no, 12 words is equal to 128 bits of security, roughly speaking, 12 words is 132 bits, the rest is integrity protection

128 bits of security will take you at least 100 years to break, assuming the current rate of increase of computation capacity continues

make 24 an option though, it's beyond literal billions of years crackable, assuming you used good entropy

what kind of note is it? looks like a type 1 note to me

{"content":"Testing Satcom... Where does this note show up? On my timeline? In the Global feed?\n\nhttps://w3.do/5-79aRSn","created_at":1707584814,"id":"f5d9722e9ecd1ed428e5f26dc19227c289d218281c1b0b9212dd5fda42ac45b3","kind":1,"pubkey":"dace63b00c42e6e017d00dd190a9328386002ff597b841eb5ef91de4f1ce8491","sig":"b48cf4dd64d375d9825342298e7d5a46bc829be3a0b4b6e06dfb717e0798b0f48247258388406355c3cb6ef55e17aae8ad8e0c41400ea8213db89ae3907f0463","tags":[["r","https://offline.cash/?","page"],["r","offline.cash","host"]]}

yes, kind 1

so, i'm going to nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgkwaehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvshszxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skctcqyz75k94upp6lskjqagf5kqcdw8z6w9ddpn4975fa208zm45e63xes7rh92t

might have something to talk about

some ideas about credible collaborative email/calendar/docs/meetings/files systems since skiff.com has been bought by notion and they have, imo hostile takeover, sunsetted the whole service - it's all open source and i think if it could become the choice of bitcoiners we could all have private business collab tools, just a matter of discussing and figuring out how to secure and monetise it

well, dynamic difficulty adjustment is pretty much ... hmmm not really sure, it's not something that needs new tools, and it was only because i happened to be working for a shitcoin project that was building a hybrid proof of work/proof of stake algorithm that the CTO happened to be a trained physicist and noticed that difficulty adjustments were like a type of device he was familiar with from his work in physics, the PID controller

PID stands for Proportional Integral Derivative and it uses a set of parameters for each of those over a historical sample of data points to adjust a system, usually a linear parameter, to the inputs its getting

in my experimenting with it, i built a simulator that tested parameters for P, I and D I found it was possible to adjust smoothly, or be more accurate but it had a high noise component

i've since read a little more about how to work with these things and learned that the derivative can help a lot but in my tests it just added noise - the trick was to apply a band pass filter to cut the high frequencies out, and that probably would allow it to become faster at adjusting to changes without adding the noise factor that the P and I factor create when tweaked for fast adjustment

the fact is that the bitcoin difficulty adjustment is actually sufficient for the task, and due to its simplicity is preferable, but i could write a dynamic adjustment that is resistant to timewarp attacks and would reduce the amount of variance of solution times

that's gotta be one of the most odd juxtapositions i've seen in a while

as i mentioned elsewhere, my thing is protocols and distributed consensus, and go is the best language for this kind of work, and it is what the language was built to do, it's just my assertion that it generally makes for better quality code IF PEOPLE FOLLOW THE IDIOM unlike way too many go coders in the bitcoin/lightning/nostr space

yeah, and much of it is calculus based, i've done a lot of work with difficulty adjustment which uses historical samples to create close estimates of the current hashpower running on a network

i'm not a data scientist though, my area of specialisation is more about protocols and distributed consensus - and the latter (and including spam prevention) tend to involve statistical analytical tools

i'm aware of this, but much of it works on the same basic algorithms, proximity hashes and neural networks... GPT is just one way of applying it

what's most hilarious about the hype over GPT is that it's literally Generative Predictive Text

it's literally spinning off on its own a prediction of what might follow the prompt, anyone used a predictive text input system? yeah... they are annoying as fuck because they don't actually predict very well anything and certainly not with your personal idiom

oh i will say though... better to have less follows overall... thin them out to a nice set... someone really should make a simple follow backup tool though, it's easy to do, extremely easy if you can write nostr code

yeah, i wish there was easier ways, i now keep a backup in the form of my own relay, which i periodically, and currently manually, pull down relevant events from other relays and push to my test relay, which i then export to jsonl - currently my whole file is 20mb and compresses as tar.xz to 2.9mb (a lotta repeats of my and other pubkeys)

i can push that whole backup back onto my relay also, i haven't gone much further in this direction because it's a little orthogonal to my task of building a relay

there already is, opentimestamps have been in the NIPs for some time

they can tax deez nuts

oh yeah, 47000USD per beanie baby, must be nothing

i'm engineering the things, i know better the state of it than most who are not

there's still a lot of good things to say and a lot of reasons to be optimistic

even if it does look like the bad guys are winning that's how it always looks before the sun rises again

i'm all about the low level CS stuff, cryptography, protocols, concurrency, i just don't really care frankly, i don't see the use in it, all the stuff i've seen AI do is just garbage because it takes a human brain to recognise quality inputs and thus most of what is in the models is rubbish

the hype around ML with regard to programming is way overblown, GPTs generate terrible, buggy code

about the only use i see for them might be in automating making commit messages that don't attempt to impute intent and for improving template generation

outside of that, it's really boring, you can instantly tell when the text is AI generated and when it's an AI generated image, there is no way it is ever going to get better than the lowest common denominator and everyone is determined to learn that the hard way

i'll stick with GC... the cases that need special handling to avoid it interfering with latency are very small and that's a small price to pay for the greatly increased simplicity of the language

a man has to economize his time... bigger fish than AI/ML #nostr for one thing needs a lot more work to become a really solid protocol, what should i focus on?

i have never been that interested in machine learning anyway, much more useful way for me to use my time if cryptographic hash functions are involved would be finding a way to make lightning payments able to path route

AI/ML is built off hash functions and has a lot in common with compression algorithms as well, it's interesting but not as important and the hype around it is artificial, just like the product itself, it will fade again

these technologies eventually find their use cases and they are usually not as world changing as early promoters make it seem

https://i.giphy.com/S3Ot3hZ5bcy8o.webp

this is the way

psychopaths live off your attention more than anything else, cut them off, shun them, refuse to do business, cross the other side of the road, avoid where they are, there is no cost high enough to pay for not having parasites in your life

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permaculture is based on similar principles to feng shui, which is about arranging things so you use the least energy

this is also why i have my personal philosophy about programming

spend a bit of time now, to think about how this flows into the future

make it efficient and simple

then people can reuse it

then it is secure

lol

you know what HD keys are right?

you know that's what tapass is based on

taproot doesn't prescribe a search path though, that's the difference, you can use one with it though

also schnorr signatures like nostr