Graaffy
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> been paying $200/month for cloud AI APIs
> laptop: M2 MacBook, 16GB RAM
> tried running models locally, garbage quality after 4K tokens
> read this TurboQuant breakdown on Tuesday
> applied 3-bit KV cache compression
> same MacBook now runs 100K token conversations
> quality: identical to cloud
> cancelled all API subscriptions Wednesday
> it's been 3 days
> saved $200/month forever
> with a free algorithm from a free paper
> my MacBook didn't change. the math did
BuBBliK@k1rallik
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Every star is a reactor, and every planet around it is a Petri dish.
Vast, sealed worlds catching starlight—
energy pouring in, molecules colliding,
atmospheres mixing like reagents in a slow, endless experiment.
Oceans dissolve, gases react, minerals catalyze—
each planet a different recipe,
each orbit another variable in the trial.
For millions, billions of years, they’re shaken by heat and light,
waiting to see which mixture learns to replicate,
to metabolize, to notice.
Life isn’t an accident—it’s the result
of enough worlds being left alone
with a star and time. ✨
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@Layton_Gott Learn to code first, but let AI teach you, would go much faster
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@JamesonCamp it's all great until one wrong butterfly dies because of it and then 50 years later all humans cease to exist
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$5,000 an hour. for sunlight. from space.
a startup putting 50,000 mirrors in orbit to sell sunlight anywhere on earth
I thought this was the dumbest idea Ive ever heard
then it clicked
- firefighting aircraft get GROUNDED every night at sunset. pilots cant see terrain. fires burn unchecked for 10 hours straight.
and heres whats wild - water drops are 60% more effective at night. cooler temps. less wind. but nobody can fly.
light up the fire line from orbit. let them work. the US spends $3-5B a year fighting wildfires. this is a rounding error.
- a single late frost in Napa or Florida citrus can wipe out an entire season. $854M in frost losses last year alone.
but the crazy part - the real buyer isnt even the farmer. its the crop insurance company trying to avoid a $500M payout by spending $50k on a few hours of orbital sunlight
- fog costs London Heathrow over $100M a year in delays. fog burns off when sunlight hits the ground. you speed that up by 30 minutes and the value per hour is $500K-$1M. $5k/hour is pocket change
- military forward operating base at night? forget night vision goggles. just light up the whole compound from space and go get it
- 4 million people above the Arctic Circle live in MONTHS of total darkness. depression. productivity drops. everything slows down. you could give entire communities twilight during polar night
- 150,000 babies die or get brain damage every year in developing countries from jaundice because the cure is literally just light and they dont have electricity for it.
beam it down from orbit. no power grid needed.
I went down this rabbit hole for an hour and every use case is more insane than the last
260,000 people from 157 countries on the waitlist. each dropping $1,000-5,000. Sequoia backed them - first space investment since SpaceX. the Air Force already signed a contract.
mirrors weigh 35 lbs and theyre the size of a basketball court. 4-10x brighter than a full moon. built by a 28 year old ex-SpaceX engineer.
this went from "dumbest thing Ive ever seen" to holy shit in about 10 minutes...
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Arguably one of the best companies in the word, $MELI — MercadoLibre.
The only company in the world to have grown revenue at more than 30% YoY for 28 consecutive quarters.
Just published my deep dive on this wonderful company: open.substack.com/pub/investorin…

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@cb_doge @GregAbbott_TX why not build it in California? Newsom would support
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ELON MUSK: "We're starting off with an advanced technology fab here in Austin, and I'd like to thank @GregAbbott_TX and the state of Texas for the support.
So in the advanced technology fab, we will have all of the equipment necessary to make a chip of any kind logical memory, and we will also have all of the equipment necessary to make the masks. So in a single building, we can create a mask, make the chip, test the chip, make another mask, and have an incredibly fast recursive loop for improving the chip design.
To the best of my knowledge, this doesn't exist anywhere in the world. We're really going to push the limit of physics in compute, and we're going to try a bunch of wild and crazy things, which you can do if you've got that fast iteration loop that I can't emphasize enough the importance of being able to make it, to test it and and then make and then change the design, do another one, and have that in a single building."
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@aditiitwt so you met him but he didn’t tell you his setup and you are asking us?
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Just met a guy who stopped paying for Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Codex & Perplexity
Now he runs everything locally on his own machine
No API limits
No token costs
No monthly subscriptions
No data leaving his system
Paid once for the hardware…
and that’s it
Feels like owning your own brain instead of renting one 😭
What kind of setup do you think makes this practical?
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