Hey there decentralized digital currency systems, you wanna… centralize?

Same here. I have and will always periodically reinstall no matter which OS I happen to be using. Arch is the only distro that keeps me coming back because installation and setup is such an active process. Every time around I learn something new and get more effecient at the process, which is so much more rewarding than filling a few boxes and waiting on a progress bar as is the case with most distros I have experienced.

You seem to spend a lot of energy questioning people’s intentions, inventing reasons to question whether people’s intentions toward you are genuine. Some do deserve to be questioned, no doubt. It just seems draining, and for what goal?

Do you aim to be the sole determiner of truth? To never be duped again? To sharpen your skills as an investigator?

How much more creative energy could you put into the world by taking people at their word in all but the highest risk cases?

What weighs more: the cost of taking people at their word, or the effort it takes to interpret the subtext of every interaction?

What would Altman gain from overstating the environmental impact of his own company?

What if power consumption is not so much limited by the software’s appetite, but rather by the hardware’s capabilities?

Federal prosecution is paradise compared to what the birding photographers would do to anyone trying to move that nest. That grandma with a $20k lens around her neck will dox and depose you into homelessness for so much as sneezing too close to a nest.

Porque no nouveau?

Bro… if you’re not downing at least 10M krill per day, the Kraken wins.

Maybe if you’re really lucky, one day you can get a “Yes, but… also no.”

Ugh… does this mean I have to go all the way down to post office to get my package again?

Those are DOT Hazmat placards for transport, often having a U.N. Number for specific substances (e.g. gasoline is 1203)

NFPA 704 is the multicolor four square thing with numbers in them you might see outside of a business.

Blue = Health,

Red = Flammability,

Yellow = Reactivity,

White = Special (e.g a W indicates reactivity with water)

1 is least hazardous, 4 is most hazardous.

XOR cleartext once with a key you get ciphertext. XOR the ciphertext with the same key you get the original cleartext. At its core this is the way the old DES cipher works.

A bit of useful trivia: If you XOR any number with itself, you get all zeros. You can see this in practice when an assembly programmer XOR’s a register with itself to clear it out.

What are some good documentaries?

Lists every documentary ever made

3 - 5 titles would be an appropriate number of documentaries to suggest here.

Darknet Diaries has a good episode on these… he ends up linking them to death cults in Africa and how around a trillion ( 10^12 ) USD in pandemic relief money was lost to scams. It’s wild.

Nice try, Gabe.

Couldn’t you do the same thing with a phone and the steam link app, though?

Maybe you’re right. Maybe it’s Markov chains all the way down.

The only way I can think to test this would be to “poison” the training data with faulty arithmetic to see if it is just recalling precedent or actually implementing an algorithm.

This reminds me of learning a shortcut in math class but also knowing that the lesson didn’t cover that particular method. So, I use the shortcut to get the answer on a multiple choice question, but I use method from the lesson when asked to show my work. (e.g. Pascal’s Pyramid vs Binomial Expansion).

It might not seem like a shortcut for us, but something about this LLM’s training makes it easier to use heuristics. That’s actually a pretty big deal for a machine to choose fuzzy logic over algorithms when it knows that the teacher wants it to use the algorithm.

Yeah, but this reminds me of a line from game of thrones:

“If you’re a famous smuggler, you’re doing it wrong.”

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