Wow, $94,000 per citizen! And that's including retirees, children, and non-working adults, and doesn't account for the faux productivity of a lot of government workers. If we divided $31.4 trillion by the estimated 118 million private sector jobs, we're looking at a figure closer to a quarter mil per economically productive citizen.
If you have an iPhone and would like to kindly opt out of allowing your government to further disturb you https://video.nostr.build/3ed5ce78dbad659742b1c27af8046f677cbdecf4575fbc30a6e911633f071198.mov
I like this idea! Decentralized knowledge. As open source AI keeps progressing, I can also see creating stashes of open source LLMs fine-tuned on certain knowledge domains, to decentralize intelligence.
Interesting! I've thought about offering a lower price when selling on FB Marketplace, but for the sole reason of tempting people into trying it out as a medium of exchange. Didn't realize other people are actually doing this!
That was quick! 
Now is a great chance to consolidate your UTXOs in order to reduce your future on-chain fees and keep the UTXO set lean for node operators, which helps the Bitcoin network stay decentralized!
I’d say the most important thing you can do, if you’re in the position, is use your companies resources. These AI capable machines are expensive, but learning it will benefit you and your company. It’s easy to spin up a VM with GPU in AWS, but it cost a minimum of $3.50 / hour.
I’d recommend trying to learn AI in a platform agonistic way. I.E., instead of using AWS SageMaker, try booting up a basic Ubuntu image and getting that prepared with all the drivers and libraries you would need (PyTorch, Cuda, juypterlab, etc).
I found this method works best for how I learn. I followed this guy to try to get some basic stuff working https://youtu.be/Q9zv369Ggfk?si=dkB6IPrVui6sPKsg. Still so much too learn, it’s crazy. The trick is staying motivated, because it’s difficult.
Wow that video packs a lot of info! Thanks for sharing!
That's cool! Any tools in particular you'd recommend for AI literacy to a fellow software engineer?
Definitely a tough and scary transition. Stay close to revenue.
Only in the last few weeks have I been somewhat consistently able to get a 4 👀
nostr:npub1alcgnx5d868d046jfwr0tfc80s0v88hrqhqezuut9xcth73qlepqm6l2uf I've heard a rule of thumb that, throughout history, an ounce of gold could get you a nice suit, and an ounce of silver could get you a steak dinner. More or less holds true today.
Neat! Great to have you here!
Get Russell Brand on here
PoW coming to TOR. Decentralized protocols are getting robust.
Phew! That was close. Time to sell my sat stack and go back to Twitter.
My TL;DR from TAB Conf: We're gearing up for a Bitcoin Cambrian explosion in regards to off-chain protocols, privacy improvements, and overall squeezing every last bit of data off of the blockchain. Absolutely mind-blowing stuff happening. A lot likely won't hit mainnet for the next 5-10 years. But it's coming...
US Federal Surplus/Deficit as a percentage of GDP over time
I'm shocked to see how steady and consistent the downward slope is, despite the turmoil starting in the '90s
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-budget 