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This is Peter Thiel. Co-Founder of Paypal and one of the most unique thinkers of our time. He recently went on The Joe Rogan Experience and shared some mind-blowing theories and ideas. Here are 9 key takeaways: (No. 7 is fascinating)

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This Sopranos insurance commercial is one of the best in history

“Yes I was on the sex island. But only for the snorkeling.” 🤣 twitter.com/craig13377337/…

Reporter accidentally recreates the half court shot he was reporting on

Denzel Washington gives more practical wisdom in one minute of riffing than any TED talk

Ever wondered how those little bar mats are made... ? Well it's your lucky day! 🍺

This underwater upside down view of synchronized swimmers produces a surreal effect, to say the least [📹 Fabio Ferioli]

A mysterious, incredibly energetic cosmic ray has smashed into Earth #Echobox=1700778820" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/240460…

if Q* is an agentic algorithmic breakthrough that can reason and goal seek via something like A* search against an entire world model embedding, it completely explains this weird statement from sam last week: "Is this a tool we've built or a creature?" x.com/ritageleta/sta…

The 3 greatest tech acquisitions ever: ▫️Facebook buys Instagram for $1B ▫️Google buys YouTube for $1.7B ▫️Microsoft buys OpenAI for $0B

Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.

Breaking: OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO trib.al/DTxl5tC

Another small test of Krea from @krea_ai. Impressed with the speed of the generation, and the new style slider that will make it easier to generate images that stick much more closely to the input. In this case though, just a material test. More tests of the style slider in effect soon. Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang said that "Every single pixel will be generated soon. Not rendered: generated". We're getting there. #ai #3d

As he was struggling to break into Hollywood, Matt Damon read about how Quentin Tarantino did it: Essentially, he got a big-name actor (Harvey Keitel) to want to star in Tarantino’s first movie (Reservoir Dogs) then leveraged that to get the movie funded. “And so,” Damon said, “We wrote ‘Good Will Hunting’ and that part that Robin [Williams] eventually took—we called it ‘the Harvey Keitel part.’” “Ben [Affleck] and I wrote the movie specifically because we wanted the parts as actors…But we knew [we needed] a big-name actor who could get us some money because Ben and I were worth nothing. And so we wrote ‘the Harvey Keitel part’ really open-ended. So we could adjust it: if Morgan Freeman or Denzel Washington wanted to come in and play it—we could make that character from Roxbury [a neighborhood in Boston], and we could explore the historic racial tension in Boston. If Meryl Streep took the part—instead of a father-son relationship, we could make it a mother-son relationship. So we really left it open-ended because we wanted to cast as wide a net as possible because we were just trying to get the movie made.” “And then once we got Robin to sign up to do it, that’s really what got us a green light to make it…He changed our lives.” Takeaway 1: In one of my favorite talks, "Runnin' Down A Dream," the venture capitalist Bill Gurley explains that while studying the career trajectories of three of his heroes—the restauranteur Danny Meyer, the coach Bobby Knight, and the musician Bob Dylan—he noticed a pattern: They studied the career trajectories of the icons in their respective industries. Like Damon, they studied how others successfully got their foot in the door then climbed to top of their profession. And then, they took similar steps towards doing the same. Coincidentally, Tarantino did this too. He made scrap books for each of his favorite filmmakers: Brian De Palma, Howard Hawks, Douglas Sirk, and Martin Scorsese. "I was like a film historian," Tarantino said. "I was obsessed with studying how they did it, the evolution of their careers." "Greatness isn't random," as Gurley puts it. Instead, it's usually a predictable step along a studied path of strategically modified emulation and, of course, determination. Takeaway 2: In the clip above, Damon goes on to explain that, not only did Robin Williams sign on to be in "Good Will Hunting," he also went off script and improvised one of the most iconic lines ("Son of a bitch, he stole my line") in the movie. It reminded me of something Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull writes in his book, Creativity. Inc.: "Getting the right people is more important than getting the right idea…If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better." - - - “Bob Dylan said, 'I'm a musical expeditionary.' I looked up 'expeditionary'—it's to travel for scientific research or exploration. And that's what Dylan did...For hours upon hours upon hours, he studied what other artists did. He was a mimic. He was studying, studying, studying.” — Bill Gurley Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

Netflix Intro Experiment by Reddit User GuiMarconi1982. This blew me away, just shows how crazy cool things we can make with AI tools that traditional tools would have us bashing our heads with for a long time. And the fact that we can make hundreds of variations and explorations in no time at all. Wowsers. 🌐 Used a QR Code Control Net model in combination with Animatediff on comfyUI (reddit.com/r/StableDiffus… ) 🌐 Music is AI generated with Mubert (mubert.com) 🌐 SFX are from Motion Array (motionarray.com) Magical work.

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«While spacewalking I realized something: I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity» — NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman

Martin Scorsese y los paralelos entre su nueva película y la actual situación mundial cnnespanol.cnn.com/video/scorsese…