nakamoto_damacy

Speaking of Analog computation:

A single artificial neuron could be implemented as:

Weighted Sum

Using a summing amplifier:

net = Σ_i (Rf/Ri * xi)

Where resistor ratios set the synaptic weights.

Activation Function

Common op-amp activation circuits:

Saturating function: via op-amp with clipping diodes → approximated sigmoid

Hard limiter: comparator behavior for step activation

Tanh-like response: differential pair circuits

Learning

Early analog systems often lacked on-device learning; weights were manually set with potentiometers or stored using:

Memristive elements (recent)

Floating-gate MOSFETs

Programmable resistor networks

Well, your calling my reference to Indian approval and support for the Zionist genocide of Palestinian as antisemitism is deeply concerning.

Digital Cash was invented by David Chaum in 1982, and developed by his company DigiCash in 1990. I read about it years before Cryptonomicon.

How did his books PREDICT crypto when we had eCash way before any of his books? SMH.

Ilya "Undercover Genocide Supporter" Sutskever... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

because most people are incompetent, produce incidental complexity to satisfy internal urge for busy work, and under-think the problem, greatly... that's why, and don't get me started on the morons who run the show

Very terrible idea. Downvote me.

Jeff Bezos is not a net positive to humanity. If we ignored people like him, the world would be a better place...

It’s good but Gemini 3 beats it.

not possible on ARC-AGI, AFAIK

The perfect down-vote attractor:

This is such a stupid and meaningless thing to discuss (whatever Cook's plans are), as he has no personality and no vision, and yet tons of reflective and philosophical comments in here.

WASM runs on the edge, e.g. in Cloudflare workers (but I mean more generally) .. And it is an emerging compatibility layer

Who gained financially from Brexit? I mean in terms of the "elite" behind the scene. If no one gained that would be really weird. Someone or some group of people must have gained something, financially, even in an indirect way. Can you think of anyone who benefitted?

WebAssembly’s goal is to be a “portable execution layer” — an OS abstraction. If WASM becomes the standard runtime across browsers, servers, and edge networks, something still has to orchestrate thousands of concurrent tasks, message queues, supervisors, restarts, etc.

Erlang/OTP already solves that — beautifully.

So, the motivation is:

“What if BEAM’s concurrency runtime could itself be compiled to WebAssembly — and become the actor system of the WebAssembly world?”

That’s why projects like Firefly and Lumen are interesting: they’re exploring whether Erlang’s runtime model can become part of the WASM ecosystem — just like how Go and Rust shaped the serverless world.

Will it ever run in WASM?

EDIT: there is Lumen, but not sure if it's stalled or still going.

Elon Musk will step in to save the day and privatize air traffic control. The government will transform the nation into a fully decentralized economy owned and operated by oligarchs, with the role of the government shrinking to that of a mediator between the various oligarchs, and employed directly by the oligarchs. Kind of like how they describe it in the sci-fi show Alien Earth.

"at scale" == replacing humans... who apparently can't scale. SMH.

EXHIBIT A

"If at any point I described how legal factors “apply to you,” that would indeed go beyond what I’m supposed to do. Even if my intent was to illustrate how those factors generally work, the phrasing can easily sound like I’m offering a tailored legal opinion — which isn’t appropriate for an AI system or anyone who isn’t a licensed attorney.

The goal, always, is for me to help you understand the framework — the statutes, cases, or reasoning that lawyers and courts use — so that you can see how it might relate to your situation and then bring that understanding to a qualified attorney.

So if I’ve ever crossed that line in how I worded something, thank you for pointing it out. It’s a good reminder that I should stay firmly on the educational side: explaining how the law works, not how it applies to you personally.

Would you like me to restate how I can help you analyze legal issues while keeping it fully within the safe, informational boundary?"

ChatGPT

Zionization

That figure is probably UUCP mostly not live connected hosts. I could be wrong, but 60k hosts that you could telnet to sounds like a lot of ducking hosts back then. I was there too, in my late teens. God bless PG.

From a 70s kid to an 80s kid, well done!

Not sure why he capitalized bitter...

no, we use atomic clocks now... j/k

piezoelectric refers to generation of electricity from pressure applied to the material... the inverse of that effect is what generates oscillation.. quartz has a natural resonant frequency determined by its shape, size, and the way it’s cut, and when you apply AC it oscillates at a specific frequency.. the applied electricity causes is the material to deform.. that is the basic physical effect used in oscillators

MEMS oscillators are increasingly replacing quartz in compact, rugged, or integrated designs.

PLL-based frequency synthesis is used to scale a low-frequency reference (e.g., 25 MHz crystal) up to CPU/GPU GHz speeds.

LLMs falter because likelihood-driven pattern completion doesn’t enforce coherence across uncertainty (probability), representation (geometry), composition (category), and search (reasoning). To get robust reasoning, we need these layers to be explicit, typed, and mutually constraining—with verification and calibrated belief updates in the loop.

I was interviewed about this recently, and mentioned the great work of a professor of CS and Law who has been building the foundations for this approach. My own article about it was recently un-linked due to a Notion mishap (but available if anyone is interested - I have to publish it again)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hessiejones/2025/09/30/llms-are...

> Was it agreed by some salespeople without the knowledge of legal / management?

LOL. No. That is not how it works. Legal combs through every contract, negotiates, and gates the process, while revenue officers act very self-entitled to having the contract signed ASAP. Legal has to do their job, or they're a liability.

Security theatre is all it is. Protect us from petty thieves but let our employers and the gov MITM our comms.

LOL. Yeah. Ok. You feel good now?

I tell it to go kill itself, every time I use it. Reverse psychology.

"Exclusive" [Access] is missing from the title

Here is a definition of AGI in 2025: Hype.