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βI 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 plannβ¦β
βwe 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."β
βagent+finance is underexplored. Interesting future direction!β
βWhile your vocabulary and understanding develop, there are some shortcuts. Skills (as in https://t.co/egfC60tXum) magically augment your prompt and offer variety.β
βI 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.β
βWe added docs to explain this all at https://t.co/JaxLv4qSYS.β
βUm 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 iβ¦β
βUh, 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 β¦β
βI did a TED talk on this called fear setting. You start to do fear setting around these fears. You defang them.β
βI 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 kiβ¦β
βIf 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 oneβ
βWe gotta do better as a field in 2026 and stop treating reproducibility and scientific discipline as second-class citizens.β
βA 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 usiβ¦β
βyeah 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 triβ¦β
βI can add a file here called agents.md. Yeah. And this file is actually a file that a bunch of coding agents support.β
βCoding an app is the new starting a podcast.β
βThe 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 pβ¦β
βI still try to advise everyone to learn one programming language, learn Python or something.β
βRemember Jevons paradoxβ
βUm but then you know chemistry is pretty good too.β
βI think there are many different strategies, but I I'm certain that trying out tools and being like, what can I do here? Can I build something? Can I get attention to what I'm building, making people β¦β
βAnd then I often recommend people to find someone who's like-minded to them that want to work with AI or they want to start a company. Um, and that's like social dynamic and or being a part of a commuβ¦β
βMy 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,β
βI 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 oβ¦β
βWe need to map our oceans. ASAP.β
βI think way more people who are interested in entrepreneurship need to go spend a day walking around Walmartβ
βOur customer success manager who's entirely non-technical but interfaces with enterprise customers on a day-to-day basis now gets to take on feature requests especially the simple ones directly give tβ¦β
βCongrats to my Stanford labmate Agrim for his new generative video work!β
βwhen 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 recommeβ¦β
βI would recommend three minutes a dayβ
βand the arc challenge is one attempt to embody as many of these principles as possibleβ
βthis 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 β¦β
βfor our first company Octomatic we wrote everything in small talkβ
βNew Bank, I understand. Um they use a lot of I mean you know super successful fintech company in in LATAM and I I understand they use a lot of closureβ
βI bought a a PHP book, in fact, and I read it. Um, and then I started writing PHP and just all downhill after that.β
βif 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 β¦β
βI 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 β¦β
βI 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 Westernβ¦β
β.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 businessβ
βThe 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 pβ¦β
βMy, 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.β
βI'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 βthe different Foundersβ
βJiu-Jitsu is like thatβ
βarcheries 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 mindβ
βMDMA 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 peopleβ
βspecifically 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 reβ¦β
βuh 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 computaβ¦β
βif 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 tuitionβ
βnon-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 campusβ
βgo 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 haveβ¦β
βI 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 everβ¦β
βI 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.β
βI 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, rigβ¦β
βthird 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 dβ¦β
βAll 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.β
βI 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 thatβ
βplease 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 equationsβ
βBut there's actually an alternative phrasing and this is uh I think John Stokes's coinage or others. Go broke, go woke.β
βIβm building a project internally called Ultron and Ultron inside of my firm launch that is going to basically with the Slack API weβre pulling every single message from Slack into our OpenClaw.β
βyou're talking through Chain of Thought and how it doesn't produce much novel insights andβ
βI wouldn't dramatically uh change some of the basic advice on STEM uh getting good at even for things like coding I would still recommend because I think whatever happens with these AI tools you'll beβ¦β
βI would also say immerse yourself now. That's what I would be doing as a teenager today in trying to become a sort of ninja at using the the latest tools.β
βpeople that know the language of computers, be able to understand coding will be able to do that much more effectively than people that don't... I think we look back on that as some of the worst careeβ¦β
βI use AI as a brainstorming companion much more than even my friends know... of a brainstorming I use multiple models.β
βActually go and build stuff. I think every one of you this is a wonderful time to build... There's so much cool stuff you can now build that just was not possible before.β
βyou can have maybe lm.txt txt file which is just a simple markdown that's telling LLMs what this domain is about and this is very readable to a to an LLM.β
βuse the LLM as a judge and well and just go through that process to get it done much faster.β
βI think everyone should learn to code... everyone in AI fund actually knows how to code... it's actually driving meaningful productivity improvements across all of these job functions.β
βdevelopers that use AI assistance in our coding is so much faster than developers that don't... I just hate to ever have to code again without AI assistance.β
βI mention one thing that people have talked a lot about, but I think is so underrated is the voice stack... I'm actually very excited about voice applications.β
βthe 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 β¦β
βthe 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 tipβ
βI think maybe the main thing is I would say read history. Read history and know these things and try to get that balance right.β
βinvesting in open source and open way models. Building these models is so expensive. What most nations need is to make sure that no one else can control your infra. But when there's open-source openweβ¦β
βthere's still more work to be done to scale AI modelsβ
βthe 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 aβ¦β
βyou 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 meditateβ
βwhat 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 feetβ
βI 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.β
βThe other really important thing they did, which I kind of give I give as a recommendation for parents to think about, which was very useful for me becoming a scientist, is you know, when you come homβ¦β
βif 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 dirtyβ
βif you just use the tools, if you actually go spend 10 hours using these tools as you recommend and just ask, 'Hey, be nice to me.'β
βI am a big fan of CUDA graphs where the entire thing that's running there is one CUDA call to the graph and it does everything.β
βI want every researcher to add a delay Q into your uh right before your environment. Just put a little flexible delay Q where you can tune in up and down how many frames you delay.β
βSprinting is one of the most underappreciated longevity therapies.β
βthis is why I've been like pushing for social recovery, multiigs, account abstraction, all of this stuff non-stop for the last 10 years.β
βif you're if you're going to spend if you're early in your career that's I don't know there's some things I think ZK biotech things like that haven't had their massive breakout moment yet and ZK was dβ¦β
βYou could watch a YouTube video on it. There's some YouTube videos that explain it pretty clearly. Takes a bit of time to understand it.β
βfor people to fully appreciate the power of quantum computers and to accelerate their use in different fields, people should be learning the fundamentals of quantum, even at a young age.β
βA pattern I've seen that works pretty well that I actually recommend if you're a large company is to kind of make a strike team or strike force that's separate from the rest of the companyβ
βI wish I'd stuck with physics more because then I would have had that same feeling about advanced physics and math.β
βI wish I'd stuck with physics more because then I would have had that same feeling about advanced physics and math.β
βSo 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 absβ
βSo 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 absβ
βSo 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 absβ
βIn 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 societβ
βThe 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.β
βFirst 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 β¦β
βI 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 thβ¦β
βHaving 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 especiallyβ¦β
βBasically the idea here is that if you want someone to like the same analogy works for like a human teammate. If you want someone to go off and do a lot of work, you might want to agree on what work tβ¦β
βThis project was 99% vibe coded as a fun Saturday hack because I wanted to explore and evaluate a number of LLMs side by side in the process of [reading books together with LLMs](https://x.com/karpathβ¦β
βI'd encourage people here this week to like try at least once paying for a coffee and ETHβ
βIf you don't have a wallet, you know, install a install a wallet.β
βlike if you haven't used a DAP, use a DAP.β
βas well as other popular enterprise AI approaches like retrieval augmented generation, rag.β
βIf uh, you know, like you have never written a smart contract, try like writing a uh, a smart contract.β
βOh, I see one hand uh go up. I'll try to find you afterwards. Uh so lisp is a um well many people say that lisp is a dead programming language, but the lisp defenders say that it's not dead. It just sβ¦β
βAnd then what I want also to mention is it's not by chance that we um took this topic as the end of the AI festival of the quantum year because especially the toin the faculty of physics faculty of elβ¦β
βWell,, I, think, um, what, Anthropic's, doing with code is very interesting with their claw code. There's a lot of excitement around that in the developer market. We're pleased with the the performancβ¦β
βyou'll leave this course with the theoretical foundations and the hands-on experience you need to get the most out of retrieval augmented generation.β
βGarry's plan-exit-review skillβ
βSee the link in our show notes to try my blind spot finder recipe and experience how granola makes your meeting notes awesome.β
βSo, here is the red skill that Jeff put together. Jeff, for folks who don't know, Bird, explain to them what it does and why we need this.β
βSo, Bird uh for OpenClaw just basically lets you search and reply to people uh on on Twitter or Xβ
βAnd we could develop this technique called MUP for how we set the initialization. And that actually gives you a much more straight line as you go.β
β- Build persistent memory stores for different agent memory typesβ
β- Implement a Memory Manager that orchestrates how your agent reads, writes, and retrieves memoryβ
βTreat tools as procedural memory and retrieve only relevant ones at inference time using semantic searchβ
βHermes agent ships with this nifty /manim_video skill so I asked it to explain how a QMD query worksβ
βYou just gave Claude Code & Cursor production deployment superpowers Running πππ‘ πππππππ πππ gets you every Skill and keeps them updated.β
βWe call this Generative UI (eg: https://t.co/j52qMrIOts).β
βExperimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skillsβ
βthe AI replies are out of control. Such a tough problem.β
βWe're lucky to have 10 years of cockroach reps in.β
βPeople (think they) hate AI-generated text, and since AI appears in the presentation I just wanted to clarify that.β
βSymphony works best in codebases that have adopted [harness engineering](https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/).β
βHad a great time talking enterprise AI and entrepreneurship with @levie & @villageglobal last night!β
βyou can actually just point it at my open github repo and what skill file I have, and OpenClaw will just act as if it were a native OpenClaw skill!β
βEvery founder and CEO should read all they can about the drama triangle.β
βJust added a Pretext skill to GStack tonight (Pretext came out a couple days ago, created by the brilliant @_chenglou)β
β99.9% of founders need to go to Claude Code and type "Install GStack"β
βA high-performance driver input telemetry and analysis app for Assetto Corsa, built with CSP Lua.β
βReview Parkinsonβs Law and force yourself to cram within tight hours so your per-hour productivity doesnβt fall through the floor.β
βAvailable now under Apache 2.0 licenseβ
βdon't give the same process access to both email and web requestsβ
βAI use is an emerging skill which improves businesses and unlocks entrepreneurship:β
βLet's say Alice is asking the question, why do I keep having fevers? And it's asking it from a local model.β
βI would really encourage people to do that but not don't always trust the code that comes out but learn from its mistakes and then you're the one who will learn and you will improve.β
βI think learning CS fundamentals um is important.β
βif you're trying to figure out where to go work those two areas will mint billionaires and billionaires and potentially a trillionaire and so you you may want to pay attention to thatβ
βif you're trying to figure out where to go work those two areas will mint billionaires and billionaires and potentially a trillionaire and so you you may want to pay attention to that there's heat wheβ¦β
βIn the meantime, I'd say it's going to be a long time before it's as good at physical manipulation as us. Okay. And so, a good bet would be to be a plumber.β
βif you're looking to move to the valley and get started you know in startups β’ and you're in college I would become I think a Psychology major I think I a psych major you know I think that's one of thβ¦β
βInstead of your AI wildly googling for answers, it uses chub search to find the specific API or skill it needs >> and then it uses chubget to pull down that pure markdown file.β
βBut here's where it gets really interesting because context hub introduces a feature called chub annotate and this tackles what we might call the amnesia problem in AI agents.β
βContext hub takes this idea of agent memory and scales it up to the entire developer community through another command called chub feedback. This is where we move from local personal memory to crowdsoβ¦β
βclawhub install gstack-openclaw-office-hours gstack-openclaw-ceo-review gstack-openclaw-investigate gstack-openclaw-retroβ
βclawhub install gstack-openclaw-office-hours gstack-openclaw-ceo-review gstack-openclaw-investigate gstack-openclaw-retroβ
βclawhub install gstack-openclaw-office-hours gstack-openclaw-ceo-review gstack-openclaw-investigate gstack-openclaw-retroβ
βclawhub install gstack-openclaw-office-hours gstack-openclaw-ceo-review gstack-openclaw-investigate gstack-openclaw-retroβ
βI would say we still have not seen any breakthrough in Quantum algorithms that is at the same level as Shores and Grovers algorithms in the 90sβ
βOr provide the GitHub directory URL: ``` $skill-installer install https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.experimental/create-plan ```β
βCurated skills can be installed by name (defaults to `skills/.curated`): ``` $skill-installer gh-address-comments ```β
βFor experimental skills, specify the skill folder. For example: ``` $skill-installer install the create-plan skill from the .experimental folder ```β
βEverything you need to know about the music business, by Donald Passman. I read everything that you could read.β
βwhen we first launched Codex last year uh we created like I mean it's created as even a heavy word it was just we just established convention which is called agents.mmd this is basically a file that yβ¦β
βIf you're out there listening and you want to start a company just learn how to to build websites or be a designer a product manager and get a couple friends together and start building something thatβ¦β
βthen you need to learn quantum computing properly right and that's likely one semester work at least maybe two right and for me I enrolled in that online right and it's like less less than one semesteβ¦β
βAnd so I think by using coding agents, you'll get a sense for what prompting does, because you'll write like a Claude. md file or an Agents.md file.β
βAnd this this is exactly the the ROHF, which you know, my former student \n uh Paul Cristiano was \n uh instrumental in developing back when he worked at OpenAI.β
βI really think only mindfulness gives you the capacity to make these choices moment to moment. I mean if if you really and if you don't know what I mean by mindfulness then there's really nothing therβ¦β
βThere's this one nice thing that we came out in our healthcare practice called the decision orchestrator. What it proves is that by assigning roles right so investigator, data analyst, domain expert jβ¦β
βBuild your personal brand right now. If software is becoming a commodity and agencies are closing, the person who wins is not the fastest coder or the cheapest freelancer. It's the person people feel β¦β
βThis idea of personalized software. I had a coffee with somebody today and they were showing me >> the app they made for their phone >> and phone apps. It's unbelievable. It's just like what you and Iβ¦β
βTelos, which is an interesting skill that came along with PII, which was kind of about uh exploring your worldview and how you feel about things and stuff and I it was a quite a fun exercise to go thrβ¦β
βit is possible to basically choose pol like policy falling back on the codified decisions of you know the 10,000 decisions you made the last year or the last 5 years or the last 10 years rather than aβ¦β
βAnd so being able to choose agency and being able to intentionally do that may well require you to go from manager mode to founder mode and that might mean coming in and saying we're going to we're acβ¦β
βFolks, we shipped automations, which is a great way for you to run automation, get a notification about anything that happen on your run on WB models and GLM 5.1 and Gemma 4 are both available on our β¦β
βSo there's um there's guardian approvals which allow you to make uh your whole experience um of you know working with uh with models tools and so on and so forth uh much more nicer.β
βTool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) has emerged as a promising paradigm that incorporates tool call and execution within the reasoning trajectory.β
βTo overcome these limitations, We introduce Adaptive Tool Trust Calibration (ATTC), a novel framework that guides the model to adaptively choose to trust or ignore the tool results based on the confidβ¦β
βObjective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) are the standard method for assessing medical students' clinical and communication skills through structured patient interviews.β
βVariability in both species during the mid-December outbursts and fragmentation suggests that D/2021 A1's volatile evolution reflected not only solar insolation but also disruption processes, underscoβ¦β
βJersey has this expression, which is hard choices, easy life, easy choice is hard life.β
βI use the way all the time full disclosure we're both involved with it I mean it's really because more than anything else it's just I think it's good for humanity and people to learn from somebody whoβ¦β
βAnd firstly I want to talk about a concept called flow engineer. It is something Andrew Kepsi mentioned about one and a half years ago.β
βOne interesting experience I found is you can actually use key as a very quick and fast way to align the layout with large language model.β
βWe propose a significantly more generalized approach, replacing discrete latent variables with natural language conditioning via a text-conditioned Variational Autoencoder (VAE). Our core innovation uβ¦β
βThat's why I want to share this awesome free resource from Hopspot. Their eight-step process for going from idea to a high converting landing page where each step comes with detailed AI prompt for theβ¦β
βTry Notion with Notion Agent at notion.com/twist. All lowercase letters. notion.com/twist. It's in the show notes. Try your new AI teammate, notion agent, todayβ
βSo nano triple is literally all it does is it pulls in your Gemini API key and it always gives you three nano banana images every time you make an image request.β
βSo this is using my ex search skill, which is my most popular Claudebot skill so far.β
βBut the result is that you have three different things that you need to instrument. So for every engineering team out there, they need to implement uh logs, metrics, and traces for all of their servicβ¦β
βHubSpot actually took this idea way further they build a library of fully tested cloud house skill prompts across sales, marketing and business operations based on their best practice learnings from hβ¦β
βIf you want to learn exactly what Entropy wrote officially, you can just do /plugin marketplace at entropic/cloud code and then do /pluging install frontend design at cloud code plugins. This will addβ¦β
βI'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.β
βSo I actually installed this like three layer memory system that to be honest I don't fully understand but it has like that's fancy. It has like Toby's QMD search tool.β
βThe last one I'll throw in and then I'll shut up because I realize this has turned into a TED talk is um intermittent ketosis. So, the ketogenic diet and ketosis overall, which can be achieved a few dβ¦β
βSo, I made a Super X alternative. Um, I like the SuperX product. I just used it as a proof of concept that you can build SAS products as full skills now. You no longer have to pay for hosting. You no β¦β
βI did find an open claw skill that cuts token usage by 95%. It's uh called KMD ski uh Q QMD skill.β
βA stablecoin contract, it's an ERC-20 contract, and then they have an admin.β
βI think one of the key things that I now employ is work with people on a project basis before you hire them.β
βIt is, and this is something I'd recommend any marketer do, which is build an AI voice brief. And it can be simple, right? You're just creating a document, maybe five to six examples saying, "This is β¦β
βThis is a resource inside of AIM. I've unlocked it for you. It's called Optimize Your Bio for AI searches.β
βyou should just vendor everything by doing a slop fork of everything... anything you wanna import... you say Pip fork... you own the whole code.β
βyou should maintain your own library and only use the stuff that you have personally reviewed.β
βwe recently launched, um, with the Team Dreams Dream md... it will kind of start to go into this like intangible space... writing a dream log.β
βguardian mode, or Guardian approval mode within Codex allows us to look through each and every individual tool call... you can go on slash experimental and set it out.β
βplugins like build iOS apps or like build web apps... they allow you to bring experience like Stripe... superbase and like couple of our, you know, shape, C-N-C-L-I shape cn best practices.β