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358 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 20h \ on: My Old Friend alter_native
Ugh, this is beautiful, Siggy. What a testament. And I love how you didn't do the normal thing that people do, make your friend sound like some kind of paragon. But rather a messy person, full of virtues and vices, wins and losses, all mixed together. Sounds like me, sounds like everyone I know. He is lucky to have been seen, over the years, with such attention.
Thanks for sharing this. My aunt died recently -- she was bubbly, social, and gregarious her whole life, and then suddenly stopped talking to everyone but her children and then she was gone. It's put me in the mind of wondering how I'll be when my time comes.
That you can write this reflection on his life in such detail is testament to a life strongly lived.
I'm so sorry for your loss, Siggy. This is a beautiful tribute to someone who was clearly very complicated and also clearly very loved.
In the last week of July, authors with an underscore in their name published fewer posts than authors with a number in their name, but the underscore authors got higher median sats per post.
This is an amazing tribute and study into the life of your friend.
He sounds like someone who would've been fun to hang with, but who lived life and made decisions in a way that I just totally didn't understand. I wonder if you have any insights into what made him tick. Why didn't he ever marry that girl? Why didn't he ever go see a doctor? How come he didn't change his views when they were shown to be contradictory? I have so many questions after reading this piece, yet feel like I got to know someone quite deeply at the same time.
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.
The real problem at hand is how much trust people place in the answers they receive when working with an LLM. Maybe the best outcome is that we all get seeded with a very strong distrust of LLM outputs -- at least enough trust to check our answers once in a while.
I think that the outrage is an important counterweight to the exaggerated claims from all the LLM bosses. They just spent billions towards something both great (from a big data aggregation / achievement perspective) and mediocre (from a usability / advertised use-case fitting perspective) at the same time, and they need to reinforce the success to get even more billions to improve the latter by any means possible.
Because both traditional news and social media is saturated with the billionaires and not the boring real research, or even the yolo resulting in "hey we found something interesting" "research", the world only gets to hear the banter. I'd suggest that the outrage is even too little because which player has been decimated thus far? None. They all get billions more and then thus far, they spend it on the next model that is still mediocre, because there are no real breakthroughs (also see #1020821).
If more weight were to be given to what goes wrong, the money will potentially be spent on real improvement, not more tuning and reiterations with more input. As long as that's not the case and large scale parasitic chatbot corporations can continue to iterate on subprime results, we'll be stuck with hallucinating fake-it-till-you-make-it AI that is not fit for purpose.
This was the first thing I read when I woke up. It is shaping up the day in a sobering way.
You’re always able to write well the bare facts of your life. Thanks for sharing. Can feel your pain here.
An extended relative time lock would be cool: make a wallet with a key that only becomes available to spend after 5 years...like a failsafe key in case you screw everything else up.
I'll be curious to see if pyth gets other interesting use case suggestions. A soft fork for it does seem like a heavy lift.
Here in the country where I currently live, it's strange because the fries go inside the burger along with the meat, tomato, and lettuce!!
At first, it seemed quite strange to me, but I've gotten used to it now!!
I enjoy them with lots of mustard!!
It appears to be from a couple who were recently excommunicated from a church, and they feel that the excommunication was deeply unjust. They now proclaim themselves the Two Witnesses of Revelation and are pronouncing judgment upon the churches that excommunicated them. It's full of other crazy stuff as well. The scary thing is, I think it's real: #1033981
How did you find out about this? I love a good mystery and couldn't resist digging deeper. What I found disturbed me. There are the names and addresses of specific people in here. The supposed "Jonathan Harms" referenced in the document has a real LinkedIn profile with information that matches up with the claims in the document., and he currently works as a "Blockchain Consultant" which could explain their knowledge of how to post all this to the blockchain. The churches and pastors referenced seem to all be real (I'm familiar with many of them.)
There are two main kinds of carbon markets: voluntary and mandatory. Mandatory markets exist when a government passes a law that institutes a quota of emissions for covered companies (much like you describe above).
The EU ETS is the world's largest [mandatory market], covering just over a third of the EU's greenhouse gas emissions. The UK ETS went live on 1 January 2021, replacing the UK's participation in the EU ETS. Other ETSs operate in Australia, Brazil, China and, at a state level, in the US. source
Voluntary markets involve carbon credits being purchased by companies in what amounts to marketing: companies can claim to "carbon-neutral" or more environmentally friendly products and services because they have purchased offsets for the carbon produced by the company. These credits don't involve a quota. Offsets might include reforestation projects or direct air capture of carbon or many other things.
I love the idea of involving micropayments in day to day life, but I think carbon credits might be difficult to apply to individuals. Quotas in general don't work well, imo. And it feels like you'd be trapped in an endless game of whack a mole as people try to game the system.
Also, the freedom-lover in me is screaming that this would be really hard to implement without giving a ton of power to governments -- which I'm not too interested in.
262 sats \ 2 replies \ @dr_orlovsky OP 18h \ parent \ on: RGB consensus layer released to production rgb
The main reason of its not being used is the fact that it was not released for production (until today). Consensus in client-side validated systems (RGB belongs to them) is kind of ossified from the day one when you start using in production; it is much harder to change that than blockchain consensus. Thus, it took many years to build a system which has everything needed, including zk-STARK readiness.
I am quite sure we will see a boost in RGB adoption over the next months after the release.
I'm curious about RGB. It's been around for a long time now, and while I can find a number of articles that explain what it is, it seems like adoption hasn't been very strong. I'd be interested to read a fair critique of it. Why isn't it more widely in use?