The Ledger, every show
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks, across all 44 shows. Pick shows below, then mix any filter with any other.
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Gross: Bad engineers over-apply AI to problems lacking ambiguity
“Really great machine learning engineers have the same characteristic that really great all engineers have, which is they're kind of lazy, and they want to find the kind of Occam's razor, the dumbest way to fix the problem, and the bad ones want to kind of over…”
Daniel Gross reveals angel investment in Parker Conrad's Rippling
“My most recently announced investment is a company called Rippling, which was started by the CEO of Zenefits, Parker Conrad”
Gross: SpaceX was originally a stunt to land a plant on Mars
“SpaceX, I believe, was conceived as the Green Mars Oasis Project, where the idea was it's a very Los Angeles idea we're gonna go buy a bunch of rockets from the Russians, and we're gonna try to launch a bunch of stuff onto Mars, and we're gonna take a photo of…”
SpaceX began as a temporary project to photograph a plant on Mars
“SpaceX with all of its grand and glory was started as effectively almost as like a Hollywood ask moonshot project to just like take a photo of a plant on Mars, and Elon was going to find some Russian rockets to just send a bunch of stuff to Mars, cameras, take…”