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I’ve often thought of this as:
- limit of 1.01^n as n goes to ♾️ goes to ♾️
- limit of 0.99^n as n goes to ♾️ goes to 0
first order and second order effects causing more good than bad (I’ll settle for a Kantian Duty & Universality morals in this context to keep it simple) because in the long run, if it’s 51% it will compound overtime to infinity
- limit of 1.01^n as n goes to ♾️ goes to ♾️
- limit of 0.99^n as n goes to ♾️ goes to 0
first order and second order effects causing more good than bad (I’ll settle for a Kantian Duty & Universality morals in this context to keep it simple) because in the long run, if it’s 51% it will compound overtime to infinity
An idea / hypothesis I have:
The jobs that are going to be most decimated by this current (and the next few subsequent) forms of AI imo is the jobs that Graeber's talks about in "Bullshit Jobs"
Here's the original essay that spawned the idea of the book:
https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
The jobs that are going to be most decimated by this current (and the next few subsequent) forms of AI imo is the jobs that Graeber's talks about in "Bullshit Jobs"
Here's the original essay that spawned the idea of the book:
https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
Reminds me of the legend of Prester John (Presbyter Ioannes)
The Letters of Prester John was a letter that was circulated during The Crusades (I forget? 1165? 12th century I think?) and he was this embellished character who found riches and became a king in Ethiopia or India, or wherever was pretty far away, he was supposedly originally a Christian Monarch, and became this ideal or myth of hey look if we retake Jerusalem in the name of God, you can also get pretty rich too. One of the earliest forms of medieval propaganda and storytelling that worked
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prester_John
The Letters of Prester John was a letter that was circulated during The Crusades (I forget? 1165? 12th century I think?) and he was this embellished character who found riches and became a king in Ethiopia or India, or wherever was pretty far away, he was supposedly originally a Christian Monarch, and became this ideal or myth of hey look if we retake Jerusalem in the name of God, you can also get pretty rich too. One of the earliest forms of medieval propaganda and storytelling that worked
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prester_John
Nasreddin Hodja & Matsuo Basho
Two writers that I think are famous in their native countries, but deserve more credit, and are more alike than are often thought. Nasreddin Hodja (13th century) & Matsuo Basho (17th century) imo both have a way of describing the world through Hegelian Synthesis.
They both like to take a normal idea as the thesis (sitting on a donkey) and add an antithesis (ride the donkey backwards) and then have the synthesis (I am not riding the donkey backwards, the donkey is going backwards and i'm riding the right way)
With Basho you see it in his Haiku (he is the father of Haiku after all) has the ultimate thesis (nature, he likes to describe nature a lot) and then there is some disruption: artificial, or human - and it opposes or breaks this nature (antithesis) - and then there is a sort of resolution that comes from this - which ends in wabi-sabi or Yugen (synthesis)
Two writers that I think are famous in their native countries, but deserve more credit, and are more alike than are often thought. Nasreddin Hodja (13th century) & Matsuo Basho (17th century) imo both have a way of describing the world through Hegelian Synthesis.
They both like to take a normal idea as the thesis (sitting on a donkey) and add an antithesis (ride the donkey backwards) and then have the synthesis (I am not riding the donkey backwards, the donkey is going backwards and i'm riding the right way)
With Basho you see it in his Haiku (he is the father of Haiku after all) has the ultimate thesis (nature, he likes to describe nature a lot) and then there is some disruption: artificial, or human - and it opposes or breaks this nature (antithesis) - and then there is a sort of resolution that comes from this - which ends in wabi-sabi or Yugen (synthesis)
tldr: yes
more detail:
- the zk proofs are independent of any contracts
- the proof outputs posted to infra like EAS
- onchain verifier contract that will demonstrate to others that your photo is real (costs gas)
- off-chain verifier SDK (open source) that will demonstrate to you that the photo is real (is local)
more detail:
- the zk proofs are independent of any contracts
- the proof outputs posted to infra like EAS
- onchain verifier contract that will demonstrate to others that your photo is real (costs gas)
- off-chain verifier SDK (open source) that will demonstrate to you that the photo is real (is local)
Interested in this idea of building a planetary-level verified physical reality for humans, AI programs, embodied AI, robots, vehicles, IoT devices and anything in between
This data doesn't seem to exist on the internet today, I'm often fascinated by things that don't seem to exist on the internet
This data doesn't seem to exist on the internet today, I'm often fascinated by things that don't seem to exist on the internet
I think about this Graeber book from time to time
$249 - Jetson Orin Nano Super!
67 TOPs! at half the cost of Jetson Orin Nano - couldn't be more excited
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-launches-new-usd249-ai-development-board-that-does-67-tops
67 TOPs! at half the cost of Jetson Orin Nano - couldn't be more excited
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-launches-new-usd249-ai-development-board-that-does-67-tops
An earlier prototype of roc.camera
Incentives only gets you as far as the incentives go
Intrinsic motivation, when nurtured, knows no bounds
Intrinsic motivation, when nurtured, knows no bounds
We are sold out of batch 1 - Roc Camera preorders!
For those that have pre-ordered, thank you for your support and we are excited to get you a Roc Camera in the new year 🪨📸
For those that have pre-ordered, thank you for your support and we are excited to get you a Roc Camera in the new year 🪨📸
Can someone let @balajis.eth know this is exactly what we are building with roc.camera
https://x.com/balajis/status/1868366995361800606?s=46
https://x.com/balajis/status/1868366995361800606?s=46
We're shipping our first Roc.camera device out next week... (what?!)
We also have 6 devices left in batch 1 -- so if you've been thinking on getting a device, now is the time!
We also have 6 devices left in batch 1 -- so if you've been thinking on getting a device, now is the time!
Oh man here’s another one I did
The curiosity rover looking back
I feel this hard
Depressing isn’t the right word
The right words perhaps: Saudade, Mono no Aware, 儚さ。 曇花一現。Weltschmertz, dolce far niente, hüzün
Depressing isn’t the right word
The right words perhaps: Saudade, Mono no Aware, 儚さ。 曇花一現。Weltschmertz, dolce far niente, hüzün
A great explanation I heard on 3DGS vs NeRF:
With NeRF you are estimating every point in space with a neural network, and then you bring a camera in to do raycasting (i.e. tracing rays from the camera through the scene and doing sampling volumetric density etc)
With 3DGS you rasterizing the visual representation of all the 3D primitives in the scene onto a 2D image plane in front of the camera - no need for NN to do full representation, explicit representation (the Gaussian blobs - which are the explicit primitives that are used) can happen from a point cloud, or NeRF like thing generating them
With NeRF you are estimating every point in space with a neural network, and then you bring a camera in to do raycasting (i.e. tracing rays from the camera through the scene and doing sampling volumetric density etc)
With 3DGS you rasterizing the visual representation of all the 3D primitives in the scene onto a 2D image plane in front of the camera - no need for NN to do full representation, explicit representation (the Gaussian blobs - which are the explicit primitives that are used) can happen from a point cloud, or NeRF like thing generating them
What do you use ChatGPT for?
Me: um
Me: um
One of the things reading Rubicon -- it made me think of the Greek concept of théia moira (divine fate) which found its Roman parallel primarily in the concepts of fatum and fortuna - alongside classic Roman "virtu"
Also it feels like culturally and collectively, folks (through authors like Cicero) wrestled during this late Republican period with how divine favor intersects with human agency - this move from Greek concept of divine fate (as being more whimsical) to fatum and fortuna (from the times of Sulla, adopting terms like Felix) slowly becoming a justification for the centralization of power (which wasn't a good or bad thing imo)
An interesting transition from Republican values of earned merit (which honestly, what does that mean? Seems like everyone in the Late Republic talks about this, but sounds to me like idealizing Cincinatus et co repeatedly) and then there is this increasingly personalized divine favor claimed by individual leaders, and the moral framework moves goal posts to support this
Also it feels like culturally and collectively, folks (through authors like Cicero) wrestled during this late Republican period with how divine favor intersects with human agency - this move from Greek concept of divine fate (as being more whimsical) to fatum and fortuna (from the times of Sulla, adopting terms like Felix) slowly becoming a justification for the centralization of power (which wasn't a good or bad thing imo)
An interesting transition from Republican values of earned merit (which honestly, what does that mean? Seems like everyone in the Late Republic talks about this, but sounds to me like idealizing Cincinatus et co repeatedly) and then there is this increasingly personalized divine favor claimed by individual leaders, and the moral framework moves goal posts to support this
Just finished this
I learned recently about why Spherical Harmonics are really good for things like NeRF and 3DGS. i.e. making sure each Gaussian can have radiance values encoded using spherical harmonics, can use SH co-efficients for efficient reconstruction of lighting effects, good lighting, realistic etc - pretty cool
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalHarmonic.html
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalHarmonic.html