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You’re not stuck at home. You’re sitting on homeground advantage. Create. Iterate. Let adversity shape the best of you. Focus. Focus. Focus. The world will restart, and when it does, don’t just come back as you were. Come back stronger.

Google Maps Search 2.0

“Use maps to search, not just navigate” The idea: I remember one night at 9pm asking myself “where can I get a HDMI cable right now”. Searching Google didn’t give me the answer. Searching Google Maps told me I had to walk a mile to best buy. But the next day I noticed that Rite Aid 100 yards from my apartment sold them. Huh. This was the kernel of an idea - that Google Maps could be a far more powerful search engine, especially for non-navigational queries - driving consumer adoption of commercial queries in Google Maps would in turn unlock a huge revenue potential in Google Maps ads (something that’s still anemic in Google today). The idea I mocked up was basically a reverse web-index, indexing not just the local businesses but indexing their websites too and letting you do keyword search across it. So e.g. if you search for “lamb tagine” Google Maps should find that item on the restaurant menu (they do that a little bit today, but didn’t do this at all in 2012). This is still not a s

All-in Summit

判斷人類發展的趨勢,找出人類下一步最缺乏的東西,然後用科學、工程的方式提出解法,只要不被物理定律限制什麼方法都有可能。

Time Series Transformer

 

Fred Chien 關於工程師成長的思考

現在回想當年的狀況,發現當時是自己連問題在哪都不知道,基礎能力相當薄弱。縱使能夠寫大量的程式、熟悉不少常見的演算法與技術、也能把想到的功能都刻出來,但事實是連問對正確的問題都沒辦法,理所當然也不會得到正確的解答。 不過幸運的是,大概是高中低階技術和各種場景接觸多了(渾渾噩噩也經歷了五、六年),縱使也不是多厲害的專家,某一天開始感覺到開竅,似乎對很多當年從未想過、從未理解過的關鍵問題,不知不覺想通了。開始意會到當年系統架構設計的問題在哪裡、可改善的方向、程式該如何重構。 很多事沒有機運、沒有想過,就不會貫通,也無法想的深遠透徹。即使靠大量的單調無腦的苦練,成為了踢一萬次腿的鐵腿神,仍然無法得到突破。單論自己以一個後端工程師的生涯來說,經歷了近十年跌跌撞撞,才赫然發現自己剛踏出了 junior 的領域而已,得到了第一次的變身。

Daniel Gross 寫的太好了

Daniel Gross 顯然是一位天才,他在 19 歲就創辦 Cue ,拿到 Sequoia 投資,是他們當時投資過最年輕的創業家,最後被 Apple 收購並在其中負責 ML。之後加入 YC,26 歲又成為 YC 最年輕的 partner,專注在 AI 領域。現在則成立自己的純 remote 天使基金, Pioneer 。 - A new Google     需要下  Query Operators 的搜尋引擎代表壞掉了 - The Bionic Market     給菁英用戶的思考與生產力工具的市場分析 - 10X: Metrics for Early Stage Startups     早期新創的 Growth 指標