tzumby

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by tzumby 2mo ago
I would never trust that. Instead I would use Claude to teach me genomics and build the tools to process and interpret data locally
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by tzumby 1y ago
Flow-matching, the technique they describe is incredibly interesting. I studied it in the context of generative AI and found it fascinating. It’s so fitting that a technique that borrows from thermodynamics and uses Brownian motion would go
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by tzumby 2y ago
I’m not an expert, only dabbled in photogrammetry, but it seems to me that the crux of that problem is identifying common pixels across images in order to sort of triangulate a point in the 3D space. It doesn’t sound like something an LLM w
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by tzumby 2y ago
I came here to say exactly this! Elixir and OTP (and by extension LiveView) are such a good match for the problem described in the post.
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by tzumby 2y ago
Not sure if they still do, but farm.bot was using Nerves.
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by tzumby 2y ago
Brute force is exactly how our immune system works.
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by tzumby 2y ago
I think the word you’re looking for is paranoid, not cynic. And yes, you probably are paranoid
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by tzumby 2y ago
Cory Doctorow put this all into perspective so well in a podcast I listen to a while back https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/bonus-cory-doctorow-knows...
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by tzumby 3y ago
I just checked and the pm2 levels are as bad as they were when I visited pre Covid (50 μg/m^3). I was there for 3 months, in El Poblado neighborhood and the air quality was horrendous, I would never go back. The depression in which the
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by tzumby 3y ago
Congrats on the lunch Dan and Ustin!
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by tzumby 3y ago
This has nothing to do with how much ETH one has. Metamask is a PKI keystone, you’re just signing something using your public key.
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by tzumby 4y ago
I agree that they should, the story is that they can. Err, not a story, it’s a known fact that they don’t encrypt communication.
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Ask HN: Who is firing / laying off (June 2022)
78 points by tzumby 4y ago|12 comments
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by tzumby 4y ago
I think I shared this on HN before, but highly recommend this podcast: https://cryptocriticscorner.com/ It covers Worldcom all the way up to the recent Terra
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by tzumby 4y ago
I thought there was a date announced on Oct 20, 2022. I can't wait for that to be launched
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by tzumby 4y ago
It's great to see respected cryptographers like Dan Boneh behind stuff like this.
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by tzumby 5y ago
The author brings up a very good point about controlling the monetary policy which made me think about the impossible trinity. I have a very basic macro Econ 101 understanding of this, but it seems to me like the dials the central bank used
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by tzumby 5y ago
Here are a few reasons why I called it despicable: - Laundering money in poor countries directly hurt the citizens of those countries because the government doesn't collect the taxes it is entitled to - Most of the money to be launder
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by tzumby 5y ago
I explained why I think this is argued in bad faith: trying to frame mining in a law framework for the single purpose of killing it vs something like: "ok, this is bad, let's try to fix it. here's how we can fix it"
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by tzumby 5y ago
I love Lawfare and listen to their podcast quite often, but the argument presented is so odd: 1) specifically calling for not introducing new legislation to deal with this and 2) trying to fit mining into a bucket of legislation designed t
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by tzumby 5y ago
Yes, this is the kind of discourse I would expect to see around blockchain technology from a group of smart nerds. I can't argue with that, the oldest blockchain kind of failed to prove itself valid in significant ways.
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by tzumby 5y ago
Sorry, you have a point. I re-read my comment and it's not very clear. We need two things to achieve the Byzantine fault tolerance: - a way to ensure that users of the system can't cheat by creating a vast number of nodes and infl
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by tzumby 5y ago
If you don’t believe that there is value in a distributed self replicating Byzantine tolerant state machine, that’s fair, everybody is entitled to their opinion.
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by tzumby 5y ago
this = blockchain + proof of work / proof of stake , in my comment. The crypto currencies are a requirement to fulfill the Byzantine tolerance. They need to have value in order for the incentives to make sense
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by tzumby 5y ago
What is surprising is how large the number of techies who don’t get this. It’s not about crypto currencies as much as it is about the game theory that allows it to run a distributed self replicating state machine that is Byzantine tolerant
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by tzumby 5y ago
“high availability through Paxos based replication”. I thought Paxos is supposed to be a CP system.
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by tzumby 5y ago
I think this depends on how good the specs are. I agree that if we look at other examples of separate implementations, this would support this argument (see Browsers for example). But on the flip-side, ETH 2.0 - the proof of stake work, rel
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by tzumby 6y ago
+1 I make pizza using San Marzano canned tomatoes and they taste better than my parents home grown organic tomatoes
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by tzumby 7y ago
There are, the machinery I mentioned is a lot more complex in humans. The expression of genes is heavily influenced by how the DNA folds (and this is affected by complexes of proteins that Methylate at different locations in the DNA)
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by tzumby 7y ago
I agree that someone might have tried that, but the real question is, was the clone viable? From what I remember from my human genetics class in uni, cloning is not just about the genes but also about Methylation sites that are carried by c

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