Chris O'Neal

I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. Take a moment and listen to this 81 second response from Victor Glover after being asked if he had any thoughts leading up to Easter. I don’t quite think it can be overstated how perfect this crew is for the job.

"AI is not going to cost $20 a month. It's going to get more expensive over time, just like Netflix." When Netflix launched, $8/month felt like a lot. Now you have five streaming subscriptions and stopped counting. AI pricing is just getting started.

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Health care? "You're on your own." Housing? "Nothing we can do." Grocery prices? "You're out of luck." $200 billion for another war? "No problem!" Americans—Democrats, Republicans, independents—are SICK AND TIRED of endless wars. We need to invest here at home.

Warren Buffett after spending his last years as CEO doubling Berkshire Hathaway’s cash pile to ~$400B and tying 25% of the conglomerate’s market cap to energy (Chevron, Occidental, BH Energy) on the eve of a recession and global shortage in oil and natural gas

American is a healthy 28 year old, he decided to skip paying for health insurance this year because the cheapest plan was $900 per month with a high deductible He had to spend 2 nights in the ER without insurance, he breaks down the bill “This is my receipt from spending 2 days in the hospital: - It totaled about $24,000 - My CT scan alone was $8,300 - Laboratory, 6,000 - IV therapy, $1,020, $4,000 in total And while $24,000 seems like a lot of money, let me show you something. This is what I'm actually paying, $2,478 because when you don't have insurance, these hospitals give you a discount. They discounted $22,000 off of this bill” “But if I had insurance, I wouldn't have gotten that discount. So it would've been a $24,000 bill billed to my insurance, and then my insurance would've said, ‘Hey, you have a $5,000 deductible. You need to pay $5,000 for this last emergency room visit.’ Then you tack on the $900 a month that I'd be paying for that insurance. I'd be paying $20K this year for healthcare. So the craziest part about this is even if I have another hospital visit, by the end of this year, I'm still gonna be paying less than I would if I had insurance. At minimum, my cost for healthcare this year would've been $20,000 with insurance. Right now I'm at $2,400.” US Health Insurance is a scam

This post got ZERO attention but is BY FAR the biggest AI news this week Google just published TurboQuant: a compression algorithm that makes AI inference 8x faster while using 6x less memory. No retraining. No accuracy loss. The biggest cost is inference which happens billions of times a day, scaling with every user and query. It’s the bill that never stops growing. Inference also eats memory alive. The reason why GPU memory is the scarcest, most expensive resource in AI. Previous compression methods had a little secret: shrinking the data required storing extra instructions about how it was shrunk. That overhead ate nearly half the savings. Google found a way to restructure the data so those instructions aren’t needed at all. The overhead just vanishes. 32 bits compressed to 3. The entire cost structure shifts. Context windows expand on existing hardware. API costs compress. Models that needed clusters start fitting on smaller machines. This seems like a pretty big deal for team google and the industry at large