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Re:I made a Y Combinator application guide by thruway516 on Friday November 01, 2024 @10:17PM (#42023581)
I second this. I just fear the hype surrounding generative AI is leading to extreme tunnel vision and neglect of other promising tech (cough crypto) and even other areas in ML and deep learning that might actually be more fruitful for Agi.
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Re:I made a Y Combinator application guide by tptacek on Friday November 01, 2024 @11:17PM (#42023807)
(If it helps anyone else, I'm completely dismissive of the value of crypto).
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Re:I made a Y Combinator application guide by dartos on Friday November 01, 2024 @11:27PM (#42023844)
The best thing to come out of crypto hype is the attention to Markel trees.

That probably played a part I. The development of CRDTs, which are straight up magic.

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Re:I made a Y Combinator application guide by thruway516 on Saturday November 02, 2024 @09:39AM (#42026323)
The ratio of hype to substance is ridiculously out of this world. But like GP said (about AI), there's something there underneath all the hype
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Re:I made a Y Combinator application guide by tptacek on Saturday November 02, 2024 @01:47PM (#42027898)
I'm not sure the history of CRDTs is at all bound up in cryptocurrency, which, for instance, isn't mentioned in the INRIA paper (which paper mentions previous CRDT designs that just didn't have the name).
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