Frank Chen
Partner at @a16z. Tweets about startups, venture investing, AI, autonomy, science, tech, and the future. Sometimes Star Wars. And food. Opinions my own.
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing".
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Frank Chen
@stevesi @smc90 and I break down the nVidia + ARM deal on the a16z 16 minutes on the news podcast:
Fun fact: did you know A in ARM originally stood for Acorn rather than Advanced, but Apple objected?
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Airline Pilots Landing At LAX Report "A Guy In Jetpack" Flying Alongside Them
Even in an era in which congress wants to openly investigate UFOs, a dude flying alongside an airliner over Los Angeles in a jetpack is still bonkers
Investing in Mosaic - Andreessen Horowitz
Mosaic combines the craft and attention to detail of traditional home building with the efficiencies in process and scalability of software.
America Is Facing a Monkey Shortage
COVID-19 vaccines need to be tested in primates, but U.S. researchers are scrambling to find enough after China stopped exporting them.
Apeel and The EDEKA Group Release Food Waste Reduction Results Across Retail Stores
SANTA BARBARA, CA, and GERMANY - Apeel is on a mission—a mission to end global food waste, that is. After launching an extensive pilot test, the innovative company selected partners The EDEKA Group and Netto Marken-Discount stores to trial its...
Taming the Tail: Adventures in Improving AI Economics
The long tail of AI is, in some ways, a measure of the complexity of the problem being solved and the effort needed to tackle it. There are, however, ways to treat the long tail as a first-order concern and build for it.
Toshiba is officially out of the laptop business
The company made the first PC laptop — the T1100— in 1985
Investing in Mux
Leveraging Mux’s video API is like having a dedicated video engineering team right at your fingertips.
Frank Chen
You aren't imagining it: you & everyone else are watching a lot more video 📹
Which is why are investing @MuxHQ, helping all developers add video to their products
@kshenster explains more:
a16z.com/2020/08/10/inv… #tech via @a16z
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The toll of shrinking jaws on human health | Stanford News
The shrinking of the human jaw in modern humans is not due to genetics but is a lifestyle disease that can be proactively addressed, according to Stanford researchers.
Frank Chen
Wait, what? 😬
(Our jaws are shrinking and we can change that with lifestyle changes?)
news.stanford.edu/?p=35246 via @Stanford
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You can buy 'Microsoft Flight Simulator' on 10 DVDs if you want
The 10 dual-layered DVDs will contain approximately 90GB of game assets.
Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives
EAMR offers similar density gains to HAMR and MAMR, with less exotic tech.
Frank Chen
Who remembers when 20MB seemed like an impossibly large hard drive that you could never fill up? 🙋🏽♀️👾
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'Please Scream Inside Your Heart,' Japanese Amusement Park Tells Thrill-Seekers
Several park-goers have complained that the request for those on roller coasters to remain silent is unrealistic. "If a scream comes out, it comes out," one visitor said.
Electric Scooter Championship shows 2020 can always get wilder
With electric scooters as numerous and troublesome as tribbles, it's amazing no one thought of a professional race series. That chasm in the market has now
CSAIL robot disinfects Greater Boston Food Bank
Using UV-C light, the system can disinfect a warehouse floor in half an hour — and could one day be employed in grocery stores, schools, and other spaces.
“Take On Me” by a-ha recreated in Excel
Dylan Tallchief recreated “Take On Me” by a-ha in Excel. It’s not the tools. It’s how you use them. Something something blah blah. It’s in Excel!
Artificial brains may need sleep too: States that resemble sleep-like cycles quell the instability that comes with uninterrupted self-learning in artificial analogs of brains
Neural networks that become unstable after continuous periods of self-learning will return to stability after exposed to sleep like states, according to a study of simulated spiking neural networks, suggesting that even artificial brains need to nap...
The Observer Effect – Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen on how he spends his time, learns, the 'build' essay and much more.
Investing in Alpha Health - Andreessen Horowitz
We are at a critical turning point where the revenue cycle world of healthcare needs a major reboot—one that will help providers rejuvenate their practices with agility, capital efficiency, and operational resilience, in our journey towards a more...