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Comment · 1 year ago
Fascinating. How exactly is the model trained? I see this is an inference tool, is the model trained external to minecraft or in the game itself?
Comment · 1 year ago
What everyone is missing: the biggest advantage of the Euro is debt. Once you can take loans out in Euro, investors can give you lower rates since they’re not worried about a national bank going haywire and debasing the local currency. Also no potentially illiquid currency markets that need to be cleared going in and out of the currency.

Ask a homeowner the difference between a 2% loan (euro price) and 5% (local currency) and you’ll understand why so many countries have opted for the Euro.

Comment · 1 year ago
Does anyone understand how the Market Expert works? It takes in numerical OHLC data and converts it to embeddings for use by the LLM… but embedding are also numbers so I don’t see how that’s any easier for the LLM to process since it’s a language model.

> The Market Analyst LLM focuses on analyzing historical OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Vol- ume) data to predict stock movements. However, time series data is inherently continuous and lacks the discrete token structure that LLMs are designed to process. This misalignment poses a signifi- cant challenge in effectively utilizing LLMs on time series. To this end, we utilize a reprogramming mechanism Jin et al. (2024) to reprogram the input financial time series into text prototype repre- sentations.

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Comment · 8 years ago
Bitcoin cash is much closer to the original implementation by Satoshi Nakamoto. It's simply a much smaller, and IMO, cleaner codebase that just increased one parameter to achieve scaling.

Bitcoin core (what we call BTC) has many more lines of non-Satoshi code that was added to facilitate off-chain scaling.

Comment · 8 years ago
Because a protocol with a finite number of coins has an inherent value to it, by virtue of the fact that other people are there and you can only use it if you have a token. Imagine I have a club, and it costs $5 to enter. You can always just create your own club for $2, but it's not a given that people will come. This is how a completely open-source protocol can monetize.

The same is true with Bitcoin or Ethereum. You can fork it and make your own, but the majority of the people want to use one of the original protocols, and you can only use the protocol if you pay with the proper protocol token (either BTC or ETH).

Comment · 9 years ago
The criticism's in this post really make very little sense. What does that mean that "private keys only have value when you hold them." Private keys are worthless, they only give you access to the wallets that they unlock.

Also, no, you are not guaranteed to stay at 51% forever. Vitalik has explicitly said that if a 51% attack happens, the community is expected to fork, and all of your funds will be isolated and slashed in the fork. If you want to attack again, you then need to collect another 51% of funds. This gets exponentially more difficult.

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