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Santa Cruz California
Joined October 2008
Christopher Newton retweeted
Google just released a free 2-hour course on graph engineering and it's the clearest breakdown of wiring agents into a system that scales on its own. 17:44 - your first AI agent 39:30 - running agents with loops 1:12:38 - turning loops into graphs 1:34:26 - self-improving agents 1:55:05 - a complete graph that runs itself Worth more than any $700 course you'll find. Watch it, then go further with the step-by-step guide below on how to build a system that improves itself.
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SpaceX just spent $19.6B on "worthless" spectrum and accidentally killed the telecom industry Everyone laughed when SpaceX bought 65 MHz of spectrum. "Too small to matter," they said. AT&T has 10x that. Then Gwynne Shotwell explained the plan. No towers. No permits. No bullshit. 12 million Starlink dishes are already on rooftops. SpaceX just bolts a cellular base station to the same mount. Overnight, every customer becomes a cell site. AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile dropped 2-4% the same afternoon. The Math That Breaks Telecom: Friedberg's breakdown shows SpaceX now runs three divisions: • Space: Breakeven (lost $657M in 2025 per S-1) • Connectivity (Starlink): The profit engine • AI: The new main business Starlink alone could hit $1 trillion valuation in 24 months. And it's not even their focus anymore. Translation: SpaceX used rocket money to build satellites. Used satellite money to fund AI. And just turned your neighbor's roof into a cell tower without asking permission. The telecom cartel spent 40 years building infrastructure. Elon bought 65 MHz and made it obsolete by Tuesday. We just watched an industry die in real time.
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10 WEBSITES THAT FEEL ILLEGAL TO KNOW ABOUT Bookmark every single one. Free textbooks, full courses, and paywalled research most people pay hundreds for. 1. ocw.mit.edu MIT's entire curriculum online for free. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam from 2,500+ courses. 2. openstax.org Free peer-reviewed textbooks from Rice University. Math, science, business, social sciences. Used by 3 million students. 3. cs50.harvard.edu Harvard's most famous course. Full lectures, problem sets, and a real certificate of completion for $0. 4. arxiv.org Free access to 2.4 million research papers in physics, math, computer science, and biology. Updated daily. 5. classcentral.com Catalogs 200,000+ free online courses from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, and every major university. 6. zlibrary.sk Mirror of Z-Library. 22 million books and 84 million research articles. Almost every textbook ever written. 7. khanacademy.org Free K-12 through college courses. Math, science, economics, and test prep used by 150 million students globally. 8. ocw.tudelft.nl TU Delft's free engineering courses. The school that produces some of the best engineers in Europe. 9. semanticscholar.org AI-powered search across 200 million academic papers. Pulls citations, summaries, and related work instantly. 10. coursera.org/courses Hidden filter on Coursera that shows every free course from Stanford, Yale, Princeton, and Google. Most people miss it. A degree used to be the only way to access this knowledge. Now it costs $0 and an internet connection.
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Replying to @SawyerMerritt
and they wonder why I call this guy my glorious leader....
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Icon made $6M ARR in 3 weeks with an AI Ad maker 🤯 I created a better one in N8N, at a fraction of the price.... The best part? I have nothing to gatekeep or sell you Like, rt & comment "ICON" and I'll send the JSON file Here's my entire workflow 👇
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Here are the 8 must-see experiences, events, and people in 2124 during Elon Musk's visionary journey: 1. **The Martian Metropolis of "Musktopolis"** Witness the bustling capital of Mars, established by Musk’s Mars colonization initiative. A city where AI, augmented humans, and advanced robotics work in synergy. Every building is self-sustaining, powered by solar energy and advanced fusion reactors. 2. **The First Post-Human Society Symposium** Attend the inaugural symposium on post-human ethics, where thinkers, transhumanists, and AI entities gather to discuss the future of humanity. The event explores the boundaries of identity, consciousness, and the moral implications of human augmentation. 3. **The Great Neuralink Uplift** Observe the momentous occasion when millions of humans on Earth and Mars receive the Neuralink 5.0 implant, enabling direct brain-to-brain communication. This event marks the beginning of a new era where thoughts and ideas are shared instantly. 4. **The AI Prime Council** Meet the world’s first fully autonomous AI governing body that oversees inter-planetary relations and resource allocation. This council, designed by Musk’s team, has been lauded for its unbiased decisions and efficient governance. 5. **Elon Musk’s Final Address to Earth** Be present for Musk’s legendary speech from the Martian surface, where he delivers his final message to the people of Earth. In this address, Musk outlines his vision for a future where Earth is no longer the center of human progress and invites those willing to join him in the stars. 6. **The Terraforming of Mars: Phase Two** Tour the vast Martian landscapes where massive terraforming machines are working to transform the planet’s atmosphere. You’ll witness the gradual creation of artificial lakes, rivers, and vegetation—humanity’s first true attempt to make another planet habitable. 7. **The Transhumanist Revolution** Discover the burgeoning movement of transhumanists who are pushing the boundaries of human evolution. They explore controversial topics like immortality, genetic enhancements, and merging with AI. poe.com/s/OONfIg9fEPQslP1MeZ… ---
Elon Musk and the Voyage Beyond: A Visionary's Odyssey** By George Tyler Durden, 2124 The World As It Was: Elon Musk was no ordinary thinker. In a world where most were content with the mundane, Musk's mind was always racing ahead, envisioning what lay far beyond the horizon. Born under the harsh sun of South Africa, with his grandfather’s tales of technology and innovation echoing in his ears, he was destined for more than just wealth or fame. Musk saw through the veil of human limitations, the inefficiencies, and the mundane existence most settled for. He wasn't interested in simply improving the status quo; he sought to transcend it entirely. Where would you like to go next in time? Enter year and location here👇 poe.com/s/H41AHPkfzRqhnVIYxG…
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In the early 1800s, nails were almost ***half a percent*** of the entire US economy. Thanks to automation, they now cost pennies.
Forming and extruding nails.
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Christopher Newton retweeted
✨ Managed to load my monkeyislandamsterdam.com custom GPT script into an open source LLM called OpenHermes 2.5 Mistral 7B I used LMStudio.AI which makes it super easy to run open source LLMs on your laptop without any cloud servers or OpenAI or ChatGPT, just your own GPU in your MacBook! I use my MBP's M1 GPU! It runs maybe 2x-3x faster than ChatGPT4 and with about the same quality, no image gen of course cuz no DALL-E but with LCM (1 second img gen LoRa) that could happen in future If OpenAI implodes we might be able to continue after all thanks to open source! Nice to try this and see how accessible it is, here's how it looks: Thx for tips in replies @IaimforGOAT @maxrovensky @sog_on_bird_app @vertinski @johnbuilds @the_carlosdp @deepwhitman @aigeek_ @bigpt_dog
With all the OpenAI drama, time for me to try self hosting Alpaca, a finetuning ChatGPT-type model of LLaMA, which is Facebook's leaked GPT model Now I finally get the origins of ChatGPT, it's just instruct models, same as instruct-pix2pix we had in Stable Diffusion, e.g. "change the haircolor to red" but for text And instruct-text is what OpenAI smartly branded as "ChatGPT" and that became huge Fun to see the technical origins of something so big were just available to us all The finetuning is way way way way easier than I thought, not some magic but just a JSON text file with questions and answers which teachers the LLM model to reply to questions with answers, e.g. a chat It's exactly the same what I use for Photo AI etc. finetuning with Dreambooth or LoRa, it's almost exactly the same tech, but you finetune on photos of people instead of text files, obviously I knew that but interesting to actually see it in front of you github.com/tatsu-lab/stanfor…
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Christopher Newton retweeted
In 1993, Satya Nadella was just another middle manager doing Excel demos. Today, Sam Altman works for him. It took 22 years of climbing the ladder at Microsoft, but Nadella is now the global face of the AI revolution. There are many ways to win.
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Christopher Newton retweeted
wait so you mean to tell me the board member whose company launched a feature that openai cloned literally two weeks later wanted sam out for some reason?
Today we are launching creator monetization for Poe! This program lets any bot creator on Poe generate revenue. This is a major step forward for the platform and is the first program of its kind, so we are very excited to see what it lets everyone create. (thread)
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🚀 FlowGPT Hackathon S3 is LIVE! Forget code; your words hold the magic! 📝✨ WIN from a $10K prize pool 💰. ->Our last season? Featured on Yahoo News. ->This season? Proudly sponsored by @Google Register & embrace the AI era! 🔗 flowgpt.com/hackathon #FlowGPT #HackathonSeason3 #AI
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Christopher Newton retweeted
In 10 days I took a Limitless NZT TikTok account from ZERO to: -25k followers -2.5M views -Thousands of $ generated This is how I did it:🧵⬇️
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Alex Finn
@AlexFinn16 Aug 2023
Elon, you asked earlier today what I would change about the algorithm I went through all 13,000 lines of code for you Here is every change you need to make if you want this to be the best platform for creators on the internet:
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"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." -Einstein (via @TheWorldNews)
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The RV resort and campground I renovated for 4 years complete with family pics. On to the next adventure! flickr.com/photos/35172951@N…
Christopher Newton retweeted
Tesla is now only worth 4x more than Pinterest? What do I need to do people? Make them fu**ing fly?
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This is a tearjerker about steve jobs written by his sister mona Its a must read nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opini…
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#Thanks Kathy!! RT @KathyMHardesty: 5 Crippling Beliefs That Keep People Stuck, Unsuccessful, and Mediocre For Life bit.ly/n22Foh
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