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Ok, decided to spend Sunday writing a 4 part piece on why I think Amazon Isn’t the Problem.
Longer read, but if you sell on Amazon and don't read it, good luck!
medium.com/@shinghi/amazon-i…
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One interesting anecdote that I heard from someone about AI solving these complex math problems was that it's not necessarily coming to the result that matters. It's the discovery along the way of solving these math problems, which opens new doors and new journeys for us to go and solve to understand the universe.
So we miss all of that when coming to the solution, and the solution is something that no one can understand because no one has had the journey.
We’re releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model.
We’ve been consulting with the independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Advanced Study, and we have drawn on their advice and public recommendations to inform how we release these results.
github.com/openai/math
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Introducing Hermes Index: an average of benchmarks measuring model performance in Hermes Agent.
Our goal with Hermes Index is to better inform users choosing between models and to show labs how they perform in Hermes.
portal.nousresearch.com/benc…
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Interesting. Never knew about this part of the government doing seed rounds for businesses.
The US government will give your startup up to $1.55M and take 0% equity.
@NSF's America's Seed Fund is open again after Congress reauthorized it in April.
Three tracks:
- Phase I: up to $305K to prove the idea
- Phase II: up to $1.25M to build it
- Fast-Track: up to $1.55M, both phases in one go
Who can apply:
- US-based startups with 500 or fewer employees
- 51%+ owned by US citizens or permanent residents
- Not majority owned by VCs
- All the work done in the US
How it works:
- Send a 3-page Project Pitch first
- NSF invites the best ones to submit a full proposal
- Next full proposal deadline: Nov 4
Phase I funding rates have run about 10 to 20%. It's work, but nobody takes your cap table.
Application link 👉 seedfund.nsf.gov
Bookmark and tag a tech founder who needs this.
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Choose your master:
nytimes.com/2026/10/06/opini…
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Hermes.
You should be able to use smarter models in your agent.
You should be able to use cheaper models in your agent.
You should be able to use local models in your agent.
You should be able to use a different model for every job.
You should be able to switch models in the middle of a conversation.
You should be able to choose what data your agent has.
You should be able to choose what it remembers and what it forgets.
You should be able to choose what computer your agent runs on.
You should be able to run it on a machine that never touches the internet.
You should be able to run it while your laptop is closed.
You should be able to reach it from the apps you already use.
You should be able to choose how your agent thinks.
You should be able to read the prompt it runs on.
You should be able to see every tool it has, and turn off the ones you don't want.
You should be able to teach it something once and never explain it again.
You should be able to know what it did, and when, and why.
You should be able to export your agent.
You should be able to read the code.
You should be able to change the code.
Your agent should be yours.
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CODEX just filled my 1tb drive with utter slop while doing a process.
WTF happened.
Claude is the best.
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AI will make everything free, including itself. The last domino to fall will be free energy, which is humanity’s final frontier.
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The USA is now at cost parity with China!
I break this down from the floor of the NYSE on Cheddar News.
Great talk with Arnold Davick about the explosion of high end factories in the country, effects of tariffs, and automation as the base case.
@ArnoldNYCTV @cheddar
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Communists provide no value to society.
They only consume.
NEW: Democratic Rep Cindy Ryu admits her party plans to lower the threshold on the income tax from millionaires to everyone in WA state & that she wants to tax companies more
She told KUOW, "Let's look at less, about 250,000. Can we live well on$250,000 a year of net income?"
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Hey @MatthewChang a good friend of mine owns a machine shop with his Dad in LA. They do a lot of aerospace parts.
His competition is largely old timers.
He wants to grow and maybe even buy/merge some of those shops.
What's your recommendation for him?
America has 16,876 machine shops.
83% employ fewer than 20 people. Just nine employ more than 500.
New defense companies are moving from prototypes to mass production, and every missile, drone, ship, and rocket they ultimately produce needs to run through one of these small shops.
That friction is a national security liability.
Connor Love and Collen Larson on the next generation of American manufacturing that gets built by smoothing it: a16z.news/p/the-case-for-the…
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So I went down the rabbit hole of trying to determine what are the economics for someone, who is currently healthy , to go to a HDHP with a 10k plus deductible.
The question I asked is “I dont trust insurance companies. What happens if I have a million dollar emergency and they won’t pay “. All I can say is WTF
If they don’t pay, there are Independent Review Organizations, who are supposed to be independent, and their decision to pay or not is final. I asked for examples of companies. One was ExamWorks. That rang a bell.
These motherfuckers are the same company that issued a ridiculous denial for a patient I was trying to help. So I knew the Too Big To Care, vertically integrated insurance companies hired them to do DENIALS !!! WTF.
The biggest customers of the companies that are the final decision makers for insurance carrier denials, are the biggest insurance companies.
That is beyond fucked up. It’s the definition of conflict of interest. How do state insurance commissioners allow this ?
The high deductible plans that many people say is the solution to fixing how we do insurance, may be effectively compromised
If you are looking at a HDHP, BE CAREFUL
It might just be rigged against you
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If you like dark, rich, smooth, punch you in the face coffee, buy this: hammerheadcoffee.com/product…
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This is how you know when a company is still at Day 1 (a good thing)
The CEO is doing customer service on X.
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Every successful person should serve their community, nation, or religious organization or all with no pay.
This should be the greatest measure of success in life.
The nation owes a debt to @JGebbia and his excellent team. They worked incredibly hard, with no compensation, to make government services work better for all Americans.
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