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I would never trust that. Instead I would use Claude to teach me genomics and build the tools to process and interpret data locally

Flow-matching, the technique they describe is incredibly interesting. I studied it in the context of generative AI and found it fascinating. It’s so fitting that a technique that b…

I’m not an expert, only dabbled in photogrammetry, but it seems to me that the crux of that problem is identifying common pixels across images in order to sort of triangulate a poi…

I came here to say exactly this! Elixir and OTP (and by extension LiveView) are such a good match for the problem described in the post.

Not sure if they still do, but farm.bot was using Nerves.

Brute force is exactly how our immune system works.

I think the word you’re looking for is paranoid, not cynic. And yes, you probably are paranoid

Cory Doctorow put this all into perspective so well in a podcast I listen to a while back https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/bonus-cory-doctorow-knows...

I just checked and the pm2 levels are as bad as they were when I visited pre Covid (50 μg/m^3). I was there for 3 months, in El Poblado neighborhood and the air quality was horrend…

Congrats on the lunch Dan and Ustin!

This has nothing to do with how much ETH one has. Metamask is a PKI keystone, you’re just signing something using your public key.

I agree that they should, the story is that they can. Err, not a story, it’s a known fact that they don’t encrypt communication.

Since we have threads for who is hiring and who is looking for a job, I thought it might be interesting to find out which companies are doing mass firings and lay offs.

I think I shared this on HN before, but highly recommend this podcast: https://cryptocriticscorner.com/ It covers Worldcom all the way up to the recent Terra

I thought there was a date announced on Oct 20, 2022. I can't wait for that to be launched

It's great to see respected cryptographers like Dan Boneh behind stuff like this.

The author brings up a very good point about controlling the monetary policy which made me think about the impossible trinity. I have a very basic macro Econ 101 understanding of t…

Here are a few reasons why I called it despicable: - Laundering money in poor countries directly hurt the citizens of those countries because the government doesn't collect the tax…

I explained why I think this is argued in bad faith: trying to frame mining in a law framework for the single purpose of killing it vs something like: "ok, this is bad, let's try t…

I love Lawfare and listen to their podcast quite often, but the argument presented is so odd: 1) specifically calling for not introducing new legislation to deal with this and 2) t…

Yes, this is the kind of discourse I would expect to see around blockchain technology from a group of smart nerds. I can't argue with that, the oldest blockchain kind of failed to …

Sorry, you have a point. I re-read my comment and it's not very clear. We need two things to achieve the Byzantine fault tolerance: - a way to ensure that users of the system can't…

If you don’t believe that there is value in a distributed self replicating Byzantine tolerant state machine, that’s fair, everybody is entitled to their opinion.

this = blockchain + proof of work / proof of stake , in my comment. The crypto currencies are a requirement to fulfill the Byzantine tolerance. They need to have value in order for…

What is surprising is how large the number of techies who don’t get this. It’s not about crypto currencies as much as it is about the game theory that allows it to run a distribute…