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If you're contemplating coming to seatl on may fourth, we would love to see you there. It's going to be so un it'll be a blast interviewing jim. And maybe by the time this comes out we will have announced some of our other little fun surprises too. I think we can say now thirs can be an after party. There is deaflygi an after party thankeus to our friends at vouch for running out a bar basically across the street,. A couple of blocks away, with huge capacity. So that'll be really fun to have everyone wander over from the arena to the vouch after party where thy're oing to launch in washington state

By 2012, NVIDIA was on a decade-long road to nowhere. Or so most rational observers of the company thought. CEO Jensen Huang was plowing all the cash from the company’s gaming business into building a highly speculative platform with few clear use cases and no obviously large market opportunity. And then... a miracle happened. A miracle that led not only to Nvidia becoming the 8th largest market cap company in the world, but also nearly every internet and technology innovation that’s happened in the decade since. Machines learned how to learn. And they learned it... on Nvidia.

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Ben Thompson’s great Stratechery interview with Jensen
Linus Tech Tips tests an Nvidia A100
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The Expanse short story collection, Memory's Legion
Sony RX100 point-and-shoot camera

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