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“I would definitely like build something with AI and I would definitely like take advantage of the ability to see a new thing and build something that day rather than like put it into a quarterly plann…”
“agent+finance is underexplored. Interesting future direction!”
“we were talking about constitutional AI and I think Jared said, "Oh, we're just gonna write a constitution for a language model and that'll change all of its behavior."”
“While your vocabulary and understanding develop, there are some shortcuts. Skills (as in https://t.co/egfC60tXum) magically augment your prompt and offer variety.”
“yeah you know um few things really really experiment with voice it is a completely different way of using tachu BT it is very it's never existed before it's like unlike anything else you will have tri…”
“And you can see it. And they're right. They're right. In some cases, they're right. But you can see it in the demos.”
“Um but then you know chemistry is pretty good too.”
“Remember Jevons paradox”
“The model council is like the greatest feature. Yeah. That they have. And what is really brilliant about it is you ask it a question sachs. It will go to all three different major models and you can p…”
“A lot of people on my team were new to Rust and we decided to build a core harness in Rust. Thibault Sottiaux: And it's been really great seeing how quickly they can pick up a new language just by usi…”
“I still try to advise everyone to learn one programming language, learn Python or something.”
“Read the skill pack.”
“If you've never tried my PARA method before, I would really learn the method first through manual organization. Setting up PARA, especially for the first time, it [music] teaches you and it reveals th…”
“Use the uv-tdd skill to build a hello world uvicorn app with no other dependencies”
“I can add a file here called agents.md. Yeah. And this file is actually a file that a bunch of coding agents support.”
“Um h the best science. Um well uh I mean when I was in school I was by far the most interested in physics and applied maths. Does applied maths still exist? >> Yeah. >> Okay, good. Um, so physically i…”
“I was completely wrong about biology um it's it's so interesting um and it's kind of the original nanotechnology um and if you just look up um you know these little organels or you know these these ki…”
“We gotta do better as a field in 2026 and stop treating reproducibility and scientific discipline as second-class citizens.”
“We added docs to explain this all at https://t.co/JaxLv4qSYS.”
“Coding an app is the new starting a podcast.”
“you're talking through Chain of Thought and how it doesn't produce much novel insights and”
“I did a TED talk on this called fear setting. You start to do fear setting around these fears. You defang them.”
“I'm not talking about esoteric things that don't have evidence. I'm talking about things like sauna. A Mediterranean [music] diet, extra virgin olive oil. These things have robust scientific evidence.”
“Uh, I haven't really put it out there very much, honestly. I just I just uploaded it because I thought someone else might eventually stumble across it. > Man, that is the worst marketing job from one …”
“I think therapy can be amazing. Um I think you have to have the right therapist. Um and somebody who helps you sort of process and move through.”
“If someone wanted to join you on your journey of learning how to learn better what kind of practical tools or Pathways would you give them to trod down that path meditation seems like an obvious one”
“To build your own, create a file at .claude/skills/[name].md”
“The web research skill replaces Claude’s unreliable default web search (basically Google first-page results) with Tavily for higher-quality search and Firecrawl for clean markdown scraping.”
“The fix is a user_prompt_submit hook that runs a lightweight script matching your message against skill keywords.”
“i've got a great free video that helps people do the math of real estate tom it's how to evaluate an investment property how to read the performa how i love the numbers in 30 minutes boom people just …”
“Our numerics show that the variance reduction relative to state-of-the-art (disjoint) grouping increases linearly with the problem size, suggesting that overlapped grouping methods can be a powerful s…”
“just make sure you follow my 10 commandments of successful investing which is a good kind of outline to make sure you don't make mistakes and you can find out about that at jasonhartman.com or on my p…”
“My favorite one right there is the binary RE. That's one of my... Let's ride to your top right. Agentic reverse engineering for ELF binaries. Wow. Yeah. So if you have any binary, you know,”
“I did, you know, I did the world one. Yeah. That was fun. That's an intense one. It was very intense. Yeah. I find that one to be very challenging. And just to let you know what it does, it's called o…”
“I think way more people who are interested in entrepreneurship need to go spend a day walking around Walmart”
“Congrats to my Stanford labmate Agrim for his new generative video work!”
“when it comes to emphasize skills on a res I know sometimes people have tables where they say here here literally my skills sometimes they self-rate themselves um uh question one is how do you recomme…”
“I would recommend three minutes a day”
“and the arc challenge is one attempt to embody as many of these principles as possible”
“this sounds very simple but it's actually an example of a huge class of quantum algorithms the hidden subgroup problems and the most famous one is sh's algorithm as many of you know this is where I'm …”
“if you've never made an AR effect before I really recommend it it's honestly the most empowering experience when thousands of people can use something that you've made but then they can put their own …”
“I call it kis kit patterns uh but what what what's more important is it's a way of thinking of an application and so what I think it's the time to move from like executing these Quantum circuits like …”
“We argue that phi_first should be reported as a default low-cost baseline before invoking sampling-based uncertainty estimation.”
“I recommend I I recommend it. I I think you learn you once again you learn a lot of the underlying structure about why the world is the way that it is at least you know our our our part in the Western…”
“.xyz is the new .com. web3 is the new web2. You gotta leave the old and get with the new if you want to stay ahead in this business”
“The Socratic method is essentially the practice of relentless questioning. Relentless questioning is something academics do all the time. It has been core to the progress of human intellect over the p…”
“I recommend using TRC-20 for USDT. It's fast, and the fees are very low.”
“My, my, my second is I think the most important. Skill to cultivate is, is a critical skill, a kind of critical thinking skill, right? Learning to be critical about the information you see.”
“I've been studying Soma breath work training and we did a sound healing as well in order to do a meditation to think about the future identity for the different Founders”
“I think if a person understands fundamental analysis uh which is my first bill of investing they're gonna have a better chance at getting a really solid company that produces AI”
“I'm a huge fan of dividends and I'm a huge fan of option premium because it's cash flow so I really don't care what the fear gauge says”
“I want to sell very much more option premium than I buy... you can have passive income and most people will talk about dividends... but you have your options way of doing passive income”
“Before layer removal or merging, score both swap-KLs on the target checkpoint; the diagnostic requires only unlabeled forward passes.”
“Jiu-Jitsu is like that”
“archeries like that as well like when you're shooting a bow you have to is there's so many moving things and you're trying you have to think only of it and it cleans the mind it cleans the mind”
“MDMA therapy for veterans yeah they should let MDMA through honestly that think that actually help a lot of people it would help a lot of people help a lot of people”
“specifically psilocybin iag the fact you have to go to Mexico to get ibaan therapy for veterans so many guys I've talked to have gone over there and it's like completely giving them a a clean slate re…”
“uh well thanks for joining me no all thank you for having me let's talk about the four strands of the fabric of reality theory of epistemology evolution by natural selection quantum theory and computa…”
“The Andre Karpathy skills is a tool based on his set of principles for Claude Code. Somebody just released that. That's just pretty crazy when you think about it.”
“if you're looking to go to college Community College in California if you can get there that is a very good bet especially if you happen to live in uh California and can get like insay tuition”
“non-traditional student programs at Harvard so I had the capacity like I had to SP spend I had two years left of college I had to spend a year on campus”
“go follow my list screw all the books that I write and all the all the I want to show um go follow my list because I've following 25,000 people in the AI Community alone plus you know everybody I have…”
“I just tell them like no look sit down for one full day or like a few days even better with a new AI tool. And if you just do that you're going to be better than almost everyone else and probably ever…”
“I think I think at the at a minimum you need to know how to like use a computer well. So what that means is like programming.”
“I think being able to code and like, you know, leverage the power of the computer, first and foremost, just the computer, leverage the computer to like help you run experiments, like script stuff, rig…”
“third if that's not enough you can make a GPT um people actually do this for a variety of reasons but in many cases if you have this prompt you're reusing all the time um make a GPT for yourself You d…”
“schedule shape (cosine)”
“for INT4 at 50M+ use wd33; for INT4 below 50M the schedule choice is in the noise”
“All the dumb decisions that I've made in my life which have actually turned out to be good was because of this one regret minimization framework that I've heard from him. It's so good.”
“Practical recommendation: at sub-100M scale, tune the LR schedule once at FP16 and apply unchanged to INT8/INT6 QAT”
“I think that everybody should learn philosophy 101 which is basically logic and and philosophy 101 which is basically logic is the is the foundations of programming right so go learn that”
“please learn algebra you know that that's how about linear algebra yeah I mean I I would push them until they get to calculus but but you know differential equations”
“the single most marketable skill in the economy right now has got to be proficiency in Claude.”
“the fastest way to help somebody get a job right now if you know somebody in the market who's looking for a job the best thing you can do is say hey go download the AI tools and just start talking to …”
“the only thing I ask them is that they put on captions when they're watching YouTube so it helps their reading they learn to read fast good tip”
“we recommend macro-averaged F1 as the standard reporting metric for ZSL-HAR benchmarks”
“there's still more work to be done to scale AI models”
“combined with cross-entropy regularisation via Proximal Policy Optimisation (PPO).”
“the big benefit of meditation. It creates a small gap between your conscious observation self and your mind and that lets you then look at your thoughts and evaluate them a little bit like you would a…”
“you can even just do it through therapy, you can do it through journaling, you can do it any way you would like, you can just take long walks, you don't have to meditate”
“what I did as I went and took improv classes... you have to act without a script and you have to be funny... I found that that's the most uncomfortable I have to think on my feet”
“We revisit graph-based clustering as a bottom-up alternative, where segment embeddings are connected by pairwise similarity and partitioned using the Leiden algorithm.”
“I I don't have um Facebook. I don't have Messenger. Okay. I I don't have a Facebook account and I I kind of recommend this.”
“Despite the recent progress in generating large-scale quantum states, realizing quantum measurement at scale remains a major challenge.”
“This work provides a scalable method for quantum measurement, paving the way for large-scale quantum information processing.”
“if people haven't tried these tools then the best thing you can do for your career and for your friends and so on is to get your hands very dirty”
“Self-distillation trains the model to retain this improvement when the context is not present.”
“We advocate leakage-free splits, explicit padding disclosure, and sequence-aware benchmarking as standard practice in future IDS research.”
“We advocate leakage-free splits, explicit padding disclosure, and sequence-aware benchmarking as standard practice in future IDS research.”
“We advocate leakage-free splits, explicit padding disclosure, and sequence-aware benchmarking as standard practice in future IDS research.”
“Neither achieves journalists' goal of building trust through transparency. An existing controlled experiment with 34 news readers show that detailed disclosures trigger a \textit{transparency dilemma}…”
“One-line disclosures avoid this effect but can create an information gap, prompting readers to expend cognitive effort searching for signs of AI involvement that the disclosure indicates but does not …”
“Yet readers are not rejecting transparency, they proposed disclosure designs centered on user agency: detail-on-demand interactions, proportional AI-ratio visualizations, outlet-level signals, and exp…”
“Yet readers are not rejecting transparency, they proposed disclosure designs centered on user agency: detail-on-demand interactions, proportional AI-ratio visualizations, outlet-level signals, and exp…”
“Yet readers are not rejecting transparency, they proposed disclosure designs centered on user agency: detail-on-demand interactions, proportional AI-ratio visualizations, outlet-level signals, and exp…”
“Yet readers are not rejecting transparency, they proposed disclosure designs centered on user agency: detail-on-demand interactions, proportional AI-ratio visualizations, outlet-level signals, and exp…”
“we provide a companion OpenClaw Skill that automates key security configurations, enabling users to safeguard their systems with minimal manual intervention.”
“I think there's a lot of people whose job is essentially to use a piece of software. And lots of people have a job that kind of revolves around a piece of software.”
“And you can see it. And they're right. They're right. In some cases, they're right. But you can see it in the demos.”
“There's also a new paradigm emerging for how the highest velocity companies build product. AI software factories.”