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“I mean, have you ever read Robert Heinland's novel, uh, the the the moon is a harsh mistress?”
“Uses in education for example. So there's a school in the US, I think it's called the alpha school. It's expensive because AI is still expensive but it'll get much cheaper soon where the students inst…”
“Requires Ruby ≥ 3.1 and [Nix](https://nixos.org/download/).”
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“There's a paper that's not too old by David Silver, Rich Sutton is a co-author um Donap and a bunch of other people whose title is um reward is enough.”
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“nearly 400,000 people subscribe to his one useful thing newsletter.”
“CLI tool for creating charts from CSV, TSV, JSON, JSONL, or SQLite data using matplotlib. Designed to work well with Showboat.”
“one of the most remarkable things about what XAI did is they stood up the biggest data center at the time in you know like a quarter of the time that anyone else had done the same thing”
“I am a YouTube premium subscriber and have been for a long time. Okay, flex. >> And whenever I like, you know, talk to a friend who doesn't pay for YouTube or whenever I like see YouTube running on th…”
“somebody wrote an adjacent service from Moltbook called rent a human.com [laughter] um uh which is a labor marketplace for the AI agents on Moltbook to be able to hire human beings to go out and there”
“https://theconversation.com/us-experiencing-largest-measles-outbreak-since-2000-5-essential-reads-on-the-risks-what-to-do-and-whats-coming-next-275164”
“We found that GPT-5.2 models are much better at extended autonomous work: following instructions, keeping focus, avoiding drift, and implementing things precisely and completely.”
“Introducing Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they’ve built”
“If you have an EA like I do from Athena, I will tell them, hey, take this, put it onto my Twitter, put it onto my uh, you know, put it in the drafts, maybe put it on to LinkedIn, put it in all these d…”
“There's a great book called 'Body Keeps the Score.'”
“By connecting Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Rovo, teams can easily align work to real business goals, plan and track progress together, remove knowledge silos, and access the real magic.”
“He's got an amazing new book, Running Down a Dream. Please, wait, wait, wait. Before we start, there it is. I just want everybody to just stop the pause the podcast. I want you to buy three copies, gi…”
“Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale”
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“I also don't know if it's a product, but maybe I'll I'll uh also another podcast that I really love obviously besides uh besides Venny is >> obviously >> Yeah, it's uh it's the acquired uh podcast by …”
“In fact, yesterday at Jensen's uh keynote, we announced open sourcing of the Groot N1 model, uh which is the world's first open humanoid robot foundation model.”
“I built an AI agent that monitors it for me: https://alignednews.com/ai”
“Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12946”
“Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework”
“# Recraft V4: image generation with design taste”
“Learn more here: https://mistral.ai/news/forge”
“And I wrote it about Bitcoin and I said everybody should put 1% of their net worth into Bitcoin and I said it's basically schmuck insurance >> and then they published it in the Bloomberg terminal or w…”
“**letter_opener for the [Resend](https://resend.com) gem.**”
“Agent 4 fixes this.”
“building a working game in excel, with a built-in game AI powered by complex formulas:”
“introducing gpt-5.4 mini:”
“Just off the cuff, uh, have you read the Guns of August? >> Yeah. World of course. The Guns of August, I don't know why, feels >> it's incredible book.”
“Leanstral: Open-Source foundation for trustworthy vibe-coding”
“We critically examine the limitations of current AI models in achieving autonomous learning and propose a learning architecture inspired by human and animal cognition.”
“how can I have not just a single session of clot code or codeex or some of these agent harnesses.”
“Coding an app is the new starting a podcast.”
“Explore our latest innovations across research and products”
“@danwwang 's book Breakneck”
“just switching to a different profile on my graphen OS here”
“So uh uh there's a company called Fountain Life that uh created with Tony Robbins, Bob Hurry, Bill Cap, and we do a 200 gigabyte upload of you.”
“_Blog post by Google DeepMind_ https://deepmind.google/blog/protecting-people-from-harmful-manipulation”
“Uses [pnpm](https://pnpm.io/installation) for package management”
“With thanks to @MorningstarInc”
“Very enthusiastic about what @centivax is doing. We still suffer from an outrageous number of infectious diseases.”
“One of the best AI products I've seen recently: (drumroll) Adobe Podcast”
“More on our approach to the Model Spec: https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-the-model-spec/”
“$ stripe projects add posthog/analytics And it'll create a PostHog account, get an API key, and (as needed) set up billing.”
“We're joining @Microsoft's Model Mondays on April 6th to discuss how AI can help you:”
“Maybe even more dramatic example of this is deep wiki where it's not just the raw content of these files. uh this is from Devon but also like they have Devon basically do analysis of the GitHub repo”
“This repository showcases example UI components to be used with the [Apps SDK](https://developers.openai.com/apps-sdk), as well as example MCP servers that expose a collection of components as tools. …”
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“Yes: https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/red-green-tdd/”
“Today, we open-source CaP-X: vibe agents, alive in the physical world.”
“A [Pen](https://codepen.io/jjob1391/pen/xeoWYK) by [Jeremy](https://codepen.io/jjob1391) on [CodePen](https://codepen.io).”
“AI natives can now build with Wan 2.7 on Together AI”
“When Opus 4.5 came out, it was a one-way door to a new way of engineering.”
“I drove a Honda Civic that was like, you know, just like, you know, when you graduate from high school, you know, they give you the keys to your older brother of his POS car.”
“Join the [OpenAI Discord server](https://discord.com/invite/openai) and visit the Parameter Golf channels (#parameter-golf-discussions, #parameter-golf-announcements) and ask questions.”
“Use Codex from inside Claude Code for code reviews or to delegate tasks to Codex.”
“• Embeddings: A local @nomic_ai model via @huggingface transformers.js”
“• Vector storage: A local @qdrant_engine edge shard (custom-built in Rust and compiled as a native add-on)”
“you do you do H hand your video over to like Luma Ai and turn it into a Nerf or a gossan Splat no no no I mean I do I'll do it inum decentralized you know me right I'm more of a decentralized guy I do…”
“He's the creator of Pulsia. It's an agentic system. It's not OpenClaw. It was built while Peter was off building OpenClaw. It's a separate agentic system, Jason, that helps businesses run their operat…”
“You should read the red team report: https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/”
“I built a better way to keep up with the AI community here on X: https://alignednews.com/ai”
“you're talking through Chain of Thought and how it doesn't produce much novel insights and”
“have you see this paper? https://llm-attacks.org”
“# Aurora _Blog post by Together AI_ https://www.together.ai/blog/aurora”
“👉 Flux: conversational STT with 250ms end-of-turn detection using conversational context”
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“We're doubling Composer 2 usage through the end of this weekend. We recommend trying it out in our new interface, available in Cursor 3.”
“You have a person that was a staunch advocate that I need to use Emacs. You will never see him using an IDE. And he skipped autocomplete. He skipped Chat, and now he is directly using Anti-Gravity to …”
“Actually, we shipped a model called Flash, Gemini 3 Flash. And the coding capability is actually on par with Pro.”
“31B Dense & 26B MoE: state-of-the-art performance for advanced local reasoning tasks – like custom coding assistants or analyzing scientific datasets.”
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“Perhaps the craziest thing that was introduced on the Keras community call today: Keras Kinetic, a new library that lets you run jobs on cloud TPU/GPU via a simple decorator -- like Modal but with TPU…”
“This was mostly to get sort of the early adopters are right there. There's the early majority there's a book called crossing the cha chasm which sort of defines these terms and I think I remember them…”
“Install this tool using `pip`: ```bash pip install scan-for-secrets”
“My junior year, a good friend of mine gave me a book. He's like, "I think you'll like this." And it was Liar's Poker. I read it in one night. Literally, it was a party that night, and I stayed in my r…”
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“Deepgram Speech-to-Text and Voice Models now available natively on Together AI”
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“Honestly, if you don't take it seriously now, >> Alex, welcome to the podcast. Great to have you. >> Thanks for having me. So, Proof of Human is having a moment right now. Why don't you first give a a…”
“I don't even know anymore. You know, I I retained on chrisbroen.com, but it's just sitting there. It's just a shell.”
“New @X API + @Replit is lots of fun.”
“Code to reproduce the figure and play around with this idea: https://t.co/OZPfxCRN3s”
“This is running on a iPhone 17 Pro.”
“Meet the CTO of @NousResearch. Maker of Hermes that is kicking OpenClaw’s behind. Live on X audio space on Wednesday at 1 p.m. Pacific here.”
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“Codex app server makes it easy to build your own agentic apps:”
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“So, I want to tell you about Paper OS and why we use it here at our own companies launch in the syndicate. Paper OS has helped over 10,000 founders and investors, including me, automate their workflow…”
“Me, sell half your BTC and buy some tow. I I don't give financial advice, but maybe to family members, I might give a little bit of advice”
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“a bit like Wikipedia right you you can't have just Wikipedia in one language that has to cover all languages all cultures and everything”
“I decided to write a book called Founders at work and it was based on the writers at work series that how they interviewed writers about how they wrote and stuff like that and I said there's nothing o…”
“I noticed with Vzero um is you took a slightly different approach which I really like and I I thought it was cool was that you empower developers that are specialized in one area which is like really …”
“I always use the example of how we are building an externalized technology today how Google uh created Alpha Zero the chess engine and and Magnus Carlson in our region”