Prospector-77

To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of
undeserving people

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea to generalize it, I was interested what Opus 5 would do if I gave it the first paragraph of the Lord of the Rings, a 1M token budget (~$10) and asked for three js render of it. Opus went off for ~2 hours and wrote 5500 lines of code that (procedurally) rendered the story. It's kind of janky but fun. But it's a bit mindboggling that the LLM has to place and orchestrate various polygon assets in (x,y,z) coordinates and write code that animates it all, and that it even does anything at all.

I also like this kind of examples because no one in their right mind would ever spend the time to write something this custom but LLMs have all the stamina and patience in the world, so it's an example where we go from "no one would ever do this" to "sure, why not, it's ~free". There might be a lot more. But I'm excited about creating hyper custom worlds that you can imagine dropping players into, e.g. here to participate in the LoTR story as a spectator NPC, or one of the characters, or etc. Something like an ephemeral GTA of X on demand.

Last thought is that the domain of worlds/games exposes a weakness in LLMs: they can't easily audit their work because they aren't able to efficiently and natively perceive videos or play games within them. Here, Opus 5 had to very slowly and painstakingly take screenshots at different points, and it messed up a few times and created a bunch of jank. An example of raw capability (multimodal, gameplay) that I think is still quite lacking.

[Elijah Thane @elijah_thane]

Seriously, you need to listen to Baroque music.

It is the pinnacle of music achievement.

Start with Telemann.
Then Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, and Purcell.

Then Monteverdi to understand the transition from Renaissance to Baroque.

Then Hadyn to understand the transition from Baroque to Classical.

Veracini to add some spontaneity.
Pachelbell to add some serenity.

This will undoubtedly improve the quality of your life in every way imaginable.

In 3 years, come back and thank me for improving your life by imparting this wisdom to you.

You’re welcome in advance. ❤️

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

CAC score is zero but the smart guys say get the CLEERY. Fish oil. Nattokinase (now PureBlood which Marc Lobliner formulated for me). Chelated multi-minerals. Magnesium is not optional if you want a healthy heart. And know your HOMA-IR. Fasting insulin creeps up before glucose.

[em m0shouris @emm0sh]

here's my conversation with Carl Bass. we talked about CAD, engineering software, AI, Autodesk and organizations

i hope you enjoy it as much as i did

[Crusader of Christ ⚔️ @Defendthewest17]

All 13 episodes of Kenneth Clark's Civilisation are available to watch on https://t.co/2YcB1MJkdN

Here's the link
https://t.co/VPsFCN9BmP

[Ronit Pereira @CAronitpereira]

Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger had a 3rd partner named Rick Guerin.

He sold his BRK shares to Warren and Charlie at $40 in 1974 due to his other over leveraged positions.

In 2022, I asked Charlie Munger about how was Rick as a person and an investor. His answer:

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

A question that lives rent free in my head…

[a16z @a16z]

.@pmarca: "The person who writes down the thing has tremendous power."

"There are so few people who will just like write down the thing.

And so we see this at companies all the time, which is, one of the ways you find the up-and-comers at a tech company is just, okay, who wrote down the plan?

And, you know, that doesn't mean they came up with everything. And that doesn't mean that they had all the ideas, but they're actually able to organize their thoughts and then actually have the energy and the motivation and the skill to be able to communicate in a written form.

That actually stands out."

With @david_perell

[The ₿itcoin Therapist @TheBTCTherapist]

I’ve watched this scene 1,000x and I think about it every day.

[Brian Halligan @bhalligan]

You basically need to be unemployed to keep up with all this AI stuff. @jack feels it too

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

This 4 hour masterclass of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger will teach you more about investing than a $200,000 MBA from any business school on the planet.

Bookmark this & give it 4 hours this weekend, no matter what. It's the most productive thing you can give your weekend.

[Paul White Gold Eagle @PaulGoldEagle]

In 2011, a neuroscientist at MIT named Dr. Li-Huei Tsai made a discovery that should have been on the front page of every newspaper on Earth.

She exposed mice with advanced Alzheimer's disease to a flickering light pulsing at exactly 40 Hz — forty flashes per second. Nothing else. No drugs. No surgery. Just light at a specific frequency.

Within one hour, the amyloid-beta plaques in their brains — the protein deposits that define Alzheimer's — began to dissolve. Not slow. Not gradually. Within sixty minutes.

After seven days of daily 40 Hz exposure, plaque levels dropped by 50%. The mice regained memory function. Their neurons began firing in synchrony again. The brain's immune cells — microglia — activated and started clearing the toxic buildup like a cleaning crew that had been asleep for years.

The study was published in Nature. The most prestigious scientific journal on the planet. Peer-reviewed. Replicated. Confirmed.

That was 2016. It is now 2026.

40 million people worldwide have Alzheimer's. The pharmaceutical industry generates $13 billion per year from Alzheimer's drugs that do not reverse the disease. Not one of them. They slow it. Maybe. Temporarily. At $26,000 per year per patient.

A 40 Hz light costs less than a dollar to produce.

Dr. Tsai is still at MIT. Her research continues. Phase III human trials are underway. But you will not see this on the evening news. You will not hear your doctor mention it. You will not find it in any pharmacy.

Because a frequency that costs nothing cannot sustain a $13 billion industry.

The light is 40 Hz. The frequency is real. The science is published. And 40 million people are still waiting for permission to use it.

[Movez @0xMovez]

This 1-hour MIT lecture by Jim Simons is like getting a masterclass from Kasparov - except the board is financial market.

Quant King reveals more about quant trading than most Wall Street players pick up in an entire career.

Bookmark it. Watch it. Then read the article below.

[Sunil Gurjar, CFTe @sunilgurjar01]

This 50-minute lecture by Jeff Bezos will teach you more about business than a 2-year MBA program:

[Alphamojo @Alphamojo1]

“Part of the secret of a long life that has worked as well as mine is not to expect too much of human nature.”

“To have your life full of resentments and hatreds, it's counterproductive. You are punishing yourself and not fixing the world.”

- Charlie Munger. 2019

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

If I could give you one success life hack.

And trust me. I literally have a hyperbaric healing chamber in my house. I take life hacks seriously.

If I could give you one tho. It'd be this.

Grab a bunch of epic fantasy books as thick as your head. Replace all your TV and social media time reading them.

Your brain will slowly start to work again. The focus from reading the thick ass wordy books will slowly put it back together.

Sanderson. Abercrombie. Gaimman. Pierce Brown. Great places to start.

Replacing this as your main time wasting hobby will give you absolutely crazy returns when it comes to actually making money. The focus you gain will make you lethal.

[Damian Player @damianplayer]

Naval Ravikant tells his favorite story about Elon Musk:

[Naval @naval]

Just as you travel so that you can miss your home, you socialize so that you can miss your self.

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

Charlie Munger:

“Everybody has some bad [trades]…It happens…But just do not live your life in such a fashion that a bad day can kill you.”

[青しょうが @atahuta123]

脳みそは案外だまされやすいから、毎日ひとりで「わたしは性格がよくて頑張り屋でカラダもメンタルも健康な人間だ」とか呟いていればなぜか本当にそれっぽい人生にかわっていきます。人は自己暗示した通りの人物になるので