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And companies have high awareness of this all. They have a way to decrease cost and probably increase token consumption, with gradual changes and no abrupt jump in capabilities, an…

The verb "chooses" here does a lot of the heavy lifting, and implies a consciusness that chooses. It's making the answer circular and it means that we are just pre-filtering the po…

No, the process has impeded even higher standard of living, because it misallocates resources from value generation to value appropriation. It's the extreme short term profit maxim…

It's water that builds up limescale that it's harmful for the carnivorous plants. The peat moss substrate that carnivorous plants like is acidic and the limescale neutralizes that.…

We know how the next token is selected, but not why doing that repeatedly brings all the capabilities it does. We really don't understand how the emergent behaviours emerge.

Bubblesort is the bestsort.

It works even on cheap webcams. Remove the piece of blue glass and replace it with the black plastic that covers the ir leds from an old remote.

Playbook files are password protected archives. Anyone cares to reverse engineer the password from the executable?

What he means is that while the models tags code as code, for the model itself this is just relationship between tokens,like the code open and close tags,same as parenthesis, comma…

When you run signature verification on that text with that signature and that address, it checks out. It wouldn't otherwise. The text links the two.

Can confirm. Did a double withdrawal (of about 10$ at the time) on an exchange years ago by blocking a POST request and firing two at the same time. I alerted the exchange operator…

This reminds me of an episode of "Person of Interest" where a teacher tries to spark interest in his students by telling that all their life past and future events are already "enc…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

And we know about it. The backdoor methods have been generalized and now researchers can check for that too. For example bitcoin's elliptic curve secp256k1 was choosen because its …

Years ago i found a poem in apache access logs. 151.217.177.200 - - [30/Dec/2015:06:00:36 +0100] "DELETE your logs. Delete your installations. Wipe everything clean. Walk out into …

> accidentally tab into some app I think in most systems you don't even need to do that. The app should be able to get the clipboard while in the background.

Are nuclear shaped explosive charges a thing?

Zoom out. Drops of that magnitude are frequent. And why christmas should make it drop, while on the 1 jan was at all-time-high? Should holidays make it drop or grow? The drop in ma…

A change of 12% over 24 hours is well within the fluctuation caused by the probabilistic nature of mining. Looking at the charts I can't see any clear drop: https://www.coinwarz.co…

> How much crypto is traded to avoid corrupt regimes and hyperinflation? 1%? 0.1%? You can't know, and that's the point. You can leave a country carrying nothing but a seed phrase …

It did happen, and bitcoins were stolen. https://tradeblock.com/blog/javascript-random-number-flaw-le...

> with the expectation of getting a positive return With the expectation of increasing the counter. Exactly my point.

The author looks at this from the perspective of making money. Bitcoin is a form of money. It's like HTTP/HTTPS vs IPv4/IPv6. Bitcoin operates at a lower level than stocks, looking…

Exactly. Since making money is the real point, someone bypassed all the bullshit about purpose and literally made a new form of money with properties different from any form of mon…

> government or industry backed digital currency That's your bank account and credit cards etc.. The whole point of cryptocurrency is to not to be backed or controlled by any singl…