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Few things are perfect, though this scene from Freaks and Geeks surely was youtube.com/watch?v=fRHZr3Vl…
In case you’ve ever wanted to know precisely what @usv is thinking, the writing is where you get shown the light. This one is about the exciting next chapter, the only rule is it begins. Strike another match, go start anew. We gon’ see the future first 👇
Best band in the world
thank you for this today, Phish
100 AT THE GARDEN. Phish returns to Madison Square Garden for a four-night New Year’s Run December 30-31 and January 1-2, with the January 2 show marking the band’s 100th at @TheGarden. You don’t get to 100 without making some friends along the way.
Request tickets now through Monday, October 12 at Noon ET → tickets.phish.com. Tickets go on sale to the general public October 16 at Noon ET. Travel Packages go on sale tomorrow, October 8 at Noon ET → phishnye.100xhospitality.com…
#PhishMSG100
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The Acid Test Graduation, Halloween night, 1966, held at the Merry Pranksters’ warehouse/headquarters in San Francisco.
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There are 158 devices in the facility
Each is reverse engineered & integrated
Liquid handlers, robots, sequencers… even each light
The building is a massive programmable robot
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In 12 weeks, we built a research facility that is run entirely by AI.
AI designs, executes, and observes experiments end-to-end across biology, chemistry, and materials science.
We’re introducing SciUniverse: a benchmark that measures AI’s ability to do real-world scientific research.
On occasion of his 77th birthday, a list of some female protagonists in Bruce Springsteen's songs:
Mary, Crazy Janey, Sandy, Kitty, Rosalita, Diamond Jackie, Wendy, Sherry, Candy, Terry
And a list of some male ones: Wild Billy, G-Man, Killer Joe, Hazy Davy, Spanish Johnny, Billy, Eddie, Magic Rat, Sonny, Terry
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We have all these videos at our fingertips today, but back in the day we had to be on our game to view the videos when they aired on MTV. Was like a mini-cinematic event.
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in an altered state of consciousness at Woodstock
I performed knowing GOD was and is by my side
and by grace I conquered the snake ( fear )
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my brother Gene! You made it all possible. I thank you and the world thanks you.
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Doctronic was in the @WSJ again. @annawmathews wrote a great piece, if a touch negative, but that comes with the territory when you're doing something new. Skepticism doesn't bother me. We all need to be skeptical about AI in medicine.
One line that did stick with me: "Humans have to go to medical school, pass licensing exams, and go through residency to be doctors. We have nothing like that for AI at all."
I'd gently push back, because that's exactly what @Doctronic is doing in sandboxes like the Utah AI Learning Lab.
Residency is supervised practice: narrow scope, every decision reviewed before it reaches a patient. It's how we've trusted new clinicians for a century, they earn autonomy by demonstrating it under watch.
That's exactly what's happening now with @Doctronic in Utah. Our AI isn't practicing on its own. It's in residency, with every call checked in real time by our clinicians, learning under their supervision the same way a new doctor does.
And Utah isn't the only state building these proving grounds. This model is spreading because it works (see the Utah published data). Residency is the right standard. We're holding our AI to it.
wsj.com/health/healthcare/ai…
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June 11. 12PM EDT.
Abridge Keynote.
RSVP for the livestream here: events.abridge.com/keynote
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Fred Wilson is one of the greatest VCs of all time. He is also my new partner at @USV and I'm lucky to say that. We've known each other for years, but becoming partners felt like a reason to get to know him even better.
So a few weeks ago, we walked around Union Square and caught up about what @fredwilson has learned over nearly 40 years of VC, how AI may be making the profession obsolete, how to build an investment thesis, why he believes the Knicks will win the NBA title this year, and a few of his long held grudges.
Here's a video of that conversation, set at Union Square, Madman Espresso, the USV office, and Leon's on Broadway.
Chapters:
3:22 - That time Fred wrecked Mike on Twitter
6:01 - Pre-Internet VC in NYC
9:50 - Early Internet Investing and Raising for Flatiron Partners
11:59 - The Dot-com Crash Killed Fred’s First Firm
14:28 - Fred’s Grudge Against Coffee Shop
16:35 - How to Pick the Right Team at Right Time
18:28 - AVC blog, Gawker’s Nick Denton, TypePad.com
20:44 - Jim Kramer invented Tweeting
21:46 - Why Fred Bet on Twitter Early
23:39 - Building Agents on Claude Code and Tasklet
26:20 - Claude Mythos and Doomerism
27:27 - The Original USV Thesis
29:19 - Network Effects and Brad’s Thesis
31:29 - Coinbase: Thesis, Investment, Outcome
33:18 - Investing in Decentralized AI
34:59 - Open Source AI
36:55 - AI Kill Zone: Legal AI is Dead, Energy Investments
42:37 - USV Agents Will Replace Its Partners
47:00 - Are VC’s building themselves out of a job?
48:30 - Leon’s, NYC’s New Tech Watering Hole
50:52 - Generative Art
53:18 - SOLIENNE: AI Artist trained by Kristi Coronado
54:25 - What About AI Scares Fred
55:40 - Societal Backlash to AI
58:10 - Advice to Early Career VCs: There’s More Risk in Not Doing Deals
1:00:48 - Fred’s Biggest Regrets: Saying No Because of Price
1:04:17 - Fred’s Bold Prediction for the Knicks and the Mets
