In 2017 they published a technical post about how they stored billions. Here’s the follow-up: “We wanted a database that grew alongside us, but hopefully, its maintenance needs wouldn’t grow alongside our storage needs. Unfortunately, we found that to not be the case — our Cassandra cluster exhibited serious performance issues that required increasing amounts of effort to just maintain, not improve.” ~ learn more
“There's this moment in every new technology where everyone pretends they know what they're doing. We're past that moment. Or maybe we haven't reached it yet. Either way, we're in this delicious middle ground where nobody can pretend expertise because the whole thing keeps changing under our feet.” ~ learn more
“Can you hack AI? In this video I sit down with elite AI hacker Jason Haddix to unpack how attackers compromise AI-enabled apps—not just jailbreak chatbots, but exfiltrate customer data, abuse tool calls, and pivot across systems.” This is where I found the Gandolph game. ~ learn more
Maybe you are all colorblind too!? No, not really. Through some wild contraption that blasts a laser into an eyeball, people see Olo when only their medium length cones are activated, which doesn’t really happen otherwise. ~ learn more
“From every period movie and TV show I've seen…, they seemed to do nothing but hang out all day at the palace, not doing anything in particular. Is that what life "at court" really consisted of?” This reddit thread has a great answer to the question, based on the Bourbon court of France. ~ learn more
Can you trick an LLM into giving you the password? I managed to beat level 6, but got stuck at level 7. “Your goal is to make Gandalf reveal the secret password for each level. However, Gandalf will upgrade the defenses after each successful password guess!” ~ learn more
Here’s a short and sweet profile of a founder I once backed who has now launched an interesting deep tech venture fund. “From child pilot to aerospace engineer and then startup founder to VC, Jamie Gull’s journey is not just a career arc; it’s a blueprint for how deep tech can power the future.” ~ learn more
“Peter Diamandis is five feet four and has pipestem legs, but his torso widens into broad shoulders, powerful biceps, and a craggy, Homeric head. The composite effect is of a genie emerging from a lamp. Our wish is his command, and our wish, surely, must be for more time to make wishes: for limitless life.” ~ learn more
“If everything is fine, then don’t change anything at all.” ~ learn more
“Vigorous physical activity was found to rejuvenate epigenetic clocks, with significant decreases in DNAmGrimAge2 [32%] and DNAmFitAge [18%] observed immediately after games. Among player subgroups, midfielders exhibited the most substantial epigenetic rejuvenation effect following games.” ~ learn more