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Nick explains how democrats will do us a favor by getting in and investigating all the corruption.
Let them investigate the pay to play, the quid pro quo. Let them investigate all the corruption. Let them find it and then use their impeachment power to indict all of these people
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Mark Zuckerberg says Alexandr Wang is the sharpest entrepreneur of his generation: "Alex is the guy. He's the fucking guy."
"Alex and I had spent a bunch of time talking over the years, and maybe once every few months or something we'd talk. And I was always just very impressed by how he thought about things strategically."
"I kind of had this view of like, all right, currently he's doing this very operational data business, but it always felt to me like he was the sharpest entrepreneur of his generation of the ones who I had a chance to meet."
"I think maybe when we got started, a lot of people were like, okay, like how is this going to work? It's like the social media guy is working with the data guy. Like, are we going to build a frontier lab here or what?"
"My really strong conviction is because I talked to all the leaders of all the labs, all the heads of research, all this stuff, and I was like, no, Alex is the guy. Like he's the fucking guy."
"We need this kind of strategic clarity that he has around the different ways that we want to approach this, the kind of extreme focus on talent density, on the clarity of communicating the different vision which we kind of fashioned together over this period."
"And a bunch of things that I think were kind of extreme but have basically worked, like having this very flat culture was something that you were kind of really obsessed with."
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Men with wives 7-9 years younger have an 11% lower mortality than men married to women their own age.
For wives, any age gap raises mortality. A husband 7-9 years younger raises it by 20%.
Study of almost 2 million Danish couples: doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0106
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Andrej Karpathy makes a good point: as AI does more of the work, more of your job becomes reading what it produces.
His first tip caught my eye. Ask the model to explain things in ASD-STE100.
ASD-STE100 is a controlled English standard built for aircraft maintenance manuals. A mechanic anywhere in the world should read a step once and get it right.
The core rules:
1. Keep sentences short
2. One action per step
3. Say who does what
4. Give each thing one name and stick to it
AI output breaks that last rule all the time. It says "worker," then "agent," then "executor," and you can't tell if it means one component or three.
The full spec is strict. Karpathy asks for "80% of the way," and that works for daily use.
Someone turned it into an open-source skill:
github.com/danyuchn/asd-ste1…
We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:
Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better:
Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better:
Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better:
Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work!
In summary:
- As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding.
- Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.
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Crazy light across Manhattan with a rainbow as the sun set ahead of an approaching nor'easter storm in New York City, Friday evening #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #sunset #noreaster #rainbow
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the point is to jawbone the long end down while easing financial conditions by converting long term debt into cash like short term debt. Its QE’s developmentally disabled inbred cousin.
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.@DannyParkins: “Justin Herbert was not good. It was an indefensible, terrible loss... I’m still assuming that that is going to be an outlier.”
@getnickwright: “But you shouldn’t... Yes, he falls apart in the playoffs, but on top of that, he’s just average in everything.”
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A heated exchange about the U.S.-Iran conflict this morning between CNBC hosts @joesquawk @andrewrsorkin.
When Sorkin seemed initially to put the U.S. and Iran in the same financial “dire straits,” Kernen put a fast stop to that. $97 oil is a problem, but Iran’s currency is collapsing and 1,000% inflation is catastrophic. Comparing financial headwinds for the U.S. and Iran is “ridiculous.”
Sorkin also contended the Trump administration had “lied repeatedly” and accused Kernan of accepting it all.
Kernen would have none of it: “I have hoped that it ends, and I have hope for a favorable outcome. I haven't, and I'm pointing at you taking glee in every setback for the Trump administration in prosecuting war.”
Worth the 2 minute watch.
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Thank You Rick Santelli, You Legend zerohedge.com/markets/thank-…
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Happy retirement to one of the 🐐s. I’ll see you in Valhalla, Rick
CNBC Veteran Rick Santelli to Exit in October variety.com/2026/tv/news/cnb…
