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BRIZ pronounced "Brrr-izzz" - noise/drums - Nostr since May 2022

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I can't believe how shitty every web site is these days. It's like TSA logic: everyone is a terrorist until proven innocent. Now it's everyone is a #hacker until the #Cloudflare gestapo checks you. ALSO, so many websites are so #code bloated that they are unusable. Especially if you use any decent #security settings. If you build websites, you should be required to visit https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ everyday before you code.

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No, follow many of obscure tags of shit you are into and you will find other stuff.

Otherwise, fuck cRyPtO,

Bitcoin only.

wtf is that 4x CD ROM for? Looks like those crystal cards they use to use on Yamaha synthesizers.

wtf? why?

I use to have a Sony D-4 a lifetime ago.

Nope. Maybe it's now Google Play Services dependent?

Anyone have success finding an APK file for #Tidal that works on #GrapheneOS ??? #asknostr

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Gm.

The human brain runs on something like 20 watts of power. Less than a lightbulb. How many calculations it can do per second is partially unknown, but based on various estimates over the years the processing power is generally believed to be something like one exaflop per second. Some estimates are lower in the petaflops, while others are some orders of magnitude higher. Obviously “software” matters too, not just raw processing ability. The programming of the processor ensures that the processing capability is used efficiently rather than wasted.

The top superconductors crossed the exaflop level within the past few years. However, they run on like 20 megawatts of power; a million times more power than the human brain. They’re extremely large and energy intensive.

As a result, datacenter processing capability reaches something akin to the processing capability of a human brain well before that level of ability can be installed in a human-sized robot with similar energy consumption levels as a human.

Now, robots can offload some of their processing to datacenters, but still at a relatively high cost per calculation for a while, and at the general bandwidth limit of whatever the best wireless rate is in a region at any given time.

For some calculation types, of course computers passed humans long ago. A basic math calculator, for example, beats the best humans at calculating mathematical formulas. But when we talk about human brain “calculations” what it means is that the brain is taking in enormous amounts of information (all five senses at high fidelity, plus other indirect senses like acceleration/balance and other inputs), calculating it to make sense of it, calculating all sorts of things to interact with the environment, and simultaneously running the processes related to sapient thought and general problem solving.

As a result, it’s far easier to get a robot to work on an assembly line more efficiently than a human, or to calculate an insane number of protein folding tests, and things like that, than it is for a robot to be able to operate as effectively as a human in the real world with countless unexpected hazards.

For example, imagine a hypothetical robot handyman. It can drive out to your house and fix any residential electrical, plumbing, or hvac issue, or help with various miscellaneous things (fix drywall, get something out of a tree, carry stuff out of your attic, etc), and then drive back to the station. This is a shockingly hard problem. First they need extremely advanced mechanical bodies. Second they need processors strong enough and cheap enough to safely operate in 3D space with all sorts of unexpected things happening around them (compared to a highly controlled manufacturing floor), now all of these skills, and interact with language.

So, AI can start helping us offload certain types of white collar remote work and expand medical breakthroughs before it can replace human level in-field skilled physical labor. And it can start helping with specific in-field tasks that require less programming, like a robot dog or robot butler to watch your property or come with the owner around town, listen to owner commands and carry some of them out, and follow basic rules when left alone, well before it can fully replace a human for many in-field things.

Anyway, that’s a general framework or napkin math to help think through the order of impacts that AI can have as it goes up orders of magnitude in power and efficiency in the coming years.

Best thought provoking note I've read in awhile. Thank you.

#Bitcoin #tax #meme

If you get sticker shock from the Synthesis price - check Khan Academy. They had a similar AI teacher for a fraction of the price, last time checked. We tried both within the first months of roll out.

Before Thanksgiving (pre-100K), we made plans move our local meetup to a steak house for a 100K party - with orange flowers and all. We hit 100K for the first time just an hour before the party. We are living in a simulation. At the end of the dinner, the waiter asked "How did you know?"

#100K #Bitcoin #meetup

Had a second interchange with the coffee shop about Bitcoin today. When I walked in, the barista said…”you got me looking into ₿itcoin now.” I said that’s awesome, now you got to get the owner (who was standing next to her) to look into lightning payments. We then had a conversation about it, I shilled nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9 to him that he could promote the app as the payment mechanism to the customers, offer a discount to use it, etc. I then demonstrated making a payment to a fellow pleb nostr:npub12gu8c6uee3p243gez6cgk76362admlqe72aq3kp2fppjsjwmm7eqj9fle6 and explained that the payment was sent around the world instantly. When I left, he said I’m definitely going to look more into this. The wheels are turning plebs. 🫡🤔

I've noticed the same. Convinced a vendor at the farmers market to accept BTC recently. Showed them how to download a wallet and did the transaction. The Overton Window has absolutely moved in our direction.

or Rook G1 then promote pawn. 🤔 Apparently I don't know enough about stalemate rules.

Replying to Avatar Evan

#Bitcoin

WTF?

Degen NTFs again or wat?