Well, folks, I promised you I’d be working on interviews on Things of Internet this year. And what a fine way to start this will be. Utsav Mamoria is a dear friend who runs a short-format travel podcast called Postcards from Nowhere. It’s a travel podcast but rather than give influencer-style clickbait about places to visit, Utsav encourages you to slow …

Welcome to BIG, a newsletter on the politics of monopoly power. If you’d like to sign up to receive issues over email, you can do so here. Google just lost its first antitrust trial, as a San Francisco jury returned a decision that Google harmed rival Epic Games, maker of the popular video game Fortnite, in the $48 billion dollar app store Android market…

As formerly (thankfully!) striking writers justifiably emphasized, AI is transforming Hollywood. It already has. The major streaming services have long used artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance overall viewing experiences, accelerating cord cutting – and fundamentally transforming Hollywood economics - in the …

Next Week in The Sequence: Edge 329: The second installment of our series about fine-tuning covers the different types of fine-tuning methods, MIT’s research around multi-task prompt tuning and the Lamini platform. Edge 330: We discuss DSPy, a new language model programming framework that represents an alternative to LangChain an…

I have just got back from an epic month of travelling. I have been to Trinec in the Czech Republic twice, flying into Katovice and then Krakow airports, and then driving two hours. Its the first t…

Members, Just a quick tactical note. This will be informal and concise. About 2 Months ago during the SVB crisis back in March, I found opportunities to help our folks here to take advantage of tactical disloc…

We took part in a quick rapid fire interview with Larry Cheung, CFA covering AI, geopolitics, financial markets, and other areas we frequently speak about. Larry Cheung is a CFA Charterholder, professional Investment Strategist, and the Author of one of Substack's most popular finance newsletters called "Letters from Larry: U.S. & China Investment Strategy." In this ne…

The Best Buy PS5 restock date and time in July 2022 will come to you via my PS5 restock Twitter tracker – follow and turn on notifications. That’s because I’m now tracking where and when the PlayStation 5 is in stock at retailers in the US, including Best Buy, where there has been a PS5 restock nationwide once in July. Now that demand for the Sony cons…

Some of you have been dying for Pittsburgh Steelers content (okay really just one of you) but I didn’t feel the need to write about them. Until now. The Steelers took on the Washington Football Team on Monday afternoon in a game that was postponed because of the Steelers-Ravens game postponement the week before. Pittsburgh entered Monday’s game 11-0 whi…

Welcome to the In The Chips with Barry previews email for the week of 12/7. Let’s get in the chips, shall we? Arnott’s Shapes Variety Pack Yes, sent all the way from Australia by the good folks at Treats From Oz, it’s a snack called “Shapes.” I’m not going to lie, that is not the most imaginative name but then again I don’t taste the name so we’ll leave i…

My company was absolutely crushing it by most standards, but I was stuck there. Tough pill to swallow… I had an “if it needs done, just fucking do it” mentality. This actually got me pretty far, but lead me to brick wall - hard and fast. I reached the max capacity of what I could do “on my own” with a limited team &iIn one sudden moment a realization dev…

Happy Saturday everyone! Can you believe that it’s already December? Time to get started on those New Year Resolutions! Anyway, what happened this week in the finance, tech, and startup world? 🌎

I didn’t want to widely share this video I recorded a year ago – I really didn’t. I was hoping the plethora of dire predictions extrapolated from the Pfizer Covid jab clinical trial data would be incorrect. I thought there was still a possibility that, despite mounting evidence to the contrary, the shots would cause minimal harm.

Andrew Tate has been banned from all major social media platforms. If you’re not familiar with Tate, he is an eccentric, charismatic, and controversial personality figure who has found internet fame among young men and women alike. His primary message encouraged men to embrace their masculinity, take control of their circumstances, and build a life which…

This is The Graffo Broadsheet, a flux of experimental comic strips, comics research, guest artist features, and project reporting from an arts compound that includes a multimedia cartooning & illustration lab and a comics-centric gallery in Silver Spring, MD USA.

This evening’s announcement that the Transition is officially commencing comes as the anxious denizens of the nation’s capital are scouring the roster of the Biden-Harris “agency review teams” to see if our friends and frenemies made it onto these august bodies. But what do “ARTs” actually do?

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over the past few months, i’ve been having a conversation—mostly with myself—about spiciness. i’m not really looking for an answer. in Jamaican cuisine, your meal’s heat is overstated. for the uninitiated, a chicken that’s truly been jerked can taste incendiary, or life-changing, even—at least for a little while. my parents used to throw a lot of parties…

Mom... Said Damien, yes dear his mother replied. Why is this tree so old? What tree said his mother? While I was in the woods behind grandpa’s old machine shop there was a strange looking tree. It’s kinda, well … its covered in that gree….n gross spongy stuff. I know the one your talking about son and that tree has been through years and years of histo…

Scoring Data: Give me the Jags this week coming off of a tough loss against San Francisco. Titans Player Prop Data:

Scoring Data: This one seems pretty even, but I like the Seahawks at home. Commanders Player Prop Data:

Welcome! If you’re new, here is a link to the tutorial on how to use our newsletters: Sports Betting 101 Part 4 Lets dive right in! Scoring Data: Away Team Player Prop Data:

Welcome! If you’re new, here is a link to the tutorial on how to use our newsletters: Sports Betting 101 Part 4 Lets dive right in! Scoring Data: Away Team Player Prop Data:

Scoring Data: I would traditionally pick the Bills here, but with the Bengals at home coming off of that impressive win against the 9ers, they have proven they can beat anyone. Bills Player Prop Data: