useful

if the probability mass is on a single token, its a precise answer like `1 + 1 = ` if next token predicted shares probability with other token, then there are multiple answers like `position: `

you can generate and train answers by exploring on varying the length of the code generated

Both my 3090s have heat problems. I would avoid the 3090 and 4090.

Get a 3080ti or 3060 with 12gb of ram. If you want to experiment with very high memory models then pay for colab pro.

every organization is held back by the slowest adopter. If you advance too quickly compared to your colleges then you will likely leave because everyone else feels like they are trying to pull you back into their crap. Innovation is a depreciating asset. If you don't reward the people who make a quantum leap, they will leave, and all their progress will revert to the mean.

I bet someone made a security key because it was the right thing to do but they didn't have the controls in place to manage it in their build system and give another key to developers/engineers/etc. So someone else copied it for convivence rather than have to explain to every moron in the whole company how to use it to access the database or run their monolith tests or get access from the dude that no longer works there who was the "giver" of access keys.

Near the end of last year, I had to renew my passport that had expired. I had to travel and was in a sweet spot window where I couldn't renew it and get it in time and I couldn't just go to a passport office and get one.

I ended up having to drive to El Paso, which was the only passport office that was open in the entire United States! I had to wait until a few days before my flight. There were people from all over staying in a hotel waiting for their passport. They had standby flights to leave once they got it. I met people from California, Arizona, Michigan, New York, and Florida. It was totally ridiculous.

And his verified fakes is just a way to introduce bugs because taken to the extreme you'd have to 100% recreate the 3rd party dependency you are interacting with.

bravo, I've wanted something like this

Yes but potentially without a bunch of people and software to prevent you from going to jail.

You could have a currency where taxes are already built into the transfer system and the government is funded by those transfers.

Your argument is kind of like saying your paper filling system is as good as a database. With a database your don't have to be physically present like a paper filing system. With block chain you don't need permission to access the database, it is a new thing that enables more things that centralized systems used to control and rent seekers built walls around.

you can tow charge an electric car with another car or truck

It would be nice if there was an effort that pulled the public/prviate keys hidden in the binaries of apps like facebook/google and decrypted the traffic for inspection/blocking. Rewriting would be nice but everything seems to be certificate pinned now.

Can an app just use the CT logs? I'm a little out of my depth on this topic.

Contrastive and triplet loss is pretty cool for generating hashes. I'd imagine the trick they are alluding to is a rewrite the loss function to be more aware of locality instead of trying to minimize/maximize distance.

Or they are just shingling different ML hash functions, which is kinda lazy.

The equity gain on single family is probably much more than the rents lost in the pandemic for most smaller cities. Small landlords might be hurting a bit but they are likely still ahead if they sell their single family property.

Most homes in my area have gained over 4 years of rent in value with the reduced interest rates.

The prices on layer 2 like lightning and polygon/matic are pretty reasonable right now. I don't think its far fetched to say that the network capacity will increase with adoption.

I only have a hobby interest in crypto, but even etherum is planning on having side chains that operate independantly.

To me, crypto's biggest risk is a lack of decentralization. The bitcoin network basically votes to adopt bitcoin changes but the etherum developers can force changes on the etherum network. Whats the point of proof of stake if most of the coins are owned by the original developers? Ala Chia. Why not just run a sql database if 51% of the network is owned by a person/entity or a few. Bitcoin is pretty decentralized in ownership unlike every other coin attempting to be a currency but pooling in bitcoin has put too much hashpower into the hands of a few.

Without wide adoption, crypto is not decentralized. There is little point if the various networks retain their oligopoly.

My point was that you need less people for a transaction to happen.

The cost will go down over time.

I'd argue that BBS and compuserve/aol were in the 80s. It took 30 years before everyone had a computer in their pocket and Amazon took off.

A debit card is similar to crypto. Is a debit card any different than cash for an end user? Did it cause big changes in banking? I can show you my account balance with a debit card. It may convince you I have the assets to buy whatever you are selling. I can bring a debit card to another country and exchange it to local currency. The merchant is passing on the 2-5% fee to you so that you can use a debit card. There is a huge organization of people behind that debit card.

Any time you deal with physicals things? Yep.

I wouldn't need a lawyer if a digital contract enforced a 2% commission paid to a wallet address.

I would need a lawyer if all transactions weren't paid into that wallet address.

If I use software to play a song and it uses an NFT to make a payment to the owner. I theoretically cut out a lot of middlemen whos value is making sure the correct people are paid. There are tons of edge cases where anyone can argue that this wouldn't work but I think that the system only has to meet a bar where it is potentially better than what we have now.

Selling a future that hasn't happened is fine. If you saw the initial version of the internet or a cell phone you'd likely dismiss them.

Crypto is rebuilding the same things that already exist but that process has the chance to remove people from a system who used to provide services and replace them with an algorithm. Most people would dimiss a NFT but some of the use cases could be great. If most laws/rules were enforced in code for business transactions would you need to spend as much money on a lawyer in your lifetime? That's the future of money and it's exciting. Will that happen? Maybe not, which is why it is speculative.

The problem is that a large majority of people who are speculative and most crypto assets are highly centralized, which defeat the point of decentralization to remove a few large actors from having control. Plus the scams and idiots in the space that income without labor always attracts.

I figure if you are actively managing your account, then most of it is short term.

Home prices are a function of monthly costs. As much as people want to compare the value of a home from year to year, in every instance, I've seen values reflect to monthly spending power.

I would love to see some estimate that takes more into account like household income, tax breaks, and interest rates. If I have a interest deduction, my relative taxes are lower. If I have children, my taxes are lower. If I have historic property, my taxes are lower. If I have solar, my monthly bill is lower. All these things make owning a home easier and allows people to buy more home.

Education is another example, prices largely mirror federal subsidized loan values. I'm not arguing that government should get out of housing, people should realize that the value of something is relative to the demand especially when the supply is largely fixed or has linear growth.

I'd recommend reading Joe Friel's stuff for anyone that's interested in this and wants to improve. Executing a periodization schedule for the stress of an event is something that anyone can do.

I love stuff like this: https://joefrielsblog.com/polarized-training-update/

In theory, a 3% wealth tax makes the life of a billionaire difficult. You have like a 60% tax rate for fed/state/local. You make maybe 8% by being safe in your investments. If you pay taxes on your income, get that 8% reduced to 6% by 2% inflation and then your left with a 3.6% YoY gain (6% * 60%) before a 3% wealth tax wipes you out down to 0.6%.

But you still don't have to pay taxes on your gains with this bill. You can take out a loan on your new assets at a 2-3% rate and its reduced to around 1% with inflation. Now you don't have to pay taxes because a loan on the principal value doesn't cause a taxable event with the step up in value. You just sell enough to cover your interest liabilities and pay taxes on that.

I wish they'd address WHY these rates are so low by attacking people and companies that aren't being productive with their capital by building things people want. Why attack a people or a company with a wealth tax if they are paying low rates because they spend most of their revenue on building the business. Capitalism is about rewarding good allocators of capital.

A few teachers I know are selling their course material and lesson plans online. A majority of their sales come from home school parents in their local district whos kids attended their classes.

It's only about $50-100/week extra, but it helps.

When you have deflation, capital in general, not just money, competes with labor.

Buffet became very rich because of this fact. In the current environment, revenue, profit, growth are what drives valuations. Cigarette butt value investing? Not so much.

But what if you have deflation and/or high taxes? A building, land, machinery, yourself, etc are what you should invest in because they can be used to make money. Those who get rich in these environments are the ones that are making a bet on depreciation of capital (property, goods, etc) being less because of an increase in value or their useful life in an environment that rewards those who put their money to work.

deal. code should be written to be easily replaceable, not extendable

to me, more often than not, it means simple

Elegant and clever code wont live through a maintenance cycle.

I'll take a software developer who writes and structures code so change requests and code are written in a way that the DSL is the same across the organization. This makes changes easy. Clever people should be writing libraries or doing research.

Don't kid yourself, you are either the guy who builds the building and its easy because its greenfield, or you are doing remodeling and the hard part is making the upgrade fit in the building and not look like shit.

Yea it is terrifying, I had a reflective vertical zipper on a jacket while out for a run and saw a Cruise swerve towards me after it crested a small hill. I guess I looked like the new lane

I don't know my facebook password or save it on any of my devices save for the home pc for this reason.

I'd wait until the simplify the thermal system in a future generation.

Free food to keep people in the office and a giant building in the tenderloin with just enough security gaurds to keep your developers safe inside but unable to safely leave.

also money for rubber ducks

A guy I know got banned this week because he posted a cute kitten that looked like it was suffocating someone with the icanhazcheezeburger like caption of "i kil you"

Banned for 24 hours, lol. Anyway. I think that is within bounds.