Hendrik Schmidt

[Dominique Paul @DominiqueCAPaul]

To all technical students and engineers in Europe.

The US export control on LLMs is the first taste of what will become the new norm. Many people are calling for "radical measures" and that we need the equivalent of a Manhattan Project to create change in Europe. But this is not how change will happen. Change will never come top-down from a government. The state and EU can fund, but they cannot found it. That part is on us.

You are the only ones who can change this.

You are among the few people on this continent who actually know how to build foundational technology - LLMs, robotic AI, actuators from scratch, chip infrastructure, rocket engines, organoids. ETH, EPFL, TUM, École Polytechnique, KTH, Imperial and dozens more produce absurd talent every single year. And almost all of it talks itself out of building.

We finish our degrees surrounded by such an incredible average that we're sure someone is always better at [your idea] - so who are we to start? I've seen so many friends at ETH think they need to "get more experience first" and take a job at Nvidia or Google and never do anything interesting again.

Technology-driven companies aren't founded by the most qualified person. They're willed into existence by people who see what others do not and refuse to stop. The person who's "better than you" almost never does it. And as for experience, nothing will teach you how to build the thing like, well, just trying to build the thing.

Our education is a chance most of the world will never have. There are people in Europe who have to worry about getting a job. We get to worry about finding our dream job. We're able to make bets that not many people can make or afford. It's nothing anybody expects you to do, but if you want a life filled with purpose, this is a unique kind of responsibility you can choose to step up to.

So if you actually want to do something ambitious, how about changing a continent?

If you really want change, you cannot wait for others. You are one of the few people who can create it. It starts with you.

[Hendrik Schmidt @schmidt_hendrik]

@fkronawitter1 Are you launching the App to the public?

[Ilya Sutskever @ilyasut]

Important work

[Hendrik Schmidt @schmidt_hendrik]

@mike64_t How much time did you spend building your custom training setup?

[Hendrik Schmidt @schmidt_hendrik]

@mike64_t Very impressive!! You are getting 90% of the performance with roughly 1/100th the hardware cost.

[Hendrik Schmidt @schmidt_hendrik]

@DominiqueCAPaul So ehrlich!

[Polymarket Money @PolymarketMoney]

A trader @​BuckMySalls (yes, his real name) is printing money betting that nothing will happen.

Nearly $1 million in profit…

[Hendrik Schmidt @schmidt_hendrik]

@DominiqueCAPaul 100%

[Hendrik Schmidt @schmidt_hendrik]

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[Hendrik Schmidt @schmidt_hendrik]

@quantymacro @macrocephalopod @__paleologo 🤯

[qm @quantymacro]

discretionary view, quantitative portfolio for thematic brypto long/short

probs one of the "harder" articles to write about (skill issue for me) but I write to level myself up so gotta give it a try

as usual giving access to some who RT

ref @macrocephalopod @__paleologo

[Dominique Paul @DominiqueCAPaul]

This is why we should want immigrants and immigrant founders in Germany and Europe! 🇩🇪🌍

Today, Chancellor Friedrich Merz awarded the German National Prize to Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin, the Turkish-German founders of BioNTech.

Children of Turkish immigrants - a hospital doctor’s daughter and a Ford factory worker’s son - they pioneered the world’s first approved mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in under a year, saving millions of lives and revolutionising medicine.

[Hendrik Schmidt @schmidt_hendrik]

@DominiqueCAPaul 😅🤣

[Pia @piammichel]

👷What a time to be a hardware engineer in Europe! You can work on…

☢️ making us energy rich at @CphAtomics or at @proximafusion

🚀 taking us to space with @danielmetzler at @isaraerospace

🧱 building bolder at with @salar at Monumental

🪖 keeping us safe with @torstenreil at Helsing or @DimitriosKottas at @delian_ai

🏭 reinventing steel production at @_Stegra_

🏥 keeping us healthy with @HNilsonne at @neko

… and so many more amazing companies! Big thank you to Pepijn for putting this great resource together.

Share it with your friends who need to work on a more exciting problem

[Dominique Paul @DominiqueCAPaul]

The best way to learn is by saying something wrong on the internet.

[Dominique Paul @DominiqueCAPaul]

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An interactive AI live stream that applies AI styles to your video.

▶︎ Renders ~1 frame/second
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[Hendrik Schmidt @schmidt_hendrik]

@DominiqueCAPaul @shipfr8 Love it!

[Adhi 🛸 @eightyhi]

how do I short the BBB tranche of doordash burrito CDO's

[sophie @netcapgirl]

“you have the bankers working late night, the tech employees… sure the AAA stuff should hold up. but do you have any idea how many burrito taxis have been securitized? how many fast food deliveries are in those CDOS? once the BBBs start defaulting, this all comes crashing down”