Sé humilde
sé simple.
Inclínate ante la grandeza
de una flor, de una nube,
de un insecto.
No seas nada.
No seas nadie.
Sé literalmente una nada.
Y cuando estés
completamente vacío,
el recipiente se puede llenar
de todo lo que realmente eres… 💎
— Nikos Kazantzakis
Building a custom chatbot can be tricky, especially if you want to keep the info private & efficient.
So here, @atuo_elabonga teaches you how to create a local Retrieval-Augmented Generation application using Ollama & ChromaDB in R.
By the end, you'll have a Shiny interface for your chatbot that fetches relevant info while staying private.
https://t.co/w95H9sYioD
Airbnb tiene casi 300 mil alojamientos en México.
En este reportaje de @quintoelab, gracias a datos inéditos de @InsideAirbnb, podemos explicar dónde están y quiénes son los grandes propietarios (con hasta 840 alojamientos).
REPORTAJE: https://t.co/a2qTl36Y2i
Abro un hilo 🧵
«En la vida encontrarás muchos imbéciles. Si te hieren, piensa que es su estupidez la que les empuja a hacerte daño. Así evitarás responder a su maldad... Mantén siempre tu dignidad, tu integridad y la fidelidad a ti misma».💎
Gracias,
Marjane Satrapi 🥀
Niklas Luhmann wrote 70 books out of a wooden box of index cards and refused to fully explain how the system worked while he was alive, and 19 years after his death a German researcher named Sönke Ahrens finally cracked the manual.
The story of the wooden box has been told a thousand times.
Luhmann was a civil servant in a small German town in the 1950s. He started taking notes on index cards, one idea per card, linking each card to other cards in the box.
By the time he died in 1998, the box held over 90,000 handwritten notes. He had produced 70 books and over 400 academic papers from it. He had invented an entirely new theory of modern society that sociologists are still arguing about today.
He gave interviews about the system. He told people that the box was smarter than he was.
He said it was his communication partner. He said it remembered connections his conscious mind had long since forgotten making.
He answered the question of how he was so productive with a single sentence. He said he never worked against resistance. He followed what the box was pulling him toward.
What he never did was write the manual.
He never sat down and explained, in a step-by-step way, what kinds of notes went into the box, how they were structured, how they linked together, how a person sitting in front of an empty box was supposed to actually start using one.
He treated the system the way a craftsman treats a craft. It was something he did. Not something he taught.
For 20 years after his death, hundreds of academics, writers, and knowledge workers tried to reverse-engineer the box.
People photographed the actual cards. People wrote dissertations on the linking structure. People built software trying to replicate the network.
Most of them ended up with elaborate filing systems that looked like Luhmann's box from the outside and produced almost nothing.
The problem was that everyone was copying the surface of the system and missing the engine inside it.
The cards were not the point. The links were not the point. The point was a specific cognitive workflow that Luhmann had been running inside his own head for 30 years, and nobody had been able to articulate it clearly.
In 2017, a German education researcher named Sönke Ahrens published a 178-page book called How to Take Smart Notes.
He had spent years studying Luhmann's archive, comparing it to modern research on learning and writing, and trying to extract the actual method from the physical artifact.
The book did not get a big release. It came out through self-publishing. It spread by word of mouth through writers, students, and knowledge workers, and within a few years it had become the single most cited modern guide to thinking on the internet.
The reason is that Ahrens finally explained what Luhmann had refused to explain.
The system, Ahrens said, runs on three kinds of notes, and almost everyone trying to copy Luhmann was failing because they were confusing the three.
The first type is fleeting notes.
These are the quick captures. The scrap of an idea you have in the shower. The thought that hits you on a walk. The half-formed reaction to something you just read.
Fleeting notes are written fast, by hand if possible, with no concern for structure or grammar. Their only purpose is to make sure the thought is not lost before you can do something useful with it.
Most people stop here. Their notebooks are full of fleeting notes that never go anywhere because nothing was ever done with them.
The second type is literature notes.
These are written while you are reading something. The rule is brutal. You are not allowed to copy and paste. You are not allowed to highlight. You are not allowed to summarize in the author's words.
You must read a passage, close the book or look away from the screen, and write down what the author was claiming in your own words. The act of translating into your own language is the act of finding out whether you understood it.
Most people skip this step because it is uncomfortable. The discomfort is the entire point. The discomfort is where the learning happens.
The third type is the one that makes the whole system work.
Permanent notes. These are written from your fleeting notes and literature notes once a day, ideally, while the material is still fresh in your mind.
Each permanent note contains one idea, written in your own words, structured as if it would be read by a stranger years later. The note must stand on its own. It must be specific enough to be useful and short enough to fit on a single card.
Then you do the thing almost nobody does.
Before you file the new note, you go into the box and find every other note it connects to. You write the links explicitly.
This new note about a behavioral economics experiment connects to that older note about a Stoic principle. This new note about a coding pattern connects to that older note about a biological system.
You force yourself, every single time you add a note, to physically interrogate the box for what it already knows that this new idea touches.
Over time the box stops being a storage system and becomes a thinking partner.
When you sit down to write, you do not stare at a blank page. You go to the box. You find the cluster of notes that has been quietly accumulating around a topic you did not know you were obsessed with.
You pull those notes out. You arrange them. You discover that you have been writing the article, the essay, the book chapter for months without knowing it.
The writing becomes assembly, not invention.
This is the part Luhmann never explained out loud, and the part Ahrens spent the entire book hammering on.
The system does not store knowledge. The system generates it.
The act of forcing every new idea into conversation with everything you already know is what makes the new idea sharper, and the act of linking thousands of ideas to each other over decades is what produces the kind of dense network where original thinking actually lives.
Ahrens called the book a manual for how to write a PhD thesis or a nonfiction book. The book turned out to be much bigger than that.
The system inside it is the operating manual for any person who works with ideas for a living. Researchers use it. Writers use it. Engineers use it. Entrepreneurs use it.
AI researchers use it to keep up with papers that are being published faster than any human can read.
The reason Luhmann would not have predicted any of this is that he was working alone in a quiet German town with a wooden box on his desk.
He did not know that the system he had built by accident was the answer to a problem the entire world was about to have.
Ahrens did what Luhmann never quite did. He turned the private habit into a public method.
And the most original thinkers of the next 20 years will not be the ones reading more books than everyone else.
They will be the ones with a better box.
Esse cara transformou R$40 milhões em R$200 bilhões.
Depois fez de novo.
E agora acabou de dizer, ao vivo na CNBC, onde está investindo tudo pela terceira vez.
Masayoshi Son, CEO do SoftBank e atual homem mais rico da Ásia, foi categórico quando perguntaram onde está a próxima empresa de trilhões de dólares: “IA física e robótica.”
Essa é mais que uma tese dele. É onde ele está investido.
ARM para os chips. OpenAI para a inteligência. ABB Robotics para as máquinas. Roze AI como plataforma. Stargate para infraestrutura. SB Energy para a energia. Somados, são mais de mais de R$3 trilhões posicionados numa única tese.
Em 2000, ele colocou R$40 milhões no Alibaba. Virou R$200 bilhões.
Em 2016, comprou a ARM por R$104 bilhões quando todo mundo achava que era chip de celular. Hoje é a base de toda a revolução da IA.
Duas vezes o mercado disse que ele estava errado e pediu desculpas nas duas. Agora ele está fazendo sua terceira aposta, e maior.
Nos últimos 3 anos a IA tem feito textos, imagens, vídeos e código. Na próxima década, ela sai da tela e coloca a mão na massa.
A maioria das pessoas está focada em ChatGPT, agentes e Claude Code.
É exatamente assim que toda oportunidade de trilhões de dólares começa. Em silêncio, na frente de todo mundo, com quase ninguém olhando.
Un tipo de Reddit construyó accidentalmente el sitio web más útil de internet.
Se llama FMHY (Free Media Heck Yeah). Google llegó a eliminarlo de los resultados de búsqueda tras recibir reclamaciones por derechos de autor.
Aun así, sigue online, y se ha convertido en uno de los directorios más completos de recursos gratuitos de internet.
Aquí te explico cómo funciona 👇
INSTEAD OF WATCHING A 2-HOUR MOVIE.
Watch this Anthropic Claude for Finance lecture.
It’s probably the best free hour in quant AI right now.
Bookmark it and watch it today, no matter what.
el ingeniero que construyó Claude Code acaba de publicar un video de 28 minutos sobre cómo escribir prompts que realmente funcionan
he visto cursos de 300$ que no cubren lo que él muestra en los primeros 10 minutos
archivos CLAUDE.md, atajos de memoria, sesiones paralelas, patrones de prompting
todo en un video y completamente gratis
funciona seas desarrollador, principiante o alguien que lleva meses usando Claude
“pero ahora espero no volverte a ver jamás. espero que hayas tomado la decisión correcta, que todo en tu vida se acomode para que no vuelvas a hacerle esto a nadie”
acordándome tanto de esto
Al final sólo nos tenemos a nosotros mismos, debemos cuidar nuestro corazón, nuestra vida y entender que no todos quieren de la forma en la que lo hacemos ❤️🩹
Decía Edgar Allan Poe que “las cuatro condiciones para la felicidad son: el amor de una mujer, la vida al aire libre, la ausencia de toda ambición y la creación de una belleza nueva".
"La sociedad del rendimiento es una sociedad de autoexplotación. El sujeto se explota a sí mismo hasta quemarse (...) El proyecto resulta ser un proyectil que el sujeto obligado a rendir dispara contra sí mismo."
Byung-Chul Han, "La sociedad del cansancio."