Ten from the weekend 09/08: A few interesting reads that I came across

Gopi Vikranth
Sep 9, 2018 · 1 min read

Focus areas: Blockchain| ML-AI| Data science/Analytics applications |eSports| CRISPR| Design thinking

1. The Case Study of Dollar General and Surviving (Thriving!) Retail https://a16z.com/2018/09/05/dollar-store-retail/

2. All Things Sales! 16 Mini-Lessons: https://a16z.com/2018/09/02/sales-startups-technical-founders/

3. The Power User Curve: The best way to understand your most engaged users: https://andrewchen.co/power-user-curve/

4. Growth loops are the new funnels: https://www.reforge.com/blog/growth-loops

5. The Charlie Munger Operating System: https://fs.blog/2016/04/munger-operating-system/

6. The matrix calculus you need for deep learning: http://explained.ai/matrix-calculus/index.html

7. Open-AI: How the 5 vs.5 algorithm works and the history of their long pursuit of Dota2 mastery: https://medium.com/syncedreview/openais-long-pursuit-of-dota-2-mastery-1d3a861472bd|| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eO2TSVVP1Y

8. Which Artificial Neural Network for Object Recognition is most Brain-Like?: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/09/05/407007

9. State of blockchain: https://www.blockchaintransparency.org/reports

10. The dark underbelly of cryptocurrency markets: https://medium.com/@nic__carter/a-glimpse-into-the-dark-underbelly-of-cryptocurrency-markets-d1690b761eaf

11. The Bullish case for Bitcoin (Long read): https://medium.com/@vijayboyapati/the-bullish-case-for-bitcoin-6ecc8bdecc1

Gopi Vikranth

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