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• PIR with preprocessing can remove the 1-of-2 trust requirement by having the client precompute many random-query XOR sums after an upfront full-database download, effectively acting as one of the two servers.
• Plinko reduces both client communication and server compute from O(N) to O(sqrt(N)) while using preprocessing to eliminate the trust assumption.

• There are described to be fewer large new L1 fundraising rounds than in prior cycles, with attention shifting toward prediction markets, trading apps, and crypto-plus-AI concepts.
• Valuing a $1-per-day benefit requires net-present-value discounting of future credits, framed as a perpetuity-like stream.

• Paul Ford reports that in November, Claude Code improved noticeably enough that he was able to complete side projects that had been untouched for a decade or more.
• Paul Ford reports that AI coding tools shifted from being halting and clumsy to being able to run for about an hour and produce whole designed websites and apps that are flawed but credible.

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• Steve Yegge reports that agentic engineering increases his need for sleep and that about four hours of agent work per day is a more realistic pace.
• If a single employee adopts AI and sustains roughly 10x output for full 8-hour days while peers do not, that employee will dramatically outperform peers and make peers look bad by comparison.

• At a Thoughtworks retreat, participants disputed the narrative that AI eliminates the need for junior developers.
• At the retreat, the primary workforce risk identified was mid-level engineers hired during the boom who may lack fundamentals needed to thrive in an AI-shaped environment.

• Weka’s converged mode claims to turn NVMe drives inside GPU servers into a DRAM-class tier that serving frameworks can use to reduce cache eviction and repeated prefills.
• Disaggregated prefill/decode decouples compute-heavy prefill from memory-intensive decode so separate GPU pools can be optimized and scaled independently for each phase.

• As growth-rate dispersion widens, the likelihood of re-ignition for slower growers is said to decline and competitive pressure becomes more decisive.
• The combined strategy forces investors to form a view on the feasibility and economics of 'data centers in space' as a thesis driver.

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• Sid Sijbrandij says Kilo’s paid features are oriented toward managers/executives and include organization-wide AI adoption analytics priced at $15 per user per month and an enterprise tier with centralized BYOK and Bedrock-in-VPC support.
• The conversation cites a future scenario of willingness to pay $10,000 per month for AI tooling with humans and agents and gives an example of someone paying $1,400 per month for Cursor.

• Assuming LLMs will not become effective at vulnerability research is risky.
• Frontier AI labs include vulnerability research outcomes in their model cards.

• Jay Taylor reports that targeting 100% compatibility with popular public reference SDK client libraries is a key prompting strategy to keep Digital Twin implementations faithful.
• StrongDM's AI team started in July 2025 with an explicit rule of no hand-coded software.

• Andreessen Horowitz raised $15B, accounting for over 20% of the total venture funds raised by firms in 2025.
• Early reviews of Anthropic’s new knowledge-work workspace product are described as impressive but somewhat 'janky,' implying execution risk despite strong concept.

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• The target binary is a DirectX 8.1 Visual Studio 2003 (VC++ 7.1 SP1) build that relies on grim.dll (Grim2D) whose interface is an 84-method vtable exposed via GRIM__GetInterface.
• Crimsonland’s release lineage includes a 2002 freeware prototype series, a 2003 shareware v1.8–v1.9 line, and a GOG “classic” build v1.9.93 from Feb 2011 that became a bonus alongside the 2014 remaster.

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• Operational areas highlighted as needing guidance include setup Q&A, administrative commands, Telegram bot setup, web UI access, and running commands as root.
• A recommended baseline for running OpenClaw is to use OpenClaw’s provided Docker Compose configuration.

• Finn is described as an AI customer service agent that can automatically resolve up to 93% of customer queries.
• Wix has not yet cracked TikTok and sees large upside in TikTok and LinkedIn despite imperfect targeting on LinkedIn and past disappointment with sports endorsements.

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• New revenue streams are described as incremental and not inherently dependent on token emissions, instead increasing net rewards capacity and the utility of emissions.
• Traders route through whichever interface provides the best rate, so maintaining sufficient liquidity is described as the core determinant of winning DEX flow quickly.

• Weka’s augmented-memory approach claims to extend DRAM-class memory to GPUs via the compute network, creating a larger network-accessible DRAM pool than local motherboard DRAM.
• Repeated prefill to rebuild KV cache is a major source of inference waste and slowness, and an ideal is a single prefill followed by indefinite decode.

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• In Co-do, a user selects a folder and configures an LLM provider and API key, after which the app uses CSP-approved calls to contact the provider and exposes tool-mediated access to only the selected files through chat.
• The iframe sandbox feature is thinly documented and behaves inconsistently across browsers, creating an implementation pain point.

• Adding a highly personalized postscript referencing the recipient’s specific preferences can materially increase outbound response rates (claimed ~3x).
• Moving contacts from email to WhatsApp can increase relationship strength because informal, personal touchpoints increase resonance.

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• American dynamism was a strong marketing concept, but an investable fund thesis required a tighter focus than the broader marketing narrative.
• VC partners who are no longer deeply engaged in the underlying technology become less effective and may need to be replaced.

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• ElevenLabs executes launch distribution via aggressive cross-posting plus an internal Slack channel that coordinates employee engagement to amplify launch-day reach.
• ElevenLabs estimates that roughly 60–70% of its core engineering code is now AI-written, while research engineering avoids AI-generated code due to sensitivity and proprietary model value.

• In 2025, performance for the discussed trend portfolio was driven by a small number of persistent trends, with metals contributing about 21% of the year's performance.
• Pursuing the single backtest-optimal parameter setting is usually wrong, and a robust 'good enough' configuration tends to outperform in practice.

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