Not sure how accurate this is but there’s a book on how Adolf/Nazi’s were experimenting with hard drugs at that time. https://www.amazon.ca/Blitzed-Norman-Whiteside-Shaun-Ohler/d... They say Hitler was very charismatic,…
> I don’t know why prices are still up though – if interest rates being high was making housing unaffordable, one would expect prices to be down. We printed ~25% of all money in existence since 2020 so that obv means…
That actually happened Meng Wanzhou (daughter of the founder of Huawei) bypassed sanctions against Iran Vancouver airport arrested and put her under house arrest for a few years
I like your analogy of a tick tock ~= epoch of progress Step change, then optimization of that step change Kind of like a grand father clock with a huge pendulum swinging to one side, then another(commonly used…
I was blown away by the Every Day Astronaut Starbase tours. Elon had all the intricacies and parts of the rockets memorized and was just rattling off details like it was nothing. Kind of makes me think human…
> And if you combined all of the above with a cell phone, customers would rather carry 1 device than the 3 it previously took. And not coincidentally this is exactly how Jobs pitched the original iPhone unveil. An iPod,…
> the touchscreen, as long as it is responsive (of course the vast majority of car touchscreens are not, but some are) Normal refresh cycle period for tablets(iPads) is ~5 years. Normal life of a car is 10 years (2x).…
I’m a big fan of YC, HN, and Garry Tan. I’d love to support Garry politically to get SF back to its roots and to put math back in schools. Unfortunately Garry has blocked me on X for no good reason that I can think of?
During the 2nd Starship launch (most recent one), there were a few scam SpaceX live streams on YouTube where they would play footage of Elon on stage at night from when starship was first unveiled. The scammers would…
Here’s another awesome Karpathy lecture from Stanford: https://youtu.be/XfpMkf4rD6E?si=1_EmuYDFfi7RNEhz This video is the best for learning attention, specifically where he explains: Think of attention like a directed…
I swear by using Apples external track pad on the left hand side with a TKL mech keyboard in the middle and mouse on the right. When one hand gets sore, just switch to the other. I get bad RSI the minute I’m not using…
A potential heuristic for the optimal number of management layers in any company is the base10 log of the total number of employees. Assuming 1 manager oversees 10 people (then -1 to subtract lowest level of engineers).…
I also had a very bad flu in early Jan2020. I'm typically very strong but my body was sapped of energy for 5 days and was different than any other sickness I've experienced.
Not sure how accurate this is but there’s a book on how Adolf/Nazi’s were experimenting with hard drugs at that time. https://www.amazon.ca/Blitzed-Norman-Whiteside-Shaun-Ohler/d... They say Hitler was very charismatic,…
> I don’t know why prices are still up though – if interest rates being high was making housing unaffordable, one would expect prices to be down. We printed ~25% of all money in existence since 2020 so that obv means…
That actually happened Meng Wanzhou (daughter of the founder of Huawei) bypassed sanctions against Iran Vancouver airport arrested and put her under house arrest for a few years
I like your analogy of a tick tock ~= epoch of progress Step change, then optimization of that step change Kind of like a grand father clock with a huge pendulum swinging to one side, then another(commonly used…
I was blown away by the Every Day Astronaut Starbase tours. Elon had all the intricacies and parts of the rockets memorized and was just rattling off details like it was nothing. Kind of makes me think human…
> And if you combined all of the above with a cell phone, customers would rather carry 1 device than the 3 it previously took. And not coincidentally this is exactly how Jobs pitched the original iPhone unveil. An iPod,…
> the touchscreen, as long as it is responsive (of course the vast majority of car touchscreens are not, but some are) Normal refresh cycle period for tablets(iPads) is ~5 years. Normal life of a car is 10 years (2x).…
I’m a big fan of YC, HN, and Garry Tan. I’d love to support Garry politically to get SF back to its roots and to put math back in schools. Unfortunately Garry has blocked me on X for no good reason that I can think of?
During the 2nd Starship launch (most recent one), there were a few scam SpaceX live streams on YouTube where they would play footage of Elon on stage at night from when starship was first unveiled. The scammers would…
Here’s another awesome Karpathy lecture from Stanford: https://youtu.be/XfpMkf4rD6E?si=1_EmuYDFfi7RNEhz This video is the best for learning attention, specifically where he explains: Think of attention like a directed…
I swear by using Apples external track pad on the left hand side with a TKL mech keyboard in the middle and mouse on the right. When one hand gets sore, just switch to the other. I get bad RSI the minute I’m not using…
A potential heuristic for the optimal number of management layers in any company is the base10 log of the total number of employees. Assuming 1 manager oversees 10 people (then -1 to subtract lowest level of engineers).…
I also had a very bad flu in early Jan2020. I'm typically very strong but my body was sapped of energy for 5 days and was different than any other sickness I've experienced.