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Life is a golf swing. Your dreams are the ball. How far will you send it? Finding stories, people and ideas to inspire your next shot

[Sovren @SovrenGo]

@0numex Best line is the last one. Measure productivity, ignore the narrative. Most AI pitches still fail that test.

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@0numex Jensen calling doomsday talk a scam while selling the shovels. Worth noticing.

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14 months before a $65 billion Ponzi scheme collapsed, its creator said this on camera.

$65,000,000,000.

That’s what prosecutors estimated Bernie Madoff’s clients lost on paper. 37,000 people in 136 countries.

Now watch what he said 14 months before his arrest. (The footage is rough. It’s the only version available.)

October 2007, a roundtable in Manhattan. The former NASDAQ chairman calmly tells the room that in today’s regulatory environment, it’s virtually impossible to violate the rules.

His Ponzi scheme was already running.

In the same video, he casually mentions that his niece just married a guy from the SEC.

Arrested December 11, 2008. Sentenced to 150 years.

His words: “It’s impossible for a violation to go undetected.”

He used the rules as his alibi.

Who’s saying the same thing today?

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@Tetriss112 How many hours did this take you?

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Holy sh*t. Look what I did with this fly!

A couple of days ago Odyssey posted a clip: a fruit-fly brain flying around inside their AI world. No paper, no code. So I went to see what’s actually going on inside a fly’s head.

Scientists sliced a fruit-fly brain into thousands of layers and traced every connection by hand. The result is a map of 127,400 neurons and ~50 million synapses. Built on that map is an open-source brain model (Nature, 2024): each neuron is simple, but they’re wired exactly like a real fly’s.

I took that model and gave the fly sugar:

> Sugar touches the proboscis, and taste receptors fire first.
> The signal spreads through the brain, and 27 ms later MN9 switches on. That’s the neuron that moves the proboscis, the “eat” command.
> In a full second only 391 neurons fire. That’s 0.3% of the brain. The rest doesn’t care about sugar.
> Weaker sugar? The decision comes 12 ms later: 39 ms instead of 27.
> The strongest route to “eat” is just three hops: receptor → interneuron → descending neuron → MN9.

Here’s the wild part. A three-line script, “if sugar: eat”, looks exactly the same from the outside. A video can’t tell you whether a fly has a brain.

In Eon’s stack, which Odyssey’s clip likely builds on, vision is still “somewhat decorative” and barely drives behavior. Yet Odyssey’s world is almost pure vision for the fly. So what’s steering their fly? They haven’t said.