SL

I share my understanding of technology, bitcoin, stocks, and sports

[SL @lintendoeth]

June 3, 2025. Goal of becoming a BE.

Phase 1:
- Finish mastering bitcoin book by Andreas Antonopoulos
- Setup testnet node and understand transactions
- get familiar with bitcoinjs-lib

[SL @lintendoeth]

@unusual_whales Pelosi doesn't look so bad if this is true

[SL @lintendoeth]

@ESPNNBA This shit hurts.

[Oliver Tree @Olivertree]

Rest in peace Oliver Tree Nickell June 29th, 1993 - June 14th, 2026

Your legacy will live on forever ❤️ Thank you to everyone who has reached out, shown love, support and has done incredible tributes for Oliver. The constant love, support and positivity is helping the family, friends and collaborators make it through these extremely difficult times.

Oliver is now back in California where he can finally rest. His legacy will live on through his foundation/endowment named “Dr. Oliver Tree’s Extremely Epic Grant For Baby Geniuses” coming soon. This is something that Oliver had put together before his passing, written in his will. We will make sure his wish comes to fruition so that more joy, love and art can be spread into the world, that was his final wish.

Love you all so much, Oliver would be so proud of every one of his supporters, friends and family.

Peace be with Oliver … ❤️

[SL @lintendoeth]

@ClaudeDevs Wrote a skill just to do this hopefully now I can dump that skill

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

“Which play will define this Knicks team?”

“Josh Hart missing a wide open layup” 💀

(via @malika_andrews)

[SL @lintendoeth]

Ban everyone from bringing a bag to the game just so he could do

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

🚨JUST IN: DONALD TRUMP HAS FALLEN ASLEEP IN MSG WATCHING THE NBA FINALS 😅

[rewind @rewind02]

Andrej Karpathy spent 4 minutes in an interview explaining a single idea

about how most people haven’t even started learning how to use AI

and everyone paying $20/month for a subscription.. that's not really using Claude at all

his point is that the real skill gap is the ability to build with AI

he identified 4 behaviors that break Claude Code and put them all into one file

a developer expanded it into 21 rules and published it - 82,000 stars and #1 on GitHub Trending

coding accuracy jumped from 65% to 94%

here's what these 21 rules actually are and why most developers using Claude every day have never configured them

the full breakdown is covered in the article below 👇

[SL @lintendoeth]

Australia please take notes

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: New Zealand announces it will cut 14% of public service jobs over the next four years to save money.

[SL @lintendoeth]

If you're vibe coding and scared to read the code, or thinks it's impossible to manually change a section of the code, watch this

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

A talk I gave a few weeks ago.

Software fundamentals matter more than ever. Here's why:

https://t.co/KG7gdqFo2j

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This works really well btw, at the end of your query ask your LLM to "structure your response as HTML", then view the generated file in your browser. I've also had some success asking the LLM to present its output as slideshows, etc.

More generally, imo audio is the human-preferred input to AIs but vision (images/animations/video) is the preferred output from them. Around a ~third of our brains are a massively parallel processor dedicated to vision, it is the 10-lane superhighway of information into brain. As AI improves, I think we'll see a progression that takes advantage:

1) raw text (hard/effortful to read)
2) markdown (bold, italic, headings, tables, a bit easier on the eyes) <-- current default
3) HTML (still procedural with underlying code, but a lot more flexibility on the graphics, layout, even interactivity) <-- early but forming new good default
...4,5,6,...
n) interactive neural videos/simulations

Imo the extrapolation (though the technology doesn't exist just yet) ends in some kind of interactive videos generated directly by a diffusion neural net. Many open questions as to how exact/procedural "Software 1.0" artifacts (e.g. interactive simulations) may be woven together with neural artifacts (diffusion grids), but generally something in the direction of the recently viral https://t.co/z21CP5iQfu

There are also improvements necessary and pending at the input. Audio nor text nor video alone are not enough, e.g. I feel a need to point/gesture to things on the screen, similar to all the things you would do with a person physically next to you and your computer screen.

TLDR The input/output mind meld between humans and AIs is ongoing and there is a lot of work to do and significant progress to be made, way before jumping all the way into neuralink-esque BCIs and all that. For what's worth exploring at the current stage, hot tip try ask for HTML.

[SL @lintendoeth]

Sugar coating we need more tax money with we’re collecting more tax to fight property prices - which will have no long term effect on it, is really something else.

Worst is that some still buy the lies.

[Emanuel Ajay Datt @eadatt]

>income tax
You worked and someone paid you. We'll need to take 30%–47% of that, plus the Medicare levy.

>GST
Oh you would like to spend some of the income we let you keep on goods? We'll have to charge you an extra 10% for that.

>negative gearing
Oh you bought an investment property to offset losses against your wages? Let's scrap that. We did rule out changes before the election but we changed our minds.

>capital gains
Oh you invested prudently for the long-term? Thank you for putting your risk capital into our financial system, we now be taxing it as short term income.

>aspiration
You're young. You worked hard, saved, invested, picked up a side hustle to get ahead. But we're making sure the ladder you're climbing has fewer rungs than the previous one. Don't worry, we're doing this for your own good.

At what point did you realise the game was rigged before you sat down?

[SL @lintendoeth]

@gotrice2024 Almost bought one for my dad - until I realise you got to suck on that spoon for 5 seconds for every bite

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.

Cette phrase change tout.

L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?

Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.

Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.

Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.

Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.

L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.

Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.

Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.

Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.

Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.

La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.

Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.

Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.

La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

[SL @lintendoeth]

@AltcoinDaily Except energy consumption will not reduce. Humanity will find ways to produce more energy, as it has done since the start of time

[goma @soigomaa]

After a certain age, your parents slowly become your children. They ask simple questions, repeat stories, and depend on your patience the way you once depended on theirs. Very few understand this role reversal.What looks like innocence or inconvenience is really time coming full circle. Don't correct them harshly. Don't rush them. Care for them the way they once protected you. This is not a burden. It is repayment.

[SL @lintendoeth]

War = money printing = inflation

[SL @lintendoeth]

@SawyerMerritt Aussies have been waiting for this model, I know for a fact my friend is going to pull the trigger once it’s available

[SL @lintendoeth]

@stats_feed @grok does the stat means anything if the sample size wasn’t presented

[SL @lintendoeth]

@stats_feed I bet most of them don’t think that originally. Only when the question was asked, and the idea was introduced to them right there and then

[SL @lintendoeth]

In an odd way, Iran is demonstrating to the world why they shouldn’t have nuclear weapons