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“In this paper, we introduce a new task, NEgative-conSTrained (NEST) KGQA, where each question contains at least one negative constraint, and a corresponding dataset, NestKGQA.”
“In this paper, we introduce a new task, NEgative-conSTrained (NEST) KGQA, where each question contains at least one negative constraint, and a corresponding dataset, NestKGQA.”
“A stablecoin contract, it's an ERC-20 contract, and then they have an admin.”
“Speculative decoding accelerates large language model (LLM) inference.”
“Widely used alignment techniques, such as reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), rely on the ability of humans to supervise model behavior - for example, to evaluate whether a model faithf…”
“you get financially educated not to become a stockbroker, not to sit there day trading on your phone, to understand the rules of the game you're already in”
“I use it as a personal CRM.”
“I use it as a knowledge base”
“a video idea pipeline”
“X and Twitter research”
“business meta analysis.”
“HubSpot Ops.”
“I always apply the humanizer skill.”
“I coupled it into my to-do list and I kind of use it as a task management system as well.”
“And of course, I use it for YouTube analytics.”
“Getting in exercise, uh being outdoors in light is something that helps to fall asleep later. I prioritize both both of those at all >> because I feel like if you're uh you're a coder engineer and you…”
“And so EAC is kind of the you know that's kind of the ultimate goal of EA. It's kind of a formalization of like Elonian sort of mindset of you know cosmism and expansionism there. Um but it gives you …”
“So you can just get this from either my X account. So you can um find me at it's lean and I pinned it to my profile here. So it's an article here that I wrote about it and you can find this as a Googl…”
“Q: getting feedback before posting - use ABCD feedback framework.”
“Getting in exercise, uh being outdoors in light is something that helps to fall asleep later. I prioritize both both of those at all >> because I feel like if you're uh you're a coder engineer and you…”
“I only have one. I call her Zoe. But I have like multiple conversations going with her.”
“I think there are many different strategies, but I I'm certain that trying out tools and being like, what can I do here? Can I build something? Can I get attention to what I'm building, making people …”
“And then I often recommend people to find someone who's like-minded to them that want to work with AI or they want to start a company. Um, and that's like social dynamic and or being a part of a commu…”
“We need to map our oceans. ASAP.”
“everyone should be cursormaxxing”
“Our customer success manager who's entirely non-technical but interfaces with enterprise customers on a day-to-day basis now gets to take on feature requests especially the simple ones directly give t…”
“Beyond Annual Planning: Adapting to AI with the Six-Quarter Walk”
“The most future-proof job: Entrepreneurship”
“for our first company Octomatic we wrote everything in small talk”
“New Bank, I understand. Um they use a lot of I mean you know super successful fintech company in in LATAM and I I understand they use a lot of closure”
“I bought a a PHP book, in fact, and I read it. Um, and then I started writing PHP and just all downhill after that.”
“But there's actually an alternative phrasing and this is uh I think John Stokes's coinage or others. Go broke, go woke.”
“If you're vibe coding anything with a UI, install this first.”
“It's a collection of 20 plus skills that enforce a strict development methodology. Test-driven development, debugging frameworks, a full plan-to-execute pipeline.”
“If you're building anything that involves iterating on results, study this repo. The pattern is actually probably more valuable than the tool itself.”
“If you install one MCP server from this entire video, make sure it is this one.”
“You feed it your PRD, and it breaks it down into structured tasks with dependencies, complexity scores, and subtasks. Then Claude executes them one by one in order.”
“Made by Microsoft, this gives Claude the ability to control a browser, click buttons, fill forms, navigate pages, take screenshots. Your AI agent can now use the web like a human.”
“If you've ever had Claude ask you, "I don't know how to do this." for the fifth time about code that it wrote by itself, this is the fix.”
“Read, extract tables, fill forms, merge, and split. The highest utility skill for anyone who works with documents, period.”
“Excel formulas, data analysis, charts, all from plain English. You don't even need Microsoft Excel installed anymore. Just describe what you want, and Claude builds the spreadsheet. For anyone running…”
“Slide decks from natural language. Layouts, charts, speaker notes. For anyone who's ever spent 4 hours making a pitch deck for a meeting that lasted 12 minutes, this will make you question your life d…”
“If you're in the content game like me, this is real collaborative AI writing.”
“Social graphics, posters, covers. You put text in, PNG or PDF out. If you're posting content regularly and you're tired of opening Canva every 5 minutes, this handles it inside of Claude.”
“This is for my vibe coders. I'm talking calculators, dashboards, interactive widgets, all from natural language. Zero front-end skills needed. You describe what you want, it builds a working artifact.”
“Marketing skills by Corey Haines. 16,000 GitHub stars, over 20 sub skills. CRO, copywriting, SEO, email sequences, growth engineering. This is the most popular non-coding skills package for Claude cod…”
“It encodes your brand's voice, colors, tone, and rules into a skill. Then Claude auto applies them to everything it creates, every email, every landing page, every social post, all on brand without yo…”
“I’m building a project internally called Ultron and Ultron inside of my firm launch that is going to basically with the Slack API we’re pulling every single message from Slack into our OpenClaw.”
“For anyone making content or building products where the research needs to be solid, this saves you literal hours.”
“If you use Obsidian for notes like Coda, and you don't, you probably should. This bridges the gap between your knowledge base and your AI agent.”
“Your wallet will thank you even if your agent won't.”
“I wouldn't dramatically uh change some of the basic advice on STEM uh getting good at even for things like coding I would still recommend because I think whatever happens with these AI tools you'll be…”
“I would also say immerse yourself now. That's what I would be doing as a teenager today in trying to become a sort of ninja at using the the latest tools.”
“So, instead of manually writing skill files, which, let's be honest, you don't even know how to do anyway, you just tell Claude what you want to do differently, and this skill creates the skill for yo…”
“people that know the language of computers, be able to understand coding will be able to do that much more effectively than people that don't... I think we look back on that as some of the worst caree…”
“I use AI as a brainstorming companion much more than even my friends know... of a brainstorming I use multiple models.”
“Actually go and build stuff. I think every one of you this is a wonderful time to build... There's so much cool stuff you can now build that just was not possible before.”
“you can have maybe lm.txt txt file which is just a simple markdown that's telling LLMs what this domain is about and this is very readable to a to an LLM.”
“use the LLM as a judge and well and just go through that process to get it done much faster.”
“I think everyone should learn to code... everyone in AI fund actually knows how to code... it's actually driving meaningful productivity improvements across all of these job functions.”
“developers that use AI assistance in our coding is so much faster than developers that don't... I just hate to ever have to code again without AI assistance.”
“I mention one thing that people have talked a lot about, but I think is so underrated is the voice stack... I'm actually very excited about voice applications.”
“Then these AI agents tools like GitHub copilot cursor or anthropics claude code they ingest that plain English prompt and just generate the functional underlying code for you.”
“I think maybe the main thing is I would say read history. Read history and know these things and try to get that balance right.”
“investing in open source and open way models. Building these models is so expensive. What most nations need is to make sure that no one else can control your infra. But when there's open-source openwe…”
“Read the recommended schema.”
“The repo link is on screen and it is worth reading the readme, the skill pack, the schema and the verify runbook together.”
“The repo link is on screen and it is worth reading the readme, the skill pack, the schema and the verify runbook together.”
“The other really important thing they did, which I kind of give I give as a recommendation for parents to think about, which was very useful for me becoming a scientist, is you know, when you come hom…”
“if you just use the tools, if you actually go spend 10 hours using these tools as you recommend and just ask, 'Hey, be nice to me.'”
“I am a big fan of CUDA graphs where the entire thing that's running there is one CUDA call to the graph and it does everything.”
“I want every researcher to add a delay Q into your uh right before your environment. Just put a little flexible delay Q where you can tune in up and down how many frames you delay.”
“Sprinting is one of the most underappreciated longevity therapies.”
“This is exactly the problem we talk about in building a second brain community.”
“this is why I've been like pushing for social recovery, multiigs, account abstraction, all of this stuff non-stop for the last 10 years.”
“if you're if you're going to spend if you're early in your career that's I don't know there's some things I think ZK biotech things like that haven't had their massive breakout moment yet and ZK was d…”
“You could watch a YouTube video on it. There's some YouTube videos that explain it pretty clearly. Takes a bit of time to understand it.”
“for people to fully appreciate the power of quantum computers and to accelerate their use in different fields, people should be learning the fundamentals of quantum, even at a young age.”
“Today, I'm excited to share a second brain experiment where we will explore whether it's possible to create a fully functional app using only my second brain and claude cowork.”
“A pattern I've seen that works pretty well that I actually recommend if you're a large company is to kind of make a strike team or strike force that's separate from the rest of the company”
“I wish I'd stuck with physics more because then I would have had that same feeling about advanced physics and math.”
“I wish I'd stuck with physics more because then I would have had that same feeling about advanced physics and math.”
“So computer networking, computer architecture, semiconductors, all that stuff was really useful even though I was doing software programming when I got out because just understanding the layers of abs”
“So computer networking, computer architecture, semiconductors, all that stuff was really useful even though I was doing software programming when I got out because just understanding the layers of abs”
“So computer networking, computer architecture, semiconductors, all that stuff was really useful even though I was doing software programming when I got out because just understanding the layers of abs”
“In fact I would say you know go even lower level study chips, study physics, study whatever you can to understand how computers work because that's the greatest form of leverage in modern societ”
“What I do instead is something called [music] an annual life review. And honestly, I think it's the piece that most people are missing. If you've ever felt like a failure because [music] you can't sti…”
“The first thing I would say as a researcher is you have to really look for the truth. And that's the number one thing you you can do.”
“First of all, I think it goes back to what I talked about earlier. You should be asking questions, and making sure that you don't feel intimidated by asking questions all the time. And you know, make …”
“I remember I learned in in graduate school, I couldn't make these Josephson junctions. They didn't work at all. After months of trying different things, I finally went into the clean room and spent th…”
“Having other hobbies and focusing on that is quite quite good, and I think I tend to be very intense about doing the physics. So, you know, having having some other outlets, and I would say especially…”
“This project was 99% vibe coded as a fun Saturday hack because I wanted to explore and evaluate a number of LLMs side by side in the process of [reading books together with LLMs](https://x.com/karpath…”
“Basically the idea here is that if you want someone to like the same analogy works for like a human teammate. If you want someone to go off and do a lot of work, you might want to agree on what work t…”
“I'd encourage people here this week to like try at least once paying for a coffee and ETH”
“If you don't have a wallet, you know, install a install a wallet.”
“like if you haven't used a DAP, use a DAP.”
“as well as other popular enterprise AI approaches like retrieval augmented generation, rag.”
“If uh, you know, like you have never written a smart contract, try like writing a uh, a smart contract.”
“Oh, I see one hand uh go up. I'll try to find you afterwards. Uh so lisp is a um well many people say that lisp is a dead programming language, but the lisp defenders say that it's not dead. It just s…”
“Forget New Year's Resolutions and Conduct a 'Past Year Review' Instead”