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I think the point is to reduce conversion per ad. The more people that run this, the less profitable each ad view becomes. Disincentivizing ad spending is the goal.
I hadn't heard of drywells. The permaculturists would use swales to a similar effect - capture surface water until it has time to soak in, and provide organic matter to soak it up like a sponge. In some instances it looks remarkably effective. This sounds like the more industrial scale approach, but I'm sure there are tradeoffs.
Oh, interesting - I was anticipating fingerprinting would be about wallet fingerprinting using heuristics on transactions, but this is about fingerprinting clients. I guess that makes sense given the occasion.
Anything you're particularly excited about coming out of this @schmidty? And thanks for sharing.
I think it was worse at my school - a full 50% attrition in the first year, and we only had STEM degrees, so there was no switching major to something "easy."
I think schools could do a much better job preparing students with good study habits, time management and generally more "grit" before entering university. Sure there are some really bright engineering students, but even many of those faced a setback at some point. The thing most engineering grads share is perseverance and study skills.
Another problem I see, in the US at least, is we turn kids off from entire professions because we seem to have a societal disdain for math. "Oh, math's not important - you won't use that anyway." That should never be a response when a student is struggling. More like: "these are some abstract concepts than can be difficult at first, but that's normal and you can overcome this - let's try again." There are a lot of students who could have been capable, but have given up on math before they even get a chance to study it at a higher level.
Lol, 'trash" and it comes out looking incredible. I love seeing the process behind the scenes. Great content, thanks for putting this together!
Similar, but just is frustrating is the other common occurrence:
- A single study produces a sensational finding.
- Over the next several years it turns out not to be replicable.
- Even though it's debunked, the public attention has moved on.
- The debunked finding continues to be parroted for some decades.
Wow, you can see the great recession in US demographics. My son is at the bottom right of this slope, but I felt very fortunate to be gainfully employed at the time. That was not at all the prevailing sentiment at the time.
That's got to be the Tor option, no? I'm certain Uber tracks the hell out of it's customers. The real question is whom they sell the data to.
I've run some of the Mistral instruct and smaller Ollama models myself, but generally rely on trymaple.ai. Can't say I've had this concern.
I use a 5 year old NUC I had around. I've been pretty happy with it. 4 core i7, but it's still overpowered for a bitcoin and lightning node.
I still think the most useful degrees are technical - engineering, medicine, etc.. From my experience with a mechanical engineering degree, most of the grades were from tests and the homework was essentially just your own practice and reinforcement. If you're not learning the equations and solving the problems on your own there's no way to reasonably complete the tests. I don't see how AI significantly impacts those. Computer science degrees may be in trouble, even though I think there's some value in learning and pursuing a degree there.
I think the technologies we interact with do impact the wiring of our brains at a fairly deep level. Even the ancient Greek orators were concerned with reading and writing that it would weaken students memories. AI offers some compelling uses, but I worry about the side effects of dependency and mental outsourcing a lot. Especially when the results can be mediocre to outright flawed, what happens when the ability to think critically about AI output is simultaneously impaired?
I've been pretty happy with protonmail. At $3.99 per month there are probably cheaper alternatives. You can pay in bitcoin though.
I'm using an Intel NUC7i7. The memory is expandable up to 32GB. It sips power and has been rock solid. It seems to be a nice compromise between a Pi and a proper server, but I do appreciate the small footprint.
It's ironic that one of the legitimate criticisms of chapter 2 is that Wall St. now owns and deals in bitcoin. Well yeah, if you wait 15 years on the sideline you're eventually going to get passed by. This is like the stick in the bicycle meme.
And what about those terrible, horrible traditional financial institutions that bitcoin was supposed to do away with? Well, a bunch of them have joined the party too. For example, the financial giant BlackRock (we’re talking more than $11 trillion with a “T” of assets under its management) started offering a bitcoin exchange traded product in 2024, making it much easier for people to invest in bitcoin.
I used to make a lot of stuff out of plywood - laser cut or CNC routered. I always thought it was a shame that these designs are never quite universal. That is, if you want a tight fit, each slot needs to be the exact width of the actual plywood it's slotting into. The process was always:
- design
- collect materials
- update design with actual measurements (seldom are the labelled thicknesses of plywood or acrylic accurate)
- layout tool paths
- cut
Of course, if you don't mind sanding down the slot afterward, you can leave the dimensions slightly undersized, but I always thought that defeated the point of having CNC precision.
I watched it, and there were some good points by both sides. Chano's arguments made sense in a perfectly efficient market, over a long time horizon. They were principled I would say. Rochard argues there are issues with the current bond market and enough forward looking aspect to stock valuations that the elevated mNAV is justified.
I haven't made up my own mind entirely, but it's an interesting thought experiment and the debate is worth the watch. The arguments are all made in the best faith and with the intention of learning, which is a refreshing departure from most of these things. Kudos to both.
Eh, this sounds like another dire wolf "designer animal" style announcement from what I could find. Color me skeptical of the result even if the animal looks like the extinct one.
Scientists aim to genetically engineer living birds to resemble the moa within five to 10 years, starting by extracting DNA from well-preserved bones.
This marks Colossal's first attempt to de-extinct a bird, presenting unique challenges compared to their previous work with designer grey wolves.
via the independent
I wonder if this is solely accounting for migration and not currency fluctuations creating and removing millionaire status. The pound has been quite strong recently while the dollar has lost 10% this year. That the stronger currency has seen the greatest loss of millionaires while the weaker one has seen the most growth is something I would expect to see regardless of migration patterns. I guess "millionaire" here is qualified against USD so maybe I'm overthinking it.
Yes, a bitcoiner friend's kid described to me step-by-step how to build a CPU from scratch. Complete with a program counter, 8 bit memory, addition, subtraction, multiplication and several other essential operations all starting from discrete logic gates - not even flip-flops were taken for granted. From my EE101 experience, it seemed to check out but honestly I could only barely keep up with his pace. I think he's 12. Oh, and there was no pencil or paper involved, just from his memory of previously trying to build one in simulation.