An interview with Gumroad CEO Sahil Lavingia about working as an unpaid contractor for DOGE, moving the Gumroad code base to the MIT license, and more
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How Satya Nadella put Microsoft back on top, including by cleaning up its toxic culture, embracing open source, and crafting the OpenAI deal, as it nears 50
When Satya Nadella took over as CEO, the company was lumbering and uncool. He cleaned up a toxic culture, crafted the deal of the decade, and put Microsoft back on top. Mastodon: @Kierkegaanks@beige....
Ghost's CEO details the organization's governance structure and says the open-source CMS generates ~$7.5M in annual revenue and has been profitable for 12 years
Ghost is a distributed non-profit foundation which gives away all of its intellectual property under a permissive MIT license. Threads: @prschulz , @dvdwinden , and @quillmatiq . Mastodon: @ben@werd.s...
Arvind Mithal, a prolific computer scientist and longtime MIT professor who led the Computation Structures Group in MIT CSAIL, died on June 17 at age 77
A prolific researcher who led the Computation Structures Group in the Computer Science … Mastodon: Andrej Bauer / @andrejbauer@mathstodon.xyz : I was saddened today to learn that Arvind Mithral passed...
Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading, dies at 86
Jim Simons just died. Simons was an award-winning mathematician … Thomas Sumner / Simons Foundation : Remembering the Life and Careers of Jim Simons Jonathan Kandell / New York Times : Jim Simons, Ma...
A look at some exciting startups from day one of YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day, including those using AI for creating music and helping lawyers review documents
out pops a professional-quality song with your custom lyrics. Britton Winterrose / @bwinterrose : irl YC demo day was just as incredible as i hoped it would be founders, new friends, old friends grate...
A profile of MIT labor economist David Autor, an unlikely AI optimist who says AI may help restore “the middle-skill, middle-class heart of the US labor market”
David Autor, an M.I.T. economist and tech contrarian, argues that A.I. is fundamentally different from past waves of computerization. X: @progresschamber , @noemamag , and @mitsloan . Forums: r/neolib...
A look at the Indian Institutes of Technology, established in the 1950s and 1960s to emulate MIT and now comprising 23 schools offering a path to tech success
Indian tech entrepreneur Kesavan Kandadai has many accomplishments under his belt: launching Amazon Prime Video in India and founding … X: @restofworld , @vickiturk , @restofworld , @russellbrandom , ...
A profile of FTX co-founder and CTO Gary Wang, a roommate to Sam Bankman-Fried at MIT who is cooperating with the US, as insiders say he may have key insights
They'd come a long way together, from teenage mathletes to MIT frat brothers to crypto billionaires.
Profile of David Malan, a computer science professor who has embraced high production e-learning techniques on Harvard and MIT's online-learning platform, edX
Gabriel Guimaraes grew up in Vitória, Brazil, in a yellow house surrounded by star-fruit trees and chicken coops. Tweets: @nachiketmor and @_pablotrinidad_ Tweets: Nachiket Mor / @nachiketmor : If gov...