Investor @VanEck_us

Joined November 2011
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Brian publicly talking about his side projects has marked the top with uncanny accuracy
Imagine you had the energy, metabolism, and mental agility of your younger self - without the aches and pains that come from aging. That’s what we’re attempting to build at @NewLimit and it will be one of the most important achievements in human history ever if it works. We're on the cusp of this being tractable given the rise of AI to test more hypotheses in-silico, along with the rapidly falling cost of single cell sequencing, etc. We announced our Series C and upcoming human clinical trials this week, so still a long, long way to go, with many risks. But with hard work we've got a shot at making this a reality.
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USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop. I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls. Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors. In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves. This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift. The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were. So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply. The owner asked if everything was okay. "It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter." He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?" I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter. I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer. So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen. And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it. Reborn. A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.
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May 29
SpaceX IPO boutta go crazy
Here's our video of the explosion at Launch Complex 36. It happened about 9 pm ET (0100 UTC) as Blue Origin was beginning a static fire test of its New Glenn rocket. Watch live views: youtube.com/watch?v=thfYPsRq…
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May 28
Confirmed Anthropic also knows Opus 4.7 is garbage
[ ZOOMER ] ANTHROPIC RELEASES CLAUDE OPUS 4.8: BLOG
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May 27
Maybe Anthropic wouldn't be so compute constrained if Opus was less verbose
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May 26
not using Codex at all right now is a skill issue until further notice
I bet we’re ~6mo from a vibe shift back to OpenAI GPT5.5 is very impressive and 40% cheaper, limits are higher. Codex is stellar and taking mindshare of the top devs I know. Teams I talk to are disillusioned with ROI from soaring Anthropic costs. It’s becoming untenable.
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May 26
You can tell your agent to make a Cloudflare account and deploy the HTML to a Cloudflare Page (for free) so its accessible online You can also add auth (also free) with Cloudflare Access in case you don’t want the page public
My favorite way of interacting with Claude Code is to have it generate static HTML files as outputs (reports, explorations, code structure, mockups etc.) I wanted to iterate on the file by commenting in browser and having Claude update the output live. So, I built this Claude Skill👇 How it works: - Install Claude Code skill (ask it to clone repo) - Build an HTML page for anything (e.g. research coding agents and generate HTML report) - Ask it to make the page interactive That's it. CC will launch a localhost server and allow you to then leave comments on the page itself and once it updates, will give you a tour of changes. It's like Google Docs kind of comments/iteration but for HTML pages.
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May 26
This looks like an ideal location for 10,000 GPUs
There is a lot of lighting on nuclear icebreakers, because they simply have nowhere to put their energy. Itis necessary to maintain a certain level of load on the reactor ⚛️ As a result, nuclear icebreakers become real lighthouses in the world of endless night
Community note
Nuclear icebreakers use lighting for navigation and safety during Arctic darkness, not to dissipate energy. Their reactors are designed for variable loads; surplus heat is transferred to seawater via cooling loops, as lighting is too inefficient for reactor energy discharge. world-nuclear.org/information-li…
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May 21
Only in Mamdanistan
1,000 World Cup tickets. $50 each. All for New Yorkers. We fought hard to make the people’s game available to the people — and won. Let the summer of soccer begin.
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May 20
Based Bezos
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Jeff Bezos says taxes for lower salary workers are too high: "It's kind of absurd that we're doing this ... We shouldn't be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington."
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May 19
Does this mean we're getting a Special Delivery Dragonite Promo?
Hana dreams of becoming an ace mail carrier like her hero, Dragonite 🧡 When she finds a letter with no address, she sets off to locate the mystery sender! ✉️ 🔗 Watch “Pokémon: Dragonite and the Special Delivery” on YouTube: pkmn.news/WatchDragonite
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May 14
I’m so excited to rip these
Officially at $60. Grab one now 📈📈📈
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Matt retweeted

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It took ~2 days for the @Collector_Crypt Sealed Gacha to run out of stock I want more
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Matt retweeted
Not all crypto hedge fund strategies are created equal. cc @vaneckpk
Crypto hedge fund performance over the last 5 years
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Apr 13
You are the Wizard and AI is the Wand Practice your incantations before you get replaced with a better spell caster
A friend at Apple told me that over the past couple weeks, their team got access to Claude with a $300/day token budget. This is global sourcing on the business side, not engineering. I’m also hearing that when directors ask for backfill, senior leadership is asking what the team’s AI usage looks like. If token usage is low or nonexistent, the answer is increasingly: go figure out how to get more leverage out of AI first. Wild.
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Apr 10
Mimo Hermes agent so far feels really really good Opus-quality experience
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I think the quote goes something like "Life imitating Anime" right?
Ye's SoFi stage design is inspired by Akira's nuclear explosion opening scene. The Akira influence remains strong with Ye.
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