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Self-Discover Prompting Implementation: colab.research.google.com/drive/1GkAQKmw… Currently seeing a 86.6% on a random subset of BBH, which puts me in line with the results seen by Deep Mind. @lateinteraction I tried out many of the functions built in to DSPy. If you think it makes sense I can open a pull request to add this to the repo as an example, might be helpful to new people.

Biology already figured this out

Claude makes such a good work out coach

You don’t need Devin to achieve this 😂

@cursor_ai Cursor beating Opus on CursorBench

millennials in 2058 paying off their third asteroid because they setup their social accounts before agent inflation took off

Seven clocks are running. None of them negotiable. All of them counting down to the same weeks. The planting clock. Mid-April is the biological deadline for corn and soybean planting across the US Midwest. Every day that passes without nitrogen becoming affordable and available narrows the window for corn. USDA projects corn falling to 94 million acres from 98.8 million. Soybeans rising to 85 million from 81.2 million. The seeds that go into the ground in the next three weeks determine America’s grain harvest in October. The decision is irreversible. The USDA clock. March 31. Prospective Plantings. The report that converts farmer intentions into official data. Every acreage number, every corn-soy ratio, every nitrogen-dependent calculation becomes a published fact that traders, governments, and food agencies will use to model global supply for the next twelve months. The number arrives in twelve days. The FAO clock. April 3. The Food Price Index. The first global reading that captures post-Hormuz commodity prices across cereals, vegetable oils, dairy, meat, and sugar. The 2022 peak was 159.7 in March 2022 after Ukraine. This reading will incorporate oil above $100, urea at $610, LNG halted, packaging repriced, and freight surcharges of $500 to $1,500 per container. The number that determines whether the UN declares a food emergency arrives in fifteen days. The pharmaceutical clock. India’s API inventory buffers are two to three months, measured from the war’s onset on February 28. Late May is the depletion window. Methanol at 87.7 percent Hormuz exposure feeds the solvent chain for paracetamol, ibuprofen, metformin, and antibiotics. Once buffers deplete, the shortage becomes a patient access crisis for the 47 percent of US generics that originate in India. The China crude clock. FGE NexantECA confirmed China is drawing commercial reserves at up to one million barrels per day. The draw sustains refinery operations for four to six weeks from March 19. Mid-April to late April is the exhaustion window. After that, China faces three options: accelerate Russian pipeline imports, reroute at massive premium, or crack open the strategic petroleum reserve. The third option reprices every commodity on the planet. The helium clock. SK Hynix and Samsung hold two to three months of helium inventory. Late May to early June is the depletion window. South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. Ras Laffan is offline. If helium buffers deplete before alternative supply arrives, semiconductor fabrication faces rationing. The AI hardware supply chain hits a physical wall measured in months, not quarters. The insurance clock. Solvency II requires 30 to 60 days of zero incidents before P&I clubs can reinstate war risk coverage. Even after a ceasefire, the insurance normalisation takes six to sixteen months based on the Red Sea precedent of 26 months and counting. The logistics system lags the financial relief rally by the longest duration of any clock in this crisis. Seven clocks. The shortest expires in twelve days. The longest runs for over a year. The planting window, the USDA report, the FAO index, the drug buffers, the Chinese crude draw, the helium inventory, and the insurance cycle are all counting down simultaneously. None of them pause for diplomacy. None of them respond to presidential directives. None of them read sealed packets. The calendar is the only actor in this war that has never lost a negotiation. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Your SSD is a cache. S3 is the real database. That sounds wrong until you see the math: • S3: $0.023/GB/month • EBS gp3: $0.08/GB/month • 3x replication on EBS: $0.24/GB/month At 10TB, that's $230 vs $2,400/month. The trick is making S3 feel like local disk. That's what disaggregated storage engines do — hot path stays fast, cold path stays cheap. The future of databases isn't faster disks. It's smarter caching on infinite storage. The next challenging question is how to build a latency-sensitive OLTP database based on S3. #CloudNative #S3 #ObjectStorage #DatabaseEngineering #DistributedSystems #TiDB #DataInfra

@mil0theminer The stripe engineers built it using agents And they think 2027 agents can’t just build it themselves? These are retards They will take a cut of anything they can find Rancid corpo koolaid drinkers

Unstable eigenvalue

I made a game world that creates itself as you journey through it…

$MU Largest beat & raise of all time. +196% revenue growth at an insane 69% EBIT margin. Never, ever been done at this scale. 3Q revenue guide of $33.5bn midpoint vs $23.3bn consensus. WTF??? Absolute bananas numbers. Unprecedented. Even the Memory Whisperer has to gasp.

Not the worst policy. Hope this helps housing more people.

If you own a home with a basement, attic, or backyard, chances are you’ve thought about using it to earn a little extra income or as space for a loved one. We want to make it as easy (and affordable) as possible for you to do that. NYC recently legalized ADUs — but for too many New Yorkers, they’re still tied up in bureaucracy and expense. We're fixing that. Our new toolkit at nyc.gov/aduforyou includes preapproved building plans and a financing calculator so you can get right to building. If we want New York to remain a city for everyone, we have to make it easier for homeowners to stay here. ADU for You will do just that.

bad news for VCs

When founders post graphs with no y axis you can infer they are being performative. Real success doesn’t need to be broadcasted. Sorry I don’t make the rules

👀 SNEAK PEAK We're diving into New York City's homeless crisis. NYC's spending on the unsheltered homeless hit $368M in FY2025, up 262% from $102M in FY2019. That's $81K per person. Meanwhile, the population of unsheltered homeless people grew by 26% in that same period. Nonprofits running this system have been caught paying executives $900K+ salaries, hiring their own family members, and funneling city contract money into companies they own. And Mayor Mamdani just quietly signed a $1.86 billion, three-year hotel contract to house the homeless. Full breakdown tomorrow.

@thatguybg Weird, I actually have the opposite experience. Turns out when you need to turn a profit, you focus on bringing value to customers instead of pretending to on Twitter/LinkedIn. What product did Launch House ship again?

every startup I know that decided to become profitable and “stop playing the vc game” had their products go to crap you hop off the tread mill you’re gonna get outta shape!

GitHub stars are incredibly easy to fake

What if the AI is so capable that the concept of rationing anything becomes absurd? We’re not arguing about income anymore. We’re arguing about who gets root access to systems that can do anything. Tired: Universal basic income Wired: Universal access to god

a barrel of oil can provide as much electricity as a 400W solar panel does annually. a barrel of oil runs $92 and comes with a few minor logistical complications. this year the solar panel should run less than $90; you can order online, ships in a week.