Dave Pretty @davidpretty
Co-founder and CTO of @Go_LaunchLab launchlab.com.au Canberra Joined June 2009-
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First time founder? What do you think will be the hardest task in getting your startup off the ground? launchlab.com.au/the-hardest-st…
What are the most unusually ambitious books ever written? Interested along any axis of ambition, but especially unusual axes
Signs that your political movement is actually a cult: totalism (explains entire world with a single ideology), totalitarianism (no disagreement allowed), milieu control (no fraternization with heretics), demand for purity (control of members via guilt and shame)...
Sure, you say people *should* learn about opportunity costs, but they've got better things to do with their time...
Sure, you say people *should* learn about opportunity costs, but they've got better things to do with their time...
Our minds are often small: they try to destroy what they can't contain. War is driven by small minds and tries to reduce the complexity of reality. This recent Israeli–Palestinian rally underscored the need to give peace another chance: bit.ly/YNHPeace. #Peace #War…
It is done Nine years of combing the Internet, spanning 330 BC to 2023—the ultimate reading list for the aspiring writer or polymath For those who hate clicking through, I’ve compiled 200 of the greatest books in thread-form below 20 genres. Find yours essayful.substack.com/p/1-the-biblio…
One rather strange event of the past ten days: like ~600,000 Australians, much of my retirement savings is with a superannuation (think 401-k) firm called Unisuper Unisuper uses Google Cloud to store their data. Well, ~10 days ago, Google Cloud *accidentally* *deleted* *their*…
Writing makes the ephemeral [ideas] into stable entities, which one can then manipulate and improve. I'm not sure this is an idea which *can* be overrated....
How come we don't talk or listen to each other anymore? Perhaps the most sophisticated information technology in human history could be better utilized when it comes to having conversations, building #trust and preserving democracy 🤔? Full video on bit.ly/YNHcogX…
Have you ever done a dense grid search over neural network hyperparameters? Like a *really dense* grid search? It looks like this (!!). Blueish colors correspond to hyperparameters for which training converges, redish colors to hyperparameters for which training diverges.
<long post, alert> Incredibly important conversation going on right here. I know so many admirers of @elonmusk - including me, I'll admit it - who are perplexed and dismayed by his recent relentless drift toward people whose opinions he himself would have regarded as extreme a…
<long post, alert> Incredibly important conversation going on right here. I know so many admirers of @elonmusk - including me, I'll admit it - who are perplexed and dismayed by his recent relentless drift toward people whose opinions he himself would have regarded as extreme a…
OK... another experiment. My book publishes a week today. I'm posting here, exclusively on X, the full first chapter. Fingers crossed that some one out there likes this! Ready? Here it is.... --- YOU WOULDN'T THINK that a cluster of atoms weighing less than a trillionth of a…
Science: the process of using experiments to make our ideas less wrong.
In 1910, two German chemists invented a way to pull nitrogen from the atmosphere & produce ammonia. Today, 50% of all of the nitrogen in your body has gone through that process.
“Semantic arbitrage” is an amazing phrase , a lot of infowarfare/meme warfare can be boiled down to that, as opposed to creation and inception of new ideas
“Semantic arbitrage” is an amazing phrase , a lot of infowarfare/meme warfare can be boiled down to that, as opposed to creation and inception of new ideas
Thanks Spotify, but I don't need a fancy annual summary to tell me I've been listening to @GoGo_Penguin on repeat for the last 4 months.
I went to Russia, Japan, Nigeria, Iraq, and Greenland and asked people what they'd wish for if they found a genie.

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