Rhapso

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1. 181.▲
   by Rhapso 2y ago

   How long do you expect that "gold has value" delusion to last in a crisis situation?
2. 182.▲
   by Rhapso 2y ago

   That seems like a hazard. Anything "valuble but too heavy to move easily" would mean people would rather own the spot where it is sitting right now. I would need a LOT of gold to convince somebody to give me a few chicken fledglin
3. 183.▲
   by Rhapso 2y ago

   Those are things you do to gold, not with gold. How would they help?
4. 184.▲
   by Rhapso 2y ago

   So you think gold has value only because other people think it has value, not because it has any other intrinsic use? I bet you like fiat currencies too!
5. 185.▲
   by Rhapso 2y ago

   Sure aluminum oxidizes fast, most of the time that actually protects it. There is just so damn much of the stuff laying around, melt it down every few years, pull off the slag and cast it again. Toss in an extra can after a year or two to m
6. 186.▲
   by Rhapso 2y ago

   What are the other people going to do with the gold? what could they use it for? (Hint: gold is a useless metal in the modern era)
7. 187.▲
   by Rhapso 2y ago

   http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q13412.html Looks like the half-life of radioactive aluminum is only 2.3 minutes, should be safe after a day or two. edit add: https://www.madsci.org/posts&#x2F
8. 188.▲
   by Rhapso 2y ago

   What is gold good for again? I haven't found any use cases where aluminum isn't just outright better to have around. Aluminum is a lot easier to find too.
9. 189.▲
   by Rhapso 3y ago

   On a sphere or modulus space, that just becomes a K4, so it isn't even an edge case, it is the solution that the approximation would generate.
10. 190.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    Ah, I'm an engineer not a theorist. Such degenerate input is unlikely to be a valid use case, can be detected, and I can reject it. Wait until you see the actual heuristic I use for solving voronoi/delaunay in arbitrary topologies
11. 191.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    Being closed really isn't an obstacle. For example you can solve a euclidean modulus toroid by just tiling the space once more around itself, running a vanilla euclidean solver and then unioning the 9 copies of the space.
12. 192.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    It's all fun and games until you leave the euclidean plane and calculate the real distance.
13. 193.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    No, those only allow 1 leader and 1 intake at a time. They just pick the leader by proof of waste first.
14. 194.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    Did we hug the micro app to death?
15. 195.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    Autocanibalism is the only unquestionably consensual and ethical meat.
16. 196.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    https://docs.microblog.pub/ is intended to be a single person instance/blog but the reality is that I am more interested in consuming posts than making them, so I just use the built in rss feeds to follow people I like
17. 197.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    It's very simple: anything that makes you stop hurting, one way or another, ends up being addictive.
18. 198.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    Well the competitor is Chinese sign language and the Chinese government claims there are 4 million fluent signers of it. (Which would be the overwhelming majority of people who sign on the planet if it is true) so if you want to improve you
19. 199.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    Wait until you find out 20% of the deaf are illiterate. Want to make the world more accessible, learn ASL and see to it the education and healthcare systems get real funding. *Ironic typo mention below is fixed.
20. 200.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    The economic and emissions side effects of the COVID pandemic presents evidence to the contrary.
21. 201.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    I think I would want to make sure my AI companion/girlfriend was self-hosted before getting too invested...
22. 202.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    Same reference: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Mentats#Behind_the_scenes
23. 203.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    Just remember, mentats exist bc the dune universe found the dangers of AI so universal and obvious they never made anything more complicated than a single-write microcontroller and used analog circuits for basically everything.
24. 204.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    There is some deep irony in naming an AI "mentat"
25. 205.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_ene... Basically really high density batteries that work efficiently forever, zero friction bearings via levitation, zero resistance long haul energy transport,
26. 206.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    So somehow ascii is less information dense than 12k 32-bit floats per token?
27. 207.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    And how many bits are in an embedded vector?
28. 208.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    FTR LLM embeddeds are a lot less efficient than ASCII for communication and are likely to stay that way.
29. 209.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    Everybody around me who would find utility with them has non-normal usage patterns (birth control, PCOS, hysterectomy) so there is a pretty high variance in my observations (across individuals and time) and I don't need to actively see
30. 210.▲
    by Rhapso 3y ago

    As an engineer with fermi estimation in mind: Is 10 guaranteed to solve all problems? 99% confidence it will? How much does it cost in weight budget to add some 9s to that? Oh wow tampons are light. 100 it is then.