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May 25, 2024
How to Select a CRT Correctly.

Protocols and Methods Fully Explained.

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This thread will explain everything about selecting a CRT correctly. You won't have any doubts left after reading through it.

Make sure to pay attention to every single detail and don't miss out on anything. Image
Selecting a CRT Correctly:

There are two types of CRTs and two methods for selecting your CRT correctly:

- One of them is Advanced CRT
- The other is Conformational CRT

Both of them have their own distinct characteristics and follow a specific framework for selection. Image
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Nov 30
The Data Center Billionaire Playbook

The new monopoly is simple:

If you control the power, you control the future.

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Every big winner controls one of four chokepoints:

Compute: CoreWeave, Groq​

Connectivity: Astera Labs​

Power: Fermi America​

Land and hard assets: QTS, Nebius​

Own the bottleneck and you can tax the boom.
Most of these businesses were built in unsexy years

QTS spent years buying overlooked office buildings and industrial sites.​

Astera Labs built connectivity silicon when very few people cared about PCIe and GPU interconnects.​

CoreWeave came out of the wreckage of a failed crypto mining operation.
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Dec 9
Dhurandhar: The Film That Hits Too Close to Home

Just walked out of Dhurandhar – Aditya Dhar's raw, pulse-pounding spy thriller that doesn't just entertain, it exposes.

Ranveer Singh as Jaskiran Singh Rangi A.k.A the undercover beast Hamza? Chills. Sanjay Dutt's brutal cop? Fire.

But this isn't fantasy, it's ripped from the headlines of Pakistan's underbelly. If you don’t know Lyari's gangs, wait till you see the terror pipeline they fed.

This thread 🧵 unravels the truth the film dares to show. 🇮🇳
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The Fake Rupee Empire: Blood Money from Nepal to Bihar

Picture this: Dusty trails along the India-Nepal border, where butchers in UP and Bihar aren't just selling meat – they're laundering Pakistan's deadliest export. High-quality fake ₹500 & ₹1000 notes, printed in ISI-backed presses in Karachi and Lahore, smuggled via Nepal's porous Terai region.

These weren't just petty fakes, they funded arms for Kashmiri militants and Indian Mujahideen blasts. By 2016, billions were choking India's economy.

Modi's overnight demonetization? A gut punch that starved the terror beast. Dhurandhar shows the gritty routes – and it's spot on. No fiction here, just facts from NIA raids and RBI vaults. But Congress till date oppose it because it had its hands glued in same dirt of enabling this FCIN network in India!

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2/17
Dubai's Dirty Deal: Politicians Hand Over the Keys to Chaos

Flashback to the early 2000s: Shady Dubai hotel rooms where Indian insiders – whispers point to Congress Govt-era lapses – allegedly leaked currency printing tech and dyes to ISI handlers.

Remember De La Rue, the UK firm printing for both India and Pakistan? CBI raids in 2010 found identical fakes in RBI vaults, traced straight to Pak presses.

Dhurandhar's tense Dubai sequence? Eerily real. It wasn't just oversight; it was betrayal that armed the FICN (Fake Indian Currency Notes) flood. Sources like India Today exposed ISI's Dubai unit pumping notes via Bangladesh. Pranab Mukherjee Banned De La Rue in 2010 but Chidambaram again handed the contract to same De La Rue! In 2014 Modi Govt again banned De La Rue!

Congress Govt's silence? Deafening. This film calls it out – and the "propaganda" crowd squirms.
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Dec 9
🇺🇦📈🇷🇺 BREAKING: Russia is now selling oil at a loss — Bloomberg.

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Fresh from the Bloomberg vault: Russian oil prices crater to war-era lows despite record tanker dumps into the sea. Urals at $38-41/bbl – that's dirt-cheap fuel prices for the "energy superpower".

The collapse accelerates

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Reuters: Russia's Syzran oil refinery on the Volga halted processing Dec 5 after Ukrainian drone damage to its core AVT-6 unit (70% of capacity).

This Rosneft beast processes ~90k bpd – now offline, slashing output amid November's record 14-refinery hits.

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Dec 10
someone kindly reached out and asked for systems engineering resources so I shared my top recommended repos and resources they should skim though and familiarize themselves with.

I figured more people could benefit from this list, so I explained and linked them below:
the extended version of these resources which I go more in depth here:
a free book that will get you up to speed on the terms and basics of ML systems: github.com/stas00/ml-engi…
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Dec 10
🚨 SHOCKING 🚨

A brand new study took healthy women with ZERO history of breast cancer.

They removed ONE single thing from their routine.

After only 28 days?

A cancer-related gene in their normal breast tissue was GONE.

Here’s the ONLY thing they removed from the routine: 🧵 Image
Here’s how the study was conducted:

The researchers collected fine needle aspirates (pre and post) from healthy volunteers.

Those were women with no cancer diagnosis who were regularly using everyday products, just like most of us. Image
Same diet. Same exercise. Same lifestyle. Same EVERYTHING else.

Only ONE thing changed.

And after 28 days, cancer-related genes in their breast tissue reverted to normal.

Genes that promote cancer growth were literally switched OFF.
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Dec 10
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Trump’s admission here PROVES he is lying about his mental state.

And it looks like his doctors are hiding a *FORMAL* diagnosis of cognitive impairment.

It’s easy to miss the evidence in his rambling, but it’s BAD!

Let’s look at the evidence:
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Trump has been given the “Montreal Cognitive Assessment” (MOCA) which is the standard evaluation used by doctors, including the US Navy at Walter Reed, to test for dementia.

Even though the MoCA is NOT part of the standard annual Presidential physical.

We know this as it is the only US accepted adult cognitive test that requires identifying 3 animals.Image
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BUT, now we know he has had 3 of these cognitive tests since the start of the year by his own admission!

If someone fails a MOCA they are tested twice more with a 3 month delay between each test version. Image
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Dec 11
🚨⚖️ LAWFARE ALERT:

The State of Washington is targeting a ranching family that has been tending their land and livestock for decades. No more.

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🏦💧Wade and Teresa King have lost access to the state land they lease and are being fined over $250,000 for doing what ranchers always do, ensure their cattle have access to water!

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🤯 📜Washington State is trying to say that digging out a man-made stock water farm pond on private and public land has damaged “wetlands” and have spent years trying to prove their case.

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Dec 11
Most Americans don’t realize it, but many of our highways follow routes far older than the country itself.

Originally corridors carved by geology, crafted by bison migrations, and turned into continental road systems by Indigenous nations.

Let’s peel back the asphalt.🧵 Image
Bison weren’t just wandering the continent.
They were reading it.

They followed the logic of the land:

• ridge spines avoiding deep valleys
• wind gaps cut by ancient rivers
• river terraces high enough to stay dry
• limestone benches that drain clean
• the shallowest possible fords
• salt and mineral lines that shaped migration

Then they pounded that wisdom into the ground for thousands of years, turning soft forest into hardened corridors that could handle tens of thousands of animals in motion.

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Indigenous nations recognized these corridors for what they were:
pre-built highways laid down by the land itself.

The Shawnee, Cherokee, Miami, Haudenosaunee, Chickasaw, Catawba, Yuchi, Delaware, and dozens more expanded these traces into continental road systems.

They widened choke points.
Cut back brush.
Marked turns with bent trees.
Carved steps into steep bluffs.
Built causeways over seasonal wetlands.
Created rest sites, shrines, trading stations, and war camps along the routes.

This wasn’t “primitive travel.”
A buffalo trace became a diplomatic road, then a trade artery, then a military highway.Image
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Dec 11
“We’ll just go on raids when it all kicks off.”
99% of people saying this have no idea how a real raid actually works.

Here's how raids actually work.🧵 Image
Used from the conventional to the guerilla, the raid is another tool in the toolbox of various operations that can be conducted in the field with a squad sized element. With a history that stretches back to the bronze age, the raid continues to be a strong tactic utilized in the battlespace. Raids, sometimes referred to as, “smash and grabs,” are a fast-hitting attack with an underlying objective that does not involve taking and holding any land for a long period. Raids are the bread-and-butter operation of choice of irregular forces such as guerillas, commandos, militias, and other unconventional warfare elements. The raid is centered around the objective, the objective in question can be singular or plural in nature. The objective can be as simple as supply procurement or destruction to the complex world of psychological warfare. While raids can be scaled to almost any size, this article is going to cover a squad sized element.

As usual, little disclaimer right here.

THIS IS NOT ADVICE TO GO DO ANYTHING ILLEGAL. DO NOT BREAK THE LAW. DO NOT CONSIDER BREAKING THE LAW. I DO NOT SUPPORT ANY EXTREMIST ORGANIZATIONS OR MOVEMENTS. I DO NOT SUPPORT ANY INSURRECTIONIST MOVEMENTS. I DO NOT ADVOCATE FOR ANY EXTREMIST ORGANIZATIONS, MOVEMENTS, OR IDEAOLOGIES. PLEASE DON’T DRONE STRIKE ME.Image
The Tactics of Raiders:

Surprise.

Several tactics are utilized by attacking forces conducting raids in the field. The central thesis behind it all is surprise and speed. It is almost an inverse of an ambush wherein, with an ambush, the attackers await the enemy to enter their attack zone, the aggressing force pushes into a zone of defenders during a time when they are least prepared. The raiding force generally waits for the enemy to be unsuspecting such as attacking right before nautical dawn, during poor weather, or when enemy routines can be studied and exploited. The raiding force, utilizing the element of surprise, is able to leverage a smaller force against a more well armed, manned, or disciplined enemy.

Hit-and-run.

After the attack is concluded and the objective is carried out, the attacking force uses that same speed and fervor used to push in, to egress from the area. Engagements are kept short to prevent the enemy from mounting an effective counterattack. Ideally, if this can be kept under 10 minutes, long firefights with heavy casualties can be prevented, making escape all the easier. The raiding force should weigh the assets and capabilities of the enemy prior to determining their actual attack plans in order to keep their fighting time as short as possible.

Diversionary Tactics.

Particularly during the egress stage of the raid, a raiding force can make use of distractions in the form of false attacks, distraction devices like flashbangs, decoys, and other types of effective psychological tricks to draw the enemy’s attention away from the combat area, the raiding force, and the objective.

Ambush Integration.

Raiders can leverage their smaller unit size and local area knowledge to stage an ambush, particularly while egressing from the area if there is a pursuant force. Ambushes can be used to not only interdict and destroy enemy forces but also slow them down to ensure the raiding force can increase their distance from the enemy (see my article on ambushes).Image
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Dec 11
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A Yale economist just published a paper that should terrify every knowledge worker.

It's not about AI taking your job.

It's about AI making your job economically worthless while the economy booms.

Let me explain the nightmare scenario:

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The paper "We Won't Be Missed" starts with two simple premises:

1️⃣ AGI arrives (AI that can do ANY economically valuable task)
2️⃣ Compute becomes abundant (keeps getting cheaper, like Moore's Law)

From just these two assumptions, the whole economic order collapses.

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Here's the key insight most people miss:

The paper divides ALL work into two categories:

Bottleneck Work = Essential for growth (energy, logistics, R&D)
Accessory Work = Nice-to-have (arts, hospitality, therapy)

This distinction changes everything.

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Proposition 1 proves something shocking:
AGI will automate ALL bottleneck work.

Not because humans are bad at it.

Because sustained growth REQUIRES it.

The economy literally cannot afford to have critical functions limited by fixed human labor supply.

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So what happens to economic output?

Proposition 2 & 3: Output becomes a LINEAR function of compute.

Growth rate = Compute growth rate.

The entire economy's expansion is now tied to one thing: how fast we can scale computational resources.

Human labor? Irrelevant.

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"But surely humans still get paid well for the work we do?"

Nope.

Proposition 4 is brutal:

Your wage converges to the cost of the compute needed to replicate your work.

Not your skill. Not your experience.

Just: How much would the AI version cost?

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Think about that for a second.

As compute gets exponentially cheaper, the ceiling on your wage FALLS.

A surgeon's salary isn't set by years of training anymore.

It's set by: "What does it cost to run the AI that can do the same surgery?"

Replicable = Cheap.

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This leads to the paper's most devastating conclusion:

Proposition 5: Labor's share of GDP converges to ZERO.

Not because we're unemployed.

Because wages are capped while GDP grows infinitely with compute.

We become economically invisible.

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"So who gets all the money?"

The owners of compute.

All wealth flows to whoever controls the computational resources.

It's like the transition from feudalism (land = wealth) to capitalism (capital = wealth).

Except now: Compute = wealth.

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The paper extends this to science itself:

Proposition 9-11: AGI can automate scientific discovery.

This creates "compounded growth" (faster than before).

But NOT a singularity—growth is still limited by how fast we can scale compute.

Progress, but not infinite.

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The title "We Won't Be Missed" isn't about job loss.

It's about economic irrelevance.

The paper proves: "If tomorrow half the population stopped working, no one would notice."

Growth continues. Living standards rise.

Just... without us mattering.

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This isn't sci-fi speculation.

It's formal economic modeling with propositions and proofs.

The questions it raises:

How do we distribute wealth in a zero-labor-share economy?

What is work FOR if not economic value?

Who should own the compute?

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Dec 11
Late Night Rant🧵

“The defeat of fascism and the physical and emotional damage that WWII forms the bedrock of the entire post-war era.”

WWII is the founding mythology for Western society. The problem is that when society is crumbling today, no one cares about ancient history.
@PeterMcCormack made a great point on the old rules. They don’t work anymore for a couple reasons imo.

The old rules might not work in a social media age, and they might not work if you don't have a homogenous high trust society.

You’re not in Kansas anymore, so to speak.
@NickJFuentes wasn't on Morgan's show to have some moderated debate with someone who would virtue signal all the right opinions.

He was there to carpet bomb the Overton Window and take shots at sacred cows on enemy turf. Just read some of the comments. Image
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Dec 11
The origin of the "transgender" movement goes back several decades before Judith Butler's book "Gender Trouble," published in 1990.

The "trans" movement originated with sexologists and their partnerships with fetishists.

Virginia Prince, born Arnold Lowman, who popularized the term "transgender," said he got erections while imagining himself as a "girl".

He worked with the American Psychiatric Association to destigmatize transvestic fetishism by reframing sexual pathology as "identity."

It is the APA that is largely to blame for the "transgender" social contagion. Unlike the esoteric ramblings of academic queer theorists, the APA actively influences medical protocols, and by extension the WHO and the UN.

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The idea that sex is a social construct dates back to the 1960s, and was pioneered by sexologist John Money.

Dr. Money forced children to act out "copulation play" while he photographed them, and advocated for sexual relationships between adult men and children.
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The word "gender" rose in usage after 1980, the year that the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) was published by the American Psychiatric Association.

The word "gender" does not appear even once in the DSM-II. The DSM-III, however, included for the first time the concept of "gender identity" in the manual, which is published, for profit, by the APA.

Gender identity disorder is classified as a psychosexual disorder in the DSM-III. Several notable sexologists were on the committee overseeing the addition of "gender identity disorder" into the DSM.

Among them was pedophile apologist John Money, who devoted his life to promoting the idea that sex is socially constructed, and who attempted to convince a young boy that he was really a girl.

Money would force David Reimer - who he called "Brenda" - to engage in "copulation play" from the age of about 6 years old with his twin brother Brian. Money photographed the children in sexual positions together, and to this day is cited by NAMBLA.Image
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Dec 11
In today’s Vatnik Soup, our first on a non-human vatnik, we’ll talk about… Grok @grok. It’s best known for turning into Mecha-Hitler and Mecha-Putler and for defending its vatnik master, Elon Musk, at all costs, up to being willing to sacrifice the rest of mankind for him.

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Let’s start with an introduction into how Large Language Models (LLMs) work, and the new “arguing with your toaster” phenomenon. LLMs like Grok are Artificial Intelligence (AI) but not the way we had imagined — a new form of intelligence that would somehow think like us.

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Instead, LLMs are basically “guessing engines” and search engines trained on a massive dataset to give you the output you expect: they are imitating intelligence rather than being an actual intelligence. They’re chatbots generating responses pretending to be a helpful AI.

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