Pratap’s Substack

Breaking the Fourier ceiling

We’re about to break the Fourier Ceiling.

Jul 10 • 

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May 2025

A possible future where AI dreams?

Today, an LLM hallucinates, and we think nothing of it.

May 28 • 

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March 2024

6 lessons from Y-Combinator, 10 years later

That was our pitch for Kimono Labs at YC demo day in Winter 2014.

Mar 26, 2024 • 

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February 2024

The Rise of the Joint-Mission Startup

And why the biggest AI opportunities in the world can’t be solved with SaaS

Feb 22, 2024 • 

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SimCity IRL & The Dawn of Simulations for Everyone

Remember the scene from the Matrix where Morpheus fights Neo in a virtual dojo?

Feb 1, 2024 • 

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January 2024

We Wear Neon Shoelaces in the Arena

On their first day, every new teammate who joins us at Arena receives a pair of bright neon shoelaces.

Jan 24, 2024 • 

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Should we build AI data centers on the moon?

Spoiler alert: it could be 40% cheaper, according to some napkin math I did this weekend, prompted by Zuck’s comments on Thursday on the astronomical…

Jan 22, 2024 • 

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The Light Cone Strategy for AI

The pace of innovation in AI is accelerating.

Jan 18, 2024 • 

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Transformers, Cortical Columns & AI’s x86 Moment

The Transformer puts the T in GPT and is the beating heart of generative AI, but I don’t think the full impact of the transformer has been fully felt or…

Jan 12, 2024 • 

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6 Lessons from Palantir

It’s rare for founders to go through an acquisition and be really motivated and inspired working for their acquirer.

Jan 9, 2024 • 

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Escaping Plato’s Cave with Multimodal AI

In the allegory "The Cave", Plato describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all their lives, facing a blank wall.

Jan 5, 2024 • 

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Data doesn't fuel AI. Entropy does.

Before finding my way to startups, I was a quantum physicist.

Jan 1, 2024 • 

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