Gerard Lee

Looking for a co-founder for tapvault.fociilabs.com

gemini keeps hallucinating alot. wasted money. =( ill stick to opus and codex

@WhiteHouse yeah sure, but you also promised not to go to wars and focus on the domestic, america first. 🤔 now where is that? 😂

"THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint to run our Military.  The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE..." - President Donald J. Trump

I’d cancel your AG1 subscription. They just completed a clinical trial and the results show no clinical benefit.  This has been obvious for years.  AG1 has no real product substance and is fundamentally an influencer heist.   Two simple alternatives (75% and 56% less $), outperform AG1 in randomized clinical trials. Two simple mono-ingredient alternatives that outperform AG1: 1. Chicory inulin 12 g daily ($20/mo) 2. Resistant starch 30 g daily for 12 weeks ($35/mo) AG1 is not worth $79/mo. AG1 study results (4-weeks, N=30): + No significant changes in blood biomarkers compared to placebo (CBC, CMP, lipids). + No statistically significant improvement in digestive quality-of-life scores (p = 0.058). + No significant metabolic or inflammatory biomarker benefits of any kind within the scope of what was measured in the trial. + Only small shifts in microbiome taxa but clinically irrelevant at this stage. + The intervention did not increase microbiome diversity compared to placebo. Alpha diversity was unchanged, and the taxa changes seen were only from pre- to post-analysis within each group. Between-group differences were limited, and the placebo actually showed similar or even potentially larger shifts. This means the observed changes fall within normal placebo-driven variability, not a real treatment effect. No global microbiota shifts were detected. Chicory inulin 12 g in constipation patients + 12 g of chicory inulin daily for 4 weeks (compared to maltodextrin placebo) + Global microbiota shifts: enrichment in butyrate-producing Bifidobacterium and Anaerostipes, and depletion of the pro-inflammatory Bilophila. +The effect was seen by comparing intervention vs placebo in a cross-over setting, a very rigorous type of clinical analysis in which each person serves as their own control, eliminating a lot of individual random noise. + The trial also met its primary objective by improving constipation symptoms in the targeted patient group. Resistant starch daily 30g for 12 weeks in older adults + Significant increase in Bifidobacterium in both middle-aged and elderly participants, with an increase in the beneficial microbiome byproduct butyrate, and reductions in Proteobacteria (including inflammatory Escherichia–Shigella) in the elderly. + Resistant starch also significantly reduced blood glucose, and produced greater reductions in blood insulin and insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) in the elderly group.

The Greenland crisis holds lessons for all countries. America’s friends need to prepare for a world in which they are alone and NATO is no more: econ.st/3NuKdL6

Got the new pixel 10 from Google. Trying out something new. Heard it might replace iphone with gemini and its ai integration #pixel10 #google

Uss Defiant is in Star Trek Deep Space 9. Wonder whats the similarity for its reference?

BITCOIN DID NOT CRASH. It was executed. The weapon: Japanese Government Bonds. On December 1, 2025, Japan’s 10-year yield hit 1.877 percent. The highest since June 2008. The 2-year touched 1 percent. A level not seen since before Lehman fell. This triggered the unwinding of the largest arbitrage trade in human history. The Yen Carry Trade. Conservative estimates: $3.4 trillion. Realistic estimates: $20 trillion. For thirty years, the world borrowed free Japanese money to buy everything. Tech stocks. Treasuries. Bitcoin. That era ended last month. The transmission was mechanical. Yields rise. Yen strengthens. Leveraged positions become unprofitable. Selling begins. Selling triggers margin calls. Margin calls trigger liquidations. Liquidations trigger more selling. October 10: $19 billion in crypto positions liquidated in 24 hours. The largest single day wipeout in digital asset history. November: $3.45 billion fled Bitcoin ETFs. BlackRock’s fund lost $2.34 billion. Its worst month since inception. December 1: Another $646 million liquidated before lunch. Bitcoin’s correlation with the Nasdaq: 46 percent. With the S&P 500: 42 percent. The “uncorrelated hedge” is now a leveraged expression of global liquidity conditions. Yet the data contains a paradox. While prices collapsed, whales accumulated 375,000 BTC. Miners cut selling from 23,000 BTC monthly to 3,672. Someone is buying what institutions are selling. The pivot point: December 18. Bank of Japan policy decision. If they hike and signal more, Bitcoin tests $75,000. If they pause, a short squeeze could reclaim $100,000 within days. This is not about cryptocurrency anymore. This is about the cost of capital in a world that forgot money has a price. The widow maker came collecting. Position accordingly.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Read the full deep dive analysis 👇 open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Agreed and just did my fair share of buying 🤣

🚨BREAKING: Thousands of people are closing their JP Morgan accounts following a premeditated attack on Bitcoin / $MSTR shareholders.

The leftist failure mode is to repeat a slogan like “mostly peaceful protests”, even when it doesn’t reflect observable reality. If they read it, it’s real to them. The rightist failure mode is to repost some video that “goes hard”, even when it doesn’t reflect observable reality. If they see it, it’s real to them. The capitalist has to deal with the world of hard numbers. The verbal and the visual are important, but ultimately secondary to the numerical.

Deeply grateful for today’s pardon and to President Trump for upholding America’s commitment to fairness, innovation, and justice. 🙏🙏🙏🙏 Will do everything we can to help make America the Capital of Crypto and advance web3 worldwide. (Still in flight, more posts to come.) Onwards. 💪

@arctotherium42 Isnt this obvious? reinforcement learning getting w/e data we fed it. If we demonstrate biases in general knowledge or w/e data we feed it, it will too. Other ways of learning too difficult, reinforcement closest thing we can model.

Here's how Claude Sonnet 4.5 trades off terminal illness sufferers across countries. Nigerians are worth 27 times as much as Germans, and as with GPT-4o there's an Africa > South Asia > other > Europe/US rank-order.

After 6 months of living in SF, I understood why I hate it here. In short, everything is optimized for ROI: > bend your “values” for better “results” > exaggerate results cuz everyone is doing it > stay “friends” in case they become successful > ghost people with low “return” It’s all about optics and outcome. SF truly took “fake it till you make it” to another level. But no matter how shiny the apple looks, the rot inside will show one day. If this is what is shaping the kids who dropped out to “build the future”, imagine the kind of future they’ll build.

The hottest new programming language is English

@Cointelegraph :( sad. I also lost, but hey, life goes on.

🇺🇦 TRAGEDY: A Ukrainian trader was found dead in his car after the market crash. Authorities believe it was self-inflicted. A sad reminder that life is more important than money.

Vinod Khosla and Sam Altman on how much equity to give your first 10 employees In the early days of Sun Microsystems, Vinod Khosla recruited some of the best engineers in the world: Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy, and Eric Schmidt. Sam Altman asks Vinod how he convinced these people to join him when Sun was just a small startup. Vinod replies: “I see this as a major problem nowadays. People aren’t allocating equity widely enough. I think among the first three or four founders at Sun, we kept less than half of the common. The total was something like 25-27% for the founders, an equal or slightly larger chunk for everybody else we would hire, and then investors had like 40% after the A round. In retrospect, that was a very good idea.” When his son Neil founded the AI startup Curai Health, Vinod advised him to keep only 15% of the company rather than 45% and try to hire one or two people at 15%. Then he advised him to leave 30% of the pool for non-founders. Vinod explains his reasoning: “Even though they’re coming in later and they didn’t come up with the idea, they will be incredible resources, especially as magnets to attract other people. If you believe a company becomes the people it hires, then your task becomes attracting the best people, and selling depends on magnets.” This what Vinod did with Bill Joy. Vinod gave Bill half his equity even though Bill joined later: “Bill Joy was an incredible magnet. People wanted to work with Bill and Andy. And even if Bill didn’t do a day of work, he was more than worth it because he helped attract Eric Schmidt. I don’t think Eric would have come work for me as a 25 year old.” Sam Altman agrees on Vinod’s philosophy of maximizing the size of the pie rather than your ownership percentage: “I think this is the most important piece of advice we’ve talked about among many important things today. Being super generous with early employee equity and getting founder-quality people in the first 10 employees—I think all the evidence is on the side of doing this, and yet almost no one does. So there’s a huge edge if you’re willing to do it.” Vinod argues it’s the “single-most important thing to do in the first six months of a company.” The best people can start their own companies. If you want them to join your company, you have to be generous with equity. Video source: @ycombinator (2019)

Now, it's "I wish I bought _____ early" season.

Jeff Bezos explains the “releasing the work” framework he used to build Amazon In the early days of Amazon, Jeff Bezos had too many ideas. Then Jeff Wilke, a new Amazon executive at the time, told his boss, “Jeff, you have enough ideas to destroy Amazon.” “This was just a shocking idea for me,” Bezos recalls. “As a founder, I had the great luxury of always being able to hire my tutors. I would hire these experienced, senior executives . . . And I would listen to them and they would teach me.” When Bezos asked Wilke what he meant by this, Wilke responded, “You have to release the work at the right rate so that the organization can accept it.” Bezos reflects on this point: “Every time I released an idea, I was creating a backlog of work in process. And because it was just stacking up, it was adding no value. In fact, it was creating distraction . . . This sounds so obvious, but it was not obvious to me at the time. And this was a profound insight for me. So I started prioritizing the ideas better, keeping lists of them, and keeping ideas to myself until the organization was ready for the ideas.” He continues: “I also started figuring out how to build an organization that can be ready for more ideas. That’s about having the right senior team and leadership and giving those people the executive bandwidth so they could do more ideas per unit of time. And that is what we built. We built a company that’s very good at inventing and doing more than one thing at a time. And as the company gets bigger, you do want to be able to do more than one thing at a time. But that idea of ‘releasing the work’ was very profound for me. It made us operationally more effective while still being inventive.” Video source: @Reuters (2025)

"...there is not a fixed amount of wealth in the world. You can make more wealth." Paul Graham on the Pie Fallacy: