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  • D-Squared Musings Week 43

    D-Squared Musings – Week 43 Tech 📲 iPhone 15 Pro 🤖 Evolutionary prompts – No need for prompt engineering Education 🦜 The #1 cause of burnout is not what you think ✍️ How To Write Your Way To Millions of Dollars and Subscribers ✏️ Writing to Save Your Life Miscellaneous 🦎 Leo | Official Trailer…

  • D-Squared Musings Week 42

    D-Squared Musings – Week 42 Tech 🧑‍💻 AI Engineers, Pendants, and Competition Between OpenAI and Developers with Swyx of Latent Space Swyx is likely one of the most undervalued thinkers in the AI space. His original training in quant trading shaped his perspective, allowing him to make connections most people struggle to do. I always…

  • D-Squared Musings Week 41

    D-Squared Musings – Week 41 Tech 🧑‍💻 Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398 🧳 12-Pack Space Saver Bags Education 🦠 All-In Summit: Gene therapy and a new era of medicine with Dr. Nicole Paulk 📈 The Economic Case for Generative AI with a16z’s Martin Casado Miscellaneous ⚔️ Onimusha |…

  • Salons with Dylan

    Salons with Dylan Purpose: Deep Dive Conversations are special gatherings designed to foster profound, meaningful conversations on diverse topics ranging from applied technology and philosophy in everyday life to personal and professional challenges. The goal is to create a small community where participants can truly connect, share, and learn from one another. Inspired by and…

  • D-Squared Musings Week 40

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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…

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