alfiedotwtf

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"We will not have any more crashes in our time."

- John Maynard Keynes, 1927

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Comment · 5 hours ago
Funnily enough, earlier this week I switched back to WindowMaker :)
Comment · 19 hours ago
I think everyone is misunderstanding crypto…

Crypto doesn’t care wether or not the transaction was for good or evil. It’s Switzerland, it’s neutral, and there really only one goal - to sidestep human control.

If a transaction was successful, it’s done its job.

Comment · 19 hours ago
Anthropic NFTs anyone?
Comment · 2 days ago
See my other comment. I feel stupid now
Comment · 2 days ago
:faceslap:

I was always under the impression that by pruning you could only find the lowest bound on a branch but it wouldn't lead to the optimal path. TIL!

Comment · 3 days ago
> seems like a boil the ocean kind of approach and I’m not sure if that’s ever going to be optimal

Finding the most optimal traveling salesman problem for 20 cities by brute force will take a few universes lifetimes and you still won’t be halls way. You’ll need to compromise with heuristics but that usually leads to near optimal

Comment · 4 days ago
If we suddenly skipped 10 generations of mathematical lineage because of AI, wouldn’t it also be smart enough that you could just prompt it to connect ideas from graduate level maths all the way to the proof!
Comment · 4 days ago
Find me a Grand Unified Theory, make no mistakes
Comment · 4 days ago
100 years of so close yet so far, although satisfying, would be humbling if a GUT was finally discovered not by humans.
Comment · 4 days ago
“Of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most”

- Martin Bishop, Sneakers

Comment · 5 days ago
Ha! Wow thanks.. I’m honoured to even be in the same sentence as the Hacker’s Manifesto!
Comment · 5 days ago
I think you’re replying to a quote from the movie Hackers :)
Comment · 5 days ago
If you haven’t seen it yet, I think you would like the BBS Documentary
Comment · 5 days ago
Don’t sweat it… tractors aren’t driving themselves yet so you’ve got a bit of time left
Comment · 5 days ago
Stupid question that I could look up myself but asking here…

Is context represented in by the original text, or translated into token indexes? Because if it’s in the original form, it seems obvious that either the server should be compressing into token indexes, or on handshake the server gives the client its dictionary and on request it translates it

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