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βThere's a great essay written by Arthur Burns in 1979, the anguish of central banking, where he essentially says that because the politicians want to provide this free money... people need to read a lβ¦β
βI wrote an essay called 47. We and I talked about the bureaucratic mechanations on how Fed votes and how you get control of this board versus that board.β
βnotion capital did a study the negative split uh data framework around founder endurance. You contributed to that and and provide some very key insights here. So maybe share some of that with us hereβ
βwe introduce Multi-Region Latent Factor Analysis via Dynamical Systems (MR-LFADS), a sequential variational autoencoder designed to disentangle inter-regional communication, inputs from unobserved regβ¦β
βI would encourage anyone who wants to invest in this IPO or invest in this company pre-IPO to read this profile, because I think it's important to understand the management of a company that you're inβ¦β
βyou guys at Lazar do an annual report called the levelized cost of energy, right? Um where you basically compare all the different generations um and their cost. And so and the next one I think is comβ¦β
βWe specifically consider Kantian ethics and present a multi-sorted quantified modal logic we call the Formula of the Universal Law Logic (FULL). The FULL formalizes Kant's f...β
βWe propose Bayesian Hybrid Shrinkage (BHS), an empirical Bayes (EB) framework that leverages data-driven priors to mitigate selection bias and provides accurate uncertainty quantification.β
βit is directed towards cryptocurrency. They go through specific solutions and problems for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a list of other chains as well... you guys can go through it, run it through your AI bβ¦β
βI highly encourage uh listeners and viewers of the podcast to go read it for yourself. Not that long, not that short either, perfect in length just to get the point homeβ
βAbout 10 years ago, he wrote a paper called the some simple economics of the blockchain. So, he was all over crypto when it was new.β
βTo help address this gap, we introduce COMPOSITE-STEM, a benchmark of 70 expert-written tasks in physics, biology, chemistry, and mathematics, curated by doctoral-level researchers... All tasks are opβ¦β
βThe Google uh Dan Benet Justin Drake paper was pretty notable in that they didn't actually publish the circuit. They publish a ZK proof of the circuit.β
βmatching the algorithm of Karger and Levine for undirected graphs (SICOMP 2015)β
βSurprisingly, we can black box the dynamic data structure from the recent interior point method-based flow algorithm of van den Brand et al. (FOCS 2024).β
βmorphing circuits introduced in Refs. [1-3]β
βHe and Hua [Calc. Var. PDE, 2022] showed that $Ξ»_2(T) \leq 2/D$ for any tree of diameter $D$, with the even-diameter equality case fully characterized.β
βto do just that, Schollet created a special test. It's called the abstraction and reasoning corpus or arc for short. And the story behind this benchmark is fascinatingβ
βI think it it's worth reading because it kind of goes through the um you know, the kind of the history of organizations and how almost like I don't know if they mentioned like the joint stock corporatβ¦β
βmorphing circuits introduced in Refs. [1-3]β
βmorphing circuits introduced in Refs. [1-3]β
βhe recently put an article out that you may have seen uh called from hierarchy to intelligence and it's a manifesto on how to rethink basically rethink from the first principles how an organization woβ¦β
βA new report from the UK's AI safety institute talked to a bunch of AI experts to identify a list of things that today's AI fundamentally can't do and which of those things are probably necessary befoβ¦β
βTogether with the results of He-Hua and Lin-Zhao [Bull. Lond. Math. Soc., 2025] for even diameters and diameter three, this completes the geometric classification for every diameter.β
βThe inverse variational viewpoint may be regarded as a boundary analogue of the classical distance-matrix formalism for trees initiated by Graham and LovΓ‘sz [Adv. Math., 1978].β
βWe advocate for the alternative construction of the effective action and potential based on the Vilkovisky-DeWitt approachβ
βHow Code-Switching Explains The Worldβ
βNew Research Highlights Distinct Support for Immune-Balancing Activity in Lionβs Mane Mushroom Mycelium as Compared to Fruiting Body Extractsβ
βHow to Be Cultured https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/17/t-magazine/culture-guides-film-art-food-literature.html?smid=tw-shareβ
βI also have a weekly newsletter. So, even though I might be on a little break from the podcast, you can actually go to my weekly newsletter to get insights on what I think about the future of the creaβ¦β
βDr. Lichtenstein says the process for making these new guidelines was to dispense with politics and stick to the evidence. Well, I think there's no agenda behind these guidelines that they're evidenceβ¦β
βIf, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a βProfessionalβ CEOβ
β# The Singularity Is Not Coming _Blog post by FranΓ§ois Chollet_β
β# Productivity _Blog post by Sam Altman_β
βI encourage you to check it out. We will link it in the show notes.β
βFor more insights on the survey, check that out at the information.com.β
βyou mentioned later in this wired article that you stumbled upon the single algorithm Theory popularized by Jeff Hawkinsβ
βthe prevailing opinion was that human intelligence derived from thousands of simple agents working in concert this is what mit's Marvin Minsky called The Society of mindβ
βthere's also a recipe Pioneer by one of my friends Eric Bron and his collaborators sanit called a task-based analysis of jobs that I found to be very usefulβ
βBlog post by Naval Ravikantβ
βBlog post by Cohere https://cohere.com/blog/securing-ai-supply-chains-coheres-commitment-to-model-signingβ
βMy latest newsletter π https://briansolis.substack.com/p/why-some-ceos-know-the-next-chapterβ
βBlog post by Cohereβ
βFull debunk by @DrTechlash here: https://www.aipanic.news/p/ai-blackmail-fact-checking-a-misleadingβ
βShare this episode with friends and family and don't miss out on my newsletter wledger.substad.com for the latest updates.β
βThe Hatsugai-Kohmoto model thus emerges as a minimal, exactly solvable platform for interaction-mediated non-reciprocal many-body dynamics.β
βHow a Community Effort is Teaching AI to See Africa's Richnessβ
βWe recommend practitioners use these simple revised ResNets as baselines for future research.β
βAdding dynamic features to an aggressively cached websiteβ
β# Accelerating Mathematical and Scientific Discovery with Gemini Deep Think _Blog post by Google DeepMind_β
βHow to build AI product senseβ
β_Blog post by Mistral AI_ https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-vibe-2-0β
β# Running Pydantic's Monty Rust sandboxed Python subset in WebAssemblyβ
β# D4RT: Teaching AI to see the world in four dimensions _Blog post by Google DeepMind_ https://deepmind.google/blog/d4rt-teaching-ai-to-see-the-world-in-four-dimensionsβ
βThe evolution of OpenAI's mission statementβ
βhttps://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-5-layer-cake/β
βNew post: Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyondβ
β# Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliableβ
βHow to use AI for your next job interviewβ
β_Blog post by Lenny Rachitsky_β
β_Blog post by Cohere_β
βhttps://anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-warβ
β# How to prompt Seedream 5.0β
β# Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills _Blog post by Simon Willison_ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/22/starlette/β
βBlog post by Ben Thompson https://stratechery.com/2026/jensen-huang-and-andy-grove-groq-lpus-and-vera-cpus-hotel-california/β
β# Plan, divide, and conquer: How weak models excel at long context tasksβ
β# Vibe coding SwiftUI apps is a lot of funβ
βAnnouncing the LangChain + MongoDB Partnership: The AI Agent Stack That Runs On The Database You Already Trustβ
βEnsemble and Cohere building the first RCMβnative healthcare LLMβ
βHow can we stay open to both the suffering and the joy of lifeβ
β_Blog post by Patrick Collison_ https://patrickcollison.com/questionsβ
β_Blog post by Mark Zuckerberg_β
β_Blog post by Patrick Collison_ https://patrickcollison.com/growthβ
βBlog post by Naval Ravikantβ
βExactly. Exactly. Although, as people figure out in my emerging boats report, and many people already know, Argentina does not have new bank and that's one of the reasons why Marcato Pago is much moreβ¦β
βBlog post by Naval Ravikantβ
β# AP SBC: The Tragic Algebra Recurrenceβ
βI've written about this in a blog post I did called grow the puzzle around you which essentially was a little bit the most autobiographical thing I've ever written and it really is to inspire other peβ¦β
β_Blog post by LangChain_β
βMaking Something Social Destroys the Truth of It _Blog post by Naval Ravikant_β
β# 10 Sunday Reads _Blog post by Barry Ritholtz_β
β# Self-Supervised Learning from Images with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture _Blog post by Yann LeCun_β
βDonβt Rely on Credibility Stamps _Blog post by Naval Ravikant_ https://nav.al/credibilityβ
β_Blog post by Naval Ravikant_β
βHow founders can build Trust & Safety teamsβ
β_Blog post by Naval Ravikant_β
β_Blog post by LangChain_β
βOne Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones _Blog post by Naval Ravikant_β
β_Blog post by Naval Ravikant_β
β_Blog post by LangChain_β
β_Blog post by LangChain_β
βBefore we start on quantumβ
β# Roll your way to a billion dollar startup - Advice for founders from Katamari Damacy _Blog post by Garry Tan_β
β# Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit _ArXiv paper co-authored by Hartmut Neven_β
β# Six skills for startup success: What founders can do to improve their chances before they take the plungeβ
β# 2026: the biggest year of M&A in history? _Blog post by Andreessen Horowitz_ https://a16z.com/2026-the-biggest-year-of-ma-in-historyβ
βThis was all the way back in 2017 when we created this paper called the βUnsupervised Sentiment Neuron.ββ
βBlog post by Andreessen Horowitz https://a16z.com/the-case-for-scaling-ventureβ
β11 years ago I wrote a big \n\n uh \n uh \n essay which was called the ghost in the quantum touring machine \n uh which which was very much about \n uh \n uh \n that kind of questionβ
βWrote about how to help young men, many of whom are failing π https://www.profgalloway.com/boys-to-men/β