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Wrote up some thoughts on what their financials may look like. Quick take is that they probably need cash fast! https://kippinitreal.substack.com/p/manus-acquisition-though...

Dug into the available information about Manus's business. I imagine this is pretty reflective of the new class of $100m ARR AI companies. High CAC, high costs, high competition an…

Their new SF campus charges $75k/yr!

Routes you to a random LLM - just a fun way to force yourself to try new things not just rely on muscle memory. Currently only has 5-10 and roughly weights the routing by popularit…

At launch it felt like the agent product everyone had been describing for the preceding year. Now - I never really hear about it. In personal use I never got or it's kin to accompl…

Amazing name for this tool.

I believe it's not strictly more decks, but also how often they shuffle. If they add 7 decks but don't shuffle until near the bottom, it's actually advantageous as the count can ge…

I wonder if in an application you could branch on something more abstract than tokens. While there might by 50k token branches and 1k of reasonable likelihood, those actually proba…

My amateur understanding is that the benefits are: A) H2 is exceptionally difficult to store at scale. Salt caverns are an option, but that is limited B) methanol can be used off t…

I mean, it's totally fine for a non-profit to "wallow in irrelevance"? I think the fundamental issue here is that a tax-exempt non-profit organization like these board members are …

True - but Richard Rhodes (author of Hedys Folley) was an advisor to Nolan for the film and I imagine his books on atomic history were very helpful.

Totally agree that this is under appreciated. Between open source modeling tools being incredible, transfer learning allowing dirt cheap fine-tuning and now mega-models being able …

Clever idea. I think you would have to recompute the context (ie embed the prior tokens) every time you swapped models because the weight distributions would be different for each …

Cool stuff! But it’s criminal to not call attention to JQ’s elder sibling CSVKit. It’s invaluable for playing with csvs. Much easier to parse out columns, allows you to generate ne…

That video did the same for me. I also like the reducible video for Fast Fourier Transforms as well as the Veratasium piece that shares some fun history. Reducible - FFTs the most …

I too have always been blown away by Shazam and pondered how it could possible index so much content for fast lookups. A few years ago this article was super helpful in helping me …

Could you share any links that break down the cost structure you described for solar farms? I’d love to understand that more

I’ll second “Making of the Atomic Bomb” as an excellent history of modern physics tied to a great narrative. For Biology I really enjoyed “A Brief History of Creation”, high level …

The sequel “Dark Sun” is also quite good. Continues the story into the making of the hyrogen bomb, the Teller-Ulam design, and the USSR’s efforts. Much shorter too :)

Yes, with SharesPost, equityzen and Forge. Company had a pretty standard policy so approval was straightforward but took a few months and required some legal opinions (costing $,$$…

This is what I’m here for! Awesome work, super cool to see and read how you did it.

The Goal is one of my favorite “business” book (it’s written as a novel). it addresses all of the wasted energy when you target efficiency at the expense of hitting your true goals…

Great interview with Larry King focused on his interview style: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/larry-king/id124844662... Some great stories in there including one about how …