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I feel like the next step here is to get a GPT3 like model to parse everything ever written about every piece of music which is on the internet (and in every pdf on libgen and scihub) and link them to spectrograms of that music

and then things are going to get wild

I am so blessed to live in this era :)

funny that Hayk is an early skydio guy!

2 amazing AI projects. Huge respect :)

Re:EU-wide maximum limit of €10K for cash payments on Saturday December 10, 2022 @06:21PM (#33938129)
negative rates are stupid and make no sense.

all fiat currencies have number-go-down technology. look at a graph of purchasing power vs time for any fiat currency. It always trends towards zero.

start using a currency with number-go-up technology. look at a graph of bitcoin. instead of going down, the number goes up. you should adopt this type of currency.

I am aware this sounds stupid. I am also 100% convinced that it is true.

A typical organ donor has a severe head injury causing brain death, however generally the liver and kidneys are intact and metabolize alcohol fine. Even if they didn't, alcohol in the organs/blood is unlikely to have a signficant effect for the beneficiary.
AI seems to have incredible potential in compression of audio, images and video.

None of which really seems to make any difference in a world of near-limitless bandwith. It just isn't the constraint it once was.

Re:GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge on Friday September 16, 2022 @08:58PM (#32873849)
there should be ways to achieve this.

examples would be: Multiple PoWers independently producing solutions and then verifying each other (although this is wasteful as work is being duplicated)

PoWers achieving increasing status levels when not cheating over time, incentivising long-term honest behaviour

Re:There aren't that many uses for blockchains on Thursday August 11, 2022 @03:48AM (#32422724)
the killer app for VCs is flipping tokens for 100x profits onto retail investors.

for everyone else, the killer app is bitcoin.