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[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

The happiest people in the world are the ones who:

• love what they're doing
• accept things that they can't change
• find pleasure in doing things
• continue to grow and evolve
• practice humility
• expect less
• enjoy and appreciate little things in life

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

The measure of your intelligence is not your ability to acquire knowledge but how you handle uncertainty and navigate through it and behave when you don't know what to do.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The soul of things is found in the parts that aren't completely rational, efficient, convenient. The parts that add color (and friction) to the interaction we have with them.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The worst people I know are all convinced that the world is a dark place where you can't trust anyone and that society will soon collapse. It's always projection.

[Z Fellows @zfellows]

Jeff Bezos on embracing failure

[Jasper Polak @polak_jasper]

Jeff Bezos famously only allowed 4 different answers to a question at Amazon:
1. Yes
2. No.
3. A number
4. I don't know, but I'll know it by X

If you're uncomfortable saying option 4, you've got work to do.

[Hunter 🌆 @rhunterh]

So many investors on here

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If civilization fails, nothing else matters

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

People who derive an obsessive (& vicarious) pride from the "achievements" of their ethnicity, while degrading other groups, tend to be insecure, often vicious, hierarchy-sensitive losers who can't cope with their sense of personal failure.

[Kashyap Sriram @kashyap286]

I’m gratified by the response I received on my previous thread highlighting Nvidia’s $NVDA accounting tricks and buyback shenanigans.

Q3 was more of the same. Let's get into it.

🧵

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Academia is a game of credit assignment. As such, the most important skill of successful academics is credit-taking.

[Jim Bianco @biancoresearch]

Food at home is 21% more expensive than 3.5 years ago.

[Siqi Chen @blader]

so basically gpt5 turned out more powerful than anyone expected, ilya gets spooked, rasputins the board, board fires sam the clumsiest way possible, every vc + msft turns the screws, staff revolts, board capitulates like tissue paper, sam and greg back by sunday noon

[Nemo @thecaptain_nemo]

somehow i totally missed this

openAI recently updated their “company structure” page to include a note saying the Microsoft deal only applies to pre-AGI tech, and the board determines when they’ve reached AGI

[Sam Altman @sama]

Move faster. Slowness anywhere justifies slowness everywhere.

2021 instead of 2022. This week instead of next week. Today instead of tomorrow.

Moving fast compounds so much more than people realize.

[Ralph Sueppel @macro_synergy]

"The choice of time intervals in the volatility calculations... captures different aspects of risk... Short-interval volatilities predominantly capture idiosyncratic risk, while longer intervals capture systematic risk." https://t.co/7E9HTOaDPG

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

الحق أبلج والباطل لجلج

My translation:

Truth has low entropy, deception has high entropy

[Bravos Research @bravosresearch]

This is extremely concerning

9% of bonds are due to mature by 2025

This is the highest level since the 2008 Financial Crisis

High interest rates will make refinancing debt more difficult

[Victor Veitch 🔸 @victorveitch]

There's an idea that LLMs encode high-level concepts linearly in representation space, and that these can be understood using geometric operations (e.g., cosine similarity)

But: What does "linear" even mean? And, why would (Euclidean) geometry encode meaning?

https://t.co/Q5hJrtdY8q