Yiren Lu

Yiren Lu

No More Hustleporn: A Taylor Swift concert is a combination of music concert and broadway play costing over $100M.

Tweet by Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ https://twitter.com/FreightAlley    @FreightAlley:                 A Taylor Swift concert is a combination of music concert and broadway play costing over $100M.     Ever wonder what the logistics is for the one of the most expensive concert tours in history?  1/      @FreightAlley:                 The logistics and transport costs alone

No More Hustleporn: Are you curious what firms have been charging for "data and analytics engineering" consulting?

Tweet by Lauren Balik https://twitter.com/laurenbalik    @laurenbalik:                 Are you curious what firms have been charging for "data and analytics engineering" consulting?     In today's Data Scam Lessons with Lauren™ we're evaluating what consultancies charge to make dashboards and do some data modeling exercises for ~3 month "Modern Data" starter…

No More Hustleporn: 1/ Random payment trivia: the reason restaurants have two receipts, one with the items you got and a second one with the total amount + signature, is that in the early days of Visa they were worried t

Tweet by Dimitri Dadiomov https://twitter.com/dadiomov    @dadiomov:                 1/ Random payment trivia: the reason restaurants have two receipts, one with the items you got and a second one with the total amount + signature, is that in the early days of Visa they were worried that restaurants wouldn't sign up.

No More Hustleporn: 1/ This article on Pinduoduo (the 3rd largest e-commerce platform in China) is ostensibly focused on their new US venture Temu, but it quickly devolves into the most outrageous profile of Chinese corp

Tweet by Corry Wang https://twitter.com/corry_wang    @corry_wang:                 1/ This article on Pinduoduo (the 3rd largest e-commerce platform in China) is ostensibly focused on their new US venture Temu, but it quickly devolves into the most outrageous profile of Chinese corporate culture that I’ve ever read

No More Hustleporn: Ok, so after playing with text-to-video more, I’ve decided it’s actually a semi-shittyy workflow that isn’t very practical for storytellers and is pretty terrible (and expensive) from a production sta

Tweet by Nick St. Pierre https://twitter.com/nickfloats    @nickfloats:                 Ok, so after playing with text-to-video more, I’ve decided it’s actually a semi-shittyy workflow that isn’t very practical for storytellers and is pretty terrible (and expensive) from a production standpoint.     The real solution is likely a combo

No More Hustleporn: I’ve been at The Masters all week, and I can certifiably say it’s the best sporting event I’ve ever been to.

Tweet by David Perell https://twitter.com/david_perell    @david_perell:                 I’ve been at The Masters all week, and I can certifiably say it’s the best sporting event I’ve ever been to.     Here’s what stands out:                @david_perell:                 Scalping tickets is strictly prohibited. But there's a

No More Hustleporn: Alright, figured I'd make a thread to cross it off my bingo card. Here's a rough who's who in AI land 🧵

Tweet by Jason Gu https://twitter.com/jasonprompts    @jasonprompts:                 Alright, figured I'd make a thread to cross it off my bingo card. Here's a rough who's who in AI land 🧵     OGs:              @sama           - CEO of            @OpenAI           , changed our world on 11/30/2022              @EMostaque           - CEO of            @StabilityAI           , enjoys 2GB

No More Hustleporn: How does OpenAI plugins/Browser work? A thread of detailed analysis on the server interaction. S/o to @CrisGiardina for helping with access.

Tweet by Vaibhav Kumar https://twitter.com/vaibhavk97    @vaibhavk97:                 How does OpenAI plugins/Browser work? A thread of detailed analysis on the server interaction.  S/o to            @CrisGiardina           for helping with access.     TLDR: Browsing (and possibly plugin) is a different model with 8k seq length support and a toolformer like

No More Hustleporn: 1/4: When I first joined Brain, a senior colleague, who later became a great friend, shared a mental model about engineering/research that has stuck with me since. It breaks down engineers/researchers

Tweet by Anmol Gulati https://twitter.com/anmol01gulati    @anmol01gulati:                 1/4: When I first joined Brain, a senior colleague, who later became a great friend, shared a mental model about engineering/research that has stuck with me since. It breaks down engineers/researchers into three categories: creators, adders, and multipliers.

No More Hustleporn: Many families have vindictive relatives. My relatives just happen to control a small authoritarian government. 🇸🇬 🧵

Tweet by Shengwu Li https://twitter.com/ShengwuLi    @ShengwuLi:                 Many families have vindictive relatives. My relatives just happen to control a small authoritarian government.  🇸🇬 🧵                @ShengwuLi:                 My grandfather, Lee Kuan Yew (LKY), was the first prime minister of Singapore. My uncle Lee Hsien Loong (LHL), the current prime minister, disagreed with

No More Hustleporn: I'm looking for new Substacks on potential stock pitches.

Tweet by ValueAdd Capital (VAC) https://twitter.com/ValueAddCapital    @ValueAddCapital:                 I'm looking for new Substacks on potential stock pitches.     I've listed out a few below that I find interesting, but let me know what else you recommend or plug your newsletter here.                @ValueAddCapital:                    @Finding_Moats                        findingmoatsinternational.substack.com                  @ValueAddCapital:                    yetanothervalueblog.

No More Hustleporn: I'm looking for new Substacks on potential stock pitches.

Tweet by ValueAdd Capital (VAC) https://twitter.com/ValueAddCapital    @ValueAddCapital:                 I'm looking for new Substacks on potential stock pitches.     I've listed out a few below that I find interesting, but let me know what else you recommend or plug your newsletter here.                @ValueAddCapital:                    @Finding_Moats                        findingmoatsinternational.substack.com                  @ValueAddCapital:                    yetanothervalueblog.

No More Hustleporn: Since leaving Uber in 2019, I've seen several former coworkers embrace cloud infra in their next jobs, as well as interviewed candidates from companies that scaled exclusively with cloud.

Tweet by Karthik Hariharan https://twitter.com/hkarthik    @hkarthik:                 Since leaving Uber in 2019, I've seen several former coworkers embrace cloud infra in their next jobs, as well as interviewed candidates from companies that scaled exclusively with cloud.     A quick 🧵 on some of my observations.                                  @GergelyOrosz:                                 After the news of

No More Hustleporn: Storytime! Why Instagram Channels, the new one-to-many channel, is a bigger deal than it seems, and how it’s following the same playbook as Wechat. 🧵

Tweet by Connie Chan 🍒 https://twitter.com/conniechan    @conniechan:                 Storytime! Why Instagram Channels, the new one-to-many channel, is a bigger deal than it seems, and how it’s following the same playbook as Wechat. 🧵                @conniechan:                 Let’s go back to 2012. WeChat’s widely used in China already, but only

No More Hustleporn: A short guide to engineering better GPT-3 prompts.

Tweet by Varun Shenoy https://twitter.com/varunshenoy_    @varunshenoy_:                 A short guide to engineering better GPT-3 prompts.     Here's how I redesigned GraphGPT's prompt to become faster, more efficient, and handle larger inputs:                @varunshenoy_:                 Some quick background:     GraphGPT is a tool that generates knowledge graphs from unstructured text using OpenAI's GPT-3

No More Hustleporn: If you were building a new web app/SaaS in 2023, what would your tech stack be?

Tweet by Justin Jackson https://twitter.com/mijustin    @mijustin:                 If you were building a new web app/SaaS in 2023, what would your tech stack be?     (Rails,            @laravelphp           ? Fancy new JS framework? What database setup would you use? Where would you host it?)                @mijustin:                 Personally, I'm still on team "full

No More Hustleporn: We're releasing our @scale_AI hackathon 1st place project - "GPT is all you need for backend" with @evanon0ping @theappletucker

Tweet by DY https://twitter.com/DYtweetshere    @DYtweetshere:                 We're releasing our            @scale_AI           hackathon 1st place project - "GPT is all you need for backend" with            @evanon0ping                      @theappletucker               But let me first explain how it works:      @DYtweetshere:                 Our vision for a future tech stack is to completely replace the backend

No More Hustleporn: We're releasing our @scale_AI hackathon 1st place project - "GPT is all you need for backend" with @evanon0ping @theappletucker

Tweet by DY https://twitter.com/DYtweetshere    @DYtweetshere:                 We're releasing our            @scale_AI           hackathon 1st place project - "GPT is all you need for backend" with            @evanon0ping                      @theappletucker               But let me first explain how it works:

No More Hustleporn: You probably heard about Yandex, it’s the 4th biggest search engine by market share worldwide. Yesterday proprietary source code of Yandex was leaked.

Tweet by Alex Buraks https://twitter.com/alex_buraks    @alex_buraks:                 You probably heard about Yandex, it’s the 4th biggest search engine by market share worldwide. Yesterday proprietary source code of Yandex was leaked.     The most interesting part for SEO community is: the list of all 1922 ranking factors

No More Hustleporn: Did you know that Zoho was bootstrapped???

Tweet by Aleksandr Volodarsky 🇺🇦 https://twitter.com/volodarik    @volodarik:                 Did you know that Zoho was bootstrapped???     Sridhar Vembu grew it to 80M+ users and $1b annual revenue without ever raising a penny. Pretty wild.     Here is what I've learned from their bootstrapping story:                @volodarik:                 In 1996,            @svembu           & his co-founders used

No More Hustleporn: The End of “Industrial” Seed VC… (and return to the cottage industry it always was)

Tweet by sam lessin 🏴‍☠️ https://twitter.com/lessin    @lessin:                 The End of “Industrial” Seed VC… (and return to the cottage industry it always was)      @euwyn:                 The idea of returning to pre-2010's seed investing seems nostalgic and appealing, but given how mature platforms are in scaling tech startups, the rewards for

No More Hustleporn: Transformers are arguably the most impactful deep learning architecture from the last 5 yrs.

Tweet by Misha Laskin https://twitter.com/MishaLaskin    @MishaLaskin:                 Transformers are arguably the most impactful deep learning architecture from the last 5 yrs.     In the next few threads, we’ll cover multi-head attention, GPT and BERT, Vision Transformer, and write these out in code. This thread → understanding multi-head attention.     1/

No More Hustleporn: I interviewed @artman about how he and the team are building @linear.

Tweet by Gergely Orosz https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz    @GergelyOrosz:                 I interviewed            @artman           about how he and the team are building            @linear           .     An interesting thing Tuomas said: because he worked at Uber during hypergrowth (2014-19), he wanted to make sure that he applies the lesson learned at Uber at his next

No More Hustleporn: How to Read Balance Sheets - Software Edition

Tweet by OnlyCFO https://twitter.com/OnlyCFO    @OnlyCFO:                 How to Read Balance Sheets - Software Edition     Most people somewhat understand income statements, but few understand balance sheets.     Read on for the key takeaways🧵👇              onlycfo.substack.com/p/how-to-read-…                  @OnlyCFO:                 A balance sheet is a snapshot at a point in time

No More Hustleporn: "Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database" by Corbett et al (OSDI '12) is a seminal paper from Google that I believe kick-started the last decade of distributed SQL databases such as @Cockroach

Tweet by Pekka Enberg (penberg@fosstodon.org) https://twitter.com/penberg    @penberg:                 "Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database" by Corbett et al (OSDI '12) is a seminal paper from Google that I believe kick-started the last decade of distributed SQL databases such as            @CockroachDB           ,            @Yugabyte           , and others. So let's dig into

No More Hustleporn: Researchers at the BLS and Cleveland Fed released a data series today that might be the single most important new inflation indicator—and I don't say that lightly.

Tweet by Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 https://twitter.com/JosephPolitano  Researchers at the BLS and Cleveland Fed released a data series today that might be the single most important new inflation indicator—and I don't say that lightly.    Introducing the New Tenant Repeat Rent Index—a new way of tracking housing inflation

No More Hustleporn: Researchers at the BLS and Cleveland Fed released a data series today that might be the single most important new inflation indicator—and I don't say that lightly.

Tweet by Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 https://twitter.com/JosephPolitano  Researchers at the BLS and Cleveland Fed released a data series today that might be the single most important new inflation indicator—and I don't say that lightly.    Introducing the New Tenant Repeat Rent Index—a new way of tracking housing inflation

Apple v. Epic

Tweet by Scott Kupor https://twitter.com/skupor Managing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz; Author of Secrets of Sand Hill Road; father of three amazing/crazy/beautiful girls Everything you need to know – or at least I what I thought was interesting – in<100 tweets about the Apple/Epic lawsuit verdict today. Fun facts – 64% of Fortnite users have only ever played the game on IOS devices, but 93% of Fortnite revenue is generated on non-IOS platforms; 87% of paying users never transacted via the