Bach

I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score. - Dan Gable

[Conner Harley McDavidsonTM 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 @ConHarMcD]

Kid just played Sweet Child of Mine and the teacher forgot he was teaching.

Arms up. High five. That face at the end is the whole video.

Who are you sending this to?
#CanadianBakin

[Figure @Figure_robot]

F.02 Decommission

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

@ChaseLochmiller @OpenAI GPT-6 Astra, trained on ~100K+ NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72. From ChatGPT to o1 to Astra in 4 years.

AGI has arrived. Congratulations @OpenAI team.

400K GPUs coming online next.

[Bach @koreyb]

@JoeCassandra 1. Look at all the details.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Conan O’Brien talks about The Power Broker on the 99th Percentile podcast.

It’s amazing. He’s obesssed with Robert Caro. The attention to detail and persistence on a single long-term project (“He has this dedication to what he’s doing that almost feels like it’s akin to Egyptians building a pyramid.”)

[MaxedOut @MaxedOut57]

1348 on the scoring table. Equivalent to a 9.60 100m and 19.21 200m 😳 Utterly insane

[Bach @koreyb]

@TheICHpodcast Or $9mm of SPYI + QQQI with all the implied volatility but better tax treatment (unless you stick in $MUB or similar).

[Bach @koreyb]

About to have ads on ChatGPT.

[Bach @koreyb]

Called his shot! Record is back in G.B.

[FloTrack @FloTrack]

JOSH KERR TAKES THE MILE WORLD RECORD!!!!!!!!!

[Bach @koreyb]

@BillAckman Private companies and investors from multiple countries.

[Bach @koreyb]

Elon should buy $PYPL back for X.

[Bach @koreyb]

Cadillac Escalade IQ already dropping like a stone on the secondary. Will be in the high $70k range in winter.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

What in the world did we just see!

The 2 hour marathon barrier has been broken. Three guys went under the old world record...

Sabastian Sawe just ran 1:59:30 with crazy negative splits, closing the last half in 59:01....faster than the American Record in the half.

One of the most mind blowing performances we've seen. How did we get here?

Every breakthrough is a mixture of belief and progress.

It takes folks daring to see what's possible, surrounding themselves with a quality team and doing the work to give themselves a shot.

You've got to bet on yourself in a big way.

When asked whether he believed he could run a sub-2-hour marathon before the race, Sawe answered with one word:

"Yes."

Let's get the obvious out of the way. Performance enhancing drugs are the legitimate question mark to every breakthrough.

So Sawe did as much as he could about taking that off the table.

He and his team asked to be tested all the time. His sponsor put up 50K to the Athlete Integrity Unit. The tests are run independently, no advance notice. Over a 2 month stretch, he went through 25 drug tests.

There's always a doubt. There has to be given what we know. Hopefully there's transparency in the results. But hats off to Sawe for addressing it:

"I want to prove that I am clean when I set foot at the start line."

But how'd we actually get here where two guys went sub 2 in the same race?

1. Shoe tech

We've had a revolution in shoe technology that boosts running economy.

For years shoe companies said their shoe would make you faster and was mostly marketing. Until 2016, when it actually did.

Initial research showed a 3-4% saving in economy, while subsequent work has shown it's highly variable.

Now, it's a matching game. Find the perfect shoe for your form and you can get a big boost.

Normally, it takes years of lots of miles and strength training to boost economy.

But now we get that instant boost that not only helps boost performance but often leaves us feeling less beat up in the later stages of the marathon.

So we get a little bit less hitting of the wall...

2. The fuel

For a long time, fueling was limited by biology. You can only take in and process so much.

Then in the 2000s, researchers found if we mixed sugars, we can boost intake because they're processed differently.

Then recently, Maurten found if you use a hydrxogel, you boost utilization without GI distress anymore.

We've gone from pushing 60g/hr to 120g/hr in a few decades.

Again...less bonking.

3. Depth

A few decades ago, you spent your career racing on the track and then once your speed started to fade a bit you went to the marathon.

Now, many skip right to the marathon. That's where the money is.

And with the economy boost from the shoes, you can make that jump quickly.

More depth of talent means more competitors in their prime pushing barriers.

4. Belief

Even with the shoes and tech, a few years ago sub 2 hours seemed a long way off, until Kipchoge pushed that barrier in a series of time trials.

Yes, they weren't official races and had contrived pacing. But it absolutely shifted everyone's thinking on what is possible.

A generation of runners saw Kipchoge go for it.

Our prediction of what is possible changed.

It's mind blowing how far we've come in such a short time.

What once seemed decades away, just got smashed twice in the same race.

Hats off to Sawe, especially for addressing the scourge of doping and showing folks what is possible with a lot of hard work, some crazy belief, and some fortuitous advances.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NEWS: Tesla is Robotaxi service testing in Phoenix, Arizona. Model Y with rear camera washers and California manufacturer license plate.

Tesla said on its Q4 earnings call that Phoenix was one of the 7 planned metro areas that would see robotaxi coverage in the first half of 2026.

[Bach @koreyb]

@tbpn No proof

[Bach @koreyb]

Filthy.

[GlobalWrestOrder @GlobalWresOrder]

U23 World Champion🥇Jax FORREST (OSU) goes ball and chain tilt crazy in his 16-0 TF victory over Iowa State ‼️🔥

For all of Jax’s new age innovation - the fact that his best tilt is an old school ball and chain is just amazing! One of the first tilts I learned 💯🤝

[MeatEater @MeatEaterTV]

In the latest MeatEater Podcast, we get technical about the physics behind different arrow setups with Iowa politician Rob Sand.

[Bach @koreyb]

I would call this a buyer's market.

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[Bach @koreyb]

Easiest running American Record to break? Indoor Marathon at 2:17.59.4. https://t.co/NfvI77bdCp