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Comment · 7 months ago
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

Comment · 4 years ago
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.

Comment · 4 years ago
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.

Comment · 4 years ago
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.

Comment · 4 years ago
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.
Comment · 4 years ago
bravo, I've wanted something like this
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes but potentially without a bunch of people and software to prevent you from going to jail.
Comment · 4 years ago
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.

Comment · 5 years ago
you can tow charge an electric car with another car or truck
Comment · 5 years ago
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.

Comment · 5 years ago
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.

Comment · 5 years ago
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.

Comment · 5 years ago
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.

Comment · 5 years ago
My point was that you need less people for a transaction to happen.

The cost will go down over time.

Comment · 5 years ago
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.

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