v_london

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Open Sourcing π0(physicalintelligence.company)
5 points by v_london 2y ago|0 comments
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by v_london 3y ago
Hey Eltonlin, this sounds really cool and I hope you can make an impact in improving access to education. Some time ago I wrote a blog post titled "Professors as Creators" which discusses the impact the Creator Economy could have
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Cheerios Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by v_london 3y ago|0 comments
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by v_london 4y ago
I'll be interested to see how the longevity of e-sports pans out. Most games will be woefully outdated after a decade: will the audience move to the next big game, or stay playing the old games? Or will video games eventually plateau t
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by v_london 4y ago
Hi, I'm the author of the blog post. Just wanted to say, I would be very interested in reading more about the experiments you ran on getting GPT-4 to describe its plans. GPT-3's explanations were confidently incorrect, as usual.
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Web3 Readers' Club: community for discussing the future of Web3 and technology(web3readers.club)
3 points by v_london 4y ago|1 comments
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by v_london 4y ago
Hi all, today I'm launching a side-project I've been working on for a while: Web3 Readers' Club. I think the internet lacks spaces for discussion: most sites operate in the form of public posts where the goal is to get you po
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by v_london 4y ago
I saw lots of people criticizing PG's essay, but I really liked it. Free will and agency are interesting philosophical topics to wonder, even if they don't hold much practical value.
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Decentralisation, Crypto, and You(mirror.xyz)
1 points by v_london 4y ago|1 comments
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by v_london 4y ago
I think there's something to comparing education (especially when delivered remotely) to YouTube. There's a huge variance between the teaching skills of teachers, just as there is variance between how entertaining YouTubers are. T
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Blockchains and interoperability – the case for crypto as social innovation(villekuosmanen.medium.com)
1 points by v_london 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Have you moved since the pandemic started?
2 points by v_london 5y ago|0 comments
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by v_london 5y ago
Hey crawfordcomeaux, I noticed you've shared some interesting ideas about communities in Hacker News! I wonder if you have an opinion on whether remote working will change where and how people choose to live? Cities still have a lot go
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by v_london 5y ago
This concept is important to the way I think about crypto. It feels like a war between two elites (TradFi vs Crypto insiders and VCs), if crypto wins it it will not "democratize finance" when 90% of all Bitcoins have been mined in
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by v_london 5y ago
Thanks for the great article! I wished the section on DeFi addressed the biggest elephant in the room, overcollateralization. A DeFi borrower always needs to lock in more assets as collateral than what they are borrowing, thus defeating the
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by v_london 5y ago
Pretty interesting. A lot of people here are focusing on permanence, but for me the main difference on addressing by content vs by host name is the loss of authorship it opens up for the web. Since a research paper of essay is referred to b
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by v_london 5y ago
Bizarrely, I'm seeing recruiters using this on LinkedIn.
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by v_london 5y ago
Holding university entrance exams earlier seems like a recipe for disaster that would hurt disadvantaged students the most. This may be just my experience, but the older you get, the more time you get to catch up with students from better f
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by v_london 5y ago
The main point of fragility I see with Apple that their profits mostly come from a relatively small group of people who live on the Apple ecosystem. Apple may have many product lines, but these products and services are mostly sold to the s
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by v_london 5y ago
> Entire social graph, data store, and all relationships and actions are public-ledgered, fully transparent, and available for download, archiving, and re-homing. This sounds like a privacy disaster. I wouldn't want data mining comp
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by v_london 5y ago
These are some very good points. For me the biggest problem with existing social networks is how difficult it is to get to know new people through the applications. Despite us spending more time online than being present on the physical wor
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by v_london 5y ago
This is literally what King Leopold II of Belgium did in Congo.
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by v_london 5y ago
Hey, I'm currently building a website that I think would fit well with what you're looking for. It's called Reason, and it's designed to help find small (3-10 users per chat or so) group chats about the topics you'r
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Social media has become antisocial – here’s how to save it(villekuosmanen.medium.com)
1 points by v_london 5y ago|0 comments
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by v_london 5y ago
This is super interesting and something I've been thinking of for some time. As an engineer who can clearly do my job just as well remotely as in person, why should I pay high rent and live in cramped flat when there are rural mansions
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by v_london 5y ago
Hey, since we're on the topic of better social networking, I wonder if a side project I've been working on for the past few months might be of interest to you. The website, Reason, is an app for helping people connect with others
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Ask HN: How much do you care about the industry when choosing a job?
1 points by v_london 5y ago|2 comments
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by v_london 5y ago
Stock prices are absolutely inflated, and as a small-scale investor I'm scared. However, I'm not pulling out because realistically, there's no other asset that's safer in the long run. Interest rates are close to zero so
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by v_london 5y ago
Problem with government-run alcohol shops is how they reduce available selection of drinks. I'm an avid whisky drinker (though in moderation of course), and being able to buy rarer bottles from specialist shops adds a lot to the experi
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by v_london 6y ago
I think your observations are accurate. I've also noticed the problem, and that private-ish group conversations like WhatsApp groups and small Discord servers are so much better than Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and co. The only proble

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