One of the very defining characteristics of the entire Bitcoin ecosystem is its voluntary participation by everyone involved.

Users choose to transact in bitcoin, what node software to run, and what valid transactions to propagate on the network.

Developers choose what node software and features to contribute their time and energy working on, and offer up that node software to users.

Miners choose to purchase electricity, which transactions to include, and when to enter into the proof of work lottery of producing a block.

The crucial difference in all of these is that nobody is made to, by force or threat of force, to act in any capacity.

Thus, in the absence of force, the *only way to influence the actions of others* is through persuasion, argument, and discussion. This is what is happening right now in the heated back and forth going on with the OP_RETURN configuration setting, and we should be celebrating the fact that nobody can be dictated to here.

So, welcome to cryptoanarchy, come on in, the water is fine.

Have been recently working in Rust helping on an open source project completely unrelated to my professional work. It's nice to have a side project to spend time on again, and Rust brings the joy back into bare metal programming.

Smart at the edge, dumb in the middle.

What is twitter?

Still on my shelf!

I imagine this would have to be a learned thing, in that if you are following a hashtag from a text note, you'd start with that pubkey's outbox relay list, and then any other notes that show up for that hashtag, you'd scape the author of those notes outbox and add the relays to the list.

This doesn't solve de novo following a hashtag with no context, however.

I use it constantly for both Python and Rust projects, and it works great. But it needs to be treated like a pair programmer with oversight and checking. Still, the over productivity boost is enormous, especially for automating routine stuff.

It does struggle with Rust sometimes, certainly more often than with Python. I think that partly comes down to there being more Python code in its training set than Rust, and, Rust won't silently pass buggy code like Python often will.

Writing code is great but have you ever fixed your neighbor's seven year old daughter's bike and watched her face light up when she finds out she can go outside and ride again?

Twitter is mind cancer.

Oh, sure. I don't post very often on Mastodon, but the academic related content is not really found elsewhere, and I don't reference my account there as any reliable way of reaching me.

Nostr is clearly the superior underlying technology. I'm just really looking forward to when the most frequent topic of discussion here isn't...nostr itself 😏

To be honest I get my most interesting content on the Fediverse via Mastodon, at least related to STEM topics and my professional field. Nostr has its place and has a bright future but man, it sure has a lot of self-referential, repetitive content.

I've spent the last few days buried in equations, simulations, and presentations.

Now it's time to crack a cold one and get back to that sweet, sweet code vibing 😂

Welcome to cryptoanarchy. 😏

I've been ordering from them for years, heard of them through their pemmican product (which is only so-so, but FDA won't let them make it right.) Great product and service.

Sean Carroll at Caltech has been involved in a fascinating line of research about this, starting back in 2016 and still going:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08444

His personal webpage for research:

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/research/annotated-publications/

Great reading if you want to pursue this further.

There's a good season seven Black Mirror episode related to this...

It's an auction, he who pays the most fees gets their valid transactions confirmed.

Bullshit, spammy uses of block space will stop once they are priced out by use cases people are willing to spend higher fees for.

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I'm old enough to remember "5th generation" programming and visual flowchart based programming from the 1980s, and they had a similar vibe (pun intended). Interesting demos but anything more complicated had to conform to the preconceived notions or straitjackets of the designers.

I use AI coding assistants extensively, every day, in my professional work, and they are an enormous productivity enhancer when used the right way. But I already know enough about how to do things that I can guide it and work with it like a pair programmer, not a vibe master hoping to create something out of whole cloth. They need checking and verification and hand holding but it's possible to fly at speeds impossible when working alone.

Maybe this will change one day and we'll just say "make me a sandwich" and an entire sandwich making machine will get coded up and work flawlessly. Not holding my breath.

I've been away, but still kicking. Sometimes a break from the craziness is needed to regain one's equilibrium 😎

Never put your hopes in politicians. <= FTFY

I see three shitheads, two shitcoins and...bitcoin

I was there briefly a few years ago. Didn't get a chance to see much though, sadly.

You love it, it's great.

Fighting corruption the way it is being done right now in the US government is like having a river of gasoline feeding a fire and the fireman are pointing their hoses at one burning agency at a time.

Sure, you're gonna find stuff, and lots of it--but the problem will remain raging out of control.

That river of gasoline is the Fed-printed dollars that allow unrestrained deficit spending.

The normal feedback mechanism of literally running out of money forces normal organizations to prioritize and eliminate waste and fraud. Without this, it's just one big party on a runaway train that can only end in hyperinflation and tears.

Fix the money, fix the world, as they say.

That's a surprising place to see one, for sure. Lived there in ancient times (teenage years). Wasn't a bastion of forward thinking, for sure.

I'm old enough to remember a time when all you had to do was turn off the TV to quiet the screeching of politics and outrage. Now it has seeped into every little nook and cranny of daily life.

That cabin in the woods has never looked more enticing.

Here is your LLMs training other models:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18096

"We present MILS: Multimodal Iterative LLM Solver, a surprisingly simple, training-free approach, to imbue multimodal capabilities into your favorite LLM. Leveraging their innate ability to perform multi-step reasoning, MILS prompts the LLM to generate candidate outputs, each of which are scored and fed back iteratively, eventually generating a solution to the task. This enables various applications that typically require training specialized models on task-specific data. In particular, we establish a new state-of-the-art on emergent zero-shot image, video and audio captioning. MILS seamlessly applies to media generation as well, discovering prompt rewrites to improve text-to-image generation… "

It *is* r1, which is the name for the distilled version as you describe. The bigger model is called v3.

Politicians, by their very nature, cannot create any value; they can only take what some have created and give it to others.

And in this way they pit man against man, all hoping to pick the pocket of those who have more than them, forgetting the hordes of people who are trying to pick theirs.

The only winning move is not to play.

GM ☕

Live long enough for your childhood memories to feel like they happened to someone else. Then realize, they did.

Touched grass. Feeling better. Recommended.

I'll say it again for anyone still listening:

Bitcoin does not need politicians to succeed, it just needs them to get out of the fucking way.

Carry on.

Not even really disguised.

Heh, it's just getting started.