Tag: stories
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In a famous scene in the 1967 movie The Graduate, a family friend takes aside Dustin Hoffman’s character, Benjamin Braddock, and whispers in a conspiratorial tone “Plastics. There’s a great… more ›
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One of Jacob Olupona’s earliest memories in Massachusetts is of nearly freezing in his apartment as a graduate student at Boston University during the great snowstorm of 1978. “I had… more ›
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The 21st century will most likely belong to China as the Chinese Century. But with a rapid increase in Chinese investment and African innovation, the 22nd century may see the… more ›
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If you had visited the Cambridge University Library in the late 1990s, you might have observed a skinny young man, his face illuminated by the glow of a laptop screen,… more ›
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As a former CEO and software engineer (Citrix, XenSource, VERITAS, etc. https://a16z.com/2018/09/02/sales-startups-technical-founders/ more ›
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When Detroit-based luxury goods brand Shinola began working on its new Vinton watch, the team designed with a woman in mind, but testing the product through analytics platform MakerSights, which… more ›
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I’ve talked quite a lot about the impact of machine learning and computer vision in general on everything from e-commerce recommendation to social to all kinds of cool industrial applications,… more ›
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If one person embodies the unbridled audacity and optimism of bitcoin investors, it’s Didi Taihuttu. https://qz.com/1546591/a-complete-guide-to-cryptocurrency-after-the-crash/ more ›
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This post explores the differences between software tools and services; how the stateful nature of software services led them to be closed; and posits how crypto networks can catalyze a… more ›
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When Ghana’s Richard Commey took on Russia’s Isa Chaniev in Texas on Saturday night (Feb. 2), many Ghanaians stayed up watching the bout into the wee hours of Sunday. But… more ›