paulbz I wish there was a public register for this
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“Without revealing my sources, I can say the beginning of the story depends substantially on Western innovation stolen by China.”
Matt Ocko (@mattocko) pulls back the curtain on the geopolitical tech race, responding to Leland Miller's insights. Hear him talk about China's "Everest" climb started with someone else's hardware.
“They're going to plow as much money as possible into these sectors... it doesn't matter if they're stealing IP or conducting espionage.”
@DCVC @USCC_GOV
Suffiyan Malik@suffiyanmalikk
E26: A conversation with @mattocko, the Cofounder and Co-Managing Partner of @DCVC, a firm he started with @zackbogue 16 years ago. Matt started his career at @Oracle and then went on to join a $1 billion AUM fund called Helix Investments in the 90s where he learnt the lesson that venture is 90% people from Ben Webster. Matt coined the term “deeptech” almost a quarter of a century ago with @FutureJurvetson on a late 1999 winter night when they were talking about quantum computing being an investable category. DCVC has been investing in deeptech since its inception and has invested in companies like @RocketLab , @oklo, @planet, @agilityrobotics, @SentinelOne , @RecursionPharma, @confluentinc, @EvolvTechnology and many more. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 04:45 - The Oracle Mafia 08:45 - Why venture outcomes are 90% people? 12:45 - The Great Man Theory 16:45 - What It Takes To Build a DeepTech Franchise? 20:45 - Customer trust in deeptech 24:45 - Disucssing Latus Bio 28:45 - How Moore’s Law and open-source enabled modern deeptech 32:45 - Validating nuclear energy on venture dollars 36:45 - The strategic failure of Chinese supply chain dependency 40:45 - What policy changes we need to decouple from China? 48:45 - Protecting energy markets and homeowner Equity 52:45 - How Pivot Bio disrupts global fertilizer monopolies 56:45 - The parallel journeys of Peter Beck and Elon Musk 1:00:45 - It takes a team to execute on vision 1:04:45 - Why every failed investment comes back to people 1:08:45 - First to market vs. first to scale 1:12:45 - You need a 100x better product at seed 1:16:45 - Overcoming the risk aversion of market 1:20:45 - Tidal Metals and the future of critical minerals 1:24:45 - Culture for successful organizations 1:28:45 - Closing @Peter_J_Beck @Will4Planet @RecursionChris @jaykreps
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“You have to have people that other people want to be around, even if they're demanding, even if they're high performance.”
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“If you hire people who are brilliant but who are self-aggrandizing a-holes, eventually you're gonna be left with them and the cringing minions they hire.”
Matt Ocko (@mattocko) shares the hiring philosophy at DCVC (@DCVC), emphasizing that the best firms are built by people who are not only "smarter and harder working" than the founders but are fundamentally decent humans.
“You have to have people that other people want to be around, even if they're demanding, even if they're high performance.”
Suffiyan Malik@suffiyanmalikk
E26: A conversation with @mattocko, the Cofounder and Co-Managing Partner of @DCVC, a firm he started with @zackbogue 16 years ago. Matt started his career at @Oracle and then went on to join a $1 billion AUM fund called Helix Investments in the 90s where he learnt the lesson that venture is 90% people from Ben Webster. Matt coined the term “deeptech” almost a quarter of a century ago with @FutureJurvetson on a late 1999 winter night when they were talking about quantum computing being an investable category. DCVC has been investing in deeptech since its inception and has invested in companies like @RocketLab , @oklo, @planet, @agilityrobotics, @SentinelOne , @RecursionPharma, @confluentinc, @EvolvTechnology and many more. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 04:45 - The Oracle Mafia 08:45 - Why venture outcomes are 90% people? 12:45 - The Great Man Theory 16:45 - What It Takes To Build a DeepTech Franchise? 20:45 - Customer trust in deeptech 24:45 - Disucssing Latus Bio 28:45 - How Moore’s Law and open-source enabled modern deeptech 32:45 - Validating nuclear energy on venture dollars 36:45 - The strategic failure of Chinese supply chain dependency 40:45 - What policy changes we need to decouple from China? 48:45 - Protecting energy markets and homeowner Equity 52:45 - How Pivot Bio disrupts global fertilizer monopolies 56:45 - The parallel journeys of Peter Beck and Elon Musk 1:00:45 - It takes a team to execute on vision 1:04:45 - Why every failed investment comes back to people 1:08:45 - First to market vs. first to scale 1:12:45 - You need a 100x better product at seed 1:16:45 - Overcoming the risk aversion of market 1:20:45 - Tidal Metals and the future of critical minerals 1:24:45 - Culture for successful organizations 1:28:45 - Closing @Peter_J_Beck @Will4Planet @RecursionChris @jaykreps
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Jessica and I have been talking about how earnest Swedish founders seem. Obviously it's news to no one that Swedes would be earnest. But I don't think they themselves realize how valuable this quality is for founders specifically.
paulgraham.com/earnest.html
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Apple's curated app store, the human interface guidelines, the design polish, the ecosystem lock-in - all of it becomes irrelevant when the interface itself is generated in real time by an AI that runs on any phone. - Naval
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If I was young today, I would work in the space industry.
For decades, Western pop culture has framed orbit as either apocalypse backdrop or billionaire playground.
That steady drip of doom is a mind-virus. It turns curiosity into paralysis.
Kids don’t just worry about climate change; they fear it.
They don’t just dislike fossil fuels; they dream of smashing the grid instead of re-engineering it.
Activists scoop them up when engineering schools should. If you don't believe in the future you won't invest in it.
Space is harsh, airless, and filled with opportunity.
Launch costs are collapsing; a reusable highway to orbit is taking shape, and with it whole industries.
Commercial stations are queued to succeed the ISS, Varda is already flying factory cargo home from orbit, and we will still be putting permanent settling on the Moon.
Generation Alpha won’t just stream the countdown of yet another SpaceX chopstick event.
They’ll clock in above the Kármán line. So if you’re choosing a major, or mentoring someone who is, remember: the help-wanted signs are already blinking in orbit.
Look up!
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