“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z
Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thinks open, shared datasets (not walled-off ones) are what will actually let AI transform medicine.
At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?
Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.
Bernie Sanders Vows Legislation to 'Stop Flock and AI Mass Surveillance'
The Vermont senator warned that the surveillance company's 120,000-plus AI cameras are pushing the US toward a "surveillance state," adding a prominent voice to a growing bipartisan backlash.
Predicting Post-Route PPA from Macro and Standard-Cell Placements (U. of Alberta)
Researchers from University of Alberta published a technical paper titled “PPAPlace: Differentiable Cross-Stage Objectives for Chip Placement Optimization.…
” Abstract: “Macro placement significantly affects a chip’s post-route…
Most placement methods optimize half-perimeter wirelength (HPWL) as th…
However, recent benchmarking shows a near-zero correlation between HPW…
I Had A Private Tennis Lesson From Grand Slam Champion Stan Wawrinka Inside The Waldorf Astoria Ballroom
First, I saw Ben Shelton, Tommy Paul, Leylah Fernandez, and Maria Sakkari play an exhibition—and then I took to the court myself with the former US Open champion
Kendall Jenner’s Latest Accessory: Finn Jenner (-Elordi?)
Stepping out in LA after a jaunt to London, the model dressed mostly in The Row, with a miniature wire-haired dachshund peeking out from the Tori tote.
Four version control systems in three files, a hardcoded root password we decided not to airbrush, and a surprising amount of today's stack already in place.…
In the oldest corner of our static file mirrors sits a directory calle…
These are the scripts Barracuda & Octopus grew from: one installs the …
Now published byte for byte on our docs site, with a guided tour of wh…
10 Classic Italian Films to Watch Before Vogue World: Milano
Ahead of Vogue World: Milano’s celebration of Italian craft and innovation, we’ve put together a shortlist of Italy’s most classic movies and the filmmakers—some well-known, others more niche—who contributed to the country’s singular reimagining of its own landscape and people through cinema.