The Mission: Industry-Standard NFT Pricing I started thinking about this problem a year ago — and couldn’t get it out of my mind. …

When I published my first story on Medium — a New Year’s post on Jan 3 2017 — it did great numbers. We got 55K views, according to Medium (and probably more in practice via reader apps), I got a lot of positive feedback, and it ranked #1 on Google…

The Coase Theorem states that, given property rights, a free market of exchange, and low transaction costs, property over time will find its way to its most efficient owners, regardless of initial distribution. Whether it’s stated as such, this is the underlying logic behind NFT “drops” where initial collections were…

It was great to play poker live in Vegas again, for the first time in two years. Last time I was here for “Doyle’s Game” on PokerGO in October 2019. The WSOP, normally June/July every summer, took a year off in 2020, and this year moved to October/November for the…

Something happened on the mats in Brooklyn. I was rolling with a wiry young white belt. All knees and elbows. We were practicing a choke from side control, where you use the corner of your gi to strangulate your opponent, cutting off the blood supply to his brain. On a…

I’ve been reading a lot lately. Maybe it’s cold, certainly part of it is procrastination. As my friend Kyle Boddy likes to remind I’ve been know to say — the only things that count as “work” are coding, making technical reports, and presentation. Everything else is not real work. In…

Overdue for a blog post, and it started with a tweet. A VC-Twitter thread about the value of Twitter, and moving to Miami — how late 2020. I promise not to mention the price of bitcoin 📈. Maybe. See you all at Joe’s Stone Crab in a couple of weeks.

For a longer overview of top recent papers and and background on BERT/GPT-2-type Transformer models taking over text understanding over the past two years, take a look at yesterday’s piece. The Best Deep Natural Language Papers You Should Read — BERT, GPT-2 and looking forward Transformer-type language models seem to be breaking NLP benchmarks every week. What do I need to know to keep up?medium.com

Last week I left NVIDIA’s applied deep learning research group, after nearly three years in Santa Clara. As well as starting new projects, thought I’d get back to writing on topics people keep asking me about. One question I get — these Transformer-type language models are great, they seem to…