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In honour of the Brazil v Norway game tonight, here's my favourite Norway geography fact. The small village of Skjolden looks unremarkable on a map. Little more than a small settlement in inland Norway. However, and remarkably, Skjolden is actually a "seaside" village. 1/n

OmG.

OG Anunoby is different

Turns out that uninstalling instagram and not knowing what everyone is upto 24/7, is indeed good for your mental health.

what nyc looked like the last time the knicks were in the finals

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i miss the way me and #oomf used to talk

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

Don't just start a company Start a cult

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers wsbtv.com/news/local/atl…

What in the world did we just see! The 2 hour marathon barrier has been broken. Three guys went under the old world record... Sabastian Sawe just ran 1:59:30 with crazy negative splits, closing the last half in 59:01....faster than the American Record in the half. One of the most mind blowing performances we've seen. How did we get here? Every breakthrough is a mixture of belief and progress. It takes folks daring to see what's possible, surrounding themselves with a quality team and doing the work to give themselves a shot. You've got to bet on yourself in a big way. When asked whether he believed he could run a sub-2-hour marathon before the race, Sawe answered with one word: "Yes." Let's get the obvious out of the way. Performance enhancing drugs are the legitimate question mark to every breakthrough. So Sawe did as much as he could about taking that off the table. He and his team asked to be tested all the time. His sponsor put up 50K to the Athlete Integrity Unit. The tests are run independently, no advance notice. Over a 2 month stretch, he went through 25 drug tests. There's always a doubt. There has to be given what we know. Hopefully there's transparency in the results. But hats off to Sawe for addressing it: "I want to prove that I am clean when I set foot at the start line." But how'd we actually get here where two guys went sub 2 in the same race? 1. Shoe tech We've had a revolution in shoe technology that boosts running economy. For years shoe companies said their shoe would make you faster and was mostly marketing. Until 2016, when it actually did. Initial research showed a 3-4% saving in economy, while subsequent work has shown it's highly variable. Now, it's a matching game. Find the perfect shoe for your form and you can get a big boost. Normally, it takes years of lots of miles and strength training to boost economy. But now we get that instant boost that not only helps boost performance but often leaves us feeling less beat up in the later stages of the marathon. So we get a little bit less hitting of the wall... 2. The fuel For a long time, fueling was limited by biology. You can only take in and process so much. Then in the 2000s, researchers found if we mixed sugars, we can boost intake because they're processed differently. Then recently, Maurten found if you use a hydrxogel, you boost utilization without GI distress anymore. We've gone from pushing 60g/hr to 120g/hr in a few decades. Again...less bonking. 3. Depth A few decades ago, you spent your career racing on the track and then once your speed started to fade a bit you went to the marathon. Now, many skip right to the marathon. That's where the money is. And with the economy boost from the shoes, you can make that jump quickly. More depth of talent means more competitors in their prime pushing barriers. 4. Belief Even with the shoes and tech, a few years ago sub 2 hours seemed a long way off, until Kipchoge pushed that barrier in a series of time trials. Yes, they weren't official races and had contrived pacing. But it absolutely shifted everyone's thinking on what is possible. A generation of runners saw Kipchoge go for it. Our prediction of what is possible changed. It's mind blowing how far we've come in such a short time. What once seemed decades away, just got smashed twice in the same race. Hats off to Sawe, especially for addressing the scourge of doping and showing folks what is possible with a lot of hard work, some crazy belief, and some fortuitous advances.

Javokhir Sindarov: Age by Age ♟️🇺🇿 🇺🇿 8 — 8 (first Age, 2013) 🇺🇿 9 — 9 🇺🇿 10 — 10 🇺🇿 11 — 11 🇺🇿 12 — 12 (became 12 at 12 years — the youngest ever) 🇺🇿 13 — 13 🇺🇿 14 — 14 🇺🇿 15 — 15 🇺🇿 16 — 16 🇺🇿 17 — 18 🇺🇿 18 — 18 (first time over 18) 🇺🇿 19 — 19 🇺🇿 20 — 20 (official Age, 2026)

IM David Shahinyan @ImShahinyan

3 months ago

Javokhir Sindarov (@GMJSindarov): Classical Rating by Age ♟️🇺🇿 🇺🇿 Age 8 — 1896 (first FIDE rating, 2013) 🇺🇿 Age 9 — 2111 🇺🇿 Age 10 — 2143 🇺🇿 Age 11 — 2374 🇺🇿 Age 12 — 2429 (became GM at 12 years 10 months — one of the youngest ever) 🇺🇿 Age 13 — 2505 🇺🇿 Age 14 — 2537 🇺🇿 Age 15

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nyc provides infinite optionality, which means you can perpetually avoid the commitments that force psychic maturation. this is why when you speak to a 30yo in nyc it’ll almost always feel like you’re talking to a 20 year old. this is primarily due to the fact that most ppl in nyc have never been forced to close doors. & closing doors is literally what growing up is.

Low-agency people are embarrassed by exposure: being seen trying and failing, being seen as incompetent, being seen as different. High-agency people are embarrassed by waste: wasting their potential, wasting opportunities, wasting time performing competence instead of building it.

Kpaxs @Kpaxs

3 months ago

High-agency people seem to have this weird immunity to embarrassment. Getting rejected? Not embarrassing, that’s just data collection. Looking naive? Not embarrassing, that’s just information asymmetry you’re fixing. Breaking minor social rules? Not embarrassing, most rules

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High-agency people seem to have this weird immunity to embarrassment. Getting rejected? Not embarrassing, that’s just data collection. Looking naive? Not embarrassing, that’s just information asymmetry you’re fixing. Breaking minor social rules? Not embarrassing, most rules are just Schelling points anyway. What would be embarrassing to them is not trying. That’s the thing they can’t live with.

Kpaxs @Kpaxs

4 months ago

High-agency people genuinely believe that reality is negotiable in a "there are always more levers to pull" way. It's about having this bone-deep conviction that if you keep poking at something from different angles, eventually something will give.

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I’m getting on trains that you haven’t heard of to places you’ve never been

Useful tip: driving from Senegal to Somalia? Skip the Sahel and save an hour by taking a 2,500 km detour via Spain

This could be New York City

@JasonFitz1 Chicago Marathon has this

dude computers are actually so fucking insane when you really think about it. we literally figured out how to write some fake-ass rules called code and somehow convinced rocks to follow them. like actual rocks. sand, melted, purified, carved into tiny pathways where electricity just flows in patterns. that’s it. that’s the whole magic. and yet from that we get operating systems, compilers, kernels, networks, distributed systems, machine learning models, entire virtual worlds running inside other virtual worlds. billions of tiny electrical decisions per second, all because we defined some abstract logic. humans basically invented a language of instructions and taught matter itself to execute it.

The ability to quickly reset and recover. From a bad interaction. From a bad day. From a missed workout. From a poor decision. You can start over whenever you want. You can't always control what happened, but you can control how long you carry it.

Dear Son. @DearS_o_n

4 months ago

What’s a “boring” skill that secretly gives a man huge advantage in life?

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