Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
Thanks for fighting the good fight @Agrippa_Inv.
@Infinityalready I was there in the early days and for full disclosure I have been a shareholder and investor (yes investor) since January 2020.
I have endless proof that $IREN ’s strategy was always to build a vertically integrated High Performance Compute (HPC) platform. I wouldn’t have been involved if it wasn’t.
Bitcoin was the starting workload and revenue generator and IREN sold all the Bitcoin it mined daily and invested it back in to building the most amazing team, buying up fantastic sites with renewable power and growing out its data center infrastructure.
While profitably mining Bitcoin it had the time to watch what was happening with AI compute and choose its entry point. The revenue from Bitcoin gave it time to prove to key players (little companies like NVIDIA and Microsoft) that it was the real deal. I don’t know if you are an entrepreneur or not but think about how freaking brilliant this was for entering this market. Startup to one of the largest AI infrastructure providers globally in 8 years.
In all my time in the HPC data center space (started in 2001) I have never seen any company execute as brilliantly as IREN.
*pictures were taken by me
🚨🇫🇷 NEW: The location of the French aircraft carrier, FS Charles de Gaulle, has been given away by a sailor using Strava whilst jogging on the ship deck
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"If I put $100 in Bitcoin in 2010, I'd have $730 million now."
No.
If you bought $100 of Bitcoin in 2010 and watched it go to:
$1k → $40k → $290K
and did nothing
Then watched $290K go to $26.3K
and still did nothing
Then watched $26.3K go to $2.5M
and still did nothing
Then watched $2.5M → $744K → $12.57M
and still did nothing
Then watched $12.57M deteriorate to $2.28M
Then watched $2.28M climb to $222M
and still did nothing
Then watched $222M shrink to $36.8M
and still did nothing
Then watched $36.8M surge to $730 million
and then for some reason finally decided to do something…
Then yes, $100 in 2010 would be worth $730 million today.
President Trump’s Nominee for NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman:
“I can tell you, having gone to space twice and looking back on our planet, looking at the stars around us, it is very hard not to be spiritual. But it was only recently, in the last couple weeks, that I was inspired for the first time in a very long time to pick up the Bible.”
“I'll tell you why — It's because of Charlie”
I stole this idea and now use it with every single employee.
It’s the best illustration I’ve seen of teaching someone to be high agency.
It says there are 5 levels of work:
Level 1: “There is a problem.”
Level 2: “There is a problem, and I’ve found some causes.”
Level 3: “Here’s the problem, here are some possible causes, and here are some possible solutions.”
Level 4: “Here’s the problem, here’s what I think caused it, here are some possible solutions, and here’s the one I think we should pick.”
Level 5: “I identified a problem, figured out what caused it, researched how to fix it, and I fixed it. Just wanted to keep you in the loop.”
Using this framework, here’s what I say to every new employee…
You will live at Level 4 from Day 1 and as we build trust you will rise to Level 5.
Being high agency doesn’t just mean tackling problems in this way. It means your entire way of working should be oriented to being a Level 4+ employee.
Plz feel free to steal it as well.
And ty @stephsmithio for the framework!
Pray for President Trump to accept Christ as his Savior because that is the only way he will make it into heaven.
It IS possible that President Trump gets to heaven, but only if he accepts Christ.
I would welcome him as my brother in Christ and want to see him in heaven one day.
"I want to be good cause you want to prove to God that you're good so you go to that next step, right?"
People get mad at me every time I say it, but our president very sadly does not understand the biblical Gospel and we need to keep praying for him.
Trump is right that if a country does have God it will be hard to be a good country
Unfortunately, he doesn’t know the Gospel.
Pray God works in his heart to bring him to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ