Improbable
company on 2 shows · 6 statements across 3 episodes · said 14 times in 7 episodes since 2019
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Dixon: Andreessen Horowitz has invested in VR infrastructure startup Improbable
“We have, yeah, we have an investment here in Probable which is, I think of as you know, if you read Ready Player One, which hopefully the listeners have read, it's a canonical VR book the there's a section where they describe the system called Oasis that's in,…”
Narula: Historical data cannot answer what-if questions about unprecedented events
“You can answer questions, right? Answer those what if questions? What happens if, you know, a disease is released in this crowd? What happens if we shut down this tube station? Questions which governments and companies want to answer, but which, you know, you …”
Narula: Improbable partners with Oxford to model the UK housing economy
“So, I mean, for example, we're dealing with a group called the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford, and these are some amazing scientists, and they want to model the UK housing economy.”
Narula: Simulations should function as operating platforms, not static offline models
“At Improbable, we don't really believe that a simulation should be this, like, standalone box where knowledge comes out of. We see it as an operating platform, somewhere that you can actually make decisions and build applications that consume that simulation.”
Narula: Improbable models power grid failures to reveal catastrophic risk accumulation
“For example, when we look at cascading failures in power grids, which is an area that, you know, we've explored it with improbable, how those failures arise can often be the accumulation of many, many disparate, like, seemingly irrelevant events and slight vul…”
Narula: PC Platforms Like Steam Present Steep UX Barriers For Mobile Gamers
“A lot of people had previously played mobile games. And one of the requirements was to download the game from Steam in order to interact with it. These weren't like hardcore gamers. Just the click process in Steam was utterly alien to them. I mean, these are p…”