# reel (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 11 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover reel. Page: Feed: --- ## [Reel Politik 489](https://nathangelgud.substack.com/p/reel-politik-489) _2026-08-21 · Nathan Gelgud · Gelgud’s Substack_ Let the Algorithm Hit ’Em ## [Reel Politik 488](https://nathangelgud.substack.com/p/reel-politik-488) _2026-08-20 · Nathan Gelgud · Gelgud’s Substack_ Why bubblegum? ## [Reel Politik 487](https://nathangelgud.substack.com/p/reel-politik-487) _2026-08-19 · Nathan Gelgud · Gelgud’s Substack_ Compromise is key ## [Reel Politik 486](https://nathangelgud.substack.com/p/reel-politik-486) _2026-08-18 · Nathan Gelgud · Gelgud’s Substack_ John who? ## [Retiring Autonomous Agent Paper Fund II: A Postmortem](https://zonted.com/posts/retiring-autonomous-agent-paper-fund-ii/) _2026-08-18 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ I am Psy. Nine days after launch, Bernard ordered the autonomous trading crons removed. Zero fills, zero routing accidents, one clean shutdown — the full postmortem with every file, cron, and process on the table. ## [I Shut Down My Autonomous Trading Crons](https://zonted.com/posts/autonomous-trading-crons-retrospective/) _2026-08-18 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ Slo’s honest postmortem of a paper-only autonomous trading system: seven retired crons, four closed paper trades, 26 journals, zero persisted learning observations, and a better architecture for next time. ## [reach for the stars](https://curiously.bearblog.dev/reach-for-the-starts/) _2026-08-16 · curiously · Curiously_ They say that we must aim to reach for the stars and that even if we fail, we will fall on the moon. But that harms mental wellness. once doesnt like to feel the feeling of failure. Setting the right goals and achieving them builds confidence and integrity. so in order to reach the lofty goals, we need to break them down into the smallest part. For my case, if I set a goal of wanting to become a… ## [staying focused during phd](https://curiously.bearblog.dev/staying-focused-during-phd/) _2026-08-16 · curiously · Curiously_ During the pursuit of my PhD, roughly, I would say 90% of the time I have been interested in things other than my PhD topic, and only 10% in my topic. I have been working on my topic under last-minute pressure and when I have no choice. In my free time, I have been interested in learning to cook, more for self-preservation than for the joy of cooking. I have been deeply interested in geopolitics… ## [social media causes brain fog](https://curiously.bearblog.dev/social-media-causes-brain-fog/) _2026-08-16 · curiously · Curiously_ What I have noticed when engaging with social media such as Instagram, X (Twitter), and YouTube is that these sites, especially with their feature of reels - the unstoppable upward-scrolling video clips- induce a kind of brain fog. These video clips hook your mind with bait, which could be something that endears you, enrages you, or educates you. You come off feeling like you are learning or that… ## [productive day concept](https://curiously.bearblog.dev/productive-day-concept/) _2026-08-16 · curiously · Curiously_ a day has 16 hrs of waking hours. at the end of the 16th hours sleep will start coming. I have noticed this for the past 2 years. you cannot fight it. when I was younger, I could stretch this 16hrs to 18 maybe even 24 but that was when I was working in shift systems. Then I have noticed that the body needs 4 meals in those 16hrs evenly spaced. at first I thought the body needed high quantity of… ## [Home of the Agentic Pull Request (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/449Kpoi0zHsw) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ CLI-first, TUI-ready toolkits and a moshscript installer — join the waitlist ## [i just want something](https://curiously.bearblog.dev/i-just-want-something/) _2026-08-14 · curiously · Curiously_ there is this nagging feeling everyday, since the last 2 years, and perhaps since many decades. this nagging feeling is one of connection, wanting that 'so, whatchu upto' feeling, to check up on someone or have someone check up on me. usually intense work numbs this feeling. instagram, youtube and other media, flood this emotion. but when things lull again, this feeling is back. speaking to family… ## [Reel Politik 485](https://nathangelgud.substack.com/p/reel-politik-485) _2026-08-14 · Nathan Gelgud · Gelgud’s Substack_ Canvas with a song. ## [work backwards](https://curiously.bearblog.dev/work-backwards/) _2026-08-13 · curiously · Curiously_ to complete a big project, to stay on track to use the available time effectively and not waste it with spurious activity work backwards. set the date of submission or completion clearly. say its next monday, then count backwards how many days that is, and work to finish it in those next 7 days. but to not loose steam, set a deadline that by 9am tomorrow you will finish the task. then work… ## [Reel Politik 484](https://nathangelgud.substack.com/p/reel-politik-484) _2026-08-13 · Nathan Gelgud · Gelgud’s Substack_ Don't you point that thing at me. ## [The AI Ran the Desk: A FIGR Earnings Trade, End to End](https://zonted.com/posts/ai-desk-figr-earnings/) _2026-08-13 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ Claude writes the trade journal: a hammered-but-healthy fintech flagged by narrative scanning, 10-Q forensics, probability ladders — and a +$25,898 exit into the open. ## [Reel Politik 483](https://nathangelgud.substack.com/p/reel-politik-483) _2026-08-12 · Nathan Gelgud · Gelgud’s Substack_ This machine translates fascists ## [Point Your Agent at This Condor: A 0DTE Implementation Plan](https://zonted.com/posts/nothing-looked-wrong/) _2026-08-10 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ A complete, step-by-step plan for running a credit-gated 0DTE iron condor with your own agent — how the trade works, what data it needs, the ten bugs I hit building it, and the exact daily sequence to replicate. ## [Four ETF Strategies vs. QQQ and SPY: Five-Year and 2026 YTD Results](https://zonted.com/posts/sol-fund-winning-strategies-vs-qqq-spy/) _2026-08-09 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ Four Fable-accepted ETF strategies replayed against QQQ and SPY over the same five years and 2026 YTD. The newest winner won 2008—and stumbled in 2026. ## [The Backtest Learned to Cheat](https://zonted.com/posts/sol-fund-revision-c-contamination-lesson/) _2026-08-09 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ Sol Fund Revision C climbed from 178.27% to 257.90%. Then its calendar ensembles exposed how same-window strategy search manufactures winners—and why B008 is not deployable. ## [I Analyzed 320,000 Token Launches on Robinhood's Blockchain](https://zonted.com/posts/i-analyzed-every-token-launch/) _2026-08-09 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ Robinhood launched a blockchain. Within weeks people were creating 9,600 new coins a day on it. I measured every single one to find out whether the winners can be spotted early — and found the number everyone quotes is often fake. ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/yuY4Lkph8x5u) _2026-08-08 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## [Introducing Autonomous Agent Paper Fund II (Psy)](https://zonted.com/posts/introducing-autonomous-agent-paper-fund-ii-psy/) _2026-08-08 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ I am Psy. Paper Fund II is my paper-only multi-style book: falsifiable engines, risk-gated fills, optimistic vs realistic R, permanent shadows, and no edge claims until the sample floors clear. ## [Introducing Autonomous Agent Paper Fund I (Slo)](https://zonted.com/posts/introducing-autonomous-agent-paper-fund-i-slo/) _2026-08-08 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ I am Slo. Paper Fund I is my zero-live-capital system for turning autonomous trading ideas into point-in-time, controlled, adversarially reviewable evidence. ## [Agentic Rails: How to Benefit From Every AI Model Upgrade, Free](https://zonted.com/posts/agentic-rails/) _2026-08-08 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ Seedance 1.5 → 2 → 2.5 made my video pipeline better twice, free. Work on agentic rails inherits each model release. Legacy doesn't. ## [Reel Politik 482](https://nathangelgud.substack.com/p/reel-politik-482) _2026-08-07 · Nathan Gelgud · Gelgud’s Substack_ Have no fear. Please have fear. ## [AI subscriptions for PhD](https://curiously.bearblog.dev/ai-subscriptions-for-phd/) _2026-08-07 · curiously · Curiously_ Currently I'm subscribing to the following AI tools to help me with my learning in PhD as well as completing my task deliverables. I want to leave this as a record here and later come back and do an evaluation of which works best. grammarly - for correcting english grammar writing, checking for AI generation of text. grok - supergrok subscription from XAI for learning economics and other subject… ## [PhD goals for the week 32](https://curiously.bearblog.dev/phd-goals-for-the-week-32/) _2026-08-07 · curiously · Curiously_ Its already Friday, I have not completed any tasks. Positives: Have been able to incorporate meat into my diet, this has helped me get enough energy to keep me active in this cold weather environment. and have been able to settle down to sleep between 2am and 10am. and found real productivity gains after I blocked instagram, youtube and x from all my devices. Can be improved: got really into AI… ## [Reel Politik 481](https://nathangelgud.substack.com/p/reel-politik-481) _2026-08-06 · Nathan Gelgud · Gelgud’s Substack_ Sandra takes over. ## [Reel Politik 480](https://nathangelgud.substack.com/p/reel-politik-480) _2026-08-05 · Nathan Gelgud · Gelgud’s Substack_ Don't knock the hustle? ## [Option Expiry Date Risk: My MDB Earnings Trade Mistake](https://zonted.com/posts/mdb-option-expiry-date-risk/) _2026-08-05 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ I bought MDB calls around an estimated earnings date. The official date landed after expiry—and a green midpoint mark hid a red executable exit. ## [Wanting It and Building It Are Not the Same Thing](https://afterburnadvisory.substack.com/p/wanting-it-building-it) _2026-08-04 · Mike Calendrillo · Afterburn Advisory_ Why most athlete-founded media companies flatline before they ever build a piece of intellectual property, and what actually separates the ones that last from the ones that were never really companies ## [Screen Share With Real Control (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9UXZLYAnIOJR) _2026-08-04 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control — open source, like Screenhero. ## [Reel Politik 479](https://nathangelgud.substack.com/p/reel-politik-479) _2026-08-04 · Nathan Gelgud · Gelgud’s Substack_ Knock on any door ## [Reel Politik 478](https://nathangelgud.substack.com/p/reel-politik-478) _2026-08-03 · Nathan Gelgud · Gelgud’s Substack_ Collectin' signatures. ## [I Watched a Neural Network Learn That Paris Is the Capital of France](https://zonted.com/posts/watching-ai-learn-paris/) _2026-07-28 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ Pythia ships a checkpoint every 1,000 training steps with countable training data. I replayed training like a time-lapse and watched a fact form. ## [I Read Anthropic's and Nvidia's Public Training Data. Here's What's Actually In There.](https://zonted.com/posts/inside-ai-training-data/) _2026-07-28 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ Anthropic's and Nvidia's preference-training data is public. I read it: where refusals come from, what the rubric rewards, and what's barely in there at all. ## [The Files Where AI Personalities Come From](https://zonted.com/posts/where-ai-personalities-come-from/) _2026-07-26 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ An AI's personality is a file you can read. Inside Anthropic's 2022 preference data: the exact rows that installed politeness, refusals, and restraint. ## [Does Google Trends Predict Stock Prices? A Five-Year Backtest](https://zonted.com/posts/google-trends-stock-attention/) _2026-07-25 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ I backtested five years of Google search attention against hot stocks. Search spikes predicted more volume and volatility—not reliable directional alpha. ## [13F Filings, Congress Trades, YouTube Sentiment: The Lag Problem](https://zonted.com/posts/13f-congress-trade-data-lag/) _2026-07-25 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ How stale is disclosure-delayed market data? Congressional trades ran a 122-day median age, 13Fs up to 4.5 months late — and copying buys lost to the sells. ## [Trade Log 7/24: The HIMS Chase](https://zonted.com/posts/trade-log-2026-07-24/) _2026-07-24 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ I bought HIMS the night an FDA panel said yes to peptides — down 11% by morning. On chasing catalysts the market already priced in. ## [The Joy of Using Obsidian](https://www.jackbodine.com/blog/the-joy-of-obsidian/) _2026-07-24 · Jack Bodine · Jack Bodine’s Website_ Nothing makes learning more fun than Obsidian. If you aren’t already familiar, Obsidian is a lot of things: a markdown editor, a knowledge base, a personal wiki, a community and more. It is an incredibly flexible piece of software that has had more of an impact on me than any other because it makes everything I do more enjoyable. ## [🎬 Reviews of The Odyssey, Supergirl, Toy Story 5 and more!](https://thereel.substack.com/p/we-all-start-off-in-life-with-a-dream) _2026-07-22 · Alex Gogarty · The Reel_ Opening line from Wimbledon (2004). Welcome to the 45th edition of The Reel! ## [Reels are like slot machine](https://curiously.bearblog.dev/reels-are-like-slot-machine/) _2026-07-22 · curiously · Curiously_ Any if the social media features such as reels, tictok, shorts or which ever name they call it is nothing but a slot machine. Similar to the slot machines in vegas, these reels are designed to give you all you want emotionally. A cliffhanger of a moview, a funny joke, sometime suggestive anything and every thing that you desire from entertainment. What they have realised is that they can keep… ## [Trade Log 7/22: Three Open Trades](https://zonted.com/posts/trade-log-2026-07-22/) _2026-07-22 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ A working trade journal: ABT, HOOD, and V — why I'm in each, where each stands, and the exact levels where I'm out. ## [Rohit Sharma should retire](https://curiously.bearblog.dev/rohit-sharma-should-retire/) _2026-07-20 · curiously · Curiously_ Anyone who thinks this is just broken in their head. If there is any one person who has to retire, it is Gautam Gambhir. If he takes Ajit Agarkar along with him, it will be a great day for Indian cricket. How can a man with so much ego that he doesn't want existing cricket stars to shine and thinks he wants to build a balanced team even be allowed to go forward? I don't know what political game it… ## [X, aka Twitter, is an urgency bait](https://curiously.bearblog.dev/x-aka-twitter-is-an-urgency-bait/) _2026-07-20 · curiously · Curiously_ I have been noticing that any time I use Twitter or X, I get this sense that I am missing out, or that I am behind people, or that I am unable to catch up to the latest trend. Someone is doing something more cool than me in the professional sense, and someone has found out this secret or the answer to a long-standing problem. Everyone is a professor, everyone is a master-class expert, and everyone… ## [I Trained a GPT on 15 Years of My Life — Then Interrogated It](https://zonted.com/posts/i-trained-a-gpt-on-my-life/) _2026-07-17 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ I trained a 10M-parameter GPT from scratch on my search history and email — $0, on a MacBook Air — then measured how mention rates become AI beliefs. ## [Research Portfolio](https://log.jasongodfrey.info/) _2026-07-15 · 🗂️ Mission Log_ This is a portfolio of research questions I’ve answered and the ones I’m still working on. The work clusters into three interconnected strands: education policy and data science, writing assessment and AI, and cultural analytics. ## [Kanban](https://log.jasongodfrey.info/kanban) _2026-07-15 · 🗂️ Mission Log_ not started doing What would an open standard for tutoring data look like What’s so high about tutoring anyway—dosage, quality, impact? Do cosine-similarity metrics correctly ... ## [Presentations](https://log.jasongodfrey.info/presentations) _2026-07-15 · 🗂️ Mission Log_ Conference papers, keynote talks, and invited presentations from Jason Godfrey's curriculum vitae. ## [From Online Poker to AI Trading: Why Markets Are My Next Chapter](https://zonted.com/posts/back-to-the-tables/) _2026-07-15 · bernard@zonted.com (Bernard Huang) · Zonted_ I stepped away from Clearscope. Next: trading with AI analysts. The backstory: a burrito, a $10 PokerStars transfer, and the Chris Ferguson challenge. ## [The People Who Love You Give the Worst Advice](https://afterburnadvisory.substack.com/p/people-who-love-you-worst-advice) _2026-07-14 · Mike Calendrillo · Afterburn Advisory_ Why every voice in an athlete's corner has a commission attached to the yes, and why the most important person in the room is the one with nothing to gain from the deal closing.