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USA vs UK
Green dots = website visitors with high buying intent.
Yellow = maybes
Grey = not interested
USA is 6 times the population of UK. Market size matters.
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This paragraph by Richard Feynman hits so hard:
“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.”
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Narrative violation
1. More billionaires are associated with less poverty.
2. Increasing billionaires per capita by ten fold lowers poverty by 43 percentage points.
3. Sweden has more billionaires per 10M people than the U.S. (34 vs 30)
4. Correlation is fairly strong (R-squared of 0.6 for two variable cross-section data)
4. Since the graph is only a correlation, what do you think is the cause?
🔗in🧵
That’s a weird thing about this day and age.
There are weird efficiencies available everywhere.
You can feel it. But it’s almost like there’s too many ideas…. And it gets all clogged up.
We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.
We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵
Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
LLM was given weights explicitly as text in prompt and used code/forward passes (per authors' logs) to ablate Qwen looping direction, a known thinking-mode issue per model card. Primarily fixed repetition in that mode, not general 'natively' improving weights/math.
rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-sp…
github.com/RikiyaT/lm_und…
huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0…
huggingface.co/RikiyaT/Qwen3.…
"The concept of productivity must enter the mind of every Singaporean adult and child: you can do a thing better, faster, cheaper, and with fewer defects."
1982
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In a weird way, everybody is rooting for you. When you go to a job interview, the interviewer wants you to be amazing so they don’t have to look anymore. when you go on a date, the person wants to have an amazing date with you. If you make a piece of content, people want to see amazing pieces of content and they have no problem if it’s yours.
the instant you get into the mindset that people want you to do well, your entire world gets better. And you’ll be shocked to know this pattern keeps repeating in different areas of life.
A new star trek series?
It will fail unless the person leading embodies the soul of it.
Gene Roddenberry ha: experience of war, death, leadership, policing…
There was a foundation to it.
How is your average full time hollywood writer, who says “i am a trekkie” going to really understand that foundation?
They’ll mimic it.
Badly.
Needs the right leader.
It is entirely possible that the death of Sir Patrick Stewart and the outpouring of grief and admiration from people of all ages and backgrounds around the world will be the deciding factor that pushes @paramoplus and @Skydance to create a new Star Trek series that at least matches the level of writing and acting gravitas he brought to the franchise.
How mariners felt seeing port. Or in this case, shenzen back when it was a village. Must have been exciting seeing the lights.
No wonder they spent all their money quickly.
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“There’s something about the mindset of really hardcore Star Trek fans that’s very difficult to describe to people who don’t share that fandom….There has never been another television show like Star Trek: The Next Generation, and there might never be one again. It is the greatest TV show ever made, not by dint of a difference in degree, but because of a difference in kind. It is a drama of pure optimism. Every other show tries to thrill us by showing us how bad or how ridiculous or how exciting someone else’s world could be; Star Trek: TNG thrills us by showing us how beautiful our own world could become.”
"Picard realizes that the highest application of intelligence is not to thwart your enemies, but to design a world in which you and they can live in mutually beneficial coexistence."
noahpinion.blog/p/farewell-m…
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Jean-Luc Picard und TNG waren die Philosophieschule einer ganzen Generation. Dieser Mann pflanzte eine unbestimmte Sehnsucht nach Harmonie und Gerechtigkeit in so viele, daß sogar heutzutage links wie rechts kurz in ihrer Trauer vereint sind. Allein das ist mehr als bemerkenswert
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パトリック・スチュワート氏が亡くなったのは悲しいのだが、なぜかこの二日間はとても幸せでもあった。
ドイツ人もアメリカ人も中国人も日本人も、スタートレックがどう人生を変えたか、パトリック・スチュワートがロールモデルとして生き方にどう影響を与えたか、いままで心の中に抱えていた思いが解放されて、皆の心が一つになっているように感じる。
Xでここまで多くのアカウントがスタートレックのことを語り合った２日間があっただろうか。
死してなお、世界中の心を動かす名優パトリック・スチュワート、そして私の心の中ではジャン＝リュック・ピカード艦長。
こんな素晴らしい人がいてくれた事に、感謝しなくちゃいけない。
と書いたところでまた悲しくなってきた泣笑
Patrick Stewart seems to have been a lot of people's favourite Captain.
Those TNG episodes were a religion speaking about being a better more moral person and he was the priest giving the sermon.
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We mourn the passing of Patrick Stewart, who inspired countless individuals at NASA (and beyond) to boldly go where no one has gone before.
ALT Image description: A packed, sparkling starfield captured by our Hubble telescope — with strange new worlds potentially awaiting. Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen
AI translation apps are good, but not smooth and fast enough. Often requires pressing a button to shift from one talker to the next.
And I guess we have to wait until the iPhone chip can process translations without needing internet.
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a16z's Erin Price-Wright says factory technicians can now retool production lines with AI in 20 minutes, a job that used to take an outside integrator 3 months:
"Historically, if you're setting up a line with a lot of automation, you really need to be producing a lot of one single thing. That's how you get the cost down, and how you justify investing in a pretty bespoke manufacturing line."
"But what we're seeing across our portfolio is that manufacturing technicians themselves have the intuition, and now the software tools, to change the economics of producing low-volume, high-mix on the line."
"A manufacturing technician, not necessarily someone with a college degree or who's studied software engineering, can now use these tools to reprogram and reconfigure their lines on the fly, because they understand the manufacturing process."
"Instead of calling a systems integrator, which takes 3 months and hundreds of thousands of dollars to reconfigure a line, you can have a manufacturing engineer use Claude and do that in 20 minutes. That's been a real game changer."
@espricewright
The American Dynamism 50 is a16z's annual list of companies building for America's future.
This year's edition covers the industrial base end to end, from the inputs that come out of the ground to factories that make things and systems that deter conflict.
a16z's Erin Price-Wright and Connor Love join Elena Burger to break down this year's list and its theme, Production is Deterrence, built around a simple idea: "You don't have a defense industrial base without an industrial base."
0:50 From mines to factories and systems
3:05 How the internet and nuclear was built
5:05 Drones built DJI into a robotics giant
6:50 Defense dollars pay for new factories
8:30 SpaceX and Tesla lessons on scale
10:15 How Mariana runs a mine on software
12:20 "AI cannot turn a wrench yet"
14:10 Retooling in 20 mins, not 3 months
17:45 Startups build before Pentagon asks
20:35 Why hard tech can be more valuable
24:45 The race for the biggest American flag
28:25 How defense parts unlock US robotics
32:05 The rise of the "manufacturing middle"
37:25 Anduril and SpaceX founder mafias
41:05 Private capital: USA's edge over China
46:30 The buildout must hit Middle America
YouTube: youtu.be/cRJ7CfaK1Vc
@espricewright @ConnorLoveCA @VirtualElena