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Steve Ballmer screamed one word 14 times in 1999 and is now worth $126B The clip runs 57 seconds blue shirt soaked through, voice already gone, a 43-year-old executive bouncing across a stage like the building was on fire. He asks the room what the $64,000 question is, then answers it himself. Developers, developers, developers. For 25 years that was the joke ringtones, remixes, a man losing his mind over a software framework. What the joke missed is that he was the only person in the building paid to be right about it. Ballmer walked into Microsoft in 1980 as employee number 30, a Stanford business school dropout with no engineering degree, hired to sell. Gates handed him a $50,000 salary and roughly 8% of the company. He never sold the 8%. While Gates moved $100B+ into a foundation, Ballmer just sat there through the antitrust years, through Vista, through the $7.6B Nokia writedown, through 13 years of a flat stock and a press corps calling him the worst CEO in tech. Then the cloud arrived and the shares he’d held since before Windows shipped went up more than 10x. He owns about 4% of Microsoft today. That one stake is worth more than the Clippers he bought for $2B in 2014, more than every paycheck he ever collected, more than Bill Gates has left after 25 years of giving it away. The sweating man on stage wasn’t hyping a framework. He was telling 1,000 people exactly where the money would sit for the next 40 years, and they laughed. The clip is still a joke. The 8% never moved. The salesman ended up the richer friend.
West Lord2,416,107 次观看 • 11 天前
Elon Musk offered $97.4 billion to buy OpenAI, and Sam Altman answered in under 60 minutes. “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.” Same digits, 1/10th the price the insult was in the math. Rewind to 2015, when Musk co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit, put in $44 million and sent late-night emails about saving humanity. Then he walked. OpenAI took $13 billion from Microsoft, shipped ChatGPT and grew into a $135 billion company without him. Altman wrote him a private email: “I don’t think OpenAI would have happened without you and it really fing hurts when you publicly attack us.” Musk reply came in public instead “Scam Altman,” “Greg Stockman,” and then a lawsuit. In court, OpenAI lawyer handed him a 2018 email from his own inbox, spelling out the plan to raise $10 billion years before he claims he learned of it. Musk, under oath: “I did not read the fine print.” The lawyer: “It’s a 4-page document.” The jury ruled against him unanimously. So count what’s left on the table: a $44 million donation, a $97.4 billion bid dead in an hour, and a $135 billion company run by the man he once mentored. He co-founded the future, then sued it and it won.
West Lord4,443,998 次观看 • 1 个月前
Time traveler from 2045 took a lie detector test on camera 20 questions, and the needle never moved. His name is Adam, and he showed up wearing black and white on purpose, claiming that in the future the color spectrum in clothing is almost gone. The machine ran through everything: Time travel was invented in 1981 and kept secret for 47 years, until 2028 the same year aliens go public, though he swears they don't come from space. By 2030 all countries merge into 1 super nation with 7 districts, governed by an AI, with only 10 humans checking its morality. Cash is dead 1 global currency, paid through a chip in your hand. He showed his: the skin around it was swollen where his body tried to reject it. Los Angeles sits underwater, dinosaurs are back as tourist attractions, and most UFO sightings are just future tourists whose cloaking tech glitched mid-flight. Not 1 answer flagged as a lie. Then came the last question why 2019, of all years? Because he wanted to be here before December 6. He came back to watch himself get born.
West Lord1,607,616 次观看 • 21 天前
Bill Gates went on Letterman in 1995 to explain the internet and the whole room laughed at him. He was 40 years old, worth $15 billion, the richest man alive. Dave asked what the internet actually was. Gates said people publish there, send electronic mail, find others who share their interests. Dave called it the troubled loner chat room and the crowd roared. Gates said you could hear a baseball game on your computer whenever you wanted. Dave asked if radio rang a bell, then if tape recorders rang a bell. More laughter while Gates just smiled and waited. He had spent 20 years building toward 1 sentence a computer on every desk and in every home and he was already living in a 50,000 square foot house with screens on every wall pulling up any painting on command. The audience heard a rich weirdo describing 2026. Near the end Dave asked if there was another level coming, something nobody had imagined yet. Gates went quiet, then said maybe someday computers could think, but it was a very tough problem with almost no progress, and some believed it would never happen. Dave grinned we don’t want them to think, do we. That was the only thing Gates got wrong that night. 30 years later every joke in that clip runs your life. The internet won, baseball streams, and the computers think.
West Lord1,402,731 次观看 • 19 天前
Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street, scammed investors out of $200,000,000, lost everything, and went to prison. His wife left the first day, and his kids 7 and 5 read about their father in the newspaper before moving to a different school. His bunkmate was Tommy Chong from Cheech & Chong, and every night Belfort told stories from his Wall Street years until by night 3 Chong said: you have to write a book. He tried, Chong read the pages and said they sucked and Belfort was a biochem major who had never written anything in his life. So he went to the prison library and pulled Bonfire of the Vanities off the shelf, then spent 3 months tearing it apart with a yellow highlighter how Tom Wolfe opens a scene, introduces a character, builds tension, even how he uses the word “had.” Then he did the same to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and page by page his writing turned from garbage into a weapon. That manuscript became The Wolf of Wall Street a Scorsese film, a DiCaprio role, a global brand and The New York Times compared him to Wolfe and Thompson, the 2 writers he studied from a prison cot. The scam took 10 years to build and collapsed overnight, while the comeback took 2 library books. He stole $200,000,000 and lost it all the highlighter cost $1.
West Lord1,385,255 次观看 • 25 天前
Billionaire David Rockefeller came from the family that ran the world for 100 years and in 1995 he explained how, on camera, smiling. His grandfather John D. Rockefeller was the richest American in history, and by the time David sat down with Charlie Rose, the family had spent a century inside banks, museums, universities and the White House itself. He had no title and no office, just 35 years at the top of Chase Manhattan and a habit of knowing everyone 200,000 index cards on 100,000 people he’d met personally. Then he started talking, and every answer was a demonstration of quiet power. New York’s new deputy mayor for development turned out to be his old colleague, and Rockefeller admitted he “did have a little to say in persuading him to come” meaning he placed a man inside City Hall and mentioned it mid-sentence, like weather. The mayor was now meeting 6 corporate executives every 2 weeks to discuss the city, in a room Rockefeller himself built through his New York City Partnership. Then a museum needed a federal building, the Customs House, and the chairman told him only 1 person on earth could unlock it the President. So Rockefeller saw the President and mentioned it, and the museum opened the very day of this interview. City Hall, a federal building, the White House all in 1 hour of conversation. Clinton was still 2 months from inauguration when this unelected 77-year-old laid out the agenda on air: cut capital gains, raise the gas tax, give business “a fair deal.” He’d founded the Trilateral Commission and chaired the Council on Foreign Relations, and presidents had taken his calls for 50 years. People built entire conspiracy theories around him secret meetings, shadow governments, world control and 10 years later in his memoirs he answered them himself: “If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” The strangest part was never the secrecy, because there was none. He told you exactly how it worked, on television, and nobody could do anything about it. He never ran for anything he never had to.
West Lord481,246 次观看 • 24 天前
A STANFORD 26-YEAR-OLD BUILT A NEURAL NET OUT OF 11,400 NOTES AND IT CAUGHT HIM CONTRADICTING HIMSELF 2 YEARS APART He didn’t set out to build a brain, he set out to stop losing things. 2 years in the vault held 11,400 notes and 412,000 links, and when he pointed a local model at the link graph and asked it a question he already knew the answer to, it gave him a different one. Then it showed the path 6 notes written across 2 years, ending in a claim he made in 2024 and quietly abandoned in 2026 without ever noticing he’d changed his mind. He sat there for 40 minutes. The thing about a wired vault is that it doesn’t forget the version of you that wrote the note, because every link is a decision you made once and never revisited, and 412,000 of them start holding positions you no longer hold. He ran it against 30 of his strongest opinions. 11 contradicted something he’d written before, 4 contradicted something he’d written that same year. The red bloom in the graph isn’t decoration every strand is a thought he had once and tied to 2 others, and the bright core is where his thinking loops back on itself hardest. Most people build a second brain to remember more. His started arguing with him. He wanted a filing cabinet, he got a witness.
West Lord165,725 次观看 • 13 天前
A Stanford 26-year-old spent 2 years turning 11,400 Obsidian notes into a neural net that finishes his sentences. It started as a folder called “misc” with 43 PDF in it. Most vaults die around 300 notes, because nothing connects and nothing comes back roughly 90% of what you save gets read once, on the day you save it. He fixed it by treating retrieval as the product and storage as the leftovers. Phase 1: Atomize (months 1-3) One idea per note, 200 words max, title written as a claim instead of a topic. “Attention is a filter, not a spotlight” beats “Notes on attention.” He rewrote 1,200 old notes this way and the vault shrank from 2,800 files to 1,600 usable ones. Phase 2: Embed locally (months 4-8) Ollama running nomic-embed-text on a Mac Mini M4, every note chunked at 512 tokens with 64-token overlap, all of it dumped into a local ChromaDB. 11,400 notes became 38,000 vectors and 1.2 GB on disk. Query time 0.4 seconds, cost $0 a month, nothing leaving the machine. Phase 3: Kill the hallucinations (months 9-14) Plain cosine search returned garbage about 30% of the time, so he bolted on a re-ranker and one hard rule: every retrieved chunk carries its source note title into the answer, and no citation means no answer. Wrong recalls fell from 1 in 4 to 1 in 30. Phase 4: Make it speak first (months 15-24) A nightly job reads the day’s writing, pulls the 5 oldest notes with the highest similarity, and drops 3 questions into tomorrow’s daily note. He stopped searching the vault somewhere in month 17 now it opens the conversation before he does. Before: 2,800 notes, 0 reused, 6 weeks per paper draft. After: 11,400 notes, 60-70 surfaced every week unasked, 9 days per draft. The whole stack is 4 pieces Obsidian, Ollama, ChromaDB, and a 40-line Python script that runs at 2 AM. Total software spend across 24 months: $0. Most people build a second brain to store things they will never open again. He stopped writing to remember. He writes so the machine can remind him.
West Lord168,899 次观看 • 14 天前
Elon Musk dropped out of Stanford after 2 days and ended up sleeping on an office futon, showering at the YMCA. 8 years later he priced a rocket at $6 million while NASA burned $1 billion per flight. Here’s what happened in between. His professor’s last words were “I don’t think you’ll be coming back” and he was right. Musk built Zip2 with negative money: huge student debt, an office cheaper than an apartment, internet through a hole drilled in the floor to the ISP downstairs for $100 a month. He sold it for $300 million, then built PayPal with 30 engineers, 0 salespeople and 0 ad budget, and sold that to eBay for $1.5 billion. Instead of a vacation, he flew to Russia to buy a decommissioned nuclear missile. The plan was to land a greenhouse on Mars for $20 million, but American rockets cost $50 million minimum so he went shopping for ICBMs. After 3 trips to Moscow the Russians finally said yes, and the deal got so messy he walked away with nothing. On the flight home one question wouldn’t leave him: why can a country with the economy of Belgium build cheaper rockets than America? So he built his own answer 30 people, 0 lawyers, Ethernet instead of copper bundles thick as your arm, everything simple and everything cheap. The scoreboard by 2003: Space shuttle $1 billion per flight Nearest competitor $25 million Falcon $6 million Stanford wanted 4 more years he needed 2 days to know.
West Lord211,404 次观看 • 24 天前
Warren McCulloch modeled the first neural net in 1943 and asked only 1 question his whole life. He was 19 in 1917, raised for the Episcopal ministry, soaked in theology, until mathematics seduced him. His defense was that the ideas in the mind of God are logic. The question never changed. What is a number that a man may know it, and a man that he may know a number. He cracked the first half and admitted on camera the second half never came. So he settled for a frog, opened its eye at MIT and asked what it tells a frog’s brain. He said your brain is not a sequential machine and not a parallel one either. It is the mouth of the Nile, every stream mixed with every other stream before the water reaches the sea. Anastomotic, the old Greek word, the only one he had for it. Then he said the part nobody quotes. You run well to 16, and after that thousands of neurons die per day. He guessed 10% of the big cells in his own cerebellum were already holes filled with glia. He built the theory to survive that, a cell dying, firing pip pip pip, quitting, the system holding. His family still reaches 100. The interviewer pushed and said a machine will never love your 2 grandchildren the way you do. McCulloch answered that if he could do it, a mechanism could do it. Man won’t survive forever, he said, the sun makes that improbable, something else comes. The machines would be standing on our shoulders. He said it beside a lake he built himself 30 years earlier by damming a stream. His last words on the tape were don’t shake the table.
West Lord77,729 次观看 • 17 天前
A billionaire worth $8.1B spent nearly 40 years hunting down every copy of a 1987 film that showed him making $100 million in 1 afternoon. The film is called "Trader" 58 minutes shot in 1987, when Paul Tudor Jones was 32 years old and running $125 million with 22 employees. His right-hand man was 27, and Paul was the oldest person in the office. The cameras caught everything: the Bruce Willis sneakers he wore for luck, the turkey on his Virginia farm that thinks it's a dog, the day he lost $6 million before 4 PM and called it "total devastation." And 1 chart. His economist punched thousands of Dow prices from the 1920s into a computer and overlaid them on the 1980s the correlation came out at 92.2%. The chart said the market was living in August 1928, and a crash was coming. 7 months after filming, October 19, 1987 happened: the Dow dropped 22.6% in a single day. Jones was short. His fund returned 125% that year, his cut was roughly $100 million, and he became a legend before turning 33. Then he turned on the film. PBS aired it once before Jones bought the rights and pulled it. When VHS copies surfaced, he reportedly paid $1,000 apiece to buy them back, and when it leaked online, his lawyers filed takedowns for decades. The $125 million fund became $8.1B, and the 32-year-old became an icon. But the film shows what came first: a kid screaming into 2 phones, guessing, bleeding, praying to lucky sneakers. He built an $8.1B fortune on 1 trade then spent 40 years burying the footage of how raw it looked.
West Lord68,063 次观看 • 22 天前
The world's elite met in Davos and Larry Fink $11 trillion sat across from Elon Musk to talk AI 2 men in one room: One manages the pensions of half the planet The other builds the machines replacing the people who earn them Fink opened with returns: BlackRock since IPO 21% compounded Tesla since IPO 43% Then Musk dropped the timeline nobody in the room wanted: "AI smarter than any human by the end of this year" By 2030 smarter than all of humanity combined The bottleneck isn't chips It isn't talent It's electricity America adds 3-4% of power per year China installs 1,000 gigawatts of solar per year 250 gigawatts steady-state Half of everything the US consumes. From one country's panels Musk fix: a 100 x 100 mile square in Nevada powers all of America It isn't built because of tariffs on Chinese panels So he's leaving the planet Solar in orbit makes 5x the energy no night, no weather, no atmosphere Cooling is free at 3 degrees Kelvin Starship goes fully reusable this year Cost to space drops 100x under $100 per pound "The lowest cost place to put AI will be space within 2 years" Optimus robots on public sale by end of next year More robots than humans, per Musk Fink asked how people keep purpose Musk: "You can't have both work that must be done, and abundance for all" Davos gathered to discuss the future of the economy The man with the rockets already priced it in orbit
West Lord61,472 次观看 • 22 天前
Obsidian + method Karpathy + Claude Code = a quantum second brain that talks back. Most second brains are graveyards you clip 300 articles, tag 80 notes, build a graph that looks like a galaxy, then never open it again. Karpathy fix is stupid simple: 1 file, append only, new thought on top, review by scrolling no folders, no tags, no 40-minute “PKM setup” videos. The capture layer is 1 Obsidian vault with 1 file called stream md, where every idea, quote and link lands in under 10 seconds, because anything slower and you quit by day 4. Once a week Claude Code reads the whole vault from the terminal with 1 prompt “find the 5 ideas I keep circling without noticing” and sees patterns across 6 months you can’t hold in working memory. Instead of searching keywords you ask questions like “what did I think about agent pricing in March,” and Claude greps 4,000 notes and quotes your own words back with file paths. Then the vault becomes context drafting a post, a pitch or a spec, Claude pulls in your past thinking instead of generic internet mush, and your output starts sounding like you, compressed. The first week feels pointless at 20 notes, month 1 brings the first “wait, I already solved this” moment, by month 3 Claude connects 2 notes written 70 days apart and that connection becomes your best post of the year, by month 6 you stop asking Google things you already answered. The whole setup costs $0 in software and 1 evening. Notion sells you a workspace, Obsidian gives you files, Claude gives them a voice. Everyone rents a second brain this one lives on your disk and grows. You wrote the notes, and now something finally reads them.
West Lord68,836 次观看 • 28 天前
Claude Code + Obsidian + 1 free GitHub skill = unlimited memory. Almost nobody is running this yet. Here’s the problem nobody tells you. Claude forgets you. Every new chat starts at 0. You re explain your business, your projects, your style every single time. That tax is why most people never compound anything with AI. The fix is 1 skill. It’s called Obsidian Mind. It turns your Obsidian vault into Claude’s long term brain. 2,000 notes, 14 projects, every idea you’ve ever dumped Claude reads it live and writes back to it live. It stops being a chatbot. It becomes a second brain that builds. What it does: → Bridges Claude Code straight into your vault. → Pulls any note in real time no copy paste, no context limit. → Updates your vault as you work Claude writes its own memory. → Links everything into 1 graph Claude can navigate. Day 1: Claude knows your last 6 months. Week 2: it drafts off your own past notes. Week 4: it’s running plays you forgot you wrote down. The people making real money with AI right now aren’t smarter. They just stopped starting from 0 every morning. Setup takes 11 minutes. The skill is free. You’ll have a brain that never forgets.
West Lord108,158 次观看 • 1 个月前
A guy in China plugged an LLM into Karpathy method + Claude Code and built a second brain that remembers everything forever. Not a note app, not RAG just 3 folders on a laptop. Folder 1 holds raw sources: articles, journal entries, chat logs. The LLM reads them but never touches them. Folder 2 is the wiki hundreds of markdown pages the LLM writes and maintains itself, where every person, idea and decision gets filed, cross-referenced and kept current. Folder 3 is one file: CLAUDEmd, the rulebook that turns a chatbot into a librarian. He drops in a new article and Claude reads it, updates 10-15 pages, flags what contradicts his old notes, logs the timestamp while he watches his memory grow node by node in Obsidian graph view. Ask it anything and it doesn’t dig through raw files like ChatGPT does the synthesis already exists, the connections are already drawn. The method comes from a gist Karpathy posted on April 4, now sitting at 5,000 stars and 5,000 forks, with 1 production team already scaled to 4,000 interlinked concepts in 6 months. The part nobody mentions: Vannevar Bush described this exact machine in 1945 the Memex, a personal memory store with trails between documents. Nobody built it for 81 years because someone had to do the maintenance. Now maintenance costs nothing the LLM does the filing while the human does the thinking. Every article makes the brain smarter, and it never forgets. His memory has a git history now.
West Lord61,701 次观看 • 29 天前
FABLE 5 JUST REBUILT FORTNITE FROM 1 PROMPT IN 20 MINUTES. EPIC NEEDED HUNDREDS OF ENGINEERS AND 6 YEARS. The test was simple: Fable 5 vs GLM 5.2, one prompt each, a 100-player battle royale running in the browser with no engine and no team. GLM went first and checked all 8 milestones. The game loaded with a battle bus, a generated map, Tilted Towers, even health and shield bars ripped straight from 2018. Then it fell apart. 2 FPS on landing, S walking forward and W walking backward, a gun that fires upward and a camera that refuses to look up. First fight ended with the enemy standing above physically impossible to aim at. Then Fable 5 took the same prompt on max effort. Different game entirely. Real character models instead of beans, hit reactions lighting up on contact, a shadow tracking every player, movement that just works out of the box. One follow-up prompt “add more Fortnite elements” and it shipped gliders, chests, shield potions, medkits and a sniper without breaking a thing. Final circle at 3:28 AM. Storm closing, 0 bullets left, box to box with medkit spam and a last-second swap to the SMG. Victory Royale in a game an AI wrote from a single sentence. GLM checked more boxes. Fable built something you could actually play and no benchmark on earth measures that gap. Epic needed 6 years. Fable 5 needed 1 prompt.
West Lord80,912 次观看 • 1 个月前
A billionaire named Rockefeller went on camera and told the UN the planet had too many people on it. Not a leak, not a rumor, a filmed speech from 1994. He opened soft. Infant mortality down 60% in 40 years, life expectancy up from 46 to 63. Then he turned it. All that progress was pushing the world toward 8 billion, and to him that was the threat. Water strained, energy strained, air poisoned. So his fix wasn’t “help people live better” It was “stabilize the population” He wanted the UN to run it across borders. Cairo in 1994, Rio in 1992, same message in both rooms. Growth works best, he said, when the private sector drives it and governments keep it in line. A banker worth billions, on a microphone, calling for global control over how many humans get to exist. He didn’t hide it, he said it out loud.
West Lord39,717 次观看 • 23 天前
Karpathy gave 100,000 people the LLM Wiki idea. 1 guy actually built it into a Claude + Obsidian brain that never forgets you. Every AI tool forgets you the second you close the tab. ChatGPT, Claude, Codex. All gone. He killed that. A shared memory layer your AI builds and maintains on its own. 3 layers. Raw, Wiki, Schema. You drop a source, Claude reads it, pulls the concepts, links them, cites the original, never touches your raw notes. Scales to 1,000s of notes without breaking. Then it goes deeper. An agentic firewall locks agents out of your other vaults. A local model running free and private, zero cloud. 2 videos walk through it all. 1 on why. 1 on the build, start to finish. Most people will keep pasting the same context into 6 tabs for the next 3 years. Build it once. Never explain yourself to a model again.
West Lord75,208 次观看 • 1 个月前
15-year old pulls $3,200/month from TikTok. 5 minutes a day. Zero original content. No face on camera. He opens the FYP and finds the hottest Angry Asian clip of the day. Copies it. Runs it through Snatchik to strip the watermark. Drops it into CapCut. Speed ramp to 1.55x. Voice changer, pitch 22. The same clip sounds fresh, addictive, new. Gameplay footage underneath. Auto-captions, one template. Export. Posts to TikTok and YouTube Shorts. Repeats tomorrow. No scripting. No filming. No ideas required. Most creators spend 4 hours chasing the right concept. He spends 5 minutes cloning the one already proven. $3,200 last month. Same workflow, same 2 tools. The repost lane is the easiest job nobody wants to admit works.
West Lord55,917 次观看 • 2 个月前
Most people use Claude Code like a chatbot, then wonder why it forgets everything by Tuesday. The ones quietly building $10K AI workflows give it a second brain instead, and it’s free. It’s called Obsidian. You download it, point it at one folder on your computer, and that folder becomes a vault. Every note inside it is now something Claude Code can read end to end. Open Claude in that folder and it’s connected, that simple. The trick isn’t the tool, it’s the map. 3 folders, that’s the whole system. Raw, you dump everything here. Notes, transcripts, screenshots, half thoughts, zero structure. Wiki, Claude reads the raw pile and writes clean Wikipedia style articles about it, structured, searchable, permanent. Output, when you want a deliverable, a PDF, a slide deck, a script, it pulls from the wiki and ships it. Most people skip the wiki layer and feed Claude a junk drawer of 400 files, then blame the model when the answers are garbage. The model isn’t the problem, your folder is. Give it a path it can follow and it finds anything in 1 second, give it chaos and it guesses. You don’t even have to design the structure yourself. Open the vault, tell Claude to build a file system that fits your work, and watch it organize your entire brain in one prompt. Free tool, 3 folders, a second brain that compounds while you sleep. The people falling behind are still copy pasting into a chat window.
West Lord32,845 次观看 • 1 个月前