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The best, most comprehensive take on AI I’ve read. After a year of confusion and fear about the future, I finished it feeling like a weight had physically lifted.
It’s long. Make the time.
@vgr is undefeated.
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kuty retweeted
introducing FindMyWifePhone™️ my latest shortcut squarely placed on the pareto frontier. there is no easier & cheaper way to find your wife's phone.
"honey, do you know where my phone is?"
the fuck I dont!
"can you call me?!"
she keeps her phone on silent.
so i made this shortcut to help.
trigger = i send her a text with !ping in it
action = hey phone sets a timer for 1s
timer always works, we like to keep our phones on silent + dnd and we dont use apple watches. so finding each other's phones used to be a challenge. we both have this set up in reverse, and its worked well.
bonus shortcut = button in home screen widget to send !ping to my wife
(we also have one called !awaken which disables silent, sets volume to max & disables do not disturb in case of emergency)
kuty retweeted
Population Decline Is Real. So Is the Reversal. Insightful and original analysis, via @fabricegrinda fabricegrinda.com/population…
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Today, I’m honored to join Andrew Huberman for a deep conversation about how children learn and how we can redesign school around what science makes possible.
Just one year ago, I recorded my first podcast with @patrick_oshag on Invest Like the Best.
Since then, word of mouth and demand for Alpha School have exploded.
We’re now bringing Alpha to 50 communities across the country, each made possible by founding families determined to build a better education for their children.
The new Huberman Lab episode is out: How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandt
0:00 Joe Liemandt
3:16 History of Traditional Classroom Model; Education Milestones
8:08 Sponsors: David & Lingo
10:25 Alpha School, High Standards & Support
22:33 Effective Support, Academics vs Athletics; Homeschooling
30:03 AI, Individualized Learning & Mastery
34:31 Teacher Education, Standardized Tests, Role of School
40:52 Sponsors: AG1 & Helix Sleep
43:42 AI, Scaffolding Learning, Mastery; Working Memory & Fluency
52:41 Working Memory, Focus; Gifted Kids
1:00:30 Basics Mastery, Grade Level Catch-Up, Individualized AI Lessons & Pace
1:06:57 Sponsor: LMNT
1:08:17 Shame, Motivation, Growth Rate; Overcoming Mental Blocks & Paying Kids
1:20:55 Suffering & Motivation, Kids Goals, Sports; Doing Hard Things
1:31:21 Founders High School, Life Skills; Kids' Goals
1:42:44 Reimagining Classroom Education
1:47:21 Importance of Building & Creating, AI & Humanity
1:58:04 Science & Redesigning Experiments, Kids' Interest-Led Projects
2:05:26 Huberman Lab Live Events
2:06:14 Learning Predictors, Gender, Income; Redesigning the School System
2:18:32 Success; Sports Academy, Alpha School Expansion
2:28:36 Acknowledgements
2:31:07 Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter
Includes paid partnerships.
kuty retweeted
Introducing Latent Briefing, a way for agents to quickly share their relevant memory directly. Result: 31% fewer tokens used, same accuracy.
Multi-agent systems are powerful, but can be wildly inefficient. They pass context as tokens, so costs explode and signal gets lost. We built an algorithm that allows agents to communicate KV cache to KV cache.
kuty retweeted
All week people have emailed me telling me that Alpha School selects for the top 1%.
While I can't speak to Alpha School's application process, I can say my kids test similarly to theirs on standardized tests like the PSAT when it comes to math ... and it's 100% because they use/d AI tutors and the tech stack we talk about in this episode (Prodigy/Synthesis Tutor/Math Academy/Physics Graph).
I realize it's uncomfortable to ask why AI improves results over teachers. And it's worth exploring.
Some of my thoughts ...
The "problem" with grades 4-12 of Math, is that most teachers "teach the grade" and math is cumulative. So, if you didn't learn something from grade 6, you're in a lot of trouble by the time you get to grade 8.
With very few exceptions, your grade 8 teacher is not going to teach you (or the entire class) grade 6 math and as a student in grade 8, you'll resist it if you know it's grade 6.
One of the primary reasons that AI is better is that it simply teaches you what you need to know, regardless of your grade level.
It says you don't know X, and you need to know X to do this problem, so let's learn X. And it never tells you that it's grade 6 and you should have learned this years ago, so you just learn X.
Another problem is the way maths are taught now.
In a lot of schools, including my kids, they never had to "memorize" multiplication tables. And if you don't know them, it's ok. That sounds all fine and dandy, until you realize it takes up a lot of working memory in grades 8-12 -- working memory you need for other things on the problem. We only have so many working memory slots.
It sucks but most "improvements" to education over the past 20 years, have had negative impacts on objective learning.
The biggest thing we can do in this moment is raise the bar on what we expect from kids, focus on what works based on evidence, and make AI tutors free to the bottom 75% of each math class today.
If you're a parent, this is a must listen. (Even if you disagree with the conclusions).
My conversation with @jliemandt on why the future of education is better than you think.
0:00 The current education system
7:01 What makes Alpha School different
11:01 What are the results
23:20 Current classroom struggles
26:40 What does mastery mean?
35:37 Changing the education system
39:19 Teaching through AI
44:27 How do you solve motivation?
57:01 What makes a good teacher?
1:01:04 Coaching
1:05:17 What life skills matter?
1:08:18 Doing hard things
1:13:25 AI Monitoring
1:21:08 Effort vs. IQ
1:24:40 What happens after Alpha School?
1:38:21 The Genius of Jack Welch
1:45:49 Trilogy IPO: the choice to not go public
1:51:40 Physical vs. virtual learning
2:03:18 Does Paying Kids To Learn work?
2:11:01 What Is Success For You?
(Includes paid partnerships)
kuty retweeted
Advice for my 16-year-old self (in today's world):
1. Your first job (16) should be as a waiter
Developing soft skills, dealing with difficult customers, and working with immigrants, convicts, dropouts, addicts, single moms, and people who don't even have passports will teach you more than you could ever learn at an Ivy League school.
Your second job (18) should be as a bartender.
Successfully navigating the drunk and entitled will teach you lifelong skills, and your results are measured nightly in the form of tips.
And it’s more fun.
kuty retweeted
Before AWS existed, one company ran the servers for Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook's entire app ecosystem.
They owned Node.js, invented containers 8 years before Docker, and Peter Thiel even backed them.
Then something happened...
Loved this. Thanks @shaanpuri69
Missions are the best
I hope to never run dry
Same lesson my grandmother taught me
Never have idle hands
So many doilies...
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Last week, we had to move my mom out of assisted living and into specialized care… In the middle of this exhausting move, the following happened.
This is an actual conversation I had with my mother’s new nursing home…
NURSING HOME LADY: You can’t remove our furniture. It has to stay in your mom’s room.
***She didn’t even introduce herself, and behind her was another sour-faced lady.
ME: What?
NHL: Our furniture has to stay in the room. It’s fire-rated. It meets the fire code. Removing it violates the fire code.
ME: So I have to throw all my mom’s furniture out?
NHL: No, her furniture can stay, but you must keep ours in the room because of fire regulations.
ME: That doesn’t make any sense. How does fire-rated furniture make the room any safer inside the room as opposed to not in the room at all?
NHL: What do you mean?
ME: Unless your furniture has sprinklers built into it, how does removing it make my mom’s room less safe?
NHL: Let’s talk to the administrator.
***Now I’m marched down to the administrator’s office. Now it’s three against one. The administrator does not introduce herself.
ADMINISTRATOR LADY: You can’t remove our furniture from your mother’s room. It’s fire-rated.
ME: I understand that, and if you tell me my mom’s furniture is flammable, I’ll remove it.
ADMIN LADY: You can leave your mom’s furniture in there. It’s fine. You just can’t remove ours.
ME: But there’s no room for my mom’s stuff if I keep your furniture.
ADMIN LADY: We have no place to store it. It has to stay in the room.
ME: So it’s not a fire code issue, it’s a storage issue.
ADMIN LADY: That room is not for longterm residents who bring their own furniture. It’s for short-term rehab patients. That’s why it’s set up like a hotel room with everything in it.
ME: Then why did you put my longterm-resident mother in a short-term room?
ADMIN LADY: We didn’t have anyplace else to put her. One of our wings has been shut down.
ME: You have an entire wing of rooms that’s empty, that’s not being used?
ADMIN LADY: Yes.
ME: Well, that sounds like a good place to store some furniture.
ADMIN LADY: We can’t. We intend to open it someday.
ME: Okay, then it sounds like a good place to store some furniture until someday.
ADMIN LADY: I’m trying to work with you here.
ME: I don’t think you are.
ADMIN LADY: We have no place to store extra furniture.
ME: You have plenty of room. There are three big gathering spaces just in my mom's wing, places where an added this or that would not even be noticed. Listen, I understand a fire code issue, but we now know this isn’t about that. What it is about is a lack of flexibility and imagination. And over what—three chairs and two tables? Okay, how does this sound? I’ll buy the furniture from you.
ADMIN LADY: Buy it?
ME: Then you don’t have to store it. I’ll pay you whatever it will cost to replace it.
ADMIN LADY: What would you do with it?
ME: Well, what I do with my furniture is my business, but just to enjoy the irony, I’d probably burn it.
NHL: We are trying to work with you.
ME: No, you’re not.
ADMIN LADY: We are.
ME: My mom is going to die here—in that room. She still recognizes her belongings, and I want her surrounded by those things. I don’t want her dying in your Motel 6.
ADMIN LADY: We understand.
ME: Someone who understood would find room for three chairs and two tables.
***At this point, they gave in. And in the week since, they have taken superb care of my mother. Despite an unfriendly start, the decision to move her was a good one.
Whether you are a founder or just interested in a better you. This was fabulous.
open.spotify.com/episode/2IW…
Learning isn't memorizing, it's changing behavior.
And because of it, I decided to share.
kuty retweeted
Good times create high EBITDA multiples
High EBITDA multiples create bad times
Bad times create low EBITDA multiples
Low EBITDA multiples create good times
How is Elon Musk so effective?
Marc Andreessen answers Tom Bilyeu on Impact Theory simply and believably
- Identify the company's bottleneck each week.
- Work with engineers to fix it that same week.
- Don’t accept any management layers blocking you
Here is the 4m snippet
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True happiness is in the growth. It comes from playing a part in the evolution of your own soul. - @MikePosner
Great. Meaningful Episode. @ShaanVP
open.spotify.com/episode/173…
This one felt great.
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