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Robotics basics straight from Stanford! 😮💨
This free from Stanford University is a great starting point to kinematics, dynamics, control, motion planning, trajectory generation, and design.
There is no better way to get into robotics than through a legend like Oussama Khatib from Stanford Robotics Center.
Oussama Khatib is one of robotics founding legends. He was reseaching human-centered robotics when the field was still obsessed with industrial cages and safety barriers.
His work on haptic feedback and dynamic control made robots safe to work alongside humans.
16 lectures grounded in the actual mathematics robots need to move safely and work with people.
That's what you can find inside:
→ Spatial transformations
→ Forward & inverse kinematics
→ Jacobians, velocity propagation, and singularities
→ Trajectory generation
→ Motion planning
→ Newton-Euler and Lagrangian methods
→ Manipulation, and compliance,
→ Applications in vision-based robotics and whole-body control
Access it here for free and recommend to your robotics buddy: see.stanford.edu/Course/CS22…
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This fall @michaelryan207 @jyangballin and I are teaching a new course CS329Z "Engineering AI Agents" on how to build AI Agents from scratch. Come join us and learn how to build them 🤖
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What's your California Dream?
This month we're launching the Garry's List California Dream campaign.
We want to hear your story: what brought you to California, the life you've built here, and why you believe it's a place worth fighting for.
Want to share your California Dream? DM us or send us an email at [email protected].
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Google engineer:
"delete your IDE, you don't need it anymore. in 2026 if you are still not building AI agents, it's crazy how bad you are
At Google, 85% of engineers are running agentic "loops" and graphs, that's how the engineering setup will look"
in a 25-minute session, a Google engineer with 30 years of experience reveals how AI engineering will look like in 2026
Worth more than 10 paid agentic courses
Watch it today, then read how to run a self-improving agentic system in the article below
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BREAKING: Inside Palo Alto Networks ($PANW ) w/ CEO Nikesh Arora (@nikesharora)
Rogue agents are just the start.
"This is the beginning. This is not a moment."
Nikesh joined 8 years ago at an $18 Billion market cap. Today it's grown to $300+ Billion
"For 8 years I tried to convince CEOs to pay attention to cybersecurity. You know what Mythos did? Every CEO wants to talk about Mythos."
"The average time to fix a vulnerability was 55 days.. The average time they'll find it, try & attack you is in minutes.. We launched a capability that delivers patches in 4 hours. From 55 days to 4 hours."
We cover:
› The liability question behind agent deployment
› Why he signed Jensen Huang's open weights letter
› 40+ acquisitions behind the run to $300B
› End of the 'SaaSpocalypse' ?
› Hiring AI natives out of hackathons
› Why every piece of software gets rewritten in the next 10 years
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Nikesh Arora, Chairman & CEO at Palo Alto Networks
(00:51) The AI attack era has already started
(03:30) What happens when agents go rogue
(04:39) Why AI Labs are slowing down
(06:31) The Mythos Fallout
(17:25) Cybersecurity's secret weapon
(19:43) Buying a company is the easy part
(20:48) Where most acquisitions go wrong
(24:58) Predicting the SaaSpacolypse
(28:03) The question nobody in Tech is asking
(30:54) There's never enough Compute
(33:12) Palo Alto's bar for AI fluency
(35:37) The controversial hire
(37:12) Using LinkedIn to spot opportunities
(39:19) What a CEO's day actually looks like
(43:47) The leadership traits that matter
(47:02) Google vs. SoftBank: What was different?
(51:02) Why planning horizons are shrinking
(52:55) Lessons From Elon & Masa
(56:44) What's next for Nikesh?
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FELLOWSHIP‼️: Sequoia will cover a full year of your living expenses to work on open source. No equity. No pitch deck. No company required.
This is the @sequoia Open Source Fellowship, the same firm behind @Airbnb, @stripe, and @Zoom. Past fellows built FastAPI, Pydantic, and Chatbot Arena.
What you get:
- 6-12 mo of living expenses covered
- zero equity taken
- 100% ownership of what you build
- fully remote from anywhere.
No company required. Just your project.
Only 2 to 3 fellows selected per year.
Rolling applications, no fixed deadline.
🖇️Apply → sequoiacap.com/oss
P.S. A folder is not a story. @ThePageform AI agent turns your materials into a ready data room in <5 mins.
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Coca-Cola went public in 1919 at $40 a share. One year later it was $19 – down half – and the family that had owned the whole business bought it in the 1880s for $2,000
this is Warren Buffett at 68, in a room of Florida MBA students, walking through the single stock he is most identified with and explaining why the worst year was irrelevant
the point he is making is not that Coke was cheap – it is that the price collapsed 50% while the business itself was fine
he goes on to what he actually watches instead of the price – volumes, pricing power, and where the growth is coming from ten years out
no slides – no notes – no prepared remarks, and no lawyer in the room
this lecture exists because a 1970 graduate endowed a fund so the university could invite one speaker a year
bookmark & watch today ↓
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Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei:
"50% of all entry-level Lawyers, Consultants, and Finance Professionals will be completely wiped out within the next 1–5 years."
In 47 minutes, he explains exactly who survives and how.
This is the whole difference between watching AI take your industry and becoming the person companies desperately need.
Watch it. Then read the guide below on how to become the "AI guy" these companies need.
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Robert Wachen (@robertwachen) dropped out of Harvard at 21 with $10,000 in a bank account.
Three years later Etched has raised $1B+, is valued over $10B, and has signed $1B+ in customer contracts. He's 24.
His explanation for why it worked: "We were absolutely not the best people in the world to solve this. We were the only people willing to."
More below in this talk he gave to hundreds of interns.
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Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI):
"You no longer need to write prompts."
In just 38 minutes, he explains how to use ChatGPT at a level that most people can't even imagine.
It's a talk he gave to Stanford students. A friend sent me the recording last night.
After watching it, I realized I was only taking advantage of about 15% of what this tool can really do.
Watch it in full and then read the guide I leave below on how to create a system that prompts itself.
Follow @AnishJaitwar for more
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Today, we're launching Vocci.
Your AI is smart. It just missed the conversations. Vocci brings your real conversations, spontaneous ideas, and everyday moments into the AI tools you already use.
Wear the context. Loop in real life.
Explore more: vocci.ai