2022: A Year in Books
I have always loved reading. For the past 3 years I have also gotten into audiobooks, which has increased my book consumption dramatically. I listen to many audiobooks, and then buy in paper those...
Recent Posts
ChatGPT: hype or revolution
“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” - Amara’s law
A new chapter
(Read my cofounder Neal Khosla’s version in Curai’s blog )
An unnecessarily long and personal recount of a 70.3 Ironman in Andorra
I have not written about my running/sports feats in a while. On the one hand I don’t think I have anything more interesting to say than what I said in my 10 Lessons I learned from running. On the o...
Migrating Medium and Blogger blogs to self-maintained Github Pages
In case you are reading this post in my now Medium mirror, you can access the result of this migration here.
The death of the stars: A brief primer on online user ratings
A few weeks back, Netflix announced that they were adding a two thumbs up option to give feedback on their content. At the same time I was being asked on Twitter why we had given up on 5 star ratin...
On the “Usefulness” of the Netflix Prize
It has been over 10 years since the Netflix Prize finished, and I was not expecting to write a blog post about it at this point. However, just in the past couple of weeks I have found myself talkin...