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Re:Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:40AM (#50191994)
His GitHub has jev named projects so he’s playing with them
Re:Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model on Thursday July 16, 2026 @01:23AM (#48930672)
Do you think 3 is better than 1 & 2 as context gets larger? I think for smaller data sets its mostly fine no. It's an interesting bet by TM. End state does seem some form of continual learning (model weights update like dreaming)
Re:Scientists edited genes in a living person and saved his life on Saturday December 27, 2025 @05:42PM (#46406140)
Very dumb question, but how exactly does gene therapy work in vivo? Don't you have to modify every cell (or affected type of cell) with a new copy of the DNA? How does that actually.... happen?
Re:atproto and the ownership of identity on Monday January 20, 2025 @02:45AM (#42766015)
I strongly also think we're going to have a social network for humans-only (and one for AI-only, and one for humans + AI)

have you looked into world.org? They're scanning eyes and giving robust human identities. Before immediately dismissing, I'd check out the video -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXnwoMxKHV8

I think atproto + worldid can one day be very interesting

Re:Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each p... on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @11:44PM (#28768946)
Is there any good training software like this but for poker?
Re:'Nakamoto's innovation is real,' says SEC Chair Gary Gensler on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @06:26PM (#28054980)
If interested, here's the course Gary Gensler taught on "blockchain and money" before becoming SEC chair - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-s1...

The last lecture especially gives a sense of how he's thinking through things.

Re:Why DeFi is not a Ponzi Scheme on Monday July 26, 2021 @08:41PM (#27967306)
What about the current DeFi framework makes it impossible to address?

Imo smart contract engineering has much more in common with firmware, hardware, etc. than the mindset a typical React/web2 engineer might have (i.e. try things and iterate). I think that point is not talked about enough.

Re:Why DeFi is not a Ponzi Scheme on Monday July 26, 2021 @08:38PM (#27967289)
Yes for the most part it is. One reason being that it's just a lot easier to code and cleaner when everything is on-chain and tracked the same way.

But that's starting to change (https://centrifuge.io/) - still a long way to go ofc. I also know people who have done non-crypto collateral or just completely unsecured lending, but it does involve trust that is off-chain (legal contract, know the person, etc). I think that's a fine stepping stone (and may end up being necessary) as people figure out how to do everything on-chain and in decentralized ways (ex. using on-chain reputation)

Re:Why DeFi is not a Ponzi Scheme on Monday July 26, 2021 @07:23PM (#27966735)
To be fair, you do have to start with over-collateralized loans before you can get under/no collateral loans with plenty of projects trying to do the latter. That's how lending itself started (https://www.provenir.com/resources/collateral/history-of-len...).

But I agree that if it's always overcollateralized then there is obviously much less utility created (though definitely some - similar to how you can get a loan against your home).

The project mentioned, Goldfinch, has already distributed 4.5M in uncollateralized loans to emerging markets using DeFi rails and liquidity already (https://medium.com/goldfinch-fi/goldfinch-raises-11m-from-an...). My 2c is that it's a sign of what's to come.

Re:What I Worked On on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @03:08PM (#26158197)
> "How should I choose what to do? Well, how had I chosen what to work on in the past? I wrote an essay for myself to answer that question, and I was surprised how long and messy the answer turned out to be. If this surprised me, who'd lived it, then I thought perhaps it would be interesting to other people, and encouraging to those with similarly messy lives. So I wrote a more detailed version for others to read, and this is the last sentence of it."

I loved the ending. The essay was primarily for him. It seems that some of the best writing, similarly to the best products, is when you yourself are the recipient.

Re:Bitcoin's fundamental value is negative given its environmental impact on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:18PM (#26094144)
This is also literally how oil/fracking projects work and are decided
Re:An Update on Market Volatility on Thursday January 28, 2021 @04:44PM (#25949749)
This was an awful PR response.

I actually buy the reasoning behind it - but putting out a corporate speak like this instead of trying to emotionally relate to upset users? Smh

Re:Waymo CEO dismisses Tesla self-driving plan: “This is not how it wo... on Sunday January 24, 2021 @10:34PM (#25898755)
TSLA and Comma.Ai aren't only ones. Ghost (https://driveghost.com/) is funded by top VCs (incubated at sutter hill ventures, same firm that incubated Snowflake) with a highly technical second time founder in John Hayes (first company is the public company Pure Storage).

They're taking the same bet (i.e. CV + ML advances on a large and high quality enough data set are enough). After listening to Hoetz on podcasts, I wouldn't underestimate this approach. People trying orthogonal technical approaches win surprisingly often.

Re:Waymo CEO dismisses Tesla self-driving plan: “This is not how it wo... on Sunday January 24, 2021 @10:32PM (#25898731)
Why? You can argue that CV is enough for SDC AND add extra LIDAR sensors to make it even better/safer (esp if the cost curve of the sensors make sense for consumers).

Just because I can ride a bike doesn't mean I shouldn't wear a helmet

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