Hacker News with Generative AI: Strategy

Mastering the Isolated Queen Pawn (IQP) (lichess.org)
The Isolated Queen Pawn (IQP) is one of the most dynamic and intriguing pawn structures in chess.

Chess, Strategy, Tactics

23 points by fzliu 5 days ago | 14 comments

Core Principles for Productivity (daniel.pub)
Productivity is built on five fundamental pillars: clear strategy, effective planning, focused execution, continuous growth, and strong support systems. This guide explores each of these areas, breaking down the key principles that enable sustainable, high-quality work.

Productivity, Strategy, Planning, Execution, Growth

17 points by publicdaniel 18 days ago | 0 comments

How can NBA address 3-point boom? Ranking 12 potential solutions (cbssports.com)

NBA, Basketball, Analytics, Strategy, Sports

21 points by amichail 20 days ago | 38 comments

$250 remaining of L&D budget – what to spend on? (ycombinator.com)
Currently learning basic SQL (for free on Code Academy), already have a Coursera subscription for business courses. Interested in different forms of learning (MOOCs don't really engage me that well).<p>My background is in finance and I would like to learn more about product development and strategy.

Learning, Finance, Product Development, Strategy

29 points by czatt 22 days ago | 21 comments

Kelly Can't Fail (win-vector.com)
You may have heard of the Kelly bet allocation strategy. It is a system for correctly exploiting information or bias in a gambling situation. It is also known as a maximally aggressive or high variance strategy, in that betting more than the Kelly selection can be quite ruinous.

Gambling, Finance, Strategy, Statistics

393 points by jmount 29 days ago | 120 comments

The One Hundred Pages Strategy (thelampmagazine.com)
Almost nothing I have written in the last few years has given rise to more correspondence than a throwaway column about reading, in which I alluded to what I call the “hundred pages strategy.”

Reading, Strategy, Writing

54 points by keiferski 31 days ago | 13 comments

The One Hundred Pages Strategy (thelampmagazine.com)
Almost nothing I have written in the last few years has given rise to more correspondence than a throwaway column about reading, in which I alluded to what I call the “hundred pages strategy.”

Reading, Writing, Strategy, Personal Development

3 points by samclemens 38 days ago | 1 comments

The Two Big Games (overcomingbias.com)
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it. There are two games that folks in this business might play re this meeting.

Business, Strategy, Decision Making, Meetings

11 points by jger15 46 days ago | 2 comments

Generative AI Is Still Just a Prediction Machine (hbr.org)
Artificial intelligence tools can now write, code, draw, summarize, and brainstorm. The proliferation of generative AI tools poses serious questions for managers, such as: What tasks can be done by AI, what will humans still need to do, and what are the sustainable sources of competitive advantage as AI continues to improve? To understand the strategic implications of these new capabilities, managers need a framework for when AI will be helpful and when it might fail.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Management, Strategy

3 points by naves 58 days ago | 0 comments

The Early Christian Strategy (astralcodexten.com)
In 1980, game theorist Robert Axelrod ran a famous Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournament.

History, Strategy, Game Theory

16 points by feross 63 days ago | 8 comments

MOATs Aren't Useful (rohan.ga)
What I mean is that, conceptually, “MOATs” are not a useful abstraction. There is a saying that “all models are wrong, but some are useful” and I am saying that, as a model, MOATs are not useful. I think that asking a founder “what their MOAT is” will not offer useful information about their project.

Business, Startups, Strategy

6 points by ocean_moist 73 days ago | 4 comments

Crokinole (pudding.cool)
Technically speaking, they each flicked a 3.2cm disc 30cm across a board into a 3.5cm hole (just 9% wider than the disc itself) eight times in a row. In game terms, they made eight open 20s each.

Games, Sports, Strategy

621 points by Tomte 93 days ago | 166 comments

The Greatest Checkmate Ever Given (youtube.com)

Chess, Youtube, Strategy

9 points by mellosouls 96 days ago | 1 comments

How to Beat Online Poker: Russian Group Won Big with AI (bloomberg.com)

Online Poker, AI, Russia, Gambling, Strategy

12 points by alexey-salmin 118 days ago | 1 comments

Starbucks' new CEO wants to make Starbucks a coffee shop again (cnn.com)

Starbucks, Coffee, Business, CEO, Strategy

12 points by RyeCombinator 129 days ago | 9 comments

The CIA's 8 steps to wreck organizations (youtube.com)

Intelligence, Organizations, Management, Strategy, CIA

11 points by TotalCrackpot 130 days ago | 0 comments

A game theory behind the dark forest strategy? (wikipedia.org)

Game Theory, Strategy, Science Fiction

9 points by dgregd 131 days ago | 13 comments

AMD deprioritizing flagship gaming GPUs: Jack Hyunh on New Strategy vs. Nvidia (tomshardware.com)
AMD's plans for high-end GPUs with its upcoming Radeon RX 8000-series have been cast into doubt by several hardware leakers who assert that AMD has canceled its upper-tier RX 8000 cards. However, the company hasn't officially commented on the matter before.

AMD, GPUs, Hardware, Gaming, Strategy

22 points by pella 131 days ago | 16 comments

The expected value of the game is positive regardless of Ballmer’s strategy (gukov.dev)
A few days ago John Graham-Cumming posted about “Steve Ballmer’s incorrect binary search interview question” which drew a lot of attention on Hacker News.

Game Theory, Strategy, Mathematics

193 points by gukoff 134 days ago | 160 comments

How to convert a concept into a managerial instrument of competitive power (hbr.org)

Management, Strategy, Business, Competitive Advantage

4 points by cloudguruab 135 days ago | 0 comments

Intel Honesty (stratechery.com)

Intel, Business, Analysis, Strategy

376 points by surprisetalk 136 days ago | 405 comments

Kobayashi Maru Management (2018) (randsinrepose.com)

Management, Strategy, Star Trek

3 points by mooreds 142 days ago | 0 comments

What Does It Mean to Be a Signal Competitor? (soatok.blog)