Jannik Schilling @Jannikschg Twitter profile

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Jannik Schilling

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I wrote about the crisis of European manufacturing, the EU's failed attempts to save it, and how founders might be able to step in. theschillingpoint [dot] com

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

14 days

Physics is so stagnant that its Nobel Prize was just awarded to two computer scientists. Both are brilliant ML researchers, who have nothing to do with fundamental physics research. This is as close as we get to an admission of stagnation in physics.

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

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The 2024 #NobelPrize laureates in physics used tools from physics to construct methods that helped lay the foundation for today’s powerful machine learning. John Hopfield created a structure that can store and reconstruct information. Geoffrey Hinton invented a method that can

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

2 months

I couldn't be more excited to begin working with the brilliant @zebulgar and the rest of the @foundersfund team starting today. If you're building a company or considering starting one, I'd love to chat — my DMs are open!

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

Excited for a future where drinking is increasingly low-status

modest proposal

@modestproposal1

1 year

I knew things were tough over there but my god

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

Honoured to be part of Emergent Ventures. The conversation with @tylercowen was probably the most interesting intellectual conversation I ever had & EV is an extraordinary community of curious people. Thanks for believing in me & looking forward to our next conversations, Tyler!

tylercowen

@tylercowen

1 year

Emergent Ventures winners, 29th cohort:

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

2 months

@zebulgar @foundersfund I moved to Miami, please reach out if you are in the area.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

2 months

New blog post: Passing thoughts on leaving Germany. Link in the comments.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

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Visiting SF sporadically over the next few weeks. If you are building in biotech or atoms, I’d love to chat; my DMs are open.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

9 months

@natfriedman Congrats @LukeFarritor !

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

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Physics is stagnant but there are unique, fundamental, and singular research projects that could exist. They might look very different to previous breakthroughs and might only be possible outside of established institutions and dogma. But getting back on track with making real

Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

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Physics is so stagnant that its Nobel Prize was just awarded to two computer scientists. Both are brilliant ML researchers, who have nothing to do with fundamental physics research. This is as close as we get to an admission of stagnation in physics.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

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I'll be in Boston for @HackMIT this weekend -- as always, I'd love to meet (aspiring) founders. A big thank you to my friend for @nettedjay and her team for putting in many days (and nights) of hard work to make this happen.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

Still underrated by most - I learned so much by reaching out to interesting individuals early on in my life and speaking to them about their lives and careers. Most people are happy to talk to you about anything, if you listen.

Advik Kapoor

@heyadvikkapoor

1 year

sometimes i just randomly send emails to people i think are doing some incredible work. that's how i met @Jannikschg and so many more cool people!

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

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I wrote about the sad state of European defense [companies] and what a path back to a continent of sovereign nation states could look like. Link in bio.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

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@victor_ljz Maybe that’s true, maybe it isn’t. I definitely think we could make a lot more progress in theoretical physics without AI. And the fact that we’ve been unable to recognize the socio-cultural forces holding back novel physics research or made relevant changes in decades is

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

15 days

Pretty impressed by Austin, went for the first time over the weekend. In less than 48 hours, I’ve seen founders building a new city, automated construction sites, a particle accelerator, and naval weapons. And met some great engineers from Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink. And even

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 month

Thanks to @tylercowen for featuring my essay on European national defense on Marginal Revolution. If any of this resonates or you disagree, I’d love to hear your ideas.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

4 months

Happy Fourth of July! Excited to become an American soon.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

7 months

In Miami from today until Sunday. If you are building something exciting or want to meet up, drop me a line.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

I am deeply grateful for all the time I got to spend with @_ArnaudS_ . He has been one of the most important people in guiding my thinking on becoming. If you are in Cambridge or London, I can only recommend to apply!

Polaris Fellowship

@join_polaris

1 year

Applications for the 2024 Polaris Fellowship in London and Cambridge have opened. Deadline: 17th November. The fellowship is to pursue the work you feel most drawn to — whether mastering the established, or exploring the unknown — unencumbered by institutions.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

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For example, even just starting or funding a few serious research labs working on room-temperature superconductors might make sense. That’s not what I’m personally most interested in, but seems like a no brainer.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

2 months

Thanks, Jack. And likewise :)

Jack Whitaker

@jackgwhitaker

2 months

Jannik is one to watch :)

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

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Passing Thoughts on Leaving Germany

Or why many ambitious people have to leave their home country to pursue their ambitions elsewhere.

www.theschillingpoint.com

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

Join fellow smart and ambitious builders for a climate tech hackathon in NYC this weekend. Hosted by @join_ef and @SOSV , you can build software and hardware solutions to save our air. Win $1000 or a dinner with successful founders. Sign up here: .

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

29 days

Go check out @tmychow 's new blog post on the three revolutions in ML training -- we have discussed these questions for a while and he finally wrote up his thinking. Highly recommended.

trevor (taylor’s version)

@tmychow

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what should training compute be spent on? 4 years ago: mostly parameters 2 years ago: an even split of parameters and data now: mostly on data here's a brief history of how pretraining recipes have changed, and why! (link in qt)

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

8 months

In SF from tomorrow until March 14th. DM me if you want to meet up.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

5 months

Congrats @zebulgar !

delian

@zebulgar

5 months

Proud to be on this year's Midas Brink list One of my core career goals is to get on the main Midas list Sourcing/negotiating the seed of Ramp ($27.5m post, now $6b+) and leading the Series A of Sword ($25m post, now $2b+) Are a decent first step!

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

2 months

I have been reading Burke, Buckley, and Brautigan, among others, this summer. Full list below. I always love discovering new books, so please share your recommendations

Summer 2024: What I Have Been Reading

Conservatism, Eternal Peace, and American Novels.

www.theschillingpoint.com

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

2 months

Thanks so much for the generous words, Mohit.

Mohit Agarwal

@Moh1tAgarwal

2 months

Jannik is amazing and you should go talk to him

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

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The number of physics friends who reached out to me about this is crazy. I might write up a few thoughts on this.

Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

14 days

Physics is so stagnant that its Nobel Prize was just awarded to two computer scientists. Both are brilliant ML researchers, who have nothing to do with fundamental physics research. This is as close as we get to an admission of stagnation in physics.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

It is striking to me how many college students see and use their studies as a pre-professional, exploit-focused quasi-occupation, rather than an explore-focused opportunity to learn about a bunch of random subjects and build stuff.

What the rise of student consulting clubs means

Gen Z are apparently delighted to work for nothing

www.economist.com

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

3 months

In the past three months, I've been reading Joan Didion, Leo Strauss, and John Locke, among others. Full list below. Would love book recommendations or to talk about any of these books.

What I Have Been Reading (Q2 2024)

I have been reading more of the Great Books recently. I always had a propensity to get obsessed with eclectic and wide-ranging fields, such as cybernetics or differential geometry in the past, but...

www.theschillingpoint.com

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

NYC, June 7th 2023 at 2.20 pm (no filter)

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

7 months

You should meet my amazing friend @bridge__harris if you’re attending @token2049 !

Bridget

@bridge__harris

7 months

dubai for @token2049 — who will be there? 🤝

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

10 months

I wrote some thoughts on my experience with early studies and why I think it might be beneficial for more precocious youth: — If any of this resonates, reach out.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

This is so cool, Luke! Congrats. @LukeFarritor

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

1 year

Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll. The word is "πορφυρας" which means "purple dye" or "cloths of purple." Congratulations to 21yo computer science

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

8 months

Reviving American manufacturing is not a luxury but a necessity for another century of American dynamism. Blog link below.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

But the opportunity to explore will be severely limited after graduating and becoming a consultant. Thus, there is little to be gained and lots to be lost. Don't waste your time in college preparing to become a consultant.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

After more than five years, 'Gravitation' by Charles Misner, @thorne_kip , and John Wheeler is still my all-time favorite physics textbook. It is both an excellent introduction to gravitational theory and an in-depth, theoretical approach. I really like its pedagogy.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 month

Many such cases. Source:

delian

@zebulgar

1 month

community notes but for every post from trad pro-natalist influencers that lists the last time they were in a serious relationship, how old they currently are, and whether they currently have children or are on a path to have them 80% would look like: "never, early 30s and no"

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

Looks like the US is the only country so far that figured out how to play "unicorns at scale" successfully

Bismarck Analysis

@bismarckanlys

1 year

India has the third-highest number of unicorn startups worth over $1 billion, after the U.S. and China. But per capita, the unicorn distribution worldwide looks very different. Both China and India lag behind even Europe, while the U.S. is on par with Israel and Singapore.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

9 months

Spent the last week researching the War of the Currents. It turns out that VCs ousting founders is evergreen. Full article here:

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

Thanks for writing this article and for the amazing collaboration in the past, Jon. Looking forward to working with you in the future! @JonathanLWai

Jonathan Wai

@JonathanLWai

1 year

The need for talent in the workforce is not being provided by the education sector. Hence, the rise of corporate and philanthropic talent searches: @Jannikschg @pmarca @ForbesScience

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

2 months

Impressive.

reed

@reed

2 months

watch @waymo dodge a car pulling a blind unprotected turn

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@Jannikschg

1 year

@michael_nielsen John Stuart Mill's autobiography is quite interesting

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@Jannikschg

1 year

@andotvu A few friends need to see this haha

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

The bar for doing valuable + novel work in many different domains seems quite low. Why is that true in a world with billions of people thinking about various problems?

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

6 months

On Betting Against NVIDIA’s plans

Investing in a SaaS company is usually not a bet against Google but betting on the next chip startup often is a bet against NVIDIA.

www.theschillingpoint.com

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

2 years

@_ArnaudS_ Agree, similiar thoughts on Germany right now too

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

Great read on human agency and why it is important to take young people seriously by @simonsarris . A few quotes that I found most striking:

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

£100mn for AI Safety from the UK government, led by @soundboy . This is exciting news for advancing AIS. Great work by everyone involved, and congrats @matthewclifford .

Ian Hogarth

@soundboy

1 year

I’m honoured to be appointed as the Chair of the UK's AI Foundation Model Taskforce. A thread on why I'm doing this and how you might be able to help us.

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@Jannikschg

1 year

Reading F. A. Hayek's essay on "The Intellectuals and Socialism" and already intrigued by his characterisation of (public) intellectuals as "professional secondhand dealers in ideas".

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@Jannikschg

1 year

Seriousness ("taking ideas / people serious") is plausibly one of the most undervalued traits among smart people.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

8 months

“If It’s not Boeing I’m not Going” While researching a new piece on Airbus versus Boeing, I came across this artifact of Boeing's past engineering culture. Still available to buy online.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

13 days

If you are interested in funding or starting something like that or would like to discuss more ideas like that, my DMs are open.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

10 months

@LukeFarritor Congrats!

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

"Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

7 months

Congrats @zebulgar and team Varda! Exciting times ahead.

delian

@zebulgar

7 months

On the heels of our successful demonstration mission, we're excited to announce that Varda has raised a $90m Series B This brings our total capital raised to $145m This financing allows us to transition from demos, to serving our various publicly traded pharma and gov customers

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

19 days

Congrats Mohit!

Mohit Agarwal

@Moh1tAgarwal

19 days

Huge thanks to @tylercowen for supporting me and featuring my writing about Kalshi on Marginal Revolution!

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Jannik Schilling

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10 months

@_ArnaudS_ @VitalikButerin @bridge__harris @itskolelee @lichuacu

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

2 years

@_ArnaudS_ Arnaud, I agree to a certain extent. It is very striking to me how nearly all talented young people I know want to “make an impact“ with their life, but have no real idea how that might look like. I have the feeling that this is often an “emotional desire“ closely linked to

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

@PradyuPrasad Did you read the Robert Caro Biography on LBJ?

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

The actual signal is: In the US, there is a good chance to earn $250k+ if you are decently talented and choose high-paying careers. In most parts of Europe, this is quite unlikely.

unusual_whales

@unusual_whales

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Only 7% of American households earn $250,000 or more, per CNBC.

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2 years

@_TheResidency @KrishRShah @sama Cc @_ArnaudS_ @MinervaUni

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

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"Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know." -- T. S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent.

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

Agree. Germany is very bad at helping talented individuals translate their fuzzy aspirations towards valuable and ambitious outcomes.

Samay

@samaysham

1 year

The ability to execute on ambition is so highly correlated with the environment you are operating in.

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@Jannikschg

1 year

@_ArnaudS_ Happy birthday, Arnaud! Thanks for everything you have done for me, I am grateful we met and wish you an even better never year!

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@Jannikschg

1 year

@marvinvonhagen @tensortower @SilasAlberti @bridge__harris @mollycantillon @itsandrewgao @varunshenoy_ @bryanhpchiang @andrewparkk @leithnyang @usygoosy @punwaiw @bfspector ^ Highly recommended

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Jannik Schilling

@Jannikschg

1 year

The best students and graduates will always be able to get hired by consulting firms, regardless of how they spend their summer and if they are part of a consulting club.

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@vishnaga Would love to

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@johncoogan @Etched @UbertiGavin @robertwachen @dwarkesh_sp interview when?

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@Jannikschg

1 year

@matthewclifford @nabeelqu Agree!

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1 year

@uzpg_ @_ArnaudS_ You might be interested in reading this! Really interesting reflections @uzpg_

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@Jannikschg

2 years

@_ArnaudS_ self-actualization. Most young people I know struggle quite a lot with “having the feeling of making an impact“ and are looking for alternatives to show up in the outside world - not knowing that only themselves can define what impact looks like for them. EA seems to be a

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@juliadewahl @jordanbramble @PatrickFinley_

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@Jannikschg

1 year

Not the book I'd usually read - thanks for the gift @the_simonpastor

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@Jannikschg

2 years

@vednathwani @join_polaris Very exciting, Ved. All the best for the program and glad to hear you enjoyed the welcome dinner.

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@dwarkesh_sp Congrats!

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@Jannikschg

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@AndyMasley Sounds really awesome - looking forward to experience the spirit soon

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@Jannikschg

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@NSopuch @join_ef Enjoy your time :)

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@willdepue @sfcompute @apagajewski

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@itskolelee @tylercowen Thanks Kole! We should catchup sometime soon :)

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@john7rho @Linus_Lu @kokoxsu

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@willnida0 Congrats, Will!

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@xprunie @LukeJBousfield @zebulgar @foundersfund thanks

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@tylercowen Congrats @calixo888 !

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@clairebookworm1 @hackclub @Linus_Lu

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"Now the physicist is always interested in the special case. He is never interested in the general case, he is talking about something."

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@Jannikschg

2 months

@jackgwhitaker Working on it, check your messages :)

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@Jannikschg

2 months

Thanks, Koko!

koko 𝑥𝑠

@kokoxsu

2 months

Deep thinker and intellectual, highly rec!

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@Jannikschg

1 year

@sebkrier @PradyuPrasad @jackclarkSF CC @matthewclifford

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@_ArnaudS_ promising solution for many really talented people - as it offers “the most impact“. This tends to make some people feel more relieved. I do think, however, that EA also offers other resources that make it really appealing (already existing hubs of smart people, being able to

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@PradyuPrasad 2 as in too

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