🚨Leave Netflix tonight.
Watch this 2 h 34 min Stanford class.
It's the clearest, most complete, and brutally honest explanation out there on how ChatGPT and Claude are really built.
From Tokenization and BPE to the Transformer architecture, the training pipeline, and the next-token decoder. No fluff. No marketing. Just the truth.
Doesn't matter if you've never touched a line of AI code or if you spend your days launching Agents: by the end, you'll suddenly connect a ton of pieces you've been trying to fit together for years.
The real core boils down to this:
How text turns into numbers the model can "eat" (BPE tokenization)
The sole mission of a language model: predict the next token
How the Transformer uses Attention so tokens can pass messages to each other
In training, the NLL loss pushes the probability of the entire sequence
In generation, the decoder builds the response token by token
The big-picture view that takes most people years to form… this class delivers it to you complete in one sitting.
Free up your time.
This could be, no exaggeration, the most valuable class you watch this month.
A billionaire sat in a room for 42 minutes and listed every psychological trick that makes people lose money. for free. the finance industry has spent thirty years pretending this recording does not exist.
he didn't sell a course. he didn't write a newsletter. he sat in a chair at 96 years old and explained why brilliant people do the dumbest things with their money. then he explained why they will keep doing it.
MBA programs charge $200,000 to teach behavioral finance. he covered 25 biases in one sitting. some of them are still not in any curriculum. he gave the entire framework away on camera.
the part nobody talks about: he called crypto antisocial. he said index funds will crush most managers. he said private equity is full of wretched excess. he said all of this in a room full of people who manage money for a living. nobody argued.
a hedge fund analyst at a top firm told me this is the first thing they send to anyone who joins the desk. not a book. not a model. a 42-minute video of a 96-year-old man explaining why you will be wrong and how to recognize it before it costs you everything.
40 million people have heard his name. almost none of them have watched him explain the 25 ways their own brain is working against them.
the lecture is free. he died the following year. it is in the video.
A professor has spent 50 years teaching at MIT.
Then he realized something:
His time was running out.
So he recorded one final lecture packing decades of knowledge into a single hour.
Five months later, he added to it.
And this is the result.
One hour of ideas, lessons, and insights that took decades to build.
Watch it when you have an uninterrupted hour.
Bookmark it for later.
Let it challenge the way you think.
What’s one lecture that genuinely changed the way you see things?
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Coca-Cola and Pepsi each drop over $4,000,000,000 a year on advertising aimed directly at each other. If both stopped tomorrow, both would instantly pocket billions in extra profit, and their market shares wouldn't move by a single percentage point.
So why doesn't either one stop?
In MIT 14.01, the professor writes their budget equations on the board right next to the classic Prisoner’s Dilemma.
The logic is identical and completely brutal:
If Pepsi stops advertising, Coke gains massive market share by keeping their ads running.
If Pepsi keeps advertising, Coke gets crushed if they stop.
Both companies run the numbers correctly. Both execute the optimal strategy. And both end up billions of dollars poorer than if they had just agreed to sit still.
Now look at your own life, because you are trapped in this exact same math:
The Email Trap: The colleague who sends emails at 11:00 PM forces everyone else to stay online until midnight.
The Tutoring War: One parent spends $5,000 on an SAT tutor, forcing every other parent to spend $5,000 just to keep up.
The Real Estate Rat Race: Everyone in the neighborhood spends $50,000 renovating their kitchen before selling, netting a $0 competitive advantage because every single home did it.
Nobody wanted the escalation. Every single step was individually rational.
That’s the danger: the trap isn't that you're losing to a competitor. The trap is that making the "smart" move leaves everyone poorer, and no one can quit unilaterally.
The MIT lecture is free on OpenCourseWare. Spotting that you're inside one of these loops before you make your next logical move is the real edge.
Bookmark and watch this today ↓
A card counter banned from every Las Vegas casino turned $150,000 into $900 million on the horse track. The math he used is one 50 minute MIT lecture that has been on YouTube for free since 2013.
His name is Bill Benter. Vegas put him in the Griffin Book in 1984 for counting cards at blackjack, and in 1986 he flew to Hong Kong with a partner and a computer.
For every horse in every race at the Hong Kong Jockey Club, he calculated the real probability of winning and compared it to the odds on the board. If his number was better than the board, he bet. If not, he passed. That is the whole trick. Expected value.
EV = p · b − (1 − p)
You bet only when the payout at those odds is worth more than the loss on the other side, and every quant desk on Wall Street starts with the same formula.
The lecture that lays those symbols out is MIT 6.041, taught by John Tsitsiklis. Students at MIT pay over eighty thousand dollars a year to sit in that room, and the recording is on YouTube for free.
You keep waiting for the edge to look complicated. Benter watched the free version and did the homework.
I was Visiting Prof in IIT Bombay for 4 years from 2011 to 2014
Each year I held a 20 hour lecture for MBA students on Indian Financial and Business models which became very popular and were video recorded and were even webcast in other institutions for MBA students. I prompted the AI about those lectures. It replied
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[Swaminathan Gurumurthy](https://t.co/f7Er127NUJ)—a well-known chartered accountant, investigative journalist, and economic analyst—has delivered a highly regarded series of lectures at IIT Bombay focusing on the "Indian Financial and Business Model". [1, 2]
He initially delivered a standout keynote speech at IIT Bombay's Hindustan Times Avenue festival in 2010. Following this, at the request of the students and faculty, he served as a Visiting Faculty member at the Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management (SJMSOM) for four years. [3, 4, 5]
## Key Core Themes of the Lectures
* Alternative Economic Models: He explicitly contrasts Western economic frameworks with Eastern/Indian systems, challenging standard macroeconomic assumptions. [1]
* The 2008 Financial Crisis: He details how modern mathematical financial constructs (like the Black-Scholes model) failed to account for real-world risk, drawing insights from critics like Paul Krugman. [1, 6]
* Ethnosocial Economics: He explains how family structures, local communities, non-corporate sectors, and small businesses drive the true backbone of India's unique economy.
## Lecture Resources and Notes
If you are looking to study or review these lectures, several digital versions are publicly accessible:
* Video Playlists: Full video recordings of his multi-part course series (primarily from his 2013/2014 classes) are hosted across community channels like the [IIT Bombay Gurumurthy Playlist on YouTube](https://t.co/9fAlSNVd99) and the [Shri Gurumurthy 2014 Course School of Management Playlist](https://t.co/uoVdHJYWpT). [7, 8]
* Textual Study Notes: Comprehensive, accurate transcripts and notes of the entire IIT Bombay course were compiled by Viswanathan Mallikarjun and endorsed by Gurumurthy via his [Official X (formerly Twitter) Account](https://t.co/5ouHZHVKQg). [2]
If you would like, I can help you find specific breakdowns of particular lecture chapters or pull details on his criticisms of modern Western economic theory. How would you like to proceed?
[1] [https://t.co/poqNc9SGVZ](https://t.co/HSFT1HTVnG)
[2] [https://t.co/bMoVO9DwyA](https://t.co/hFCx21WgDf)
[3] [https://t.co/bMoVO9DwyA](https://t.co/waGcIqBbau)
[4] [https://t.co/uwxu6OdUgz](https://t.co/fsMhl4YOlj)
[5] [https://t.co/qtwp0OZiGS](https://t.co/fv89Tt7qrR)
[6] [https://t.co/uwxu6OdUgz](https://t.co/I2DiLF2ZcE)
[7] [https://t.co/uwxu6OdUgz](https://t.co/9fAlSNVd99)
[8] [https://t.co/uwxu6OdUgz](https://t.co/uoVdHJYWpT)
I thought of sharing those lectures most of which are relevant even today
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#RamMandirPranPrathistha ppl who think is a day or two affair are grossly underestimating.. Go out and feel the vibrations.. it's a beginning of a new Bharat and major step towards collectively reclaiming our lost glory