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emmett

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Founder and CEO of Softmax. Softmax is building massively multiplayer benchmarks for coding agents to train social intelligence.

Previously very interim CEO of OpenAI, YC Partner, and founder and CEO of Twitch.

Email me at emmett@softmax.com.

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How Twitch uses Postgresql

blog.twitch.tv·4 pts·emmett·

Life At A Startup (part 2)

abstractnonsense.com·33 pts·emmett·

Your Credentials Are Worthless Here

iamexec.com·245 pts·emmett·

Vitamins & Painkillers: a contrary view

eshear.posterous.com·9 pts·emmett·

Life at a startup

abstractnonsense.com·226 pts·emmett·

Your code should be as boring as possible

broadcast-tower.socialcam.com·139 pts·emmett·

Abstract Expressionism was (in part) a covert CIA operation

independent.co.uk·2 pts·emmett·

Justin.tv open sources iPhone push library (Ruby)

broadcast-tower.posterous.com·69 pts·emmett·

Global GDP since 1820: a small china is an aberration

emmett-58a2n.posterous.com·1 pts·emmett·

Camtweet is TwitPic meets live video (from Justin.tv)

camtweet.com·14 pts·emmett·

Investigating sine waves in Google Trends

cryptogon.com·29 pts·emmett·

A calculus for causality?

bayes.cs.ucla.edu·2 pts·emmett·

STEPS allows TCP in 200 LoC, Javascript in 170, self-hosting in 1000 (Alan Kay)

vpri.org·19 pts·emmett·

50% of the top 10,000 sites use Google Analytics

royal.pingdom.com·20 pts·emmett·

Google introduces Loopt competitor

google.com·41 pts·emmett·

One of the most interesting new languages I've seen...and it's on geocities?

geocities.com·14 pts·emmett·

Animated Map of the Imperial History of the Middle East

mapsofwar.com·1 pts·emmett·

Entrepreneurs are not overconfident (academic study)

overcomingbias.com·6 pts·emmett·

A Google Javascript Mystery

5 pts·emmett·

How many of lines of code for infix-to-prefix?

blog.emmettshear.com·23 pts·emmett·

Bram Cohen on Taboo Words

bramcohen.livejournal.com·2 pts·emmett·

How makers work

rodcorp.typepad.com·5 pts·emmett·

Map: Mentions per capita in the NYT

verysmallarray.com·3 pts·emmett·

MISC: A homoiconic language based on maps

will.thimbleby.net·31 pts·emmett·

Sounding black hurts your income; so does sounding southern

freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com·12 pts·emmett·

Controlled experiment in futures markets: onions

money.cnn.com·46 pts·emmett·

Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in northwestern Europe?

voxeu.org·1 pts·emmett·

China: new global advocate of capitalism?

marginalrevolution.com·4 pts·emmett·

A modest proposal: Markets for corporate control

cscs.umich.edu·1 pts·emmett·

Food production carbon output far outweighs food transportation

pubs.acs.org·1 pts·emmett·

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