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by dpflan 4y ago
OK, maybe not all ponzis, some maybe less ponzi than others, or maybe even not at all. Are you saying that 1 individual was problematic, blatantly told Matt Levine he is involved in ponzi schemes, ran one of the largest such, began absorbin
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by dpflan 4y ago
Indeed, the compound growth required for BTC to reach Wood's $1M target by 2030 from where it is now, seems incredibly unlikely...
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by dpflan 4y ago
I find the collapse, the PR, puff-pieces, SBF chatting away during NYT DealBook summit, celebrities white-washing to be incredible to watch. I am wondering how large the impact is on investors: Why is Bill Ackman talking about how cool
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by dpflan 4y ago
Seems like a good prompt to try...
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by dpflan 4y ago
"[A]uto-generated fugue" is a superb phrase for this situation.
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by dpflan 4y ago
This is what I'm talking about, amazing work! Generative AI can unleash infinite un-realities -- shared reality it at drastic risk of being lost even more.
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by dpflan 4y ago
The title of this post contains the words "attack" and "salvo", aren't such adversarial lines being painted?
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by dpflan 4y ago
Yeah, it's interesting. Who are the loudest voices here? Customers of Apple or the the companies deciding to play by Apple's rules to access Apple's customer base? It's going to be a lopsided discussion on HN because of
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Live: Sam Bankman-Fried Speaks at the DealBook Summit(nytimes.com)
3 points by dpflan 4y ago|1 comments
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by dpflan 4y ago
'As media scholar Victor Pickard suggests, “Hopefully Twitter’s collapse will lead to a more expansive conversation about the relationships between capitalist imperatives and the communication [and] information needs of democratic soci
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by dpflan 4y ago
Indeed, personalized advertising to match your psychological profile as much as possible, with just the right incentives/brain-hijacking. Then, why not just do this for all "ads" for all industries (politics is one of the mos
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by dpflan 4y ago
Conclusion: “Airway inflammation and emphysema were more common in marijuana smokers than in nonsmokers and tobacco-only smokers, although variable interobserver agreement and concomitant cigarette smoking among the marijuana-smoking cohort
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by dpflan 4y ago
Maybe: Crypto is full of acronyms, token tickers are a great example and apropos here --> their names have been "tokenized"...?
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by dpflan 4y ago
Thank you, interesting details on MS. Some of the classic "yield farming"...Twitter deal as the black box this time.
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by dpflan 4y ago
The debt payments and IR -- was this the trick to have the money upfront, then sell the debt, so banks, do they own any amount of Twitter or did they get a payout immediately after "the ink dried", and now this $1.3bb scenario is
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by dpflan 4y ago
This cross-post seems pretty relevant to have here given the amount of discussion about this whole acquisition -- one of the key points in the submitted article is that "content moderation is the product": - HN Discussion: https:
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by dpflan 4y ago
I found this as part of following energy related twitter threads. This one on copper mining and production also seemed interesting: https://twitter.com/Mining_Atoms/status/1584306032653717505
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All the Metals We Mined in 2021: Visualized(visualcapitalist.com)
15 points by dpflan 4y ago|2 comments
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by dpflan 4y ago
Maybe "Amazon Prism" (a "Prime" members' version of "prison") has a catchier ring to it...
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by dpflan 4y ago
Perhaps he has been convinced of power and influence he will have, also, he seems unable to behave/remain on Twitter. Mainly I'm sure it's a great way for the owners of Parler to get a payout based upon "Ye"'s
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by dpflan 4y ago
Are there any documents supporting this? I ask because I am curious what official documents exist around this idea of mandated return to inefficiency -- there must've been a gain elsewhere (or is that too optimistic)? Plus there must b
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by dpflan 4y ago
Speculation: I feel like that’s some of underlying value for the valuation, real estate, most likely owned by this known self-dealer.
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by dpflan 4y ago
Is “everything a Ponzi scheme” unless the entity actually can create “value” greater than the money put into it? Is everything that exists in economies within the bounds of national economics and central banks a Ponzi scheme? A reshuffling
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by dpflan 4y ago
Perhaps, tie some of the mathematics to the region/location where the mathcation is. Mathematical thinking does require space (so free time after "classes including learning mathematically about the location) to just think freel
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by dpflan 5y ago
Along the same lines, here is a course on the "Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning" [1] (from GT, but other institutions also having offerings) and is a section in the paper in this post (so deeper dive possible): [1.] h
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by dpflan 5y ago
This books shows up every now and then on HN. Here are top search results for it that may have comments worthy of adding to this post's disccussion: - https://hn.algolia.com/?q=algorithmic+botany
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by dpflan 5y ago
Ha. Well, the about page for Worldcoin says nothing of its leadership and only lists investors, of which there are many. > https://worldcoin.org/about
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by dpflan 5y ago
I think the desired audience is the student, professor, and students' peers in University of Utah's MATH 2270 Linear Algebra class. If you walk up the URL, the context presents itself more. https://www.math.utah.edu&#x2
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by dpflan 5y ago
Oh, ah, nice find, yeah, if you go down the URL: https://www.math.utah.edu/~gustafso/s2017/2270/projects-2017... Projects from a LA class at UofU.
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by dpflan 5y ago
Perhaps I was wrong to expect mention of explicit discsussion of spectral graph theory? Anyway, always interesting topics to me. On a related note: Gilbert Strang (MIT) has a relatively new class in the area of Linear Algebra (of course!) a

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