D-Squared Musings – Week 40 Tech 🤖 Demystifying LLMs and Threats My Journey Caleb does a great job in the second half of this presentation breaking down the main approaches to attacking and protecting LLMs. Very intuitive explanations.  🔍 Bard is getting a few exciting updates Extensions are the primary update, so you’re able to…

D-Squared Musings – Week 39 Tech ⚡ The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future Recently finished this book. I’m amazed by the age and fragility of our electrical grip. Also, the majority of our grid is struggling to interact with an emerging type of consumer, called “prosumers”, which are those that…

D-Squared Musings – Week 38 Tech 🎁 The Random Show with Tim Ferriss & Kevin Rose — Affordable Luxuries, Brain Stimulation, and More! After almost 10 years of creating these random shows, they’re still entertaining and useful. Very impressive. One of my favorite points was made by Kevin on saving money on international data plans…

D-Squared Musings – Week 37 Tech ☢️ #068 Behind the Scenes of a Nuclear Microreactor Startup w/ Matt Loszak, Founder CEO of Aalo Atomics The story of this founder transitioning from founding a software startup to founding a micro-reactor startup mid-career is an inspirational one. The first half of your career doesn’t have to detect…

D-Squared Musings – Week 36 Tech ☢️ Why Does Nuclear Power Plant Construction Cost So Much? Education 🤙 $100M Leads: How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your Stuff ❤️‍🔥 Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships 🎤 Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent Miscellaneous 🚗 Drive – Movie…

D-Squared Musings – Week 35 Tech 💽 Saving the Planet with Better AI Data Centers (with Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller) The way this company is sourcing energy for its AI-centric data centers is crazy. They’re building data centers literally on top of oil flares (and other wasted energy sources). This is a good podcast to…

D-Squared Musings – Week 34 Tech 🪨 E35: Alex Kaplan on the LK-99 Superconductor: the Drama, Democratization of Science, and Future 🤖 Trail Of Bits comments @ July 18, 2023 CFTC TAC Meeting Education 🎤 Meet The $100,000,000 Man Who Sold Everything | Alex Hormozi ✈️ What happens if you don’t put your phone in…

D-Squared Musings – Week 33 Tech 🤖 Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications Education 🧬 100 Tips for a Better Life 📈 How To Find +$1 Million Business Ideas From Weird Trends ⛴️ How cruise ships got so big Miscellaneous 🪄 Marvel Studios’ Loki Season 2 | Official Trailer

D-Squared Musings – Week 32 Tech ✈️ trtl vs. trtl Plus: Which is better? 🎤 Jeremy Giffon – Special Situations in Private Markets Education 🧠 263 ‒ Concussions and head trauma: symptoms, treatment, and recovery | Micky Collins, Ph.D. 🎞️ The History of Animation — Types of Animation Styles Explained [Shot List Ep. 14] ☢️…

D-Squared Musings – Week 31 A new video and blog post is up! This week we discussed how to come up with business ideas based on Sahil’s lecture series and book. Sahil is the founder of Gumroad and an inspiration for minimalist entrepreneurs all over the world.  Tech 🐪 Llama 2 is out 🤖 The…