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Wondering why the obvious solution isn’t applied here - instead of giving already well known problems that have been solved thousand times give students open research opportunities- stuff which is on the edge of being possible, no way to cheat with Ai. And if Ai is able to solve those - give harder tasks
Made this mistake years ago: figured I’d just throw it in a Docker with Python 2.7, problem solved. 8 years later nothing builds anymore. Base images gone, dependencies don’t resolve. Turns out containers don’t actually freeze time, they just delay the pain.
That’s just the illustration. But this is misleading - I will fix it asap and show real examples. I’ve run the mistral ocr on other benchmark
I wish Zed would implement support for Jupyter notebooks first. Maybe this sounds like a thing I can contribute
If you assume that the costs of inference would continue to decrease while they would be able to get billion people hooked on 42 per dollar plan..
That’s $0.5 trillion revenue rate
We kind of actually trade with ants - in some forests there are structures for them and we build wooden structures to protect them, in exchange for them keeping the ecosystem safe from rotting animals and kind of cleaning / rotating biomass
Will share python implementation soon as a kind of executable pseudo code which then can be ported to any platform.
This project is kind of like ultimate nerdsnipe as math is quite simple, you don’t need PhD to understand it and actually implementing things would teach you linear algebra faster vs just mindlessly doing exercises sets.
This rule is very wrong for the things like an iPhone which while expensive won’t be using a lot of electricity in its lifetime
Seems like you can still buy sheets like that: https://catalog.usmint.gov/2-four-note-sheet-B9491.html?cgid...
Software compensation for non uniform screen brightness issues ( for example software fix for Apple flexgate )
Simple purple website: purple.com
// Now it's unfortunately taken by mattress company
I've created a tool to flatten and turn any JSON api endpoint into time series chart without any configuration ( it just works ) - I was looking for something similar in the market but never found anything that allowed for 0 config
"I think it’s why so many startups in technology are so eager to boast about how serious and important their mission is. Even if it’s evidently not so. They’re trying to counterweight and compensate for the actual loss of meaning and purpose that a lot of us suffer under either periodically or chronically.
“We’re on a mission to unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working” – Dropbox
For fuck’s sake, Dropbox. You host files. You make the files appear on all my computers.
I like Dropbox. I use Dropbox. I PAY FOR DROPBOX. But it is not “unleashing” my “creativity” in any meaningful sense of either of those words. It stores my files. It’s literally a filing company.
Do you think filing cabinet companies of yesteryear bragged about unleashing the creative capacity of the whole fucking world? Of course they didn’t! That would have gotten you laughed out of church.
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https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm
"AI risk is string theory for computer programmers. It's fun to think about, interesting, and completely inaccessible to experiment given our current technology. You can build crystal palaces of thought, working from first principles, then climb up inside them and pull the ladder up behind you.
People who can reach preposterous conclusions from a long chain of abstract reasoning, and feel confident in their truth, are the wrong people to be running a culture."
Great book with the same title: https://pragprog.com/book/rwdata/seven-databases-in-seven-we...
Explains different approaches / benefits and drawbacks
Blockchains are essentially paperclip optimiser machines.
For bitcoin - paperclips are PoW hashrate.
The network rewards people that contribute to it's growth.
It doesn't care about people and people values - it's like a new kind of living organism that uses people as substrate to exist
I wonder how much there is actual difference for React Native vs Native. With better and better phone components development speed / ability to test / debug will become more important then being close to the metal.
Airbnb actually disrupted them https://growthhackers.com/growth-studies/airbnb
Secondary market is creating downward pressure on prices - Apple cannot sell iPhone XR for $999 when one can get used iPhone X for less.
Assuming that Apple products would be used for a long time - it's hard for them to sell more new devices when supply of old ones that are 100% functional is increasing and increasing. For regular internet browsing use CPU from 2012+ isn't that much different from new one
This design will allow Coinbase for adding some tokens they like and profit immensely from large retail base of investors investing passively in anything that Coinbase will list - becoming de-facto token curation network
There is a startup that was doing similar thing:
https://medium.com/@trivial.co/we-could-have-had-it-all-but-...
In this thread cryptocurrency community will rediscover banking and money.
We have stablecoins or tethers (manny attempts to create something people want) - people want some form of money for peer to peer value transfer, that will allow arbitrage between exchanges and connection to "real world" as almost nobody is pricing their services in ethereum/bitcoin.
Let's say we have 3 competing stablecoins and Gresham's law will apply = people will be moving to "best" coin and leaving others holding bad ones. Imagine that you have 2 banks - one with good reputation and large reserves and second one - almost without them, yet both will be issuing private money redeemable for each other. So how come one can attract customers to his specific stablecoins solution? By offering interest rate - a stablecoin that pays dividend will be better than stablecoin without it.
It's complicated - ideologically stablecoins are similar to economical perpetuum mobile devices, yet the first are impossible due to laws of physics and second one may work because economy depends on human behaviour and humans may act irrationally.
Network effect - same thing for Facebook. The more valuable bitcoin is the more secure and more resilient. Thus purely by price appreciation bitcoin is doing hiperbitcoinization - once people realize that fundamental value of fiat currency is a myth, more fiat currencies will collapse
Because the threat is real - by projects like https://neufund.org/
Ability to get access to liquidity and financing is game changer for some industries and separates startup hubs from other usual cities.
Imagine that instead of getting through bankers underwriting IPO's you can do same thing in the form of token as equity. It's currently not compatible with Howey Test since equity tokens are obviously a security - but once one sensible country will adapt reasonable regulations towards cryptocurrencies and equity tokens NYSE and VCs may be distrupted - and free market, althou still regulated can produce multiple productivity improvements via removing such frictions.
Project Euler is like weightlifting for your brain. And don't think that computer is so fats that you just bruteforce the answer. Some problems are computationally expensive so naive solution will take you too much time and you will need to think about more clever solution.
"You promised me Mars Colonies. Instead, I got Facebook."
Ethereum had an ICO, first bitcoins were aquired in mining, there was no ICO/premine
none
Direct investing in ICO is major risk for investors. There is very little due diligence and investors don't have downside protection and it's unregulated.
Instead of starting with complicated solution on blockchain, NeuFund is starting like a regular VC capital that will be doing ICOs for his companies. This way they will provide best of both worlds
I am working on p2p reputation network in Ethereum. https://github.com/kwikiel/p2p-trust-network
Often it's useful to be able to trust an online identity, i.e. for peer-to-peer lending sites, peer-to-peer home exchange sites, work assignments, etc.
Most often the various platforms (like Couchsurfing, Uber, BeWelcome, Loanbase, Localbitcoins etc) will have some built-in support for ratings; user account A can leaving positive feedback for B after A and B has had an interaction on that platform. The ratings never leave the platform. There are usually no ways to see the difference between a conman creating yet another fake account and a newcomer to the platform. It is impossible for an outsider that have been scammed on one platform to leave a negative feedback warning users on another platform about the scammer.
What we need is a global network-of-trust system. It should be truly peer-to-peer, it should be based on open standards and open source. Just the risk of getting negative feedback on such a network could be enough deterrent to avoid certain types of scam.