Things I read last week… (WB 2 May 2022)

defence and aerospace

“this concept of an ‘Archimedes company,’ which is one that, by being as financially successful as possible, also has knock-on effects to the world. The mission is perfectly aligned with the balance sheet.“

– A16Z’s Future on disrupting defence and aerospace.

Epic’s Tim Sweeney on the metaverse.

Meta releases Open Pre-trained Transformer (OPT), an open source GPT-3.

Using deep learning to understand neuroimaging data.

How Apple became less insular to create the AirPods Pro.

Wendover explains cyber warfare. [YouTube]

Why the first version of Windows NT was 3.1.

How hole-in-one insurance works.