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Sequent builds cryptographically secure online voting infrastructure used in 200+ real elections across multiple countries. We're a fully remote team working on an open-source platform combining Rust, TypeScript, and modern DevOps. We handle End-to-end encrypted voting, cryptographic mixnets, and tamper-evident logging.

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I know the Spanish case. The hotel lobby does not only push for airbnb restrictions but also for banning new hotels (so that they can push prices up). For example famously there are no new airbnb or hotel licenses since more than 10 years and obviously the problem has only worsened. Regardless, the problem is in general still a demand that grows roughly at 2.5x the supply growth rate.

No, that problem was not generated by Airbnb. There’s growing demand and, because of regulation, not enough is built every year. For example, according to INE, 250k new families are formed in Spain (more than 500k people) and only 100k new houses/flats are built and the yearly deficit has been accumulating for 12 years. That is the real issue and blaming corporations is just the politicians’ easy path to deflect blame, which unfortunately too many citizens eagerly buy into.

Fable IS that good, I can tell you. At least, for physics.

Sequent Tech | Senior Fullstack Engineer | REMOTE (Global) | Full-time | sequentech.io

Sequent builds cryptographically secure online voting infrastructure used in 200+ real elections across multiple countries. We're a fully remote team working on an open-source platform combining Rust, TypeScript, and modern DevOps. We handle End-to-end encrypted voting, cryptographic mixnets, and tamper-evident logging.

Tech Stack: Rust, TypeScript/React, WebAssembly, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Keycloak, ImmuDB

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We all liked the Terminator movies. Hopefully the stay as movies.

Do you have a public repo for that? I'm also trying to do that although I'm using "replay"/distillation and hopfield memory banks.

Thanks! I have other ideas, following Jeff Hawkins's Thousand Brains Project, but in this one I'm trying to get to cortical columns from the other side, from "standard" deep neural networks.

The short version: each layer trains itself independently using Hinton's Forward-Forward algorithm. Instead of propagating error gradients backward through the whole network, each layer has its own local objective: "real data should produce high activation norms, corrupted data should produce low ones." Gradients never cross layer boundaries. The human brain is massively parallel and part of that is not using backprop, so I'm trying to use that as inspiration.

You're right that the brain has backward-projecting circuits. But those are mostly thought to carry contextual/modulatory signals, not error gradients in the backprop sense. I'm handling cross-layer communication through attention residuals (each layer dynamically selects which prior layers to attend to) and Hopfield memory banks (per-layer associative memory written via Hebbian outer products, no gradients needed).

The part I'm most excited about is "sleep". During chat, user feedback drives reward-modulated Hebbian writes to the memory banks (instant, no gradients, like hippocampal episodic memory). Then a /sleep command consolidates those into weights by generating "dreams" from the bank-colored model and training on them with FF + distillation. No stored text needed, only the Hopfield state. The model literally dreams its memories into its weights.

Still early, training a 100M param model on TinyStories right now, loss is coming down but I don't have eval numbers yet.

Continuous learning without backpropagation.

https://github.com/Findeton/hebbi

Nowadays, apart from stockpicking as a value investor, I use LLMs to develop AIs that don’t use backpropagation and that support continuous learning.

Sequent Tech | Senior Fullstack Engineer | REMOTE (Global) | Full-time | sequentech.io

Sequent builds cryptographically secure online voting infrastructure used in 200+ real elections across multiple countries. We're a fully remote team working on an open-source platform combining Rust, TypeScript, and modern DevOps. We handle End-to-end encrypted voting, cryptographic mixnets, and tamper-evident logging.

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I wonder how this work relates to Jacob Barandes’s indivisible stochastic processes.

Do you acknowledge how much change was there in the XX century? How can you probably make such predictions with such confidence?

Maybe they should try to build it in the moon. Difficult, but perhaps not as difficult?

Sequent Tech | Senior Fullstack Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer | REMOTE (Global) | Full-time | sequentech.io

Sequent builds cryptographically secure online voting infrastructure used in 200+ real elections across multiple countries. We're a fully remote team working on an open-source platform combining Rust, TypeScript, and modern DevOps. We handle End-to-end encrypted voting, cryptographic mixnets, and tamper-evident logging.

Tech Stack: Rust, TypeScript/React, WebAssembly, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Keycloak, ImmuDB

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Specifically the fractured track was a soldered joint that joined a track from 1989 with a new one from a few weeks ago.

It is more about government tax warfare. They fined CF because it didn’t censor what the italian government wanted them to censor, so they fined CF.

Great.

"According to Scott, Mafia-style protection rackets compelled people to produce grain."

James Scott—an anarchist—lays the point bare: the state functions much like an aged, institutionalized mafia. A stationary bandit, not fundamentally different from the predatory groups it claims to suppress.

Amazon was profitable, they just prioritized scaling up so they reinvested all profits.

Sorry, the example is bad, there's no Domino's in Italy.

Capitalism will sell you guns and crosses, it depends on what people demand. If you go to Italy there are no mc donald's. It's a cultural issue, not a problem of the the economic system.

No, they don't say that the market is perfect. And if you want a cult, that's the current keynesian economics.

Anyway, I don't see any way around not using math. Because value is subjective and that means it's a ranking system of preferences, not based in nominal values.

Thing is, the part about using math for economics is highly debatable and that's why Austrian School of economics doesn't use it. From that perspective, we use ranking systems for our preferences, at the individual level, so using math for aggregate behaviour is just not well substantiated. This point of view comes from Carl Menger, which started the whole marginalist revolution.

Good for him, we shouldn't be envious.

Krugman is a statist. The truth is that GDP per capita growth has been much slower in Europe than in the US since 2008 — except in a few countries that adopted a more free-market approach, such as Poland, Switzerland, or Ireland.

Well, buying a gold card is a voluntary transaction.

Whenever there's a transaction, that means that both parties give a different value to whatever is exchanged. For example, when you buy a home, the buyer prefers the house to the money and the seller prefers the money to the house. If this wasn't the case, the transaction just wouldn't take place.

So transactions are the opposite of a zero-sum game, they are a win-win game, where both parties end up winning. Because value is subjective.

I was thinking "I pity the guy that has to read/review his code." but he mentions his code changes aren't complex so perhaps he's right on his approach.