Sacksonville Thaguars

A MIT student figured out how to compress an entire semester of lecture content into one 90-minute study session. He calls it "context stacking," and it's the most unfair thing I've seen done with NotebookLM. I asked him to walk me through it. He did. I haven't studied the same way since. Here's exactly what he does. Two days before each lecture, he uploads everything into NotebookLM. The assigned readings, the previous week's slides, 3 or 4 related papers he finds himself, and any problem sets that are still open. Most students wait for the lecture to explain the material. He walks in having already built a mental model of it. That's step one. But it's not the move that makes it unfair. The first prompt he runs across all of it: "What are the 5 core concepts this week's content is built on, and how do they connect to what I studied last week?" Not summarize. Not define. Connect. NotebookLM pulls threads across everything he uploaded simultaneously. It surfaces relationships between ideas that would take a normal student weeks of review to notice. He gets that map before the lecture even starts. Then he runs the prompt that does most of the work. "What would I need to genuinely understand about this material to be able to teach it to someone with zero background in this subject?" That question is doing something most students never force themselves to do. It exposes exactly where his understanding is solid and exactly where it's hollow. The gaps show up immediately, and he spends the rest of the 90 minutes filling only those gaps. Not reviewing what he already knows. Only fixing what he doesn't. The final prompt is the one that separates context stacking from every other study method I've heard of. "What question could a professor ask about this material that would expose a student who understood the surface but missed the underlying logic?" He's not studying for the exam he expects. He's studying for the exam designed to catch people who only think they understood it. By the time he sits in the lecture hall, the professor is not teaching him anything new. The professor is confirming what he already mapped, filling in a few details, and occasionally surprising him with something he didn't anticipate. That surprise is the only thing he writes down. Most students leave a lecture hoping the material will eventually click. He walks in with it already clicked, and uses the lecture to find out what he missed. That's not a study hack. That's a completely different relationship with learning.

Weierstrass’ Monster

I love that people from Massachusetts created the most generous, socialist health care system in all 50 states while also being the most aggressive drivers. They’re like “I want my neighbors to have the best care. They’re gonna need it if they don’t get out of the left lane.”

🚨FYI: Gavin Newsom has already signed California Assembly Bill 1043 which mandates that operating systems including Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD implement system-level age (identity) verification. This takes effect on January 1st, 2027. Colorado also has a similar act called SB26-051 which is currently advancing through the committees and ready for full Senate consideration. It would come into effect on January 1st, 2028 if passed. Utah, Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama all currently have app layer verification laws, but not OS level YET. So OS level verification isn't a future thing. It's happening now. They are chokepointing the internet. Enjoy these days.