bubu the Frenchie

The French bulldog that reads 📚

[bubu the Frenchie @BubuFrenchie]

Is Grokipedia down? Can’t seem to find Nicki

[bubu the Frenchie @BubuFrenchie]

@tetsuoai Is it even legal?

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

“Elon always takes the high road. He will always do the hard things.”

@nikitabier explains what makes @elonmusk the greatest operator alive:

“At an Elon company—it’s a very flat organization.”

“A large number of people direct report to Elon. Everyone has an incredible amount of agency.”

“We come up with an idea, build it in a week, and it’s out.”

“I’ve never seen an executive with his amount of responsibility who is that deep in the weeds.”

“He does weekly reviews with every engineer at the company. You present 1–2 slides: ‘What did you get done this week?’”

“The amount of context switching he has to do between SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, X, Boring Company, and Neuralink— it’s incredible.”

“When you’re a consumer product builder, you’re always looking for growth hacks. Quick wins. I’ll present those options—he’ll be like, ‘No. We’re going to do the hard thing.’”

“A lot of these things seem impossible, but when he gives engineers the agency to do it, and says, ‘Let’s make it two weeks. Rebuild the algorithm in two weeks,’ amazing things happen. Miracles happen.”

Via @lightspeedvp @mignano

[bubu the Frenchie @BubuFrenchie]

@elonmusk It’s Cantonese 吖呀呀

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@pmarca Everything is 90% off @ taobao 😆

[rari @0xwhrrari]

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[Rui Ma @ruima]

Random parenting share, but I've been noodling on how to teach my almost-4 year old how to think and starting at 3.5 I think they began to have the mental capacity to start to understand some things.

Here's my rubric, which I tried to make bilingual-friendly, since we primarily converse in Mandarin, but I'm pretty sure they're going to grow up thinking mostly in English, so I'm just pre-emptively making everything friendly in both languages.

The mneumonic is 看看选看看选 in Chinese, and 5S and a V in English lol.

At this age, it's actually pretty easy to explain 1, 3, 4 & 6 (at a toddler level of course, but you'd be surprised what they can understand, and I especially love explaining tradeoffs). Because we have been taking them to China where systems clearly work differently, I also talk about 5 whenever I can. 2 is out of reach for now, lol, but I think a lot of adults are not even aware of what they're doing on that front, so I'm in no hurry, hah!

You can pretty much apply this to anything, I used it to prepare them for our vacation last weekend -- walked through the plan with them, asked them for their thoughts on how they were going to behave and most importantly, why. They have tantrums like any toddler, but we debrief and try to figure out what went wrong and how it can be better next time. Sometimes it feels like nothing is sticking and sometimes you'll get a signal that they actually absorbed it, which is very cool. Either way, it helps me calm down when communicating with them because at least I'm organized in my own thoughts, lol :)

1.State
看状态
What state is my brain in right now? Am I ready to think?
我现在的身体和情绪状态怎么样？适合思考吗？

2.Story
看想法
What story or assumption am I telling myself?
我脑子里在想什么？这是事实还是我的猜测？

3.Strategy
选方法
What kind of problem is this, and how should I think about it?
这个问题该怎么想？用什么方式想更合适？

4.Steps
看理由
Is my reasoning sound, given what I knew at the time?
我的理由站得住吗？有没有漏掉什么？

5.System
看规则
What incentives, rules, or norms are shaping behavior here?
这里有什么规则、环境或压力在影响大家的行为？

6.Values
选取舍
What values are in tension, and what tradeoff am I choosing?
我在做什么取舍？我愿意付出什么代价？

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

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[a16z @a16z]

Cursor CEO Michael Truell on the future of writing code: "Our goal with Cursor is to invent a new type of programming."

"It looks like a world where you have a representation of the logic of your software that does look more like English."

"You can imagine kind of an evolution of programming language towards pseudocode. You have written down the logic of the software, and you can edit that at a high level."

"It won't be the impenetrable millions of lines of code, it'll instead be something that's much terser and easier to understand and easier to navigate."

@mntruell with @lennysan on Lenny's Podcast

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Something I told 14 yo: Once you've prepared sufficiently for exams, switch your focus to "game management." Get enough sleep, keep calm, watch the time, check your answers to avoid dumb mistakes, etc.

[bubu the Frenchie @BubuFrenchie]

@Nsukka_okpa The Chinese do call them Holland 😃

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

3 days ago, Elon Musk sat in front of JP Morgan’s 3,500 wealthiest investors and explained why the AI economy is moving to space:

1. Starship is the first rocket in history designed to be fully reusable. Every other mode of transport... planes, cars, ships... you take reusability for granted. Rockets have always been thrown away after one use. That ends with Starship. Once you achieve full reusability, the only cost is fuel. Starship runs on liquid oxygen and methane. Both are cheaper than jet fuel.

2. Sending cargo to orbit will soon cost less than international air freight. This is not a distant projection. It is the direct mathematical outcome of reusable rockets plus cheap propellant. The economics of space change entirely.

3. Starlink V3 is 10 to 20 times more capable than what's currently in orbit. The satellite is so large it can only launch on Starship. It cannot fit on any other rocket on Earth. 100 times more bandwidth. Half the latency. It may become the highest bandwidth, lowest latency communication system that exists.

4. AI and robots will consume bandwidth at a scale humans cannot picture. Peak human bandwidth is a few hundred bits per second. A computer runs at a trillion. The appetite of AI for data infrastructure will be unlike anything built for human use. Starlink V3 is being built for that world... not this one.

5. Data centers are moving to space. Not as an experiment. As the primary way to scale AI compute going forward. It is increasingly hard to build power plants on the ground. Nobody wants one near their home. Space removes that constraint entirely.

6. From the moon, you can scale to 1,000 terawatts of compute per year. From Earth... maybe 1. The moon has no atmosphere and one-sixth Earth's gravity. You can manufacture solar panels from moon materials and launch data centers with a railgun. No rockets needed. The math on this is not close.

7. Current human civilization uses less than one trillionth of the sun's energy output. You could scale to a million times Earth's entire economy and still be using less than one millionth of what the sun produces. The ceiling on what's possible is so far above us it barely registers as a ceiling.

8. There is not a single high-volume computer memory fab in America right now. Zero. The chips needed to build the AI future do not exist in sufficient quantity anywhere in the Western world. That is why SpaceX is building one. Not to compete. Because there is no other option.

9. SpaceX has been cash flow positive since around 2014. The IPO is not a distress move. Past funding rounds were not even fundraising... they were liquidity events for employees. The company bought back its own stock. The IPO is happening now because the next phase requires capital private markets cannot absorb.

10. The senior team has barely changed in over a decade. The CFO has been there 15 years. Musk joined as the seventh employee in 2002. He says people who believe in the mission don't leave. And above technical skill, he now looks for one thing... whether someone is genuinely a good person.

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@StockMKTNewz Hope

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@TariqAhmed But what if the parent is reading a book on the iPhone

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@elonmusk They all deserve it 👏

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@atensnut lol he ain’t gonna read them all

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@MarioNawfal What’s the maximum carrying weight for it?

[Yasmine Khosrowshahi @yasminekho]

In 2024, Peter Thiel debated Jordan Peterson on one of the most misunderstood ideas in human history

No thinker challenges you like Thiel:

- Sacrifice is mostly irrational
- The crowd is almost always wrong
- Isaac had more faith than Abraham ever did

13 insights on sacrifice:

[bubu the Frenchie @BubuFrenchie]

@Andr3jH This guy is known as ‘the mountain’ in China