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Kaworu
@kaworu0x
Alpha? Here? No Just things about AI
Moon Katılım Mayıs 2023
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“My wife says she’s buying her parents a car whether I agree or not.”
Caller: “My wife and I just paid off over $150,000 in debt, but now she says she’s buying a car for her parents with or without my permission. It’s causing a huge fight.”
Dave: “This isn’t really about the car. The money is just the light on the dashboard. There’s something much deeper going on.”
Caller: “She keeps bringing up my old student loan debt whenever we argue.”
Dave: “That’s scorekeeping, and it’s toxic. Don’t argue about the money have an honest conversation about how it makes you feel.
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While Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone, the engineers who built it were taking shots of Scotch in the fifth row.
They were not celebrating. They were waiting for it to crash.
The prototype Jobs carried onto the Macworld stage in 2007 was nowhere near finished. During rehearsals it dropped calls, lost its internet connection, froze, and sometimes shut down completely.
Eventually, Apple’s engineers found one exact sequence of actions the phone could survive. Open the features in the correct order and it looked flawless. Deviate from that order and the entire demonstration could collapse.
They called it “the golden path.”
Jobs memorized the path. Multiple backup iPhones were hidden onstage. After every successful section, the engineers in the audience took another drink.
Then Jobs opened Google Maps, searched for a nearby Starbucks, and called the store directly from the screen.
A real employee answered.
“Yes, I’d like to order 4,000 lattes to go, please.”
The audience laughed. The phone survived.
When the presentation ended without a crash, the engineers drained the flask.
The first iPhone was revolutionary. But the demonstration proved something narrower: Apple had found one path through the future that did not break.
That is what every perfect demo hides. You are not watching everything the system can do.
You are watching the route its creators already know it can survive.
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Megan Fox admits she drank Machine Gun Kelly's blood and prefers toxic trauma bonds over any stable life
"You're so offended that I got a drop of Machine Gun Kelly's blood in my mouth"
"You guys are out here letting strangers come in their mouth"
"I prefer the agonizing psychological abuse of this trauma bond to the prosaic tedium of a regular life"
"Stability sounds boring"
"I'd rather be in something dramatic and toxic versus something stable"
"I did a lot of falling in love with other people all the time"
"I would go to work and fall in love because I was a kid"
mercante@merccante
Shia LaBeouf admits he is in the tribe of the fuck-ups and owns the abuse allegations "I hurt that woman" "And in the process of doing that I hurt many other people and many other people before that woman" "I'm in the tribe of the fuck-ups" "I'm a very public sinner a very fallible person in the public sphere" "I was a pleasure seeking selfish self-centered dishonest inconsiderate fearful human being" "Rock bottom isn't when you experience the worst moment of your life rock bottom is when you change"
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The man who invented mathematical portfolio optimization did not use it for his own retirement account.
Harry Markowitz won the Nobel Prize for teaching Wall Street how to build the mathematically efficient portfolio.
For his own money, he chose 50% stocks and 50% bonds.
No covariance matrix. No efficient frontier. No optimizer.
His reason was regret.
Markowitz was 25 when his employer asked him to divide his retirement contributions between stocks and bonds. His portfolio theory had just been published. It could calculate which combination offered the highest expected return for a chosen level of volatility.
He ignored it.
“If the stock market rose a great deal, I would regret it if I was completely out of it.”
If stocks collapsed, he knew he would regret being completely invested. So he divided the money equally and called it “minimizing maximum regret.”
That sounds almost embarrassingly human for the father of quantitative investing.
But it exposes the one variable every optimizer hides.
Markowitz’s equation could optimize a portfolio once the investor defined the objective. It could not decide whether that objective should be maximum return, minimum volatility, survival, sleep—or avoiding a decision you would hate yourself for later.
The mathematics was not wrong.
The question had changed.
Markowitz later clarified that 50/50 was his personal choice in 1952, before modern data and portfolio software existed. He would not give the same allocation to every young investor.
Wall Street spent the next 70 years making his optimizer faster. AI can now test millions of portfolios in seconds.
None of it removes the first decision:
What are you actually trying to protect?
The machine can optimize the answer.
It cannot choose the question.
Misato@misat0x
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X spent Friday on one line: Fable-class brain, half the bill
Anthropic's post says Claude Opus 5 comes close to Claude Fable 5 intelligence at half the price, is SOTA on Frontier-Bench and GDPval-AA, and is the new default on Claude Max (strongest model on Claude Pro)
Artificial Analysis separately measures ~26% lower cost per Intelligence Index task vs Fable 5 ($2.03 vs $2.75 at max).
If your stack debate this week is "Fable or not," the honest read is cost and daily driver fit, not vibes
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44% OF ROBLOX GAMES ARE BUILT USING AI
that’s roughly the percentage shown in the statistics, which means that nearly half of all games are built using AI
this shows just how much the barrier to entry into this niche has lowered over the past year, and that anyone can get started here
it’s also interesting that
Roblox paid creators $1.5 billion in 2025, up from $923 million in 2024
a 63% jump in a single year, with over 23,500 creators cashing out real money through the developer exchange program
this market is growing at an incredible rate, and there’s enough money here for everyone planning to develop games
to get started, follow these steps:
> download Roblox Studio
> connect Claude Code via MCP
> come up with a game idea and mechanics using ChatGPT
> get prompts and start creating
> publish the game & add a donation option
> promote the game according to the content plan from ChatGPT
i’ve described all these steps in detail in my article
save it so you don’t lose it ↓
qurool@quroolarc
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another example: a developer used the exact same $8 ESP32-S3 chip and local AI setup to build a real-time object recognition camera
the fact that this is running entirely offline, on an eight-dollar microcontroller, without any cloud API calls, is wild...
it captures the video feed, processes it locally through the model, and identifies objects in real-time.
we are entering an era where you can just glue intelligence onto any physical object for less than $10.
the hardware barrier is completely shattered.
ard@ardchain
forget the $699 AI pins. this $8 chip just shattered the barrier for local AI hardware. a developer just forced a 28.9 million-parameter LLM onto a standard ESP32-S3 microcontroller. it costs roughly 8 dollars, runs completely offline, and draws the power of a single LED. conventional wisdom said a model of this size simply would not fit. the chip only has 512 KB of fast SRAM and 16 MB of flash. the breakthrough is architectural. the developer moved the bulk of the embedding table into flash memory and memory-mapped it. the chip only needs to pull about 450 bytes per token, keeping the active working memory inside the fast SRAM. this means you can now embed a capable language model into a physical node for the price of two coffees. and we are already seeing the beginnings of this custom physical hardware. in the video, a creator built a minimalist voice-controlled universal remote using an ESP32. it captures voice and remotely controls the computer over bluetooth LE. he simply says "open chrome and open 20 new tabs", and the custom hardware executes it instantly. we have spent years watching model sizes explode upward. but the true frontier is the opposite direction. when an eight-dollar chip can power offline intelligence and custom physical interfaces, AI becomes local infrastructure rather than a cloud service.
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THIS IS F*CKING INSANE!
While everyone is still stuck chaining slow, single-file prompts, the real alpha has moved to Loop Engineering and dynamic Graphs.
The linear AI agent is dead. Claude Code just shipped dynamic workflows that let you spawn a coordinated fleet of subagents to execute complex tasks in parallel.
The secret? Orchestration costs ZERO model tokens because it’s plain code, not a conversation.
The Graph Playbook:
🔹 Nodes are jobs, Edges are data flows. Stop using "and then" as a prompt.
🔹 Fan out: Run 50 independent agents at once with parallel().
🔹 The Diamond: Split work → reduce → synthesize.
🔹 Verify on the edge: Trap hallucinations by forcing a verifier node to try and kill findings before they merge.
A prompter asks a question. An architect draws a graph.
Read the 14-step roadmap below 👇
Codez@0xCodez
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“My mom stole $13,000 from my account and I don’t know if I should cut her off.”
Caller: “My mother-in-law has a history of stealing from us. She used my debit card information to pay her own bills, and we later found out she withdrew about $13,000 from my UTMA account years ago without me knowing.”
Dave Ramsey: “First thing: make sure she has zero access to your money. You’re 22 now, and you control your accounts. That part is fixable.”
Caller: “Should we take legal action to get the money back?”
Dave Ramsey : “You could chase it, but it may turn into a long battle with little result. The bigger issue is setting a boundary. You can love someone and still decide they no longer get access to your finances.”
Dave Ramsey: “Protect your marriage, protect your money, and get help processing the hurt. This is bigger than a bank account it’s about trust.”
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How a 27-year-old photographer from Brazil tricked the algorithm with a single AI creation
He desperately needed striking photo-portfolio material, but finding the right model who could also nail rhythmic dance routines was nearly impossible.
So, he turned to Claude to design a custom virtual muse from scratch.
Keeping the concept clean, he generated a hyper-realistic character built to hold attention through fluid motion and sharp angles.
Without high expectations, he dropped the clips onto TikTok.
By the next morning, his analytics exploded: over 21 million views and a massive surge of 27,400 followers overnight.
The takeaway? When aesthetic realism meets dynamic movement, the feed simply cannot look away.
Bober_smart@Bober_smart
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HE TURNED A SIMPLE NERD RACK INTO A $22,400/MONTH BUSINESS.
Not by launching apps.
By automating the tedious tasks companies don’t want to handle.
Invoices.
Meeting notes.
Transcripts.
Internal files.
A tiny server handles it all quietly in the background.
Initial setup: $1,100.
Average client: $650/month.
More than 30 hours saved per client every month.
It looks like a hobby project.
But it works like a full-time employee.
And most people still haven’t caught on.
ELG@elg_oleksandr
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Caller: “I am 48 years old and I have been diagnosed with stage (4) terminal cancer… married with two kids, we live off my $2,800 disability income every month, and I have zero assets. Then out of nowhere I hit $100k in fantasy football. What do I do with it?
Dave: First do NOT try to turn that $100k into a million by betting again. That “miracle” is not a system. It’s a one-time gift. Treating it like a gambling machine will leave your family with nothing.
Caller:So… what then? It’s not enough to take care of them forever.
Dave:Exactly, Your job right now isn’t to get rich. It’s to buy your wife and kids a future after you’re gone.
Take a chunk of that money and get her trained, hairdressing license, nursing assistant, whatever practical skill lets her earn a real living on her own. Give her the power to support the family when you’re not here.
Caller: Talking about this feels like I’m planning my own death…
Dave: No Planning for their survival is the most loving thing you can still do.
You’re not causing the tragedy. You’re protecting them from it.
That’s what a husband and father does.
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$16,800 last month.
This girl does not exist.
One locked face.
One consistent body.
Same lighting every day.
No camera.
No model on payroll.
No daily shoots.
Just prompts, scheduled posts, and inbound deals.
Most people still think you need to be the face.
You don’t
Kardinall@kardinall
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The man who invented the quantum computer promised it would do one small thing. Everyone who got rich off his idea quietly dropped that part.
In 1981 Richard Feynman said it plainly: nature is quantum, so to simulate nature you need a quantum machine. That was the whole pitch.
Not curing cancer. Not breaking encryption. Not beating the markets.
All of that got added later, by people selling, not building. And the one modest job he named is still the only use experts agree is real.
The founder promised the least. Everyone after him shipped a costume.
Full breakdown below.
Solty@0xSolty
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Steve Jobs built a working car configurator in two days in 1996 - FedEx had spent four months just to make a page that shows where your package is.
29 minutes - how he read the web's next phase years early, why he gave the core product away for free, and how he sold software before anyone knew they needed it.
"that's what we have today with 99.9% of our pages out there. what happens if the page you want doesn't exist?"
"the page has to be built on the fly."
Apple bought his company months later. that software became the Apple Store and the iTunes Store - the checkout that sold the iPhone.
bookmark & watch ↓
Mr. Niko@MrNiko0x
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates spent decades as enemies - minutes before their only joint interview, Gates sat silent and furious backstage: then someone asked a question and Gates looked up: "as the representative from hell, I can tell you..." Jobs handed him a bottle of ice water. "let me help you." the room broke. both men laughed. by the end you'll know what they finally admitted about each other on that stage. bookmark & watch ↓
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Shia LaBeouf admits he is in the tribe of the fuck-ups and owns the abuse allegations
"I hurt that woman"
"And in the process of doing that I hurt many other people and many other people before that woman"
"I'm in the tribe of the fuck-ups"
"I'm a very public sinner a very fallible person in the public sphere"
"I was a pleasure seeking selfish self-centered dishonest inconsiderate fearful human being"
"Rock bottom isn't when you experience the worst moment of your life rock bottom is when you change"
mercante@merccante
Charlize Theron admits she recently had a one-night stand with a 26-year-old and says the sex was better than anything in her 20s or 30s "I've probably had three one night stands in my entire life" "But I did just recently f*ck a 26-year-old and it was really fucking amazing" "And I've never done that" "I was like oh this is great" "I'm having the kind of sex I never had in my 20s or in my 30s" "I found this freedom in my 40s"
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A man in a black-and-white shirt took a lie detector test
on camera in 2019.
He said he was from the year 2045.
The polygraph did not flag a single answer.
He talked about the chip in his hand
that made his skin swell as his body tried to reject it.
He talked about how the color spectrum in clothing
disappears in the future — that's why he wore only black and white.
He talked about the AI that governs the entire world by 2030,
with ten humans left to check its morality.
Then someone asked why he came back to 2019 specifically.
His answer had nothing to do with history.
He came back to be here before December 6th.
The day his mother went into labor with him.
He wanted to watch his own life begin
from the outside.
Video below. Judge for yourself.
0xP1xel@QuantumP1x0d
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