Parker Ence

@JohnKoelliker @thogge Didn’t realize there was another way to sign things?

@thogge @parkerence please make sure you sign all investor updates “Parker, MBA (from the GSB)”

I am immediately skeptical of those who choose to lead with a credential or degree in their social media profiles. Example: - , MBA (the worst) - “former HBS / GSB”

@AndrewYNg steveblank.com/secret-history/

A little known part of the origin story of LLMs: A lot of early Natural Language Processing research was funded by US intelligence agencies that had an interest in machine translation (and also speech recognition). This funding helped develop benchmarks, grow communities and nurture researcher interest in translation research disproportionate to its commercial application, and led to new foundational technologies motivated by translation. For example, the transformer paper was originally a paper on mapping from one language to another; now we use transformers to map from a prompt to a response. The most widely used tokenizer (BPE) was also popularized in a paper studying how to translate words not seen in the training set. More on this piece of NLP history in my letter in The Batch! deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issu…

Business-Friendly States Are Growing at the Expense of Those that Tax and Spend natl.io/5SJ4Zr

The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.h…

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We awarded Dr Mason's Team our own "Oscars" for their presentation video! Also, thanks to @JL_Bakery for the cake!

“‘Don’t follow your passion. What you take out of the world...is much less…” — @ProductHunt @producthunt/ben-horowitz-s-best-startup-advice-7e8c09c8de1b#---178-435.sctiip2za" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@producthunt/b…

@bjnovak The Book With No Pictures is the best kids book- my kids were dying laughing - thanks :)

from "Smart People Should Build Things" by Andrew Yang. thx @pmarca for the tip 👍🏼

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How to Sound Smart in a TED Talk: A Funny Primer by Saturday Night Live‘s Will Stephen goo.gl/2COEgw

Excited to appear on @NextLevel_Show in Dallas taking about @dentalwarranty & entrepreneurship twitter.com/NextLevel_Show

Which presidential candidates have raised the most money so far? statista.com/chart/4304/fun…

Biggest predictor of massive success vs. minor success among founders: years and years of relentless determination.

"If you hang around effective startups, you generally become effective. Hang around ineffective startups, you always become ineffective."

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'Horror Stories Lurk in Spreadsheets of Personal Computers' (1986) news.google.com/newspapers?nid…

New office space is finally coming together - I'll have to make up a reason for an "important"… instagram.com/p/2mItx3sd7m/

Mr. Parker Ence @dentalwarranty looking dapper with Challenger the Eagle. #CrownCouncil #AnnualEvent instagram.com/p/10uBtHNQqM/