I am grateful for the discount!
“I must contemplate my objective in such a manner that I get the reaction that satisfies.”
Conquest’s third law of bureaucracy: “The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.”
Admiting that something is not perfect does not bring any new information to the table as nothing is perfect.
The resistance to changing bitcoin does not come because one assumes it to be perfect.
Do you support electricity?
The Relu activation function, or any activation function has a simple and single purpose:
Assign different degrees of plausibility to different inputs.
Input more plausibile to have some characteristic -> bigger number
And between 0 and 1 there are an infinity of numbers.
I guess depending on the sensor some activation functions are better than others.
And it is curious that it seems to spring up from “is” and “is not”.
I guess the most basic cell has computation ability to be able to find the direction of a source of nutriment.
Orient in space and time with computation.
For that to occur it needs to be sensitive to signs of nutriment.
So contact triggers a response.
Well atoms and electrons and stuff like that already have special rules for contact and those rules are used for computation by biological stuff.
Amazing!
“People with a vested interest in a certain kind of philosophy find it almost imposible to accept facts which go against their particular philosophy”
With Bitcoin we are witnessing the arising of the sacred in our desacralized world.
The magnetic pull it exerts upon our minds is astounding.
The blockchain is the sacred pillar found in so many ancient people and traditions, the axis mundi!
It transform the chaos into cosmos; by sha256 algorithm imposes order upon unruly electrons!
Its loaded with patterns our ancestors understood as sacred!
It even follows the creation myth found at many people. The creator god Satoshi created the ‘world’ of ‘Bitcoin’ with it rules, occupations and so on - the creator god departs from world :
“The phenomenon of the remoteness of the supreme god is already documented on the archaic levels of culture. Among the Australian Kulin, the supreme being Bunjil himself created the universe, animals, trees, and man; but after investing his son with power over the earth and his daughter with power over the sky, Bunjil
withdrew from the world.”
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The Dweller in the Sky or He Who Is in the Sky of the Selk’nam is eternal, omniscient,all-powerful, thecreator; but the Creation was finished by the mythical
ancestors, who had also been made by the supreme god before he withdrew to a place above the stars. For nowthis god has isolated himself from men,is indifferent to the affairs of the world. He has neither images nor priests. Prayers are addressed to him only in case of
sickness. “ Thou who art above, take not my child; he is still too young!” Offerings are rarely made to him except during storms.”
Mircea Eliade - The Sacred and the Profane
A book on Bitcoin.
Zap me mama like a super tight shoe lace
The Tornado dev should be helped by bitcoiners.
A man’s balls are his enriched Uranium fuel rods, an abudant energy supply - if channeled and not wasted carelessly.