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> money just flows between them constantly
This is also true for how HFT guys make money. It's not that they are very good in investments. The Fed injects money constantly from the top which gets distributed or trickle down to such firms. Because in a tight economy which is not akin to gambling, it should be near to impossible to make money so easily.
One future project idea suggestion. Can we combine these characters to create new ones just like Gboard allows us to intelligently combine emojis to create new complex emojis.
But my original proposition keeps everyone honest and pragmatic which was the reason for the proposal. I truly believe in transparency as a way to keep everyone honest and not treat other people as childish that they can't understand complex matters.
I think we will see unbundling of large model into submodels: modular, smaller and efficient, only include what you need eg a CUA model, a reasoning model, a legal model, a writing model, a coding model (this could get subdivided into different languages). That way you only update that submodel which needs retraining.
I haven't seen this question answered anywhere.
Why would anyone use bitcoin if the world's factory ie China wants gold as payments?
Even pro Bitcoin people like Balaji and Lyn Alden haven't answered this structural question. There exists market for what counts as money. If that market (led by China) says we don't accept Bitcoin, then these are just some random numbers.
I think we will see models becoming small reasoning core which don't remember tonnes of facts but can reason with data fed to it or they can search.
There are AI researchers who wrote blogposts which got to HN top about spiky spheres (I won't link the original blogpost making that claim to avoid hurt sentiments). Here's 3blue1brown correcting those AI/ML researchers intuitions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsLh-NYhOoU&t=3238s
Yes, after Ukraine war started, there are instances of companies's stakes being sold for 1$ only. So yes it is all legal fiction but we have to operate according to that fiction in peacetime world order setup we are in.
There is flip side to it. If one party has pre-determined not to negotiate, but is just following the script to show offical reachout and due process, then people don't know the real reason why the talks failed?
Yes, markets weren't taking his "normal" market manipulation tweets seriously, so he had to go hyperbolic with the NUKE tweet. I am definitely sure Trump is not serious. That's why Iran said we will continue this discussion with complete distrust.
I have a Naive question, "why aren't the discussions related to public matters be telecasted live like a football match to the whole world? why isn't the public privy to the discussions about its own future?"
How about using drone submarines to cut optic fibre undersea cables? Can geolocation coordinates be beamed to submarines deep under water?
How about use drone submarines to cut optic fibre undersea cables?
After the US Dollar with Luke Gromen
https://youtu.be/OOW-oSruO80?t=4072
Luke's key point lands at about 1:08:27–1:08:33, where he says that instead of selling treasuries outright (which would draw attention from the American embassy), China can use them as collateral — and the American banks are happy to take it. He then lists what China gets in return: "I'll take Pereus. I'll take that oil field. I'll take that copper mine. I'll take all that gold."
He then adds that this works because the incentives align on both sides — the Chinese want to understate their strength, the Americans want to overstate theirs, and the American banks are happy to accept dollar collateral without asking too many questions.
We can use old phones for running PiHole.
Agents doing retrieval has been around for quite a while
https://huggingface.co/docs/smolagents/en/examples/rag
Agentic RAG: A More Powerful Approach
We can overcome these limitations by implementing an Agentic RAG system - essentially an agent equipped with retrieval capabilities. This approach transforms RAG from a rigid pipeline into an interactive, reasoning-driven process.
The innovation of the blogpost is in the retrieval step.
I think Marc might be referring to "navel gazing". If introspection is so important, we wouldn't need to do experiments to figure out what is reality. He could be advocating for Empiricism. You will find quotes like "If unsure, take a decision and make it right later. Don't get trapped in analysis paralysis". Basically two camps are fighting here : those who think reality can be figured out by thinking alone. and those who think we need to get out there and collect data and analyse it.
I am personally biased toward Radical Conversatism.
Paul Dirac (1902–1984) was a British theoretical physicist and mathematician whose work on the Dirac equation (1928), which merged quantum mechanics with special relativity, predicted the existence of antimatter, specifically the positron. His approach to this discovery was deeply rooted in a mathematical philosophy that valued elegance, consistency, and a belief that nature is fundamentally mathematical, often placing him ahead of experimental validation.
Radical conservatism in physics, often associated with John Archibald Wheeler, is a philosophical approach that adheres strictly to established, successful principles—like quantum mechanics or general relativity—while pushing them to extreme, unexpected logical conclusions. It involves modifying as few laws as possible (conservative) while daringly following the math to radical insights.
Is that even possible? Shouldn't the recipient email id need to be created first to be addressable?
https://www.gregegan.net/Contact details: [any mailbox] [at] [the domain name of this web site]. Please don’t ask me to give interviews, sign books, appear on podcasts, attend conferences or conventions, or provide feedback or endorsements for works of fiction, scientific theories, or slabs of text disgorged by chatbots.
I have no idea how to decipher this obfuscation.
If AI works, imagine 10 years of security updates and possibly 10 years of full OS upgrades for Android phones.
ThinkTank guys have been around since centuries. This movie was released in Dec 2025. Do you think there could be a causal link? Art imitates life.
Creating graphic arts is also a form of communication. But Procreate makes it easier, even for novice to create amazing art. Consider an aircraft, the pilot is given just few knobs to fly the plane but it still takes you from one location to another. The aircraft is indeed very complex than the knobs given but we can hide most of that complexity underneath the knobs assuming happy path flights most of the time. The higher abstraction I am talking about is the future jargons themselves. AI will allow us to create far more complex stories. Imagine one complex jargon represented by a mandelbrot fractal (to paint a picture of the complexity involved), another represented by burning ship fractal. What kind of operations can I do with these two complex ideas. Can I explore a complex conceptual space with it? We would just say to the AI, subtract one fractal from another and it would handle the details (the definitons, references, related ideas in a free form manner). This is exploration itself. Procreate gives you brushes. AI gives you something similar in conceptual space.
is that the reason why Anthropic acquired Bun, a javascript tooling company?
Do compilers care about their assembly generated code to look good? We will soon reach that state with all the production code. LLMs will be the compiler and actual today's human code will be replaced by LLM generated assembly code, kinda sorta human readable.
You can use lightgbm with appropriate feature engineering.
James Cameron in Avatar: Fire and Ash makes fun of these Big Picture guys (so called ThinkTank people) towards the end.
In I,Robot, Will Smith prefers to drive himself because he doesn't trust AI. But we are moving towards self driving as it would be more safer. Would you trust a calculation more if it was done by hand using log tables? Having vehicles allowed us to create sports like dirt bike riding or monster truck racing. Yes something is lost but something is also gained. We move up the layer of abstraction.
Just to add, there are so many hour long Neovim setup videos on youtube that will make your life easier