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Rob May

@robmay-nyc.bsky.social

Managing Director at HalfCourt Ventures. Previously founded Backupify (acq by Datto), Talla (acq by Bloomfire), Dianthus (shutdown), BrandGuard (acq by Sightly). Interested in neuroscience, hardware, AI, economics, business.

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Thread by @MAGACult2 on Thread Reader App @MAGACult2: MAGA CULT: The Full Explanation "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse." - Sophocles Message frequency + algorithms = indoctrination In a 8-year funded social media study...

We conducted an 8 year study of MAGA. We know (and have thoroughly explained) how they were brainwashed and became a cult. Please spread this.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/18211...

13.11.2024 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 576    πŸ” 323    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 38

Men will literally start a trade war with every other nation on earth instead of going to therapy.

08.04.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5064    πŸ” 780    πŸ’¬ 76    πŸ“Œ 30
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The Chesterton's Fence AI Investing Strategy Investing in the backlash from going too far too fast

investinginai.substack.com/p/the-cheste...

05.03.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Conflicting AI Opinions And FSD As An Investing Roadmap How to cut through the hype and insanity

investinginai.substack.com/p/conflictin...

02.03.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Brief Intro to DataFlow Architectures The benefits of dataflow

neurometric.substack.com/p/a-brief-in...

25.02.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code Something’s been bugging me about how new devs and I need to talk about it. We’re at this weird inflection point in software development. Every junior dev I talk to has Copilot or Claude or GPT runnin...

The downsides of AI nmn.gl/blog/ai-and-...

19.02.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good approach

09.02.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hugging Face clones OpenAI’s Deep Research in 24 hours Open source β€œDeep Research” project proves that agent frameworks boost AI model capability.

Doesn't bode well for AI moats arstechnica.com/ai/2025/02/a...

08.02.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gelsinger Invests In British AI Chip Startup Fractile - EE Times Former Intel CEO said better inference performance would equate to years of lead on model development.

This will be an interesting startup to watch www.eetimes.com/gelsinger-in...

07.02.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Only AI Moat is Hardware And Compute is the Upper Bound for Achievable Intelligence

This why more value is going to accrue to the hardware layer than people expect. Great piece medium.com/@muratonen/t...

04.02.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Deepseek Will Drive Innovation In Foundation Models Basic economics now makes other foundation models more viable

Why the fallout from Deepseek will drive innovation in foundation models. investinginai.substack.com/p/why-deepse...

02.02.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Deepseek, Shorting NVIDIA, And The Coming AI Hardware Revolution The time is right for alternatives

neurometric.substack.com/p/deepseek-s...

28.01.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's because the economic policies of the two parties are largely similar at this point - focused on blue collar jobs, protectionism, and high taxes. (GOP may say low tax but, tariffs are taxes)

28.01.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The HYPE Games Hype culture threatens to dilute the credibility of legitimate scientific advancements while posing significant harm to society.

This is very good mohakshah.substack.com/p/the-hype-g...

21.01.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI's Hourglass Figure Economic value is going to accrue at the top, and the bottom, of the AI stack

My new post - AI's Hourglass Figure investinginai.substack.com/p/ais-hourgl...

22.12.2024 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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