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Frank Chen
@withfries2
Partner at @a16z. Tweets about startups, venture investing, AI, autonomy, science, tech, and the future. Sometimes Star Wars. And food. Opinions my own.
Jan 6, 2021 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
1/ ~50 years ago, legendary Stanford #ArtificialIntelligence professor Terry Winograd published one of the OG natural language understanding papers about a system he built called SHRDLU
hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/shrd… Image 2/ In contrast with today's massive language models based on transformer architectures such as GPT-3, SHRDLU "understood" everything about its little constrained micro-world composed of objects like big red blocks and little blue pyramids

hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/shrd…
Jan 30, 2020 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
"There are no bad ideas in tech, only bad timing"

My partner @jeff_jordan makes the case the time is right for @neighborstorage, the Airbnb of storage.

(If you ever wished you could stash stuff as a nearby neighbor's place for much less than a self-storage place, enjoy!) Image @jeff_jordan @neighborstorage 2/ I've had a long string of personal experiences with "right idea, wrong time"
Sep 27, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1/ "Wait, what?" tweetstorm 2/ Wow, #ML powered upsampling has gotten very good. Example video, VGA input, 4K output, from 1990s anime called Yu Yu Hakusho:
Jun 7, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/ Stadiums to capacity with screaming fans. Global audiences in the hundreds of millions. A multi-billion dollar economy. College scholarships for the top athletes. Talent agents. 2/ Professional leagues whose teams have dedicated scouts. Beloved celebrities. Doping scandals. Are we talking about pro sports? Well, of a sort. We're talking esports. 🎮
Jan 2, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
0/ "There is about as much need for a new university in California as that of an asylum for decayed sea-captains in Switzerland", opined the New York Mail and Express about the newly opened Stanford University in 1891 1/ I read that juicy quote in @Eric_Weiner's book "The Geography of Genius". He was speculating that part of Fred Terman's (godfather of Silicon Valley) motivation was the chip on his shoulder from the East Coast's persistent derision of the West Coast in general
Sep 19, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1/ Have you ever wondered teams building self-driving vehicles design and test their code? Let's say you make a change to the way your car behaves around, say, school kids at intersections. After the fix, do you then drive around, hoping to encounter kids? 2/ Or let's say you're working on a lane-change algorithm. How can you evaluate whether the algorithm is safe given all the (crazy) ways drivers in the passing lane might behave?
Aug 1, 2018 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
1/ As we hold our collective breaths until Apple cracks the $1T market cap milestone, I notice that there's been a recent bout of nostalgia about the early days of smartphones 2/ Back then, we called them "personal communicators" (Go) or "pen computers" (Microsoft) or “personal intelligent communicators” (General Magic) or “personal digital assistants” (Apple, Palm) or “tablet or slate computers” (IBM, GRiD)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_co…