Old Russian proverb: "If by 20 you have no head on your shoulders, you never will. If by 30 you have no family, you never will. If by 40 you have no money, you never will."
I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet
Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI, posted a simple idea that hit 16 million views: stop using AI to write code, use it to build a second brain.
You point Claude Code at a folder, drop in any source, an article, a transcript, a PDF, and Claude reads it, links it, and files it into a living wiki of everything you know. It compounds like interest, the more you feed it, the smarter it gets.
Here's the whole thing:
> Install Obsidian, create a vault, open it in Claude Code
> Paste Karpathy's wiki idea file and tell Claude to build it
> Claude makes three folders: raw for sources, wiki for its pages, a CLAUDE.md that runs it
> Drop any source into raw and say "ingest this"
> Ask questions across everything, forever
Five minutes to set up, and you never start from a blank chat again.
Full step-by-step guide with Claude and Obsidian, link below.
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New: Rolls-Royce to work with the UK and Japanese national nuclear laboratories to commercialise mini nuclear reactors capable of powering data centres, factories and military bases.
The company wants to build a demonstrator advanced modular reactor (AMR) in the mid-2030s
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Free advice from an expensive psychologist:
If you are an anxious person, do everything for fun.
Go to a job interview for fun.
Submit documents for fun.
Start a blog for fun.
Anxiety feeds on importance.
Don't turn everything into a matter of life or death.
Dear @GwedeMantashe1
Fix mining or forfeit SA’s future. Policy sabotage not geology killed the golden goose.
- Gold output down 86%.
- GDP contribution halved.
- 300k+ jobs lost.
- No new mines while the world begs for our copper, lithium, manganese.
- BEE uncertainty, nationalisation threats and regulatory chaos have made us uninvestable.
We sit on the minerals the green transition needs yet ANC incompetence chooses decline.
Time to choose prosperity over ideology. South Africa deserves better.
Full letter: https://t.co/yOwRsLGMVI
Regards,
Patriotic South African. 🇿🇦
@BizNewsCOM
Albert Camus knew the universe is absurd and indifferent. High-agency people look at that void and say 'cool, so there's no referee?' and just start building. The absurd isn't depressing to them, it's liberating. No rules means infinite moves.
USC mathematicians just published the most dangerous quant paper of the year.
THE MATH BEHIND HOW INSIDERS BEAT THE MARKET WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT.
This paper will teach you to detect smart money moving before announcements. 43 pages of pure game theory. Bookmark now.
🚨 SHOCKING: LISA SU’S $1,499 LUNCHBOX ANNIHILATES NVIDIA’S $4K AI BEAST!
AMD CEO Lisa Su walked on stage, held a lunchbox sized PC in one hand, and ran a 235 billion parameter model live.
No data center. No cloud. No rented GPU.
The chip inside is the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395. It is the first x86 chip where the CPU and GPU share the same pool of memory. Up to 128GB of unified memory. That one design choice is what changes everything.
An RTX 5090 gives you 32GB of video memory. A 4090 gives you 24. This box gives you more than three times either of them in a chassis you can carry in a backpack.
On DeepSeek R1 inference, AMD's chip beat an Nvidia RTX 5080 by more than 3x. A desktop the size of a thick paperback outrunning a dedicated graphics card that costs over a thousand dollars on a real AI workload.
Now do the math on your subscriptions.
Claude Code Max is $200 a month. ChatGPT Pro is another $200. Cursor is $20. Gemini is $20. That is $5,280 leaving your account every year before you build a single thing.
The 128GB version of this machine starts at around $2,399. At that run rate it pays for itself in under a year and then runs free.
Install Ollama. Pull Qwen3 235B. Point Claude Code at localhost. Same interface you already use. Nothing leaves your machine. Nothing costs per request. No throttling at 3am when you finally have time to build.
Lawyers stop worrying about what OpenAI does with their files. Developers stop watching the token counter. Founders stop killing prototypes because the cloud bill scared them off.
Private AI just became something a normal person can own.
"You and Your Research"
i read it every few months and you should too.
the most important determinant of outsized success is picking the right problem.