RoboTeddy

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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
Wasteful by what standard? Right now each day it consumes ~$1m worth of electricity in order to protect ~$1.5 billion of new payments. Economically, this "electricity safety fee" works out to less than a tenth of a percent.
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
What's the weakest point in the design so far?
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
Sheesh. How many engineer-hours have gone into Unreal?
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
Agreed. This is why open source works: success brings in more resources (a positive feedback loop). It's the same thing that happens in for-profit companies.
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
Systematic anthropologic research over more than a decade (in the case of this particular society), including interviews with everyone about the number of violent killings in the past, disagrees.
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
Also (3) training a dual policy & value network that can benefit from a single shared representation of the game
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
There's been a lot (but not enough) research in this area. There are other factors such as exercise and temperature (so-called zeitgebers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeber ), but light is an extremely strong
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
If you're curious about this, I'd recommend reading accounts of hunter-gatherer lives written by anthropologists! This book is fascinating in many ways: http://voidnetwork.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
> I'm not too sure my understanding is accurate, feel free to correct me. OK! :P In a layer 2 or lightning network, there may be hubs operated by e.g. Coinbase that handle millions of users, but the hub will need an open payment cha
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Sane Token Sales(ted.suzman.net)
3 points by RoboTeddy 9y ago|0 comments
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
ether and zcash live on separate chains. there's work underway that could allow for trustless cross chain exchange between ether and zcash ( https://z.cash/blog/project-alchemy.html ). This new crypto primitive in B
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
Battery science is fascinating. Here's in an-depth look at degredation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qi03QawZEk The speaker (Jeff Dahn -- he now works with Tesla) pioneered a faster way to tell how fast a battery w
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
> a randomly screened individual with a positive test will only actually have a 12.8% chance of getting Alzheimers Darmiyan folks, is this correct? If so, what are the implications for the utility of the test? (No matter the answer it fe
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
I'm not a physicist, but it was my understanding that pilot-wave theory and Copenhagen QM make identical predictions (each is a mathematical reformulation of the other). If that's true, then how could any experiment favor one ov
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
There are all sorts of forces that could be leading to more widespread loneliness, e.g.: * As material wealth increases, there's less need to share physical resources (bathrooms, courtyards, etc). These resources tended to bring the sa
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
AFAIK Ethereum plans to resolve this "nothing at stake" issue by using security deposits. If someone submits a proof that a miner was staking on multiple chains, the miner loses their security deposit. https://github.co
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
I actually think this is a great analogy, although not sure your conclusion follows. What happened after people added JavaScript to the web?
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
Or could make a brick wall look like a flying plastic bag!
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
I imagine that whoever paid you a ton of money might not be happy afterwards. I also imagine they're not the type of people you want to make unhappy.
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
He seems to be an aspiring autocrat. For example: * He has made false claims about voter fraud, likely as a precursor to attempting to squelch voting rights * He attempts to undermine critical media * He has advanced an unconstitutional rel
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
Amplify | Product Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time, REMOTE, ONSITE Help stop Trump. The past six months have seen an explosion of local grassroots groups across the country. Amplify is an app that lets groups share calls to action w
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
> What is the relationship between a centrally planned economy as for example Gosplan was trying to run in the USSR, and the presence of these huge market-like but centralized entities like Amazon and Wal-Mart inside a free-market econom
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
> Right now training speed is the bottle-neck, and even though my Nvidia GPU is fast it is not nearly as fast as I would like it to be. It takes a few days to generate a new net from scratch but I simply don’t think it is responsible to
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by RoboTeddy 9y ago
If I believed that the people behind the fund were capable of separating nonsense projects from real ones by reading their whitepapers, then absolutely yes!
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Kip (YC W16) is using data to make therapy better for patients and therapists(techcrunch.com)
108 points by RoboTeddy 9y ago|20 comments
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by RoboTeddy 10y ago
I keep my internet off most of the day (via kernel firewall). Have a command that gives me a few minutes of internet so I can look up docs, then shuts everything back down.
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by RoboTeddy 10y ago
A mobile app for grassroots groups that are resisting Trump: https://getamplify.org Currently spread thin between building features for group admins and improving the end user experience--- get in touch if you want to lend your
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by RoboTeddy 10y ago
What's an example situation where this is useful? (I don't doubt there is one-- just not sure what it is!) edit: OK, so you can maintain a cash balance on Amazon... is this the early stages of a plan to allow p2p payments a la Ven
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by RoboTeddy 10y ago
What portion of Palantir's revenue comes from government operations that would make anti-authoritarian hn members uneasy? (Compare to Oracle or Cisco) Not all technologies or companies are neutral in practice.
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by RoboTeddy 10y ago
Are the price differences between markets already arbitraged to the point of maximum profitability? (which wouldn't be 100% due to eg exchange failure risk, transaction fees, risk of getting hacked while currency is in play, etc)

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