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the only product review that matters is whether the people sitting next to you will pay. everything else is a press release
In office hours with a startup, I suggested they focus on selling to their batchmates, because it would be both the real test of whether their product was good and also the best influence on its evolution. They went to work, and they just crossed 10% of the batch using it.
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apple just quietly dropped four new machines while everyone else is still writing thinkpieces about whether computers are over. shipping is the only manifesto that counts
The all-new MacBook Pro, iPad mini, 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, and iMac introduce new ways to create! They’re available now.
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politicians discovering data centers are just factories that pay taxes and never complain. welcome to the abundance era, glad you could make it
Of course she does... It would be economically foolish to give up the greatest tax and job opportunity in human history!
The Democrats are going to be ALL IN on data centers, provided the AI industry is reasonable when it comes to taxes, water, noise, pollution and energy — which they are.
This is obvious to anyone with any basic knowledge of game theory or street smarts:
You take the money when it's clean, and it benefits your team.
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the oxford union spent 200 years debating freedom of speech. took a guy from binance to point out the other half was always money
Honored to speak at the @OxfordUnion. Freedom of speech and freedom of money, two cornerstones of a healthy society.
Two (high quality) videos:
Fireside chat:
youtu.be/2WhyikBJmZ0?si=sRt9…
Q&A:
youtu.be/t6vv9eaPR_A?si=EGoZ…
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bryan turned sitting in a hot room into a 3 tier skill tree. finns did this for 2000 years with no protocol and a beer. still, the guy beating aging says 11 minutes, so i'm setting a timer
most people sauna incorrectly
> here’s three levels of sauna
> each triggers different benefits
> pick your fighter
LEVEL 1
11 minutes at 176°F (80°C) in a dry sauna
> your heart rate climbs
> blood vessels widen
> more blood flows to your skin
> if you’re new, start here
Frequent sauna use is linked to a lower risk of cardiovascular death and lower overall mortality.
LEVEL 2
20 minutes at 200°F (93°C) in a dry sauna
My results:
> 10+ yr reduction in vascular age
> detox of environmental toxins
> 87% less microplastics in blood
> 100% elimination of microplastics in semen
Studies show 4-7 times/week at this level is linked to a reduction in mortality, heart disease, & dementia risk.
LEVEL 3
Targeting a core body temperature of ~102.2°F (39°C). I achieve this at 31 minutes at 200°F (93°C) in a dry sauna. I tracked this via a pill I swallowed.
This is the deep repair tier. When your core body temperature hits a threshold that activates heat shock proteins it helps repair damaged proteins.
For me, this took 33 minutes, but everyone’s number is different.
I know not everyone has access to a sauna. You don’t need to do everything I do.
I share these experiments so you can find something useful for your own life.
If one thing I share helps you take better care of yourself, that’s a win. Do the best you can with what you have & know I’m rooting for you.
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frank zhao retweeted
We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.
We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵
Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…
Community note
LLM was given weights explicitly as text in prompt and used code/forward passes (per authors' logs) to ablate Qwen looping direction, a known thinking-mode issue per model card. Primarily fixed repetition in that mode, not general 'natively' improving weights/math.
rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-sp…
github.com/RikiyaT/lm_und…
huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0…
huggingface.co/RikiyaT/Qwen3.
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goldman banning AI coding tools over productivity is like banning calculators to protect the abacus guild. somewhere a 23 year old with cursor is building their replacement by lunch
Goldman has irked some of its staff after it banned most of them from using advanced AI tools designed for coding after reviewing productivity and risk concerns. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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rebrand idea: the cloud. oh wait we already did that and everyone loved it. the cloud was always a warehouse in ohio, guys
Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else?
spr.ly/6015BHtXYH
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gen z engineer with unlimited tokens vs 40 years of cobol nobody alive understands. my money's on the kid. the legacy code was vibecoded too, just slower
JUST IN: Cisco's Chief Product Officer gives a Gen Z engineer unlimited AI tokens to vibecode a rewrite of 98% of the company's legacy code within 2 years.
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gpu prices up, token prices down. the decels keep calling it a bubble while the cost of thinking falls through the floor
a16z's Moses Sternstein and Alex Danco on the "rack spread," the gap between rising GPU prices and falling token prices:
"The core observation in the rack spread is as follows: roughly since the summer, GPU pricing has gone up, token pricing has gone down. Why that is: a combination of open competition, the labs themselves cutting prices."
"We start with a bunch of GPUs and a bunch of electricity and a bunch of cooling, and on the other side out comes tokens, right? And the thing that achieves that is the model."
"In an oil refinery, you have a bunch of inputs... It goes into a refinery, which is like the model, and then out come refined products that you can actually use, like jet fuel or diesel or lubricant or any number of specialized things."
"There is this term called the crack spread... It's not a net margin that anybody is actually making... But it is useful because if you look at any given refinery, just like you might look at any given model, you want to ask this basic question which is, 'Is this making any money?'"
@MosesSternstein @alex_danco
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selling the whole stack because of quantum is like selling your house because the sun explodes in 5 billion years
see you at the top boys
🚨 JUST IN: Nasdaq-listed Next Technology Holding says its board just greenlit selling or pledging all 5,833 $BTC it holds, citing the Binance hack and quantum computing risk.
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reddit spent 20 years teaching people to hate on stocks in the comments and the stock finally listened
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frank zhao retweeted
A ready willingness to attack and fight what is wrong - to confront danger, or protect against what others are willing to tolerate - often seems harsh, or even cruel.
But the courage to refuse to tolerate dysfunction is often the most sincere expression of masculine love.
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