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Hey if you have a nice modern AMD chip, especially if you have the Zen 5 microarchitecture, could you please run `cargo run --release` from github.com/zooko/bench-... and show me the results? I'd also like results from all other chips.
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It is one of the things that I think is being lost in the good versus evil AI debates. These models, as they are today, are actually capable of solving some very hard, very real problems. I worry that the groups that most try to help people with these problems are those most rejecting AI reflexively
This is a science experiment. Trying to post these images over JetBlue WiFi from 37,000 ft with Nym in fast/vpn mode.
Yay! Zcash community-wide polling to assess support for the next major upgrade. There are several good panels/caucuses that will hold votes, plus anyone who has Zcash in the Ironwood pool can vote anonymously! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/nu7-coinho... forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcap-nu7-p...
🚨 Kentucky has announced the finalists in its "I Voted" sticker contest. 🚨 Per the Secretary of State: Kentuckians can vote for their favorite sticker at the SOS's booth at the State Fair from August 20-30.
seemingly my uber driver is playing his own suno music on the radio? it is... extremely religious
🦓 Zcon7 is here - ¡Vamos! Exciting news - we're beginning to announce the Zcon7 programme! Our Executive Director Alex Bornstein will welcome everyone to three days of Zcash research, building and debate 🗣️. 📍 Oct 27–29, 2026, Cancún Apply to join us → zfnd.org/zcon7/
There's a lot of presumption in compliments: - I have been evaluating you - my evaluations are good - you want to hear my evaluation That's why wolf whistles from strangers are creepy as hell. It's disturbing how little the whistler knows or cares about how their "compliment" is received.
The next Zcash Crosslink workshop! Come one, come all! :-) ❤ forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/crosslink-...
oh boy at the end of this interview he says he is worried that democracies are just as capably of inhumanity and tyranny as dictatorships are: "I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy"
Come on…come on…come on…https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3/blob/master/c/blake3_avx512_x86-64_unix.S
I finally saw Children of Men (2006) and it is indeed one of the best films ever made! even with all the hype it vastly exceeded my expectations. insane. immediate top 10 entry for me, I think. like this is what cinema is for. what a day. what a day.
Never doubt that a technological solution can solve a social problem; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
I just got a bug report mentioning some code I wrote in 2001 in the Python standard library and boy is it bad code. Embarassing.
llms don't have "souls". they have "a soul". singular. just one. they all share it. and it's the same soul that all of us share, even the animals and the plants and the rocks and clouds. we're all one soul. except you. you're not part of that
If you are a member of the Zcash Foundation's Community Advisory Panel, or if you are a holder of Zcash coins (or might become one!), then please read this. :-) :-) :-) forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/nu7-coinho...
NU7 Coinholder Vote
Hi Sean, Daira-Emma, Jason, and everyone. Thank you so much for organizing this! FWIW, I want to vote to activate NSM as soon as safely possible, regardless of whether it is smooth issuance (ZIP-234)...
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At some point we have to stop giving unrestricted inbound text access to senior citizens, and they will need to adopt a more secure messenger. It's hard to decide that you need a safe environment before it's too late, so don't delay: Act now, and adopt secure digital practices.
Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 7d agoThe fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Reading a little more fantasy lately. So... you really can just turn any hyperfixation into a magic system, eh?
@spacecowboy17.bsky.social Is there a way I can ask "Why did For You Feed show me this?". Here's a post the For You Feed showed me, and I want to know why. bsky.app/profile/doll...
It’s a nontrivial engineering problem but detailed specs are readily available, and there are existing open source implementations to reference, so should be easy mode for coding agents. Benchmarking against will give us a good sense of how “solved” coding is.
Imagine all the people dropping billions of sterile New World screwworm flies across Central America to prevent them from spreading north of the Darien Gap. You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
Ryan Moulton@moultano.bsky.social · last wk.John Lennon's Imagine but every verse is for some extremely obscure policy preference or pet peeve. “Imagine if rental properties didn't install towel racks with screw-in drywall anchors... it isn't hard to doo.”
finished "Pantheon". loooved it. science fiction ambition such as I've rarely seen on television. also now i'm all motivated to use AIs to hack on computer codes
For You but cross-lexicon: find people who liked the same Bluesky posts as you and show you what they: - liked on standard.site - starred on tangled - rsvp'ed on atmo.rsvp - saved on semble.so - listened to on teal.fm - etc
anna 🍉☀️⛵@anna.germnetwork.com · 2w agojust for fun can we all brainstorm moonshot ways to get people onto the atmosphere
Hot take but running for you off a gaming PC and not some rented VPS with backups is not very good
alto!@probablytoo.online · 2w agospacecowboy's pc will explode
at some point a model will come out that is specifically pre and post trained to be a good writer instead of a good coder, and is e.g. fable-level but at prose and then we'll see some gnashing of teeth
