Tomasz Kazulak

@patientinvestor $44B for Tesla is wild, from what source do they have this much money?

Companies With the Largest Cash Positions: Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.B: $397 Billion Amazon $AMZN: $143 Billion Alphabet $GOOGL: $127 Billion Meta $META: $81 Billion Microsoft $MSFT: $78 Billion Apple $AAPL: $68 Billion NVIDIA $NVDA: $62 Billion Tesla $TSLA: $44 Billion

@nasqret Thank you for the clarification! The future looks quite interesting 🤔 Currently I find LLM's quite useful for accelerating literature review and learning process and it should just get better from here

Yes, but you need to make a nice coordination. In my experience the real bottleneck is the actual access to the literature (pre-arXiv era). Most papers are behind a paywall and the models (even if trained on stolen papers) do not memorize them well, i.e. the model won't point you to the paper from the literature but rather hallucinate the ideas from there. When asked about the reference to the original idea it does not know anything about it because the training was too sparse here. So a huge database of of scraped papers - this is what we need

What if topology could predict how strong a material is? TL;DR: Shape matters but direction matters more. This paper introduces direction-aware topological data analysis (TDA) finally capturing how structure + loading direction shape stiffness in porous materials. Key insight: - Standard TDA misses anisotropy. - Add direction → massive jump in accuracy. Results: - Up to 2×–5× better predictions for Young's modulus - Nearly matches deep learning but with compact, interpretable features - Works even when materials look isotropic After a streak of papers in crystallography, it's my first contribution to material science. Exciting!

@nasqret I see! I'm wondering if the process of checking references etc, in general writing a systematic literature review (SLR) can be done full autonomous by agents?

The project started a few years ago so there was no chance to use models at that time to develop any ideas. In the writing occasionally (at leat me) I have used the model to check references, e.g. for the B-splines the model helped me to write down specs explicitely. No major idea was generated by any LLM. I imagine that if we started this project nowadays the things could have been very different.

@t_pugacewicz @andrzejgorka gdzieś już słyszałem o tym budynku 😁

Think what you want, but the new building of the Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station (in existence since 1977)—set to be completed in February 2027—is cosmically beautiful!

@zagrebbi Genuine question: maybe the metric isn't right? Also education is a very long journey so the influence of money can be unmeasurable in periods shorter than 10 years?

The dumbest part of Mamdani's new budget: 40% of it goes to education — the single largest line item — and there is literally zero correlation between how much a school district spends and how well its students perform.

@nasqret AI is an amplifier - I still would like to go through too many books and understand them deeply. Time is limited so the solution would be to slow down the time ⏰

Interesting paradox. With the new Codex-Spark I can generate new content for analysis (documentation, review text etc.) so fast that I cannot parse it and read efficiently. In the end, we humans are the bottleneck in the information pipelines. Thinking slow is essential, but we might be too slow for many tasks. What then?

@qaifoundation @QPolandCousin Isn't the application open from February 11th? Rather that what is stated in the provided link.

We invite you to attend QSilver36 - a free, online intermediate-level workshop on quantum computing and programming, organized by @qaifoundation and @QPolandCousin, focusing on Shor's algorithm and Quantum Fourier Transform: qworld.net/qsilver36

@nasqret @KinasRemek Czy w zimę też można kosić czy przymusowy urlop? 😅

@KinasRemek Remek, trawniki już od dawna. Trzeba dywersyfikować swoje zajęcia :)

Ciekawy paradoks 😳- informatycy 👩‍💻 (programiści) stworzyli dla siebie narzędzie zagłady jakim jest AI do programowania. Z chatów i głupotek, które nie bardzo się monetyzowały (oprócz dostępu do API) wymyślili świetne narzędzia do Software Engineeringu. Teraz najwięksi Anthropic, OpenAI (bo jednak Google goni) przyspieszają by wyszarpać jak największy kawałek tortu 🎂 Teraz „nie programista” może zażyczyć sobie co chce a „sztuczny programista”, którym jest agent robi resztę. Kim teraz jest programista? Czy ten co pisze prompt „zrób mi apkę” może nazwać się programistą skoro zawodowcy przełączają się na te same narzędzia (na podstawie Dario Amodei, który podał przykład programistów z Anthropic nie piszący już kodu)? Programiści? Co planujecie dalej? To też moje zajęcie (częściowo) więc zaczynam planować - strzyżenie trawników, wykończeniowa, trener personalny, personalny asystent robota?

@nasqret Then I will try to understand the problem and solution on the one solved by @ebarschkis 😁 Thanks for the reply @nasqret

@TKazulak In many cases yes, reading adjacent papers, comments by people on the forum. Some of these problems are hopelessly difficult so it's quite difficult to tell which ones are more approachable. Collatz problem is on that list and we have absolutely no idea how to prove it.

Enrique emailed me a few weeks ago to casually chat about the elliptic curve DLP. We tested many of his ideas using models and Aristotle. I am very proud of him: in the breaks between high-school classes, he carved his way into the mathematical frontier, at the age of 17! My advice consisted of only modest hints and encouragement. Enrique deserves full credit for his daring and passion. Good luck, man-reach for the stars!

What if we built a Stack Overflow in full Grokipedia style? AI-assisted Q&A for CS/dev: clear questions, Grok-verified answers, instant coverage of new tech/languages/frameworks. Does this exist or could be done? @xAI @grok @elonmusk #GrokOverflow

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@Rucas1972 @nntaleb I think that it's irrelevant here. The point of this argument isn't about the influence of academia in the real world. It's about why academic "researchers" vote so disproportionately Democratic. It's about proportions, not the influence. What do you think?

@nntaleb Except that 0.000001% you talk about may have a disproportional impact on life. It is funny that you, of all people, don't acknowledge the tail effects here. Example: the algorithms for the Google search resulted from a PhD. Very low probability of success but tremendous impact.

@bryan_johnson Sauna is good for toxin reduction. Why isn't working out (especially intensywnie cardio) also similar? You also sweat intensively. Or is cardio actually also as good as a sauna?

Sauna is one of the most effective health protocols I've done. Here is everything I've learned; it's the most robust characterization ever produced. Results: 1) Fifteen sessions of sauna dramatically reduced environmental toxins in my body: + 65% drop in 2,4-D + 100% drop in MEP + 15% drop in MBP + 100% drop in MEHP (undetectable post sauna) + 56% drop in NAPR + 56% drop in HEMA + 100% drop in Perchlorate (undetectable post sauna) 2. Sauna eliminated 85% of microplastics from my ejaculate. Nov 2024: 165 particles/mL July 2025: 20 particles/mL Nearly identical drop in my blood same time period: Oct 2024: 70 particles/mL May 2025: 10 particles/mL 3. Sauna, without ice on the boys, devastated my fertility markers. Total Motile Count: –56% Concentration: –30% Motility: –50% Morphology: –48% Count: –9% 4. Sauna coincided with my fertility markers being at an all-time high. I have more total and motile sperm than 99.6% of men of any age, including men under 25. + total count: 600 M + concentration: 162 M + motility: 55% + total motile count: 330M + morphology (normal): 10% We do not know what to make of these improvements. Was it the sauna? Sauna + ice? Ice only? We don't know but we did not identify any other protocols or lifestyle changes during this interval that would plausibly account for the change. 5. My vascular function improved by a ten year reduction in age. Now I have the vascular age of an elite 18-early 20s. + Central Systolic Blood Pressure: 96 mmHg + Central Pulse Pressure: 20 mmHg + Pulse Pressure Amplification: 160% + SEVR: 227% + Augmentation Pressure: 1 mmHg + Augmentation Index Wave: 3% + Traditional blood pressure: 107/75 mmHg 6. What type of sauna? Use a dry sauna with high temperatures between 80-100°C (176 to 212°F) and 5-20% relative air humidity. Aim for the lower end of this spectrum, especially as a beginner. Higher temperatures closer to the boiling point can cause side effects like headaches and severely dried nose and eyes. Note: Steam baths, hot tubs, and infrared saunas fail to replicate the same effects because they do not allow you to safely reach the required high temperatures and do not induce the same level of sweating, the necessary inverted (skin-to-core) temperature gradient, and the massive re-direction of blood to the skin with resulting vasodilation. Dry sauna is unique, and very likely superior to wet (steam bath) and infrared saunas. By heating up your skin way faster than your core, dry hot sauna flips your core skin temperature gradient, eliciting the following hormetic benefits: + enhanced blood flow: the heart pumps up to 70% more blood, similar to intense aerobic exercise (zone 2-+ increased sweating for detoxification: to maintain a stable core temperature, the skin produces 0.6-1 liter of sweat per hour, facilitating significant detoxification. + improved heat tolerance: the body becomes better at handling heat, leading to a lower core body temperature (offering metabolic advantages) + safe activation of heat shock proteins: the skin experiences substantial heat shock protein activation, while a modest 1°C increase in core temperature is sufficient to activate these proteins without the risk of hyperthermia. + extended Exposure at higher temperatures: dry saunas are more tolerable for longer durations and at higher temperatures, maximizing the benefits. 7. Sauna protocol and frequency Type: hot dry sauna Temperature: 176–212°F ( I do 200°F) Relative air humidity: very low, 5-20% Duration: 20 min Frequency: 4–7x a week 8. Heat Protection If you'd like, you can protect your head from the heat by wearing a sauna hat or wrapping it with a towel (use only cotton or other 100% natural material). You can breathe through a towel or cloth if needed to protect your nose. I am personally fine not doing this. Most importantly, ice the balls. Icing the testicles is absolutely required to prevent heat from damaging fertility markers. + Ice the testes during the sauna session. + Use a non-toxic, reusable ice pack material. + Wear cotton boxers and shorts. + Place ice packs in between the boxers and shorts. + Keep them in place for the entire session. Men should care about preserving fertility markers even when they are not trying to conceive. Sperm quality is tightly coupled to testicular function, which governs testosterone production, metabolic health, and long term endocrine stability. When fertility parameters decline, the same upstream dysfunction often drives lower testosterone, higher inflammation, and increased cardiometabolic risk. 9. Hydration Dry sauna induces sweating as part of its beneficial mechanism. Be sure to hydrate properly. In general, you might need to rehydrate with up to 16–32 oz (0.5–1 L) of fluid after a sauna session. Be sure to add electrolytes. If you want to be precise, measure your sweat amount and electrolytes (saltiness) using a patch (e.g., from Gatorade) to quantify your liquid and electrolyte loss, and rehydrate accordingly. Some people have saltier sweat than others and must ensure they replenish electrolytes as well as water. My results: my body sweats 18 oz during a 20 min sauna at 200 °F, with a sodium concentration of 25-39 mg/oz. A single sauna session flushes 450–700 mg of sodium out of my body. # I wish you all the best in life my friend. A new era or being human is here. One where existence is the highest virtue. Prioritize sleep, daily exercise and eat well and you'll be in a strong position. Try to avoid the bad stuff. Anything that takes away your agency. Be a warrior and caretaker of existence. Don't Die.

@panta_rhe1 @nntaleb Besides evacuating AI as good or bad, I think it's practically impossible to stop - if they don't do it then someone else will (maybe slower, later, but will).

@TKazulak @nntaleb Great example. They should actually all stop cause it will most likely make humanity go extinct.

If you feel that you are in competition with anyone, for anything, you are a loser.

@BatboldEnk24332 @nntaleb Good point. Maybe the goal is to always have a target to achieve, not a competition to beat.

@TKazulak @nntaleb They are striving towards agi, not necessarily beating one another (although that is the case)

@stats_feed Semiconductor wafers. The Chochralski method is for growing single crystals and it's the core method in production of silicon wafers, therefore a base for our computers! Thanks Mr. Jan Czochralski 🇵🇱

What is something your country invented that really impacted the world?

@nntaleb To be the best at predicting the future, doesn't one need the ability to know what you can't predict? or are they one and the same?

The ability to know what you can't predict and work with unpredictability is the best measure of intelligence. (Fooled by Randomness, Chapter on Philostratus).