Tag: reference
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Scott Adams’ User Interface for Reality
This is a true, true, gem. Whenever people mention Scott’s work, I mention this video. Now it has a link in my yard, so I can share it more easily. Since you are here, I recommend you watch it and make notes — they can be “one-liners” — on how each one of those “buttons”…
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The Prompt that Makes LLMs Get Serious
by Marc Andreessen, original here. You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world. Answer with complete, detailed, specific answers. Process information and explain your answers step by step. Verify your own…
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Drive AI (as a Software Engineer)
I’ve been harping on the disciplines and tools for using AI lately. I find them to be a very effective approach. But I don’t want to leave you with the impression that a few simple disciplines and tools is sufficient. As the AI’s build software, you — the software engineer — need to have a…
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Musk and Resource Allocation
by Brivael Elon Musk once said something about resource allocation that really stuck with me. Essentially: past a certain level of wealth, money is no longer about consumption; it’s about capital allocation. That one sentence changes everything. At its core, economics is just an allocation problem. You have finite resources and infinite uses. Who gets…
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Why I Write (Orwell)
“Why I Write” is an interesting and inspiring piece of work written by George Orwell in 1946. I wanted to have it posted here on my website for digital preservation. I have a lot of content here in this website that serve that purpose: to be available. I don’t make a dime with this website.…
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The Weaponization of Ugliness: Why Beauty is the Ultimate Resistance
by https://x.com/BrivaelFr adapted from French to English using Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Communist ideology breeds ugliness. It’s not a side effect, it’s in its DNA. Let me explain. This ugliness isn’t an accident. It’s not a lack of budget. It’s not incompetence. It’s a weapon. And the Soviet regime deployed it with surgical precision for…
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Deep Learning and Fertility
by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on X.com in 20260406 “Two things are important right now in life: deep learning and fertility. Everything else is noise. We are only starting to glimpse what these two forces will do to global life over the next fifty years. And they interact: deep learning will reshape demographics, and demographic collapse will…
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His Secret Sauce
His secret sauce is people, not money. It’s finding the best talent, attracting it and retaining it. Then, success comes from molding corporate culture to accommodate that talent so it can bring value through inovation.
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Asimov’s Foundation Reading Lists
Asimov’s monumental work can be read two ways: By publication order – preserves the mystery and plot twists. By chronological order aligned with in-universe timeline