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“You got things like Aztec that are spinning up. They're going to be in mainet, but that's going to be its own separate rollup.”
“the distributed history ideas from Portal like those are actually making their way into production.”
“They benefit from work being done by people like Succinct. The whole ZKVM effort, you know, like Risk Zero, all of the other different ZK providers.”
“The whole ZKVM effort, you know, like Risk Zero, all of the other different ZK providers.”
“I was listening to on a recent Epicenter podcast and there was a quote that stuck out to me that I want to get you to double tap on.”
“But if you take this barberh shop, do you know planet? you've heard about this uh what do they do? It's it's it's a big uh place where you can um book Yeah. book like a haircut or it's very big in Fra…”
“what the idea wants us to build is a founders forge an AI powered startup accelerator platform helping aspiring entrepreneurs validate, build and scale their businesses using your proven methodologies…”
“Yeah, it's a it's a magical place. I mean, I think the Bay Area is a huge cheat code to a level that I can't even talk about on Twitter because it would just piss people off who can't get in here. Um,…”
“I will open my Zoom app first to be able to record Zoom clips, which allows me to record my screen and talk and also transcribe my speech automatically.”
“I remember my computer science classes like I wrote a compiler, which was up until that point like the hardest thing I'd ever done. And that was great. It really gave me confidence that like, okay, th…”
“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”
“The tour is showcasing 50 years of physical graffiti. What does this album mean to you? Um it became a time imagine. So I 15 years into doing paying homage to dad I suddenly I wanted a challenge.”
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“So I think uh you know Paul Graham uh the founder of Y Combinator you know the best accelerator in the world um wrote this uh essay about being resourceful and he talks about the qualities of founders…”
“This April, I'm opening the very first cohort of [music] the AI second brain. 3 weeks live hands-on from April 15th to May [music] 1st. I will be there personally for every session, every Q&A, every […”
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“I think I would have dinner with Newton because he was like religious and super smart and just like talk about how he was in his age and why he's religious.”
“I think the browser companies are interesting. So there's Strawberry, here's.com, there's DIA and Perplexity. Now I'm I'm very excited to see what happens to other companies.”
“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…”
“Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut) a revolutionary breakthrough if i've ever seen one”
“# Less Is More: Training-Free Sparse Attention with Global Locality for Efficient Reasoning”
“Our results establish that both learning and sampling can be performed efficiently in the beyond-classical regime, opening new possibilities for quantum-enhanced generative models with provable advant…”
“We recommend use of these cleaned CMB maps for low multipole (\ell < 30) studies.”
“We present a new $\ell<30$ likelihood for use with the Cobaya package.”
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“We find surface subgroups in certain one-relator groups with torsion and use this to deduce a profinite criterion for a word in the free group to be primitive.”
“If you want to be able to follow what's going on, I recommend reading the notebooks side by side with your copy of the book.”
“I've now [music] written an entire book about this practice called Life in Perspective, which comes out later [music] this year.”
“And so today, like, you know, there are features, like, in the T-Mobile app, that if you call, are actually handled by OpenAI models behind the scenes.”
“IBM's Granite 4.0 is now on Replicate”
“We've been working a lot with T-Mobile. T-Mobile. So T-Mobile, leading, like, US telco operator.”
“I like a lot Amgen. Amgen, the healthcare business. Amgen yeah. So, we are working quite a bit with healthcare companies. Amgen is one of the leading, like, healthcare companies.”
“So one of my favorite deployments that we've done more recently, actually, is with the Los Alamos National Labs.”
“Your fabric uh which you've done you did some time ago actually but is still really really good.”
“Join my email newsletter. Every week, I share insights about productivity and different practices like annual reviews that help you make [music] progress without guilt.”
“And by the end you can either build the second brain yourself in notion or use [music] our template that sets it up in just 5 minutes.”
“We have a bunch of companies in our portfolio that are using these models, Parloa on the customer support side”
“I can speak for behavior and I think Jim, you should speak for group. for behavior like I explained earlier that one of the most important first step we took is to really embody the belief that AI…”
“So Rogo, which is a startup in the financial services space.”
“And the one I recommend is the save to notion web clipper which is really the easiest um to set up and operate.”
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“I highly recommend you jump into um add this to your calendar. I'll put it in the chat right now. Um, and if you have any questions on it, feel free to send me a message. but this is going to be sup…”
“There's another startup called Accordance that's doing this in the tax space.”
“Sora update #1 _Blog post by Sam Altman_”
“So including optimism, arbitrum, base, tao, scroll, all of those, we'll be able to include again a a significantly larger amount of data.”
“So including optimism, arbitrum, base, tao, scroll, all of those, we'll be able to include again a a significantly larger amount of data.”
“So including optimism, arbitrum, base, tao, scroll, all of those, we'll be able to include again a a significantly larger amount of data.”
“So including optimism, arbitrum, base, tao, scroll, all of those, we'll be able to include again a a significantly larger amount of data.”
“and also it works really well with this other tool ZKVMs right so zkVMs uh this is a technology that I think we've been talking about thinking about working on for basically the past like 10 years”
“And there's a number of protocols that are working on this. So there is ERC7683.”
“Also as there's starting like EIL is like another one that that a team at the EF is working on.”
“Now how do we do this? Basically we have to move away from optimistic roll-ups and we have to move toward ZK roll-ups.”
“But today with Ziki snarks we do have the technology to provide it.”
“And on the right we have Aragon and Aragon is a DAO project like it's a a project that's writing software and tooling for Dows that has existed for a long time and they have been recently getting …”
“And by the way, everything I'm showing you here is included in our second brain notion template. If you want this exact setup, link is in the description.”
“So there's also L2s, Aztec and IntMax I think are both very impressive.”
“billions of people now interact with Gemini models, whether that's through AI overview, AI mode, or the Gemini app.”
“Code: https://github.com/rbalestr-lab/llm-jepa.”
“And this requires in protocol account abstraction. So things like EIP7701 and also Fossil which is a proposal that basically means that you have about 16 different actors in parallel that are able t…”
“And this requires in protocol account abstraction. So things like EIP7701 and also Fossil which is a proposal that basically means that you have about 16 different actors in parallel that are able t…”
“I remember having to buy books on Adobe Photoshop as a kid and then you'd read them to learn how to remove something from a from an image and how to fill it in and feather and all this stuff. Now anyo…”
“And uh like the the like Nightfall and all of the efforts from EY have been I think excellent projects and you know they uh are just one example to show how much uh how much interest there is and even…”
“I mean either privacy pools type ideas or like ways of zero knowledge proving specific claims about yourself without revealing everything.”
“I mean I'd be curious to answer for other people like why don't you have 10 times more money in a real gunpool?”
“I mean inmax is uh I think like the the value ad there is uh actually yeah well in that case it is payments focused but it's privacy on top of the extreme scalability that's uh enabled by their versio…”
“I mean uh also for like the wallet side for example right so I think you know the recent announcement started talking about kohaku and then also one of one but then the goal there is like not you know…”
“Custom internal tools: Teams spin up custom dashboards & admin tools, with AI features, to streamline any workflow.”
“I actually mean I mean I feel like actually Signal has been um gained a huge amount of like market share in terms of conversations within the crypto space over the course over the past year or so, rig…”
“In this work, we present a surprising connection between attention sinks and compression valleys, tracing both to the formation of massive activations in the residual stream. We prove theoretically th…”
“We’re scaling quantum computing even faster with Atlantic Quantum.”
“I just like um carrying a a small bag so that I don't have I don't want to wait at the baggage claim. And I have a fat back so I just can't carry that much weight. So that's kind of a a nice um it's a…”
“the first launch it went viral because it was the first agent in the market that you could try”
“The Quantum service is fully integrated into IBM Cloud and we operate our service at the same standard as all other services on IBM Cloud, used by clients with sensitive data world wide: https://www.i…”
“With @Vanguard_Group, we tested sampling-based VQAs for portfolio construction.”
“Blog: https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/vanguard-portfolio-optimization”
“Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13557”
“Thus far, LLM-JEPA is able to outperform the standard LLM training objectives by a significant margin across models, all while being robust to overfiting.”
“His latest book is called The Viper, and it is in the series of Zig and Nola, where the Action Hero, believe it or not, is a mortician.”
“He also has this, this wonderful nonprofit called Ordinary People Change the World.”
“However, there are some very clever ways called the quadratic civ and the number field civ that you can factor numbers on a digital computer much faster than trial division.”
“However, there are some very clever ways called the quadratic civ and the number field civ that you can factor numbers on a digital computer much faster than trial division.”
“And luckily there's a classical algorithm for this called continued fractions. So you get 372 / 2048. You use continued fractions to round it off. You get 2 over 11 and then 11 will give you the facto…”
“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.”
“You know, I love the Escape artist. I love the Fifth of Assassin.”
“And that's why I started using Beam's Dream Powder. This is an American company, and they're all about clean, sciencebacked products to help you perform.”
“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 …”
“AI um like behalf is uh is integrated into Shopify. It's called Sidekick. Um Having a uh um you know infinitely patient, extremely knowledgeable um you know kind non-judgmental AI sidekick as part of …”
“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…”
“That's why I started using Calera Lab. Their high performance skin care is designed specifically for men. It's simple, effective, and backed by science.”
“Critically analyzing recent STM and transport experiments [Z. Ge, et al, arXiv:2510.12009] on 2D electron systems in the presence of random quenched impurities, we argue that the resulting low-density…”
“Ken Goldberg and I talked to The Quantum Kid about quantum computing and robots.”