On sabbatical; writing while figuring out what to do with my life. Prev: Pocket Gems, Google, YC. I like games, history, finance, tech, and Dr Pepper.
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A board game about Taiwanese tea designed by an actual Taiwanese person instead of a European white dude... sign me up! kickstarter.com/projects/tbd…
ok what if:
- paul = eren yeager
- jessica = grisha yeager, minus the timeline spanning communication (or maybe not?!)
- fremen holy war = the rumbling
- arrakis = paradis
- new film chani = mikasa (including maybe the end of AoT so they don't have to make Dune 6)
I wrote a recent thing on AI in games that I ended up being pretty happy with. It involves Flappy Bird.
brianshih.com/p/squalid-mach…
Tony Tulathimutte in 2016: “It is some wonder how a decades-old, $21 billion industry that outperforms Hollywood could still be considered culturally marginal, but there’s no games editor at the New Yorker — is there?”
7 years later, we’re getting there?
nytimes.com/2023/09/16/insid…
i have never heard whitman's "i contain multitudes" used to describe dr pepper, but as a fellow enthusiast i simply must agree
youtube.com/watch?v=rcOM3H06…
the first step towards skynet raising funding for itself techcrunch.com/2023/07/26/au…
Brian Shih retweeted
superconductivity so good
slay haha
zero resistance at room temperature
gang gang
yes yes yes so many use cases including ultra efficient energy transmission
thank you lopez
you’re right we do need to wait & see if these results can be reproduced
scientific method so good
watching season 2 of Jack Ryan... it's like they expanded the last 30 minutes of Bad Boys II into an entire season of TV
1) What
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
I'm taking a sabbatical! As part of this change, I recently started writing online again at: brianshih.com/
It is (so far) an eclectic mix of musing on tech, culture, and whatever I'm inspired by while trying to figure out what to do with my life.
Brian Shih retweeted
We all know TSMC uses a lot of power, but still shocking to see the growth year-by-year. In 2018, it was using 4.6% of the Taiwan grid. By 2022, it had jumped to 7.5%.
(The units for power consumption is in 100 millions 億 of kWh)
How Pandora music hasn't rebranded from "personalized" to "AI powered" is beyond me. Everyone else is doing it!
AI music gen coming along, though it still feels much further behind relative to text and images
huggingface.co/spaces/facebo…
the sound of inevitability
waifuchat.ai/
