The first thing to assess in an athlete wanting to get explosive is whether they are strong enough to hold the required positions. Many athletes chasing sprint speed or power simply lack foundational strength, so no amount of sprint work fixes it. A good foundation of strength is needed to execute movement with good technique.
On back squats in season, volume is moderate to low, accepting that some strength will be lost for most sports. Athletes in higher contact or higher output sports should accept that strength and fitness will decay somewhat during the season. It is important for the coach — and for the athlete psychologically — to accept that gym performance will decline in-season. Strength lost in-season can be rectified later and will come back. If you hit your strength numbers in the off-season and your sport is going well, you should not stress about in-season gym numbers. If you could back squat 250 kg in the off-season but 210 kg moves really slow in-season, it doesn't matter as long as sport performance is going well. Occasionally hitting a fast single at 85-90% of a true max is a bonus, not arequire
Explosiveness is worthless if you cannot use it consistently; sequencing matters more than gripping and ripping. Without conditioning, athletes in jiu-jitsu, judo, or rugby who are no good after the first 20% waste their single big outputs. The second thing many athletes forget is conditioning — do you have work capacity for your sport?
The air bike requires zero technique — fixed feet and hands mean you cannot do it wrong — so any athlete can push conditioning hard immediately, unlike sprints or 400s which require sprint skill to derive conditioning benefit. It is available in many gyms with similar recording standards across companies, and even the guest's parents in their late 60s could use one effectively straight away. It drives extreme discomfort quickly and repeatedly without the danger markers of field sprinting.
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Duncan Trussell argues that fixating your attention on the state or political news is a form of idolatry: you begin worshiping the state and the story in the news. Whether you hate or love the state, the Dems, or the Republicans, all of your attention is fixated on that thing — and in bhakti yoga, where attention goes, energy flows. Via fixation, the rest of reality dims until you're just saying a mantra against or for the state, and you become a cultist engrossed in a new religion of the state via hate or adoration — it's the same thing. Don't trick yourself into thinking that because you hate Donald Trump you aren't bowing down at that altar.
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Joe Rogan argues people are waiting for a top-down solution instead of acting themselves, and that anyone could drive a truck to a dumpster and clean up trash rather than waiting for the federal government.
It is very easy to cheat performance out of these systems: massively oversize your decoder, run backpropagation on it, and suddenly you have brain cells that play anything. Startups and companies get this wrong a lot. With fly-brain connectomes, people use massively oversized decoders, so it was never the fly doing anything — just silicon. Be very careful with oversized decoders and the information that propagates that idea over time.
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The brain is multimodal and real-time, keeps learning throughout life with no context windows, adapts even to things evolution never prepared it for, can learn from just a couple of examples (a 16-year-old shown a stop sign will recognize stop signs forever with several-nines accuracy, whereas an autonomous car needs many different angles, pictures, and shadows), operates on about 20 watts (roughly the power of an iPhone charger), and is extraordinarily energy efficient — which motivates efforts to make AI far more energy efficient.
Pong is simple enough that encoding and decoding can be hard-coded by hand. But hand-designed encoding/decoding becomes impossible for harder tasks like Doom because 59 channels cannot produce separable outputs for 54 different joint actions. For harder tasks and to scale to GPT-level intelligence, encoding and decoding must be learned end-to-end rather than hand-designed.
If the silicon decoder overfits, the cells never learn because they can keep their stochastic behavior while the decoder plays the game for them.
In the brain, memory and computation are intertwined: connections have weights and play a role in computation itself rather than just relaying signals — something digital electronics lack. Communication occurs via events called spikes generated from sensory input and propagated throughout. The brain is mixed-signal (parts digital-like, parts analog-like), and with experience and learning it changes both structure and function, constantly rewiring itself physically and logically — whereas chips are frozen and cannot physically adapt themselves over time.
For deadlift improvement, use back squat-driven deadlift programming: assess the client's current deadlift technique and strength, then look at their back squat. If a client deadlifts 180kg but back squats only 140kg, prioritize raising the back squat for three to four months before expecting deadlift gains, while practicing the deadlift the entire time. After the squat block, expect a reasonable transition period of about two months for deadlift improvements to follow.
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The host's assessment sequence: first observe the sprinting athlete from the side to check takeoff angle and how long they hold forward lean, then check ground contact frequency, then view from the front or behind to assess lateral tracking of knees and feet.
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Observe sprint takeoff angle from the side to see how long the athlete stays in an aggressive forward stance, check ground contact frequency for cadence quality, and view from the front or behind to assess lateral sway and takeoff efficiency.
A three-step observation sequence: first assess from the side — the angle of takeoff and how long the athlete stays in the aggressive forward stance; then assess how frequently they hit the ground (step frequency); finally assess tracking from the front or behind, where lateral sway is visible from 50 meters away.
Make sure the agent doesn't try to give investment advice or answer questions like the weather in New York when they're out of scope; datasets should include out-of-scope requests that should be correctly deferred.
Build a dashboard of business-facing metrics from agent data to reassure stakeholders the agentic solution benefits the business: track thumbs up/down customer feedback in an easy-to-consume dashboard, focus investigation on the thumbs-down minority rather than celebrating the majority, and report on tokenomics for cost-focused stakeholders.
From production traces, track aggregate metrics like cost, latency, and tokens, and monitor user frustration signals such as how many users write all-caps messages because they're upset. Compliance guardrails can also serve as quality signals in monitoring.
Monitor for security-risk flags where the agent might have given investment advice to customers, and investigate those specific cases by filtering traces on the categorical score condition.
The air bike is a big favorite for conditioning because it allows pushing specific conditioning with absolutely zero technique. You're in fixed fulcrums with fixed feet and hands, so you can't do it wrong — all you can do is not go as fast or go too hard. Any athlete, even the speaker's parents in their late 60s, can go to town on it straight away. Unlike 400s or hill sprints, you don't need to be good at sprinting to get conditioning benefit.
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