A Stanford professor offers a better way to make decisions.

Argos: How Uber Engineering provides highly accurate, real-time alerts on millions of system and business metrics in Uber's fast-paced environment.

Peiter "Mudge" Zatko and his wife Sarah, formerly of the NSA, developed software that's already helped find flaws across 12,000 pieces of software.

As neural networks tease apart the structure of language, they are finding a hidden gender bias that nobody knew was there.

I had a meeting with a well-known startup investor yesterday. The talk somehow pivoted from my seed-seeking startup into talking about the macro view of venture capital and how it doesn’t actually…

Two of my favorite photos from Yosemite. 

First: mist on the way to the top of Nevada Falls in May.

Second: looking out from the cables on Half Dome — almost exactly 45-degree angle!

General McChrystal on the Five Points of Leadership from Sequoia

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Solving another Riddler posted yesterday on FiveThirtyEight.com just for kicks:

A grizzly bear stands in the shallows of a river during salmon spawning season. Preci...

https://overcast.fm/+BP58gdytI There’s an obscure law that governs just about anything that travels by ship in the U.S. — bananas, hairdryers, gasoline, even people. Economists do not like it. But it ...

Ok, these riddles have been enticing me for some time and it’s time to start trying to solve them! Since I missed the actual submission deadline, I’ll just post my attempt here.

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