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You go into a cafe and order a slice of cake. One is delivered. You order three more, three more are delivered. You conclude that the kitchen has infinite cakes based on the observable evidence. That's the argument.

>Evidently energy was created, or it would not exist, would it ?

It is constantly transforming, but that does not signify that it was created, that is beyond the evidence

Noether's theorem tells us when symmetry guarantees conservation, but it says nothing about conservation in the absence of that symmetry - it's not a biconditional statement. Talking about endless expansion is like observing 1 second of a pendulum's swing and concluding there's no time symmetry because it's only moving in one direction. The symmetry exists at the full cycle scale, not the snapshot scale.

Because energy cannot be created nor destroyed

Mainstream physics has been delighted to ignore/abandon essential conservation laws when talking about the expanding universe. It's kinda weird, I tried publishing a paper on it recently and it was not received well. In general, if conservation laws are to hold, expansion must be balanced with [eventual] contraction, is that not obvious? Apparently it was quite contentious to say until... this article?

In high school a friend of mine told me about "microsleep" and how your brain will oscillate into it if you're under-rested. This would align with that theory.

I think we should be careful about materialistic reductions of awareness. Because some rats dreamed detours that ended up being correct in waking rat life, it does not follow that all instances of deja vu are misfirings. It's a tempting connection to draw, but it does not actually explain how the detours were dreamt to begin with, and this points to a deeper question about awareness in general. If I were pressed for an analogy, I might say something like "just because all books have ink does not mean that all ink lives in books." You know what I mean? There's a superset of experiences that cannot be easily explained away by caching, as tempting as it might be.

Some people think it is the eyeball (glasses), some people think it is the brain (NeuraLink). Some people think it is the wristwatch. The pins were an attempt at a pendant. I don't think anyone has tried the necklace, yet. A glove might also be interesting. If the peripheral keeps shrinking, it could be a ring, or set of rings, or an earring. Or a fairy that follows you around like in Ocarina of Time. We could write a theorem about convenience of use and capabilities at different scales for peripherals. It is worth noting that some sizes never really go obsolete, but rather enhance in power and capability.

This is a really cool idea. So the pieces that are on display are able to be bought and used as the icon to the app? I think I get what you mean but I'm not sure. And these are... not NFTs right?

Right now the API is nonexistent, relying entirely on people using the web interface to make listings, upload photos, and set prices. But if you would find this useful I can happily build it out. Our stack is Elixir and building APIs is very straightforward. Our code is open-source, too!

When you say "algorithmically driven print-on-demand" do you mean that prices would automatically adjust based on inventory? Or like, how do you mean.

Also, when you say "see them show up in a request on sale" — can you clarify? I interpret this to mean you want a webhook triggered when an order comes in.

Building a donations powered marketplace, zero platform fee: https://shomp.co

Merchants who want to sell on Etsy or Shopify either have to pay a listing fee or pay per month just to keep an online store on the web. Our goal is to provide a perpetually free marketplace that is powered solely off donations. The only fees merchants pay are the Stripe fees, and it's possible that at some volume of usage we will be able to negotiate those down.

You can sell digital goods as well as physical goods. Right now in the "manual onboarding" phase for our first batch of sellers.

For digital goods, purchasers get a download link for files (hosted on R3).

For physical goods, once a purchase comes through, the seller gets an SMS notification and a shipping label gets created. The buyer gets notified of the tracking number and on status changes.

We use Stripe Connect to manage KYC (know your customer) identities so we don't store any of your sensitive details other than your name and email. Since we are in the process of incorporating as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, we are only serving sellers based in the United States.

The mission of the company is to provide entrepreneurial training to people via our online platform, as well as educational materials to that aim.

Hemingway said to always leave some ink in the quill: “I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well.”

Out of curiosity, how did you "lose" them? Was it a 3 week stint from the getgo?

In the paper summary they did not call it a bug explicitly, but they do say there are 32x improvements in using single bits instead.

Turns out using floats is a feature and not a bug?

Why do we not like Yandex?

Language choice isn't about religion, it's about leverage. Lisp-family languages like Clojure and Racket are at the zenith of expressive power. Elixir/Erlang is for telecom-grade fault tolerance, concurrency, and distribution. Rust and Go get you bare metal performance. If you're wanting to work professionally as a software engineer, you should pick a language based on future job alignment. And nobody "rewrites it later in a more performant language" that's just not a reality.

If you don't solve the problem, do you get the job?

Right now I'm using Elixir to build an open-source nonprofit tech company, I will have to remember to add it to this project directory once we launch. Cool idea, keep up the good work. As a nonprofit tech company keeping costs low matters a lot, and Erlang/Elixir on BEAM makes it very easy to have tons of concurrent users with minimal overhead. Server start time is very fast. Coming from other functional languages like Clojure helps, but is not a requirement for getting started quickly.

Campfire needs 64GB RAM for 10,000 users, that surprises me, I would think we could get to 10k users with far less RAM.

With truly personalized learning I would expect more than incremental returns on the traditional pedagogical approach. I learn very rapidly with LLMs at my fingertips, largely due to the dialectical approach -- that is, having a conversation with the model allows me to dive in to places that are blurry and uncertain. Rather than "read, digest, quiz" maybe with the new tooling there is a better way to zero-in on what is unclear other than doing an assessment. Just kinda thinking out loud here.

This is amazing. Well done figuring out the shared memory hack. That's a huge time saver and really makes sense from an engineering perspective. Ten dollars for the hammer and five thousand for knowing where to strike the machine, to paraphrase a trope on expertise applied correctly.

That can pay each other? For what? Genuinely curious.

As someone working on a tech nonprofit right now, I find a ton of value in your post and really appreciate the time you took to elucidate the minutiae of seeking funding from qualified donors. Thank you.