Ryan Jaskiewicz

Hypothetical: You’re the owner of an MLB team. I offer to take $0 salary and sign a minor league contract and go to Low A. If the “he sucks now” crowd is right and I get lit up, you cut me, lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club. If the “clubhouse cancer” crowd is right, you see it immediately at Low A and cut me. You lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club. If there’s massive negative PR, which we already know there won’t be, you just cut me and move on. The story is dead in a couple days, you lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club. But, assuming none of those things happen, which they obviously wouldn’t, if you like what you see, you can promote me to AA and re evaluate me there. Then AAA. Then the big leagues. If I earn it, which you’d be 100% in control of deciding. If you don’t think I’m good enough, you lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club. You could take away my “antics”. You could take away my social media. You could ask anything of me. If I don’t comply, you cut me, lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club. What logical reason is there to not do this? At worst, you cut me and there’s no risk to the big league club. At best, you get a Cy Young winner for $0 who you know can still pitch and could help the big league team if and when you see fit.

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The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet. 1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output. The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice. Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet. And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.” This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one. We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that. The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.

You can’t force your values on anyone else, but you can inspire them by actually living yours.

@Brady_H Bingo.

"Stop drinking alcohol as early as possible" What he means is: day drink

Tesla is the only robotaxi operator in North America that can mass manufacture its own robotaxis. Tesla can pump out over 4,500 of these per week from Giga Texas, and at a fraction of the cost of competitor robotaxis. How do you compete with that? FSD Unsupervised is here.

@brady_h It’s what makes Indy Monumental great.

Unpopular opinion. Small(ish) marathons are better if you’re thinking about performance. Logistics easier. Start isn’t crowded. Low-stress. Big city energy is great but standing on a start line for 45–60 minutes pre-race is NOT.

@brady_h Tried these and they tore up my heel. You were all good?

Last week I got the Hoka Mach X2 on sale (v3 out now) and it quickly became one of my favorite shoes in the lineup. Incredibly comfortable and bouncy. Perfect for uptempo sessions and long runs. Suitable for easy too (not too aggressive).

@UltraRunner26 Worst heel blister I’ve ever had.

👎 1 run, 10 mile update of the Hoka Mach X2. I don't like them AT ALL. They don't lock down well without feeling like they are crushing your upper foot. They want to be a race shoe but dont give the push off you want from a race shoe. Heel slip is horrible. I even taped my heal and still had a blister. I will be returning these. Not thrilled at all.

A hill I’m willing to die on: If I’m ever in the airport long enough for lounge access to be a valuable perk, I’ve done something horribly wrong.

Maybe the very hungry caterpillar was just in marathon training mode.

Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk: “You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion. When the left thought its hold on the hearts and minds of college students was nearly absolute, Kirk showed up again and again to break it. Slowly, then all at once, he did. College-age voters shifted sharply right in the 2024 election. “That was not all Kirk’s doing, but he was central in laying the groundwork for it. I did not know Kirk and I am not the right person to eulogize him. But I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness. In the inaugural episode of his podcast, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California hosted Kirk, admitting that his son was a huge fan. What a testament to Kirk’s project.” “Kirk and I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side on the continued possibility of American politics. It is supposed to be an argument, not a war; it is supposed to be won with words, not ended through bullets. I wanted Kirk to be safe for his sake, but I also wanted him to be safe for mine, and for the sake of our larger shared project. The same is true for Shapiro, for Hoffman, for Hortman, for Thompson, for Trump, for Pelosi, for Whitmer. We are all safe, or none of us are.”

RIP Charlie Kirk. It doesn’t matter what your opinion is of Charlie or his politics if you don’t view this as one of the darkest days in American history than you are part of the problem.

@brady_h Looks awesome!

15 weeks of marathon prep starts Monday. Trying a few new things this block. Still a few tweaks to make to this plan. It’s 2:20 season. 🫡

Counsell is lost.

What did Owen Caissie do wrong? Craig Counsell not like Canadians?

Denzel is the absolute best.

@brady_h Luscious. 😂

“Your fitness is showing.”

@brady_h No question, supershoes. And I agree note close.

Supershoes and it’s not even close.

I just can’t stop watching.