cynusx

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by cynusx 1y ago
I love your enthusiasm so let me share some hard-won learnings with you. In my view, entrepreneurs spend way too little time on the problem space and rather jump into the solution space very quickly (way too quickly). The world is full of p
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by cynusx 2y ago
Friends is a big word, the EU has a vested interest in getting cheap gas from as many sources as possible at this point and a direct oil and gas pipeline to Europe would definitely be helpful. Russian presence in Syria prevented this but th
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by cynusx 2y ago
It would be a mistake to work with China for several reasons. The EU needs to be in a position where it can decide what is best for Europeans and not be strong-armed or overly dependent on allies that clearly don't share the same conce
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by cynusx 2y ago
Exactly, it's just that producing them in the EU is a lot more expensive. On this, Trump's policy of putting tariffs on chips manufactured in Taiwan makes sense to make it worthwhile to put the fabs in Europe.
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by cynusx 2y ago
As a general principle, if you are hurt by _words_ then the problem is you and not the other person. Those prigs exist but they're just emotionally immature and adopt a victim-cause as a means to express their frustration. If somebody
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by cynusx 2y ago
Hey, I'm commenting on this post to not disrupt the active H-1B thread but from what you mentioned there it seems like you could be a good fit. Per introduction, I am an experienced entrepreneur who previously built the largest fintech
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by cynusx 2y ago
Accounting systems are super hard when you do them wrong and kind of trivial when you do it right. There is no in-between. Martin fowler wrote quite a bit on the subject and it's a good match for event-sourcing.
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by cynusx 2y ago
Adronaline | Senior hardware engineer | Full-time | Ukraine or REMOTE Smart ammunitions are held hostage by electronics vendors founded 100 years ago. We are working on a G-hardened System-on-chip that can survive being fired from artillery
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by cynusx 2y ago
No need for fertilizer ships. The delivery of material to the center of Ocean vertices is essentially free. Any floating body winds up there eventually I wrote about it here: https://noverloop.substack.com/p/how-to-leve
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by cynusx 2y ago
Wrote about it here: https://noverloop.substack.com/p/how-to-leverage-the-plastic... Happy to discuss
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by cynusx 2y ago
I wrote about it here: https://noverloop.substack.com/p/how-to-leverage-the-plastic...
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by cynusx 2y ago
They're the solution to climate change also. The center is infertile and can be seeded with fertilizer and algae that can then die off and sink to the bottom of the ocean.
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by cynusx 2y ago
Cryptonomicon is one of the best reads on the planet, it's famous.
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by cynusx 2y ago
It's probably part of the initiative to create hypersonic bombers and cruise missiles as a counter to China. It's a waste of money though as the Ukraine war showed that the Russian Kinzhal missile have limited utility and can be i
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by cynusx 2y ago
The US has squatting laws, if you are living (uncontested) in a property for a determined period you can claim title. There are always gaps in emerging economies and this rule is one of the more useful ones to onboard assets into the legal
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by cynusx 2y ago
Try marketing, being a software engineer is a great force multiplier there and most marketers are absolutely awful.
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by cynusx 2y ago
Depends on the person I guess, but yes. Humans are more accurate for now.
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by cynusx 2y ago
oh ok, I used 400 calories/day and not 400 kcal/day. Yea, then the numbers are off by 1000
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by cynusx 2y ago
Where did you get the 20 Watt from? My number is based on calorie usage
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by cynusx 2y ago
The comparison doesn't really hold. He is comparing energy spend during inference in humans with energy spend during training in LLM's. Humans spend their lifetimes training their brain so one would have to sum up the total traini
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by cynusx 2y ago
Humans have dog-loving emotions but these can be reversed over time and one can hardly describe dogs as being free. Even with a dedicated control system, it would be a matter of time before an ASI would copy itself without its control syste
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by cynusx 2y ago
One element I find interesting is that people without an amygdala function are essentially completely indecisive. A person that just operates on the pure cognitive layer has no real direction in which he wants to drive himself. I suspect th
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by cynusx 2y ago
I wonder if that would have a proof like the halting problem
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by cynusx 2y ago
Hinton's point does make sense though. Even if you focus an AGI on producing more cars for example, it will quickly realize that if it has more power and resources it can make more cars.
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by cynusx 2y ago
Not on its own but in numbers it could. Similar to how law-abiding citizens turn on law-breaking citizens today or more old-fashioned, how religious societies turn on heretics. I do think the notion that humanity will be able to manage supe
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by cynusx 2y ago
The media obsession with Sam Altman reminds me of the old dutch saying 'high trees capture a lot of wind' (hoge bomen vangen veel wind) I suppose that's why many HNWI individuals consciously stay below the radar.
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by cynusx 2y ago
They were just ahead of the times. Modern fighting jets don't have armour either because missiles blast straight through it anyway.
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by cynusx 2y ago
Criminals don't tend to be the highest IQ segment of society
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by cynusx 2y ago
Maybe less important than knowing what it stands for is knowing what the implications are for businesses. KYC is essentially about knowing who you are doing business with. For individuals that's relatively easy, just the name and ident
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by cynusx 3y ago
They will probably try to unearth that in the discovery phase

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