FFS. Someone says someone said Trump said he holds a lot of Bitcoin.

There is no signal in that noise. None.

TCP/IP OG here. This book is from 1991. I’ve seen this movie before with the internet. BTC/NOSTR/LN/ECASH feels like 1991, but for open financial networks this time around. I’m not going to miss the disruptive wave.

Oooh nice! I might look into how to do that too. I’ve got a huge bucket of plums on the kitchen bench at the moment and I’m eating too many every day. I’ve already made jam and I need to find something to do with them all.

This morning I found an almost over-ripe plum on our tree.

It was delicious!

Juicy and sweet and the best plum I’ve ever had. 😍

#hola gente!

#GM y feliz navidad a todos! 🙏🏻🎄

Que el mejor regalo en estos días sea la paz, el amor y la libertad en sus vidas 🫡 Si aún no nos llega alguna de estas, toca seguir luchando por ellas, no desistan, el futuro es libre 💜🧡⚡

#StayFree #hispano #christmas #navidad #freedom #peace

¿A ustedes no les parece que el whisky se va muy rápido después del tercer vaso? 😂🥃

#hispano #whiskey

Did nostr.live go away? This was a nice backup service to download/upload event data to relays. Just tried visiting it after a couple of months and it throws a really sketchy cert error (then fails HSTS).

I can believe it, seeing what it's done with coding problems, a few times. What's really shocking about what I just saw is how massively it hallucinated simplifications in a short problem (by the way, this one, to give you a sense: prove that x^4 + y^4 + z^2 >= sqrt(8)*x*y*z ). I think Olympiad problems (even easier ones) are designed to require some kind of "craft", creativity, rather than only handle turning. So unsurprisingly it immediately appealed to the AM-GM inequality (bread and butter for this kind of thing), but then made 2 or 3 dreadful mistakes to pretend that the structure was simpler than it was, before confidently asserting in great detail why so and so was true, when it was patently false.

I think it can be very good and giving you hints and strategies appealing to its vast knowledge base. Doing something new or actually *thinking*, it's just absolutely dreadful.

If you want to see just how few clothes the emperor really has, ask an LLM a nontrivial problem in algebra. I just gave a math olympiad question (on the very easy end of the spectrum) to chatGPT and I cringed at its response. If it was a human being I wouldn't even criticize what they wrote, I'd be too embarrassed. And this is not because the answer's bad (and wrong), but because of the very obvious effort that this hypothetical human is making to *look* like it understands what is so obviously does not understand at all.

It's as if LLMs perfectly encapsulate the superficial and vapid nature of the Silicon Valley-rooted modern culture. There's no there there.