• As growth-rate dispersion widens (e.g., 20% versus 500% growth), the likelihood of re-ignition for slower growers is asserted to decline and competitive pressure becomes more decisive.
• There is disagreement over whether agentic CRMs must own the full stack versus being built and sold on top of Salesforce.
• Agent-to-agent communication is framed as a coming disruption to B2B software because networked agents could coordinate actions rather than operating as isolated assistants.

• Recurring popups risk regressing into shorter, smaller, more generic events that converge toward conferences and hackerspaces rather than culturally distinctive communities.
• Culture cannot be reliably engineered by top-down mission statements, and it also should not be treated as static or as purely the emergent output of individual market choices.
• Building a new city can enable long-agreed urban policy improvements because city-level autonomy is often easier to obtain than national-scale change.

• Corporate harm can be separated into an 'evil' mode (profit-optimizing capability diverging from user or societal goals) and a 'lame' mode (homogeneity from risk aversion and monoculture).
• A core liberal safeguard is for government to function primarily as a predictable rules-and-arbitration system rather than as an agenda-driven actor.
• In organizations, 'soul' can be operationalized as pluralism: meaningful differences across actors that counter homogenizing incentives from shared motives and centralized agency.

• Plinko reduces both client communication and server compute from O(N) to O(sqrt(N)) while using preprocessing to eliminate the trust assumption.
• For an Ethereum-like dataset of 10 billion 32-byte values arranged as a 100000x100000 grid, Plinko would require storing about 100000*128 hints (approximately 390 MB) plus additional backup hints.
• In classic two-server PIR, the client queries two servers with nearly identical random subsets that differ only in whether index i is included, and XORing the two servers’ XOR-sums reveals D[i].

• In this corpus, "galaxy brain resistance" is defined as the degree to which a style of thinking is hard to abuse to justify nearly any pre-decided conclusion, analogized to falsifiability in science.
• This corpus claims that many impressive-sounding arguments in markets and politics are better modeled as post-hoc rationalizations driven by self-interest or emotion rather than genuine reasoning.
• This corpus claims longtermist arguments have low galaxy brain resistance because distant futures allow unconstrained stories where almost any action can be framed as producing enormous benefits.

• GKR gains efficiency by avoiding commitments to intermediate-layer values and requiring commitments only to inputs and outputs.
• For Poseidon-style cubing layers, the described GKR approach uses a degree-4 sumcheck to relate next-layer evaluation to a sum over previous-layer terms of the form (previous_value^3 plus round constant) times evaluation weights.
• GKR is described as the main protocol family behind many ultra-fast proving systems for workloads like many Poseidon hashes and ZK-EVM-like computation at extreme speed.

• World Factbook pages were configured to return a 302 redirect to the closure announcement.
• Until 2020 the CIA published annual ZIP file archives of the entire Factbook site, and those archives are available via the Internet Archive.
• A December 10, 2020 Factbook 'What's New' entry reports Nepal and China agreed on Mount Everest's height as 8,848.86 meters, which the Factbook rounds to 8,849 meters and propagates throughout its database.

• Mistral released Voxtral Transcribe 2, a family of two new audio-to-text transcription models, as a sequel to the original Voxtral from July 2025.
• The Mistral transcription API supports diarization, context biasing, and segment-level timestamp granularities via request parameters.
• Voxtral transcription via the Mistral API is priced at $0.003 per minute ($0.18 per hour).

• At Series A scale, many founders hit a management 'great filter' because as headcount grows past roughly 30–90, formal management systems become necessary.
• There is no single platonic ideal of an entrepreneur; selection should emphasize founder-market fit rather than universal founder traits beyond energy and cognitive ability.
• Bad early capitalization decisions can create long-lasting problems via unwanted investors or overly dilutive valuations that later deter quality VCs.

• Martin Casado predicts many current generative AI applications will look trivial in retrospect, and says the key watch item is whether early behaviors translate into durable enterprise and consumer workflows over time.
• Martin Casado disputes that today's AI infrastructure build-out is funded like dot-com, arguing the primary builders now have strong balance sheets and cash flows rather than extreme leverage.
• Martin Casado argues the 'AI must grow 40x' framing is often misinterpreted because the relevant shift is reallocating spend within existing large businesses rather than requiring proportional total revenue growth.

• Construction permit submissions and approvals are identified as near-term licensing milestones most worth watching as indicators of meaningful commercialization progress.
• In evaluating microreactor vendors, the presence of a substantial factory footprint and a detailed fabrication-and-assembly flow is identified as a leading indicator of readiness.
• The NRC is under pressure to move faster but is constrained by fewer staff, leadership turnover, shutdown disruptions, and additional external requirements that consume time.