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[Yong Zheng-Xin @yong_zhengxin]

I started my PhD around the same time as Emmy (2021), and very much agree with Emmy's take here.

I told myself at the time when I started my PhD that I'd write something akin to "The PhD Grind"––a book I was really inspired by––but as I was trying to pen down my thoughts/advice for incoming PhD students last month, I felt that I really don't know what to say.

One thing imo you should take away here is that: you should downweight the advice from whoever tells you *confidently* you should or should not do PhD based on their experiences––without expressing any thoughtful musing about what it means to be a researcher in academia in both next year and 5 years ahead.

I remember around late 2023 (right before I started my first AI safety paper), I had a discussion with my PhD roommates that I'm afraid AI is going to eat researcher jobs like mine.

I would like to believe that I have been doing good research, but man at that time, I already found a lot of my own experimental workflows are mid-to-low-intellectual tasks (the "mechanics" Emmy talked about).

Most of my value was on deciding what ideas and directions to best spend my limited time/energy/compute on, and continuously verifying that my findings and conclusions are indeed robust and can hopefully stand the test of time.

In a future world of expanding compute and where LLM can "jump" because of interconnected knowledge, researchers would really have to think twice about our own roles.

[Akua Sekyiwaa💜 @akuasekyiwaaa]

One year into my PhD, my first paper as a first author is officially published! 💜

Thank you to my advisor and co-author, Dr. Linfeng Wu, for her guidance and support throughout this research.

Read it here: https://t.co/xJcJrkwa9b

#PhD #AI #Research

[Runway @runwayml]

You've never seen anything like this.

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

people who introduce you to new ways of thinking & new ways of seeing life are very important.

[Ajibola @4jibola]

you seriously need an insane belief in your ability to create your own reality

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

The trick to learning is enjoying.

[Naval @naval]

To love is to gain joy from another’s well-being.

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

Alexander The Great was right, show me the statue of a careful man. I will wait.

[Simon Ritter @speakjava]

I'm rapidly discovering that the only way to use artificial intelligence effectively is if you have real intelligence...

[Bolton🔱 @10xrichard]

@imtyl3r_ @AlexFinn Check your dm bro

[Linas Beliūnas @linasbeliunas]

All of Cursor's founders - 25-26 years old MIT dropouts - are now multi-billionaires following SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition 😳

Their story remains one of the wildest ones in tech ever:

→ 4 MIT students start a side project in 2022 (initially for CAD/mechanical engineering)
→ Pivot hard and create Cursor, the AI coding tool that developers love and & helped popularise vibe coding
→ Hit a $10B valuation
→ Decide copilots aren’t enough, so they move into agentic AI teammates & their own models
→ Need massive compute to compete with OpenAI & Anthropic
→ Meanwhile xAI is losing the coding race
→ Elon realizes catching up could take years, so he skips the line & buys Cursor for $60B
→ Cursor gets the world’s largest GPU fleet and compute, while SpaceXAI gets the coding leader
→ Founders become multi-billionaires; the first 50 hires ~$20-500M each

This is the beauty of startups at its finest.

[OpenCode @opencode]

Ox Alpha (stealth model) is free for the next week

- 1M Context
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Generous rate limits, near unlimited usage

We have capacity for 100T tokens per day, lets see what you can do

[blue @bluewmist]

neuroplasticity works faster under high emotional intensity. if you can resist a craving when it's at its peak, you get a bigger rewiring effect. this is why the hardest moments matter most, they're not setbacks, they're high-voltage opportunities to change.

[Bolton🔱 @10xrichard]

Stromae makes me wanna learn French

[Lima @limalemonnn]

this is insane. i genuinely don't understand why ambitious people aren't shown this lecture before their careers start consuming their entire lives.

clayton christensen spent his career studying why successful companies collapse. in his final class, he asked students to apply the theory to themselves: if you keep allocating your time the same way, what life are you actually building?

he had already seen the answer in his own harvard mba class. everyone looked successful at the fifth reunion; by the 10th, 15th, 20th, and 25th, many were unhappy, divorced, and living far from their children.

work shows you the score immediately. close a sale, ship a product, finish a presentation, earn a promotion, get paid.

an hour with your child may produce nothing you can measure today; it may take 20 years to understand what that hour built. so the next free hour goes back to work, one rational decision at a time.

this is how people build lives they never planned: through hundreds of right decisions that lead in the wrong direction, day after day.

money, titles, and headcount are easy to count. christensen believed a life should be measured by the people who became better because you were there.

he died in 2020.

one question remains: if someone saw only where your time, energy, and attention went this year, what would they think actually mattered to you?

the full 19-minute lecture is in the video below.

[Bolton🔱 @10xrichard]

@RedHatPentester How about bitlocker bypass?

[Dev Shah @0xDevShah]

anthropic: if we release this humanity might end.
qwen: here is god in a zip file please star our repo

[NaijaFarmer @Nig_Farmer]

This coach is not just coaching those kids... He's coaching us all.

What a man!!!

Don't look at other's pace and position focus on your own grind.

There's no first to reach in life. The goal is to be present in the circle of influence

May the universe make it easy for us 🙏

[aasha @aashatwt]

learning agentic engineering is the equivalent of buying bitcoin in 2009 for your career.