Jack O'Grady

We made a new thing! Meet @LectogramHQ, a new AI tool that generates in-depth, personalized lectures about anything. It's transformed how fast we can learn things internally, and today we're launching it in beta --> lectogram.com

Coding with AI started in a chat window. It didn't take off until the format caught up — Claude Code, Cursor. Tools built for the job. Learning's on the same path. A chat box is great for quick questions, but it was never the right shape for going deep on something new. So we built the format. Lectogram turns anything you want to learn into a full, structured lecture — built around you, yours to keep and read at your own pace, with questions answered inline. It's done for our learning what Claude Code did for our coding. Vibe learning → app.lectogram.com

@midjourney The soundtrack is almost as good as the video open.spotify.com/track/1TNfJAGf…

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Really cool to see the early response to @LectogramHQ yesterday! We've advanced all the waitlist sign-ups from yesterday, check your emails and happy learning 📚

@azzabazazz @_patrickogrady Absolutely! I've actually used it a ton for Santa Fe Institute-adjacent work

@_patrickogrady Verrry interesting. Think Lectogram could spin up a series that combines Wheeler’s ouvre and Santa Fe Institute complexity work? Or is it more technically focused?

@azzabazazz fsync ✍️

Refining Home Espresso: app.lectogram.com/shared/isBDvqt…

Actually understanding Git worktrees: app.lectogram.com/shared/rLJd3L_…

Refining Home Espresso: app.lectogram.com/shared/isBDvqt…

We think this is a missing medium in learning from AI, and the best way to understand it is to experience it yourself. Some shared lectures below!

Lectogram makes you a personalized, in-depth lecture tuned to your learning context and goals. It's transformed how quickly and easily we can learn new things, and it's now our default starting point for learning about new subjects or doing lit review.

We found that a lot of these assume prior knowledge, aren't catered to exactly what you're trying to learn, and aren't always the best explainers. That's the gap Lectogram was built to solve.

This started as a way for us to learn technical things better and faster. Research papers, portions of books, etc that we're constantly learning as we develop our ML models at @atmeto_inc

We made a new thing! Meet @LectogramHQ, a new AI tool that generates in-depth, personalized lectures about anything. It's transformed how fast we can learn things internally, and today we're launching it in beta --> lectogram.com

Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.

@JosephSomsel @Atomicrod There’s a third revenue mechanism you’re missing here which is contracted offtake. Most projects are shifting to this to make financing pencil. PPAs/Resource Adequacy/tolls. But yes no one is financing pure merchant assets anymore.

@Atomicrod I think we agree that there can be so much battery storage that it stops being profitable - no arbitrage opportunities and no worthwhile ancillary services contracts. However, the renewable guys will insist on batteries to justify their wind and solar shortcomings.

Interesting quote from the DISTILLED newsletter. "Battery storage economics are worsening from market saturation and tariffs “Battery cannibalization”—where growing capacity drives down the prices batteries earn—is making it harder to build profitable battery projects. Texas battery revenues crashed 70% from $192/kW in 2023 to $55/kW in 2024, while ancillary service prices fell 90%. California saw similar declines, with revenues falling from $103/kW in 2022 to just $53/kW in 2024." BTW - DISTILLED is reliably optimistic about renewables and grid scale batteries. However, @curious_founder is also an honest and observant reporter. As he has noted, batteries have good economics when they can charge with cheap power and discharge when power prices are high. Volatility is their friend. But more batteries [aka market saturation] mean higher lows and lower highs.

Reinforcement learning 🧠 on robots 🤖 can’t stay in simulation forever. My new post explores why direct, on-hardware learning matters and how we also need smarter mechanical design to enable it. kris.pengy.ca/designforlearn…

@yanda And thanks @BriansAngles for this random piece of knowledge from a Mammoth drive in college haha

@yanda This might be related to this Reply All podcast in 2017 (#104 The Case of the Phantom Caller). Tl;dr it's a toll free number that makes more money based on how long the receiver stays on the line. So they try to make the most interesting noises to get you to stay on longer

Why are faxes spam calling me? Do other people get this? 😞

@yanda Link: gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-al…