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Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.

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  For streaming services, a large back catalog matters more for reducing subscriber churn than for boosting sign-up numbers.

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  I'm not sure they fully understood that it wasn't really about juicing their numbers, but about churn prevention.

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Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.

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  The Code Breaker

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  I mistakenly expected this to be a somewhat shallow, generic popular science book, but it was a very thorough account of how CRISPR gene editing emerged from decades of obscure basic research into bacterial immune systems.

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Novelist and writer, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough; previously worked at Twitter and Current TV.

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  Boonville Barn Collective beans

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  The Boonville crew rotates beans through their fields, and we are the beneficiaries.

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Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.

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  Language models lack catalog-specific knowledge, so their recommendations tend to be generic and biased toward popular items.

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  language models have world knowledge and can eloquently talk about products, but are unaware of our catalog. Also, their recommendations are generic and suffer from popularity bias.

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Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.

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  The Whole Earth Catalog

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  The Whole Earth Catalog -- the library at PARC was first composed simply of the books that the Whole Earth Catalog recommended.

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Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.

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  Every failed dot-com idea of the late 1990s has since been made to work by somebody.

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  you can go through the entire, I think at this point, catalog of all of the failed dot com ideas of the late 1990s, and I believe they've now all worked.

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Interpretability researcher at Anthropic, which he co-founded; before that at OpenAI and Google Brain, where he wrote the explanations of neural networks most people learned them from.

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  Failing to credit someone who deserves it does more harm than mistakenly crediting someone who doesn't.

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  the harm of not crediting someone who deserves it is often greater than the harm of crediting someone who doesn't deserve it.

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