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𝐆𝐀𝐓𝐄: 𝐆𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 I recently gave a talk @d_InfraSummit, hosted and organized by @1kxnetwork. In my opinion, this is the highest-quality and most-serious side event at @EthereumDenver, It was a privilege to share…
Such a real conversation with a bunch of hidden gems. I'm convinced that @levelsio is the @MrBeast of indy hacking. When's the collab happening? --- Most insightful moment was when John asked Pieter what he would do if he were running stripe. tl;dr Give users an opinionated…
Pieter Levels (@levelsio) and I sat down over a pint to talk about how he’s making $3m a year as a one-person company, what Europe can do to spur economic growth, and his experience as a digital nomad in over 150 cities across 40 countries. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:37 Pieter’s…
Over the last 2 weeks, my time zone shifts were: 🇺🇸 PST -> 🇨🇦 EST -> 🇬🇧 -> 🇫🇷 Kept waking up at the same time every day without an alarm clock; sometime between 6am -> 7am. I've been known to take my morning routines a little too seriously, but the human body continues to amaze…
I decided to ask @OpenAI's o3 and @AnthropicAI's Opus 4: "𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘯?" Summarizing the top 3: 1. Real-time events 2. Niche, closed or specialized domains 3. Nuanced human experienced…
"Context Bloat" is the new "Cognitive Overload." If you've ever had long conversation in a single thread with an LLM, you know it begins to lose focus. No different than a human that's under cognitive overload. Gemini tests well in the "The Needle in the Haystack Test" - that's…
+1 for "context engineering" over "prompt engineering". People associate prompts with short task descriptions you'd give an LLM in your day-to-day use. When in every industrial-strength LLM app, context engineering is the delicate art and science of filling the context window…
This is amazing and, in hindsight, hard to believe it didn't exist before. Knowing that @MichaelDell helped make it happen adds to the modern day 🇺🇸 story. The new "401k" is going to be employers contributing $2,500 to all of their employee's children. Would love to see others…
The new tax bill created Trump accounts for all children under the age of 18 If you are a high earner, here's how you can arbitrage these accounts to make your kids tax-free multimillionaires:
Using ChatGPT in audio mode is cool, not completely there yet, but a glimpse into what will be possible. You have to really engage and keep asking the right questions to get the juicy details out. It lacks the interest or intrinsic excitement that a human guide often brings.…
If someone asks me to get on a 15 minute call - I will almost always say no. If someone asks me to go on a 4 hour walk - I will almost always say yes.
Silicon Valley playing catch up.
Silicon Valley's new status symbols. Sharing in my little newsletter shortly (link below).
In a world where data is 👑, I can’t even begin to imagine what @newlimit will achieve a decade from now. Where I’d put my chips on solving the aging problem.
NewLimit paper just dropped @icmlconf showing our SOTA AI models can predict perturbed cell states. Helps to have the largest primary cell perturbation dataset in the world. Bonus points for one of the first demonstration of active learning in bio.
I noticed that the only podcasts I listen to multiple years after being released are ones that discuss ideas with no reference to current events — only historical ones. Reminded me of this quote by Eleanor Roosevelt: “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events;…
Reintegrating sprints into my workouts is always a very humbling experience. Probably one of the hardest things to keep up with “age”.
I’ve been told: “There’s no way to know what it’s like to be a parent until you have your own kids.” I say: “You don’t know what it’s like to date in your 30s until you’ve swiped right more times than you can count.”
What do you think of when you hear the word "Gemini"?
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Always a good day to see technical excellence being appreciated.
Timing is everything and RWAs are hitting an inflection point. The teams that can execute on the technical complexity will win. I'm thrilled to join @nathanallman and the Ondo team on their mission to design institutional-grade platforms, assets, and infrastructure to bring…
There’s a line I’ll never forget. On my first day as a 19-year-old intern at @twitter, @ryfar looked at me and said: > “You’ll spend way more time reading code than writing it.” I nodded—but I didn’t really get it. Once I stepped into engineering leadership, it started to…