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[Dany @danysvnt]

NVIDIA CEO SAYS HE WOULDN'T START NVIDIA AGAIN

jensen huang says building nvidia turned out "a million times harder" than he expected, and knowing that pain upfront, he wouldn't do it again

i'd be careful turning this into another speech about how suffering makes you successful. plenty of people pay the same price for something that never works out, they just aren't the ones sitting in these interviews

in 1997 nvidia had about six months of money and one shot at its next chip. jensen bought an emulator from a company that was shutting down the day he called, and his team tested their whole software on it first, waiting what he remembers as about an hour per frame

the pain came with the job, the emulator was a decision, and only one of those can be copied

a sacrifice doesn't become a strategy just because someone succeeded

[Dany @danysvnt]

ECONOMIST WHO BLOGGED DAILY FOR 20 YEARS IS WRITING LESS BECAUSE OF AI

tyler cowen says he's moved two thirds of his effort away from writing and toward podcasts, talks and mentoring over the last few years

he thinks AI will soon compete with him on writing quality. i'm not convinced that makes his own writing less worth reading, but the part about his situation caught my attention

he has tenure and says he could carry on as he is and be fine

so this isn't someone changing because he's already lost his job, he's deciding where he wants to spend his time while he still has a choice

you can be proud of what you learned without owing it the rest of your life

that feels like a difficult thing to accept when being good at something has been part of who you are for years, changing direction can feel like admitting it was all a mistake, even when it wasn't

[Dany @danysvnt]

TERENCE TAO WORRIES AI COULD TAKE GRAD STUDENTS' FIRST PROJECTS

terence tao says AI can now replicate many of the papers that would have been a grad student's first research project

and honestly, why wouldn't you use it? if it can help solve the problem, making someone struggle for months just because that's how we used to do it sounds silly

but those projects aren't only there to produce papers. they're also how someone gets their first experience doing science

replacing the student with AI isn't the same as helping the student use it

the paper was never the only thing that project was supposed to produce

[Dany @danysvnt]

NVIDIA CEO SAYS FORGETTING BASIC MATH DOES NOT MATTER

jensen huang says kids are forgetting long division and multiplication tables, then asks whether that actually matters

"I don't think it does"

he also says he doesn't know his own zip code. i don't see what a busy CEO forgetting one number is supposed to prove about kids learning math

basic math is how you get to the harder stuff. let AI help a student learn it, sure, but using it to skip that part isn't moving them ahead

you can't outgrow a skill you were never allowed to learn

[Dany @danysvnt]

Y COMBINATOR COFOUNDER CAN'T GET RESTAURANT HOURS FROM AI

paul graham hears about AI solving famous math problems, but can't get it to tell him when restaurants are open

yeah, i'd be annoyed too lol. if you tell me it can solve problems mathematicians spent years on, i'm going to expect it to handle the question i asked before leaving the house

and to be fair, restaurant hours change. what looks like an easy question depends on whether anyone updated the information today

but most of us can't check a math proof. we can check whether a place is open, and those little moments shape how much we trust the much bigger claims

the harder a claim is to check, the more the ordinary mistakes start to matter

[headuptwin @headuptwinn]

cmq se per la Lazio gioca mussolini sulla fascia da noi direttamente Hitler

[headuptwin @headuptwinn]

cmq se per la Lazio gioca mussolini sulla fascia da noi direttamente Hitler

[headuptwin @headuptwinn]

MF DOOM’s legendary mask took direct inspiration from Maximus’s helmet in the film Gladiator (2000).

The helmet was designed by New York graffiti artist Blake “KEO” Lethem, with him and MF DOOM working closely during the creative process

📲 always keep your @headuptwin

[headuptwin @headuptwinn]

MF DOOM’s legendary mask took direct inspiration from Maximus’s helmet in the film Gladiator (2000).

The helmet was designed by New York graffiti artist Blake “KEO” Lethem, with him and MF DOOM working closely during the creative process

📲 always keep your @headuptwin

[Bonny @bonnyxen]

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[Dany @danysvnt]

LINKEDIN FOUNDER THINKS DOCTORS SHOULD BE ASKING AI TOO

reid hoffman says doctors and patients should be using frontier AI models as a second opinion for serious cases

he even says not doing it is getting close to malpractice

i can already see people hating on him for this, but i honestly dont think he said anything crazy here

AI can obviously be wrong, so can a doctor. nobody is saying hand the final decision to chatgpt

but if another opinion takes seconds and costs basically nothing, i dont see much reason not to at least take it into account

when checking becomes almost free, not checking starts becoming a choice too

the doctor still makes the call. theres just one more answer on the table

[headuptwin @headuptwinn]

@pitorrwdecocoo @theMilanZone_ ma sei pazzo

[internet archive @missedevrything]

💿nba players and their cars

[internet archive @missedevrything]

💿the original ‘last one standing’ story

before every dystopian franchise ripped this off, Battle Royale just… did it first, and meaner. a class of kids gets dropped on an island, fitted with explosive collars, and given 3 days to kill each other or die trying. no sanitized YA version, no chosen one, no love triangle saving anyone — just raw panic, paranoia, and thirteen-year-olds turning on their best friends because that’s what survival actually looks like. two decades later and it’s still more brutal, more human, and more unhinged than anything that came after it.

[internet archive @missedevrything]

the most influential brotherhood ever

[internet archive @missedevrything]

💿ABSENCE AS A PROMO STRATEGY
THE UNIQUE FRANK OCEAN CASE

Frank Ocean basically figured out the ultimate marketing hack: just… vanish. No album, no interviews, doesn’t even really post. And somehow that’s making the legend bigger, not smaller. people are literally taping missing posters to telephone poles at this point. the silence isn’t him failing to release music, it kind of just became the release.

[headuptwin @headuptwinn]

@missedevrything incredible work

[internet archive @missedevrything]

💿ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PAINTERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY THAT YOU DIDNT KNOW ABOUT

Meet Erik Bulatov. Soviet-born, trained at Moscow's Surikov Art Institute, spent decades leading a double life: children's book illustrator by day, underground nonconformist artist by night, working in total secrecy because his real art could never survive official Soviet scrutiny.
His signature move was brutally simple and genius at the same time. Take a landscape rendered in the exact visual language of socialist realism, glowing skies, monumental scale, total confidence, and then slam bold Soviet slogans right across the canvas. "Glory to the CPSU." "Caution." Words that don't caption the image, they fight it, block it, own it. He wasn't making propaganda. He was showing you exactly how propaganda swallows a sky whole.
He called it "I live, I see," a line from one of his own works, and it basically became the manifesto for an entire generation of artists working in the shadows of the USSR.
By 1990 he left for Paris. His work now hangs in the Guggenheim and the Centre Pompidou. He died there in November 2025 at 92, having spent a lifetime proving that a single word can hijack an entire sky.
Not propaganda. A warning label for propaganda itself.

[internet archive @missedevrything]

💿KANYE’S MOST INFLUENTIAL SONG EVER

"They rewrite history, I don't believe in yesterday."
This is Kanye at his most technically ferocious. "Gorgeous," track two off My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010), came right after the Taylor Swift VMA fallout in 2009, when Ye disappeared into a self-imposed exile in Hawaii and rebuilt the album with only the people he trusted. What came out of those sessions wasn't just a comeback. It was a reckoning.
Many consider "Gorgeous" one of the sharpest, most agile verses of his whole career, a love letter back to the fans who missed him as a pure emcee after the all-sung, Auto-Tuned world of 808s & Heartbreak. With Kid Cudi on the hook and a closing verse from Raekwon, the track carries real weight. Racism, celebrity, the exhausting duality of being idolized and torn down by the same society. It's all there, delivered through a distorted, tinny filter that makes it sound like it's coming through an old radio.

[anto ★ ★ @k10mbp]

immigrants who have lived, worked and studied here for more than 10 years hardly get it but yeah let's give it to a random American woman who is not even a little bit Italian #okay