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Ray Schmitz retweeted
I wrote a 20,000 word Notion guide on Personal Finance for Startup Founders
Covers equity, fundraising, how to set up cap table, raising money, taxes, hiring & compensating your team, running finance, selling secondaries & exiting
RT or Comment this post & I'll DM you a copy
Ray Schmitz retweeted
America is lucky it’s not in a civil war right now, yet we are in a kind of cold civil war. What is this experiment we call America? Let us look back and remember who we are, and how our greatest leaders—like Abraham Lincoln—comported themselves in the face of civil war. We must realign ourselves with the founding spirit of our nation. Are we ready to reach across the divide? I am, and that is what my campaign is about.
Ray Schmitz retweeted
Today, I’m launching Brilliant Minds, a new fund dedicated to investing in founders over 60. It’s a longevity intervention with a twist.
While many focus on drugs and novel technologies to combat aging, I've observed a significant factor in the decline of people's (brain) health: societal pressure that leads them to withdraw, despite being energetic and wise.
There's a substantial societal stigma that we need to address, and we require more tangible use cases to really move the needle.
My new fund focuses on entrepreneurs over 60 across various industries, not just in longevity. It's about investing in their broad experience and innovative potential.
The next unicorn will be built by a “retired” founder 🚀.
This launch doesn’t mean I’ll stop investing in younger founders. I'll continue to support them as an angel investor. 'Brilliant Minds' simply adds a new dimension to my investment portfolio, focusing on the unique potential of older entrepreneurs.
You can read more about it here: brilliant-minds.io
#longevity #investments – at Manhattan, NY
Ray Schmitz retweeted
a human infant requires about 93 kWh to make and a further ~15,000 to 'train' to age 18, while GPT-3 requires about 1,287e6 kWh to train, a difference of about 5 orders of magnitude.
you could make and train a hundred thousand people for one gpt3.
biology stays winning.
Ray Schmitz retweeted
Today I'm excited to unveil Valar Atomics!
Valar is my master plan to make energy 10x cheaper in 10 years by pulling oil and gas out of thin air with nuclear fission.
This will untether energy from climate and politics, fuel American industry, and unlock a new era of growth
Ray Schmitz retweeted
The last 3 years we’ve seen a rogue administrative state that needs to be held accountable for its actions – not just an investigation into the conflicts of interests that led to these baseless claims, but how the US actively demolished its global standing as the home for innovation, with thousands of jobs moving overseas.
Enough is enough.
Ray Schmitz retweeted
Finally wrote a README for HVM-Core!
github.com/HigherOrderCO/hvm…
HVM-Core is a low-level compile target for high-level languages like Python and Haskell. It is then compiled to CUDA, letting us run basically *anything* on GPUs.
Ray Schmitz retweeted
@jimWe've asked @CRYPTOFTHL for our reimbursement.
Looks like they don't have enough ETH to cover the 514,85€ we spent in total 🤯
Who in the ETH community can spread the word or make a donation?
You can find their ETH address here: cryptoforthehomeless.com/sup… (L2s also welcome)
We did a thing.
With @sinomont, @gospelofchange, @AtlantisDAO1, @blanktablets, and @regen_earthsoul we fed nearly 200 people in 5 cities.
Thanks to @CRYPTOFTHL, we'll get back the funds we spent in crypto, stake it into the Playnet, and fund more regenerative play.
Ray Schmitz retweeted
1/4🎡 Sunday June 25th we play the next Turn.
5 cities around the world will be competing to feed the most homeless.
@CRYPTOFTHL will reimburse our costs in crypto. 🫶
And we'll stake the crypto to the Playnet to fund more regenerative play.
Are you game? 🎲
Ray Schmitz retweeted
Public funds should be on public ledgers
Ray Schmitz retweeted
I'm not warning about the switch to AI in the hope of averting it, but to warn the few people who care enough to save themselves, or their kids. Learn to use AI. It's a powerful technology, and you should know how to use it. But also learn how to write.
Ray Schmitz retweeted
Today, I’m releasing SocialAGI - an open source project for building pro-social AGIs 🤖+👱
The first AGI in the repo is SAMANTHA - designed to have feelings and thoughts while conversing
Just a few commands to get started!
github.com/Methexis-Inc/Soci…
Ray Schmitz retweeted
The world needs high performance open source LLM.
The main obstacle today is the legal status of the training data.
OK, here it is: a line in the sand (in @Nature). I am very wary about scientists---including political scientists---embracing/pushing proprietary LLMs. Let's try an open science approach. Hope this take is a useful one.
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Ray Schmitz retweeted
Please RT. These are positions similar to those that you would have at a company building something over several years, or a national lab-style position. We have several openings in several areas that interface AI, automation, chemistry, biochemistry and materials science!
WE'RE #HIRING! Come join the Acceleration Consortium team in #Toronto and become part of a world leading hub for #AI for science. We are looking for:
✔️Staff Scientists : bit.ly/ac-staff-sci
✔️Senior Staff Scientists: bit.ly/ac-senior-sci
Apply now!
