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88% of venture-backed startup founders walk away with nothing, according to a study of nearly 250,000 founders.
Researchers from Wharton and the University of Zurich analyzed 157,669 US startups and 248,454 founders from 1987 to 2025.
The top 1% of startups captured 79% of all value at exit
The 12% of founders who did get paid received a median of $4.8 million after taxes
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Humanoid robot start-up backed by Eric Trump in talks to supply IDF ft.trib.al/HDiq4bf
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NEW FREE HELL!
Returning to @thisishellradio is @thomasfrank_ author of the new book, "The Creativity Con: How Innovation Became America's Biggest Racket" (@penguinpress).
if you like, share. If you love, join us as a member on @Patreon.
patreon.com/thisishell/posts…
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The AI agents running start-ups with no employees ft.trib.al/CmP8Eab
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$125,000 for the Mozilla Foundation Fellowship
@mozilla Mozilla Foundation is choosing 10 Fellows for 2027 to 2028, to spend a year building tech that puts people first.
Independent Fellows get $125,000 in total: a $100,000 stipend and a $25,000 project budget.
The fellowship lasts 12 months and starts June 1, 2027.
You start with a short Letter of Intent. Only a shortlist gets invited to write the full application.
Letter of Intent due: Dec 17, 11:59 PM PT
hacklist.io/program/e4a66ef2…
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Spoke with @che_noir about why buying directly from artists is so important and her appreciation for the fans who do.
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How to train a transformer.
I am a software engineer who has no prior experience with ML experience.
But now I have trained multiple nueral nets for different types of applications.
If you are looking to learn ML or AI, this is the best time.
aiengg.dev/blog/how-to-train…
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new post-training example → SFT on agent traces with TRL
> a big model works as a coding agent in @opencode via OpenEnv
> the tasks it solves become the training data
> 2B model goes from 5.5% to 34.4% on held-out tasks
full guide with everything open: github.com/huggingface/trl/t…
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Ever since @m7mdkurd’s book came out, I’ve started - and then put it down - multiple times because we’re not used to books confronting us in this way. Now, for some work, I finally read it cover to cover and the only thing to say is that everyone needs to read it.
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You’re either against all bigotry or you’re not. Yes Indians can be racist. And I say this as someone who lived and worked in Durban and has experienced said racism first hand. At the same time you cannot go around saying people’s food is bewitched or demonic. That’s racist too!
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Breakfast for the next week will be leftover Deepavali treats.
I am very nervous about returning to gym and stepping onto the scale.
Summer body un-loading! 🫠
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Weight space programming will replace fine tuning. You guys asked about multiple skills. Here you go, edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights directly to add decision skills from our vega-U engine. No new dataset and no training: the engine answered the training rows of public benchmarks, and its judgement was written straight into Qwen's weights with a closed-form solve that took 46 milliseconds, on two free Kaggle T4 GPUs. The edited model now makes better decisions on its own, with no catastrophic memory loss: it still knows what it knew before.
Notebook: kaggle.com/code/nandakishorc…
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What if we've been getting Africa's development story wrong all along?
For decades, we've focused on what isn't working.
But are we overlooking the continent's enormous economic potential?
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I said the DA relies on differential turnout. The numbers confirm it.
28% of Cape Town's voters live in the suburbs.
They turned out at 67%, voted 80% DA and supplied nearly half its votes.
Outside the suburbs the DA got 44%.
The people who show up elect the government.
Brett Herron reflects on voter turnout across Cape Town, highlighting the importance of participation in the Cape Flats and townships, where communities continue to raise concerns about housing, service delivery and failing infrastructure.
Every vote matters. When communities stay away from the polls, they leave decisions about their future in the hands of those who do participate. Meaningful change begins with making your voice heard.
#GOODParty #LGE2026 #VoterParticipation #OneCapeTown #fyp