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@BarstoolBigCat I do an annual 72 hour fast, you can definitely do it. * Definitely helps to start in ketosis. I eat one “clean” meal but don’t need to do bone broth only *not a doctor

i mean come on

Been at ESPN a long time - this one was an all timer. Before social media, it was as viral as a story can be. I watched it on a tape in the news room. I couldn’t stop watching his teammates.

AI really can help education: Randomized controlled experiment on high school students found a GPT-4o powered tutor that personalized problems for students raised final test scores by .15 SD, "equivalent to as much as six to nine months of additional schooling by some estimates"

Nothing just boys being boys 😂

He's gonna be even more popular for this now

Arguing that Elon Musk’s success is due to “narrative control”, luck, or riding others coattails is such an implausible claim that it functions as a useful litmus test for a persons analytical judgment. This isnt about whether you like Elon Musk. I don’t know him, and I am largely agnostic about him as a person. But I do know his record as a CEO, and studying management and business strategy has been a major part of my job for the past 20yrs. From that perspective I can tell you that Musk isn’t just a good CEO. He is one of the most effective CEOs of our generation. When I hear people write off Elon’s achievements bc someone else started these companies, it is a clear tell that they don’t understand business. Ideas are a dime a dozen. They are not what makes a great CEO. Execution is. And part of execution is recognizing a good idea when you see one and understanding how to build something around it that actually works. Tesla was months from bankruptcy when Musk took control. It’s now the company that forced every major automaker on earth to retool their entire product strategy. SpaceX was a startup that serious people in the aerospace industry dismissed as a fantasy. It now conducts more orbital launches than the rest of the world combined and has driven launch costs down by an order of magnitude. Starlink is on track to become one of the most consequential communications infrastructure projects in history. These aren’t narrative achievements. Theyre tangible businesses that work, at scale, in industries where failure is the default condition. And there’s a consistent pattern where Elon has repeatedly looked crazy, and then been right. The people who called reusable rockets a dream watched a booster fly back and land itself. The people who said a mainstream consumer EV company was impossible watched Tesla restructure the global auto industry. This is a person who has repeatedly seen something others cant see yet, absorbs the ridicule, and then builds toward it anyway. The PayPal criticism this author pushes is another perfect ex. Do you know how he became CEO? Elon identified the importance of network effects in the late 90s and realized he could take advantage of cheap capital during the internet bubble to pay users to join his network. He was labeled a lunatic. Losing money upfront to lock customers into your network is well understood now but it wasn’t back then. Confinity was forced to merge bc they couldn’t compete with it…and that’s based on Peter Thiel’s own account in Zero to One. Elon was considered reckless at the time. But he was right. And now we have people criticizing Musk’s Mars goal. But as Ben Thompson explained, Mars is the strategic North Star that forces you to radically confront the cost structure required to achieve it. Which leads you down the only path that actually scales, without settling for easier short-term solutions. If you’re serious about putting a city on Mars, full reusability is non-negotiable. And that engineering logic turns out to be what dramatically lowers launch costs. Which unlocks Starlink at scale. And Starlink creates the revenue flywheel that funds everything else. An Arianespace executive called reusability a dream in 2013 and said it was impossible. But the dream isnt the destination. It’s the constraint that forces you down the only engineering path that actually works. And it’s why SpaceX is a trillion company today. You can write off one company as luck. You can write off two as fortunate timing. But at some point the sheer weight of success across different industries and challenges stops looking like coincidence and starts looking like a big flashing signal. When someone executes repeatedly in industries where lack of execution destroys almost everyone else, the correct analytical move is to update your model. If you can’t see that Elon is a great CEO, then you’re just revealing the limits of your own analytical process.

Three years ago I suddenly developed blurry vision in one of my eyes. Went to the GP. Eye drops. No effect. Went to a specialized eye hospital. No solution there either. A few weeks ago I tried something new: I asked an LLM. It analyzed my diet and suggested I might be omega-3 deficient. It also pointed me to studies showing that this can impair the meibomian glands (which produce the oily layer that smooths the surface of the cornea.) I started taking algae oil supplements. Two weeks later… my vision is perfectly restored! Honestly, I got a bit emotional. Banning AI from being used for medical questions is a terrible idea.

New reserach shows the CDC guidelines about throwing away breastmilk immediately after your baby drinks from the bottle is way too cautious. Bacterial growth is minimal, even for several hours at room temp. This may seem minor but I promise it's not for parents. parentdata.org/babies/breast-…

Supreme Leader is like regular leader but with sour cream and tomatoes.

@tobi Left my last engineering job in 2013. I’m back. areyougoingexponential.vercel.app/jryanappleton

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Codex is insane. I literally know nothing about coding. ZERO. and i just built a fully functioning web app in minutes. Check it here

Automate only the skills you’re willing to lose.

People ask me all the time about compelling use cases of AI. Here’s a good one. Millions of dogs go missing in the U.S. every year—and options for finding them are often painfully limited. Our Ring team saw an opportunity to use our community and technology to help, so they built Search Party. When a pet owner posts about a lost dog in the Ring app, nearby participating outdoor Ring cameras in the neighborhood begin looking for potential matches. If yours spots what might be the missing dog, it lets you know. You see the photo alongside footage from your camera, then can choose to share the video with the pet’s owner. The AI is trained on tens of thousands of dog videos so it can recognize different breeds, sizes, fur patterns, body features, unique marks, shape, and color. And privacy stays in your control—you decide each time whether to help. The impact is energizing. Search Party has helped bring home 99 dogs in just 90 days—more than a dog a day since launching three months ago. Ring customer Kylee was blown away by Search Party after her dog Nyx was found by a neighbor’s camera just 15 minutes after slipping through a tiny hole he’d dug under her backyard fence. When a Ring customer and military veteran named Kurt realized his service dog was missing after jumping his fence, he worried he might have lost her for good. He quickly initiated a Search Party in the Ring app asking neighbors to help locate her. Later that day, he got the notification he was hoping for…Lainey was found. Chris, a Ring camera owner, helped reunite another lost dog with its family after getting an app alert that said, “Your camera may have spotted a missing dog,” flagging footage he wouldn't have otherwise noticed. And the list of stories like these keeps growing. Now we’ve expanded this feature so that anyone in the U.S. can start a Search Party through the Ring app, even without a Ring camera (lost pets are one of the most common posts in the Ring Neighbors app—over 1M last year alone). With roughly 90 million dogs in the U.S., think this is gonna matter for a lot of families. Good example of real-world impact, and proud of what the Ring team has built here. aboutamazon.com/news/devices/r…

The largest randomized trial of medical A.I. —Over 100,000 women in Sweden —radiologist + AI vs 2 radiologists, in follow-up —AI added led to 29% more cancer detected, 44% reduced workload, and —Less cancer dx in subsequent 2 years, and, when found, less aggressive thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Again, I like Nate Oats. But he's being purposefully misleading here. NCAA has ONLY 3 rules for eligibility: 1. Within 5 years of HS graduation 2. Never played in an NBA game 3. Never signed an NBA contract No one currently eligible has done any of the 3. Charles Bediako has

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Broncos lost of QBs they beat isn’t anything to brag about @TwistedTea

2.67 years of AI progress