Brenda Li

Great builds are to come… Great people are inside… Great ideas come from within. @akatoshouse x @BDC_Capital x @Canada x @HackTheNorth x @cansbridgeproj ❤️

@cory Would love to chat @cory. Always interested in meeting more insanely talented talent.

me (and some of my friends) are hiring soon if you love meeting people, finding undiscovered talent before anyone else, and working insanely hard.... @ reply or DM me

eat butter

butter. @usevroom

@demireren_ @cursor_ai whatta goat

Hey mom we have Cafe Cursor at home:

@ella_schlags Whatta beaut. The seats look quite comfy as well. Got a cafe car and scenic views, 12-13h?

@librendaa072 Mukund and I took the train back from nyc, he slept great

Has anyone taken an overnight bus from NYC to Toronto? If so, how was it? Considering riding it to merge sleeping and travelling, and reduce the time waiting at airports.

Honestly any form of pursuing is hard, whether easy, lack of pursuing, etc Even the so-called “easy” way is challenging. It’s freeing to understand life is long - to have patience and do it well. It’s challenging when, in life, a myriad of factors are thrown and differing people have different opinions and struggles. But as a person just live your values or learn to work with others. We just hopped off a call, “you are the 5 people closest around you” — so think about the values you care about

@tweetatvictoria @omgandhi_ ty guys @tweetatvictoria @omgandhi_, y’all are the goat 🚌😴

@librendaa072 @omgandhi_

@omarsar0 @karpathy A bit late to the party, but what was the result of your report?

💯for technical or ML content, a rule I use is that I need to code something along with what I am learning or reading. Short videos are automatically filtered out because of this. Long form content is the best way to learn and go deeply into a topic. This is why I prefer to learn with textbooks, papers, code bases, notebooks, and long form lectures. I was just wondering today if it’s possible to use ChatGPT to build a study companion that helps encourage deeper exploration. The chat interface is a bit limited for this use case but one can still write notes on ChatGPT and test understanding with questions and interleave that with mini code sessions. Probably custom GPT might be a good tools to use for this. Reporting on this soon - I might actually end up using your lectures too. The goal is to encourage curiosity, deeper intuition and understanding, deeper exploration, and rigour.

# on shortification of "learning" There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this content also enjoy it because fun has a much larger audience, fame and revenue. But as far as learning goes, this is a trap. This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those "Garden Veggie Straws", which feel like you're eating healthy vegetables until you look at the ingredients. Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that "10 minute full body" workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym. You want the mental equivalent of sweating. It's not that the quickie doesn't do anything, it's just that it is wildly suboptimal if you actually care to learn. I find it helpful to explicitly declare your intent up front as a sharp, binary variable in your mind. If you are consuming content: are you trying to be entertained or are you trying to learn? And if you are creating content: are you trying to entertain or are you trying to teach? You'll go down a different path in each case. Attempts to seek the stuff in between actually clamp to zero. So for those who actually want to learn. Unless you are trying to learn something narrow and specific, close those tabs with quick blog posts. Close those tabs of "Learn XYZ in 10 minutes". Consider the opportunity cost of snacking and seek the meal - the textbooks, docs, papers, manuals, longform. Allocate a 4 hour window. Don't just read, take notes, re-read, re-phrase, process, manipulate, learn. And for those actually trying to educate, please consider writing/recording longform, designed for someone to get "sweaty", especially in today's era of quantity over quality. Give someone a real workout. This is what I aspire to in my own educational work too. My audience will decrease. The ones that remain might not even like it. But at least we'll learn something.

@DX_aniel wait I love this. there should be more comments here, I feel

man i really missed getting to spend every waking hour on making something happen time just stops, each day feels like a week, and im either feeling really fulfilled or too obsessed with a problem that theres nothing else to think about

Fundraising is hard... so we packed the best investors in the world into one room in Waterloo. Pitch investors from @GarageCapital, @pearvc, @firstround, @inovia, @AforeVC, and more at the Akatos Symposium Showcase on March 20. If you're building something big and ambitious, apply below ↴

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Doing a half/full marathon in a few months - so running the Brooklyn bridge! Who else is running Toronto Waterfront, and what are your favourite places to run?

An agent that takes in biometric, mental health and macro/micro goal-wise data and performs as a living coach and assistant. For example, your goals are to train for the next competition, your stress levels are elevated, here’s your suggested dinner plan and let’s adjust the lights to this brightness and hue. Call Naomi, your family friend, to catchup in a while and elevate your mood. Remember to finish your checklist which has been on the top of your mind. Your company needs x y z; let’s trigger this workflow and monitor processes in the background to start your day. Here’s a dynamic display of a projection and a quick glance of current situation. Your usual dog-walk route has been blocked by snow; take care to wear this jacket. You’ve got a date at 6pm? Let’s play your curated playlist. Your food is set to finish braising and baking at this time. It monitors your wellbeing based on your responses and sends data to doctors or your own dynamic dashboard, as needed. Fits in homes with healthy seniors: tune temperature. For example: - prioritize catchup with family - supportive ambient music and content - aids with nutrition and recommends rewarding exercises - and more.

If you want $100k to work on your project, comment your idea below and I’ll help you land this. I’ll be extra energized to help you land it if you’re building an AI agent that can run on @openhome Shoutout @menemazarakis 👌

Never be afraid of doing something for fear of what other people might say or get offended by

Lesson learned: never not do the things you want to do Had a good cry on that. Time is limited, and time will frown on you if you don’t do that. The difference between jumping to things, and doing things immediately + not being afraid to fail fast, so you have time to do something else too (similar or different vein).

@zeldapoem wow, beautiful events - do you have recommendations in nyc?

⋆. 𐙚 ˚ Art & Culture in San Francisco are not dead! Here are my favorite events happening this week (3.3-3.9):

The updated TO-DO list, alongside app ideas that came up, didn’t save on granola! Re-creating a summary and saving a copy to Google Docs next time. Any way to retrieve?

Finished at 12:30PM with calls extending to 12:40pm. NSLSC/MSCA is a bitch at times.

Doing an 100 days challenge with @BuildWithDuke. At first I thought it was kind of stupid, but I agreed. Keep up to hear updates.

@BuildWithDuke Nice!

@librendaa072 You done or what? :p Got a response from the VP of Nuclear Refurb btw

Now that I’ve tackled yesterday’s, I can make a new one for today with remainder items from last Tuesday’s “lower priority”. Woohoo. Love to-do lists.

Day 1 - finish my long list of to-do’s in an hour. It’s not that long. See you at 12:30pm.