Yeah that's all I'm saying - not implying it would be legal or within GAAP standards š
I didn't hate Barbie tbh
But surely they could create an account that interacts with the rest of the banking system, but doesn't get counted in their balance sheet?
People getting paid by it aren't auditing them each time, so it should be possible to do this at a reasonable scale (e.g. if some clandestine gov entity wanted to fund itself secretly and for free)?
Jfc, Coinbase Commerce has managed to make paying with Bitcoin even worse than fiat
What's stopping a bank creating a special account with infinite fiat and just keeping the totals off book?
Cappuccino > Flat white
Government income tax bands: Nice pay increase you got there ...
Just realized I've been massively gaslit. Have been choosing western tech manufacturers for things like phones and cameras for better data security. But, isn't it better to rather purchase some of these from manufacturers in jurisdictions that won't comply with my government?
Yes fine China can spy on me to some degree, but they've got much less power over me so on net it's better.
Was Elon's climate change warnings circa 2017 basically all just a grift to sell more Teslas?
Not that I disagree with his current pragmatic stance, but the previous rhetoric seems to be an example of corporate lip service to a cause they think plebs care about as a way to boost marketing.
Never be embarrassed in public. No matter what you do, there's a worse image or video of you being annotated by an AI company somewhere.
It's good that people in Africa are getting HIV drugs and mosquito nets
But yeah probably doesn't need to be funded by the US tax payer
So many rich people looking for ways to "make an impact". Okay, here are all these supposedly amazing programmes, what are you waiting for?
In some sense joburg is a libertarian paradise. No one expects anything from the government, and people have taken many practical measures for self sufficiency and security.
It's also really cheap, beautiful forrested suburbs, good restaurants, and many places accept Bitcoin e.g. Pick n Pay, one of the largest supermarket chains.
Probably DeepSeek R1, but you'd need some very good local hardware. Otherwise, one of the Llama models.
I hadn't thought about that obvious point before: Trump really cares about lower rates because his family wealth is in real estate. Duh!
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Can you please share any info about what models are being used?
I'm not saying they're wrong to be won over, just that it's interesting how they've minimised all their other issues given their financial incentives.
Fascinating to see a lot of tech people being won over by the Trump admin just because they're more "pro innovation" on AI. Money & power often seem to outrank principles.
High chance I'm hugely wrong here because of Jevon's paradox
I canāt quite tear myself away from X, but I also canāt get that nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe voice out of my head.
Do you want to stop using X? Is it just about self control for you?
Ah okay, yeah that's very helpful for being able to send utxos on without accidentally linking them again
Wait, is this true? āHFSPā was originally written into the lyrics of a Nirvana song?
https://stacker.news/items/442551
Super convincing, but I can't find any of the original sources. Could be an amazing troll - especially the part where it was in the original draft of the declaration of independence š
Have tried sms4sats.com so many times and never successfully received an SMS :/
What improved?
Recently did my first Wasabi coinjoins - very easy experience.
This is really cool. I often check polymarket, but the whole complicated shitcoin thing is off-putting.
Was able to easily place a bunch of bets here after signing in with lightning and giving a cashu lightning address - all with a few minutes.
Here are some of the specific technical things they did to achieve lower costs. More efficient training procedure, memory compression, reliance on RL, low level code optimisation.
https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2025/01/how-deepseek-trained-ai-30-times-cheaper/
This sounds like cope.
Possibly they fine tuned DeepSeek on an OpenAI model (cheaper than using humans), but it makes no sense to primarily do this when self-supervised learning and RL is much more efficient. Also, DeepSeek performs better than OpenAI on several benchmarks - you can't achieve this purely by distilling a teacher model.
Likely they made a technical breakthrough and USA "AI tzar" is seething.