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Friday, June 12, 2026 · 5 new bookmarks in the last 24 hours

For older adults, a daily multivitamin is a high-priority basic, not an optional supplement Across three COSMOS cognitive studies of adults 65+, a standard multivitamin (Centrum Silver) slowed global brain aging by about 2 years The biggest effect showed up in episodic memory (remembering experiences, names, faces, and events), which aged almost 5 years slower A related COSMOS analysis also found modest slowing in biological aging clocks, making this one of the lowest-effort ways to cover micronutrient gaps as the brain ages

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Building a Good Vertical Agent

How do you build an agent that actually performs in a domain — one customers pick because it's better? The basics have been standardized over the past year: an agent is a while-loop around a model

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Roadmap: How to become a GPU/CUDA engineer with AI

Outlook NVIDIA software engineer compensation in 2026 ranges from $176k for IC1 to $1.04M for IC7, with median total comp at $390k (Levels.fyi). Inference optimization specialists - the

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Daniel Kahneman - the psychologist who won a Nobel in economics - spent his life proving one thing: your confidence is lying to you A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. The answer "10 cents" jumps to mind instantly. It's wrong (it's 5 cents) - and ~50% of students at Harvard, MIT and Princeton say it without checking. That gap is his whole point: the fast, intuitive mind builds a clean story from almost nothing, and the feeling of certainty has nothing to do with being right. "Confidence is a feeling, not a judgment." "Stock pickers can't develop intuition - there isn't enough regularity for it to form." "You can build a very coherent story out of very little information." ~45 min, free. how your mind fools you - from a man who studied it for 50 years ↓

Nassim Taleb sat down with Daniel Kahneman - two of the sharpest minds on risk ever - and the takeaway was blunt: stop trying to be smart Kahneman's prospect theory explains why almost nobody can do what Taleb does We're wired to hate the steady trickle of small losses his strategy needs - even when one huge win more than pays for all of them So you structure it the other way: tiny safe bets plus a few wild ones, never the comfortable middle. "You'd rather be antifragile than intelligent - any time." "Trial and error is really just trial with small error." "Make your gains in small bites. Take your losses all at once." ~1 hr, free. two legends on risk, prediction, and how to win without forecasting ↓