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[BookNote @BookNoteApp]

9 books become a better writer than 99% of people:

1) On Writing by Stephen King

[Tehxi @yajnshri]

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[Jay Bisen @JayBisen473370]

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[Roan @RohOnChain]

My friend applied to 300 tech jobs in two years. No MIT. No Stanford.

Last month Anthropic offered him $750,000.

I asked him how he broke in from zero.

He sent me the exact video that got him in. Andrej Karpathy's 3-hour course on building a full LLM from scratch.

Anthropic's own researcher shows you how LLMs like ChatGPT & Claude are actually built.

I watched it last night.

Halfway through, I realized it's embarrassingly simple to break into an AI lab.

Bookmark this and read the article below.

• 00:00 - intro to LLMs
• 12:41 - LLM training pipeline
• 31:58 - LLM tools & plugins
• 41:14 - LLM transformer architecture
• 2:19:02 - scaling the LLM

[Voltex @VoltexGar]

Marvin Minsky, MIT professor and father of AI:

"The best trader on Wall Street is no longer human. I spent fifty years proving the mind is just a machine built from smaller machines, and once that's true, nothing stops a machine from being the house. it already is."

this free lecture holds the entire "AI edge" the funds and the gurus sell, and the man teaching it founded the field itself and put his whole MIT course online for free.

at the board it's simple. Minsky's idea is that there is no magic in thinking. a mind is a huge pile of small, mindless parts, each doing something simple, and intelligence is just what happens when enough of them work together. a trading machine is the same trick: thousands of simple rules stacked until an edge appears. that's the whole "AI", minus the mystery.

Minsky taught this at MIT and published "The Society of Mind" in 1986. the course has been free ever since. same point as my casino piece above: the house wins with many small mindless advantages stacked, not with one born genius.

the ideas are free and every AI lab and every fund already has them. what they cannot sell you is the data and the compute to actually build the machine. that is the real moat now, and no lecture can hand it to you.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Charlie Munger literally explained how "Inversion Thinking" helped him become a billionaire:

1. He solves every problem backwards. Munger calls it inversion, and he uses it constantly. Most people ask how do I succeed at this. He asks the opposite: what would guarantee failure here, and then he simply avoids that. He says it works like algebra. Some problems you cannot solve forwards, but invert them and the answer falls out easily.

2. As a young weather forecaster, he asked how he could kill pilots. Stationed in the Air Corps ferry command, drawing weather maps alone in a hangar at night, he didn't ask how to forecast well. He asked: how would I most easily kill these pilots? He worked it through in reverse and found only two answers. Send them into icing their plane couldn't handle, or send them somewhere they'd run out of fuel before any airport was clear. He became fanatical about avoiding exactly those two things.

3. He points out that inversion could have saved Kobe Bryant. The two ways he found to kill a pilot, icing and getting caught out with nowhere to land, are flight risks a disciplined person simply refuses to take. If someone around Kobe had thought that way, Munger says, he'd still be here. It was so stupid, in his words, to die that way. The whole point of inversion is that the fatal error is usually obvious once you go looking for it on purpose.

4. His grandfather taught him the same trick as a boy. When Munger went swimming, his grandfather told him to swim as long as he wanted, but stay near the shore. It sounds simple enough to laugh at, but it's inversion in one sentence: don't optimize for the best swim, eliminate the way you drown. Munger insists the man was genuinely wise.

5. The military gave him a second trick: bracketing. In ROTC he was taught to fire mortar shells one long, one short, then correct to land the next one on target. He says he never fired a real shell in his life, but he has used that bracketing method to size decisions ever since. When he needs to know how big or small to make something, he brackets it high and low and closes in. Kapow.

6. His best inversion turned $125,000 into $600,000. As a young lawyer he had a client whose ranch land the Edison Company wanted an easement through. The client's famous, pompous appraiser valued it at $125,000, using the standard two-dimensional method: comparable sales, price per acre, acreage. Munger, who wasn't even an appraiser, saw the flaw. The land was hilly.

7. He forced the problem into three dimensions and the answer changed completely. Hilly land gets developed by lopping off the tops of hills and filling the valleys. The transmission towers would freeze the grade and make that impossible, doing enormous damage the flat, two-dimensional appraisal never captured. The old appraiser refused to change a thing, so Munger told his client to fire the twit, hired one who could think in three dimensions, and got $600,000 out of honest engineers who also thought that way.

8. The more due diligence someone does, the weaker a thinker they usually are. This is his sharpest line. Munger says endless analysis is often just a way of soothing an inner insecurity, and it doesn't actually work. The genuinely capable thinkers understand a situation fast and act. The armies of young lawyers billing by the hour to comb through every purchase order are, more often than not, papering over the fact that they can't see the answer.

9. You don't need certainty. You need to be about 96% sure. Munger is blunt that waiting for 100% is a mistake, because in most cases 96% is all you're ever entitled to, and the rest is wasted motion. The skill is knowing when you already have enough to act, and having the nerve to move on it.

10. He and Buffett closed a multibillion-dollar oil deal in about two days. When Occidental needed money fast to buy Anadarko, Munger didn't fly anywhere or run endless analytics. He and Buffett talked by phone, and after decades together, he says, one grunt speaks a volume. It was obvious: the Permian Basin is America's best oil, layer after layer with nothing comparable, and they'd get an 8% preferred dividend from a reputable operator plus upside. A no-brainer, he says, as long as you don't insist on making it hard.

[Ochob @0chob]

Paul Samuelson was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. He spent his career proving that ordinary people should not try to beat the market. He also quietly beat the market himself for 60 years. His last full-length interview explains how. Almost nobody has watched it.

Samuelson taught at MIT for 65 years, from 1940 until he died in 2009. His textbook "Economics" sold roughly four million copies. He rewrote the field. Every finance professional working today learned economics from a book he wrote or a book written by his students.

He also ran his own money quietly. His returns reportedly outpaced most active managers of his era, and he was an early investor in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. He never advertised the numbers. He said the opposite in public. His most famous line about investing:

"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas."

He was one of the earliest advocates for index funds. He believed almost nobody could beat the market and almost nobody should try. His nephew Larry Summers became Treasury Secretary. His students founded half the modern economics profession. He was invited into every important economic policy debate of his lifetime.

His view on personal finance was unusually blunt for a Nobel laureate. In one of his final interviews, near the end of his life, he explained his framework in three sentences. Personal finance is not a science. It is a set of common-sense decisions repeated for decades. Save more than you spend. Diversify. Do not chase excitement. Do not trust anyone who promises certainty. He said these things thousands of times over 70 years and the industry ignored him every year.

The full interview covers his childhood, his years at Chicago and Harvard, his rise at MIT, his Nobel, and his philosophy on money. He was 94 years old at the time. His voice is thin and his answers are direct. He does not soften anything. He treats the interviewer like a graduate student who happens to be holding a camera.

The more sophisticated a market becomes, the more valuable the boring advice becomes. Every investor who ignored Samuelson's rules is a receipt for how right he was. Every quant who read his mathematics and skipped his common sense missed the point.

Samuelson died December 2009. He was 94. His textbook is still in print. The interview is free.

[Anuj @anujcodes_21]

INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.

This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.

Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.

[Alok Kumar @Alokkumarzz]

In 2008, Malcolm Gladwell explained why some people succeed and some don't in a single 1-hour talk.

This will permanently change the way you think about talent, effort, and success.

Bookmark & watch today, no matter what.

[veles @velesxbt]

A billionaire trader has spent 40 years trying to delete a one-hour documentary. It shows him making $100 million in a single afternoon. He predicted the crash that made it possible three months in advance. He has never explained why he wants the film gone. His name is Paul Tudor Jones. The film is on YouTube.

The documentary is called "Trader." PBS filmed it in 1987, three months before Black Monday. Jones was 32 years old, working from a small New York office, wearing shorts and a t-shirt, yelling at his phones, throwing paper across the room, and sleeping under his desk. The film captures him and his research partner Peter Borish overlaying a chart of the 1929 market on 1987, month by month. The two charts tracked within one percent. Borish said this is exactly what happened in 1929. Jones said if the analog holds, October is when it breaks.

On October 19, 1987, the Dow fell 22.6 percent in a single day. It remains the largest one-day percentage loss in stock market history. That afternoon, Tudor Jones covered his shorts and made roughly $100 million. He was 33 years old. He was one of the very few traders on the street who came out ahead.

He tried to bury the tape because it made him look reckless in a professional world that punished swagger. Twenty years of legal effort did not delete it. Someone kept a copy. It is on YouTube. It has fewer views than most makeup tutorials.

The film is not really about a crash. It is about a specific philosophy of trading. Jones is shown building conviction slowly, sizing carefully, then striking hard when the setup arrives. He is never once shown making a random bet. He is shown doing the same thing five times a day, every day, for three months.

His signature line, repeated across a 45-year career:

"The most important rule of trading is to play great defense, not great offense."

He does not try to be right. He tries not to lose. He sets stops tight, cuts positions fast, and never averages down on a loser. Every trade in the film follows this template.

Tudor Investment Corp, the fund he founded in 1980, has compounded at roughly 19 percent a year for 45 years. He is 71 years old and still trading. His method has not changed since the film.

The lesson: greatness in markets is a refusal, not a talent. Refusal to be reckless. Refusal to be certain. Refusal to average down. Refusal to trust yourself in a drawdown. Tudor Jones has refused those refusals for 45 years.

The tape is free. The philosophy is repeated in every trade. Most traders will never watch it.

[A.Y.O @YusufAsunmogejo]

As a Muslim, have you heard of the word “Al-Jassasah” before.

The word "Al-Jassasah" roughly translates to the spy or the scout. But my intent in this post is not about the meaning. It is about a famous event surrounding that word.

There is a famous Hadith known as the Hadith of Al-Jassasah. This Hadith is one of the most fascinating and detailed narrations in Islamic eschatology regarding the end times.

It was reported in Sahih Muslim, and narrated by a female companion named Fatima bint Qais. The hadith revolves around the personal account of Tamim ad-Dari, who was a Christian sailor and priest before he embraced Islam.

What happened?

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[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

This is the true shape of our planet, known as GEOID.

[Aakash Verma @VermaAakash3]

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.

Google’s AI is now rifling through your inbox emails and attachments, bank statements, tax docs, medical letters, the whole stack. It was enabled by default, and that quiet rollout is now facing a class-action lawsuit.

Here are 5 steps to turn it off because the kill switch is buried in two different spots:

[diseduh @hudesid]

Salah satu alasan gw gak pernah bosen baca Ihya' Ulumuddin karangan Imam Al-Ghazali nih sob,

kitab ini nulis 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝗮 𝘀𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗹 yang masih valid sampe sekarang. Ada satu kalimat pendek yang isinya kayak peta korupsi lengkap. Gw share ya hihi

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[Dr. Rais Hussin @raishussin]

Pls help this 17 year old boy who is selling watermelon juice where the price is determined by the customer, as he cannot count. Sometimes people give 50 sen only ! He is located in Pasir Gudang, Johor. @onnhafiz @tmjdtfc @maszlee

[khalid yousef @khalidsyossef]

#OpenAccess
The Virtues of the Good Muslim
Ida Zilio-Grandi ,Venice Univ Pr, 2025
https://t.co/kzZeQBYBJS
PDF 🎯
https://t.co/V0YvoI6NPR

[Mastering Life Path @Mastering_life_]

A Yale scientist proved you can move almost anyone to yes in under 7 minutes by doing the opposite of convincing.

Here are 7 questions that do it:

[Lamine🇪🇸 @yamaltweets]

Alhamudilillah

[Berita Harian @bharianmy]

Remaja perempuan hidap tulang belakang melengkung di Ipoh perlu bantuan RM10,000 jalani pembedahan

Berita penuh: https://t.co/50mxvWBwR4

[Revolutionary_Man @Revolt_Man_]

In Japan, Laziness is considered a disease and is treated with these 8 methods.