I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
Have you seen Google‘s latest text-to-image generator Imagen? Its an AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text As the paper states, ‘ Imagen builds on the power of large transformer language models in understanding text and hinges on the strength of diffusion models in high-fidelity image generation’ ‘Human raters strongly prefer Imagen over other …
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What makes the Metaverse different from a Virtual World – 7 essential ingredients. Our marketing professor once used an analogy with Second Life during a session Second life is an online platform that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and have a well, second life in an online virtual world. “Would you care …
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#Day4 – #30daysofWeb3 Learning Challenge Understanding Bitcoin and Ethereum #1Bitcoin 101 : Created in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto to be a “peer-to-peer electronic cash system, it is built on blockchain and thus shares the characteristics of being decentralised, immutable and open. It is also hard-capped (there will be only 21M bitcoin ever) and single-purpose ( …
#Day3 – #30daysofWeb3 Learning Challenge Understanding Blockchain and How Transactions work #1 What is a Blockchain? ‘A blockchain is a linked list of transactions stored on a network of computers” A shared immutable ledger, if you will. #2 What are the defining properties of a Blockchain? They are ‘Decentralized’ (transactions happen on a network of …
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#Day2 – #30daysofWeb3 Learning Challenge On Ownership and how that is driving the future of software and Digital Economy #1 Why is Ownership the next step in software? “Ownership is a powerful motivator for users to contribute to products in deeper ways, be it with ideas, computing resources, code, or community building. … This results …
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Crypto has one feature that has never existed before – trust. – Ben Horowitz. I am doing a #30daysofWeb3 challenge in April. It is still early in the journey And the best thing you can do is to get educated. So here are 5 bullets on Day 1 – Why Web 3.0, Ownership and Tokens #1 Why …
The Constantly Diminishing Cost of Tech And how we take it for granted. I was telling my 6 year old about sifting through Encyclopedias to finish school projects She turned around and asked – ‘Why didn’t you just ask Alexa, Amma’. For a moment I recollected the trips to the store to buy floppy disks, …
What is the most useful article you have ever read? Sequoia Capital did a 39 part series spread out over a couple of years around ‘Data Informed Product Building’ It covers almost everything one can think of around how products evolve, defining product health, frameworks for success to pitfalls in diagnosing health and setting metrics. …
4 categories of Moats that drive the biggest companies A business moat is a key competitive advantage that sets a company apart from its competitors. It is what keeps has helped the biggest companies build and defend their markets From Amazon and Tesla to Starbucks and Coinbase, here are the common types of moats. #1 …
How do NFTs’ create value? Or simply put – why does anyone pay for a digital piece of art that can be freely downloaded. Who pays for pixels? With working parents, I was raised mostly by my (very financially prudent) grandmother, who looked at ROI on everything she spent. Being widowed quite early, she was …
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