Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan)

Sora is shutting down but we will always have the clip of Jesus winning an Olympic Gold in swimming by walking on water <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/soraofficialapp/status/2036546752535470382" color="blue">x.com/soraofficialap…</a>...

Paul Thomas Anderson dropped out of NYU film school after two days. He made the decision after a screenwriting professor said “if you’re here to write Terminator 2, just leave now.” His film education was “watching other movies” (and listening to the director’s commentary). ...

Read through Ark Invest's Big Ideas 2021 report. Here's a tweet and chart for each of the 15 ideas 🧵 ...

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng: >> Studies machine vision at Zhejiang University >> At 30 in 2015, launches High-Flyer quant hedge fund >> Makes a fortune (now $8B AUM) >> Wants to build “human” level AI as side hustle and pitches partners but they initially sceptical >> Buys 10,000 H800 chips...

Snoop is the biggest winner of Paris Olympics. NBC is paying him $500k a day (~$9m total) to do hilarious riffs on sports he’s never seen and — prob worth more than the salary — he got a private tour of an empty Louvre. ...

In 2008, Usain Bolt won gold in 100m (9.69 secs) and 200m (19.30 secs) at the Beijing Olympics while only eating McDonald’s. He didn’t want to take risks on food, so Bolt had 100 Chicken McNuggets a day during his 10-day stay in the country (1000 nuggets total). "I should have gotten a gold medal ...