code(s), information theory, linguistics, brains,… ‖ Erdős #4 ‖ former board member @LeastAuthority and @ZcashCommGrants committee ‖ aka @KetoCarnivore ‖
Boulder, CO
Joined January 2010
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This is the least surprising graph in the world if you understand how gradient descent works.
"Until users make that mental leap that privacy doesn't come from something you move your money through, it comes from *where you store your money at rest*, they'll keep making this mistake."
Miner update: went home for a few days to try to build a silencer for the Z15 pro with my parents so it can heat the house this winter with reasonable sound properties.
We ordered partially pre-cut MDF (unfortunately not very accurately cut) and my stepmother added some cuts. The plan is to line some of the surfaces with rockwool, but we were concerned about fibre fragments getting pulled in and I was unable to acquire speaker fabric to cover it in a timely manner so we stopped at having the frame built.
Decibels reduced from >70 to ~55 with the box alone! However, even in this 5×2×2' box with fans at both ends, it was overheating. I had to leave the lid partially off for now. Probably could have figured out a better solution (maybe small internal fans to direct the air better), but it was time to leave until next time.
I got my 2017 Tesla S retrofit in order to use FSD and I'm finding it stressful to use. In traffic it often jostles back and forth between lanes quitting in the middle. Driving home at night last time it slowed to a crawl on my street and then just stopped. Does it get better?
Which Zcash wallets work on @GrapheneOS ? @vizorwallet ?
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Why Standard time is the correct clock position.
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I laughed so hard at this example of grammatical ambiguity in the critical thinking textbook I've been using
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An aside: if you attempt to prevent people from ever being able to do anything bad, it can only be by virtue of preventing them from doing many if not most good things as well. I do not want to live in an infantilized world where you need a special license to ask even moderately interesting questions. Screw that.
Hobbyist node update. 🦓🌸
A few months ago I decided I was going to run Zcash archival nodes on an old, otherwise unoccupied machine.
I wiped a 2015 MacBook Air and clean installed Ubuntu, and I attached an old spin drive by USB with a few terabytes to hold the data.
I started running archival nodes onto the same disk--first got Zebra running, then added Zakura. It took a long time to get through the initial blocks, maybe weeks? I don't remember exactly now. Once they were synced and going, though, it was pretty smooth, but I was noticing some timeouts on requests--the drive access over USB was just too slow.
So I caved and spent money on a new SSD. Zakura is running on that one now. So fast!
Two days ago Zakura 1.5.0 came out so I started backing up the database onto the slow drive. It took 2 days to back it up! By the time I was ready to install there had been two more releases. 🤣
I was 2000 blocks behind. It took 2 1/2 minutes to catch back up.
Many problems can be solved by adding a level of indirection. But there is no number of added levels that puts toothpaste back in the tube.
Claude keeps telling me we're at a good stopping place for the evening and I'm starting to feel petulant about bedtime.
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Prier pour quelque chose en particulier n'est pas nier l'action par ailleurs. Par contre, faire une action en vue de ce quelque chose, sans la vraie conviction profonde, c'est un peu lancer des dés en espérant faire sept fois le même numéro d'affilé du premier coup.
A month ago I could have ordered a second Zcash miner to arrive by November. My parents just asked me if I thought they should try setting one up. I looked into it and the next delivery batch is not until APRIL!
On the production bottleneck:
I placed an order for a Z15 pro on May 30 from @CryptoMinerbros, received it on July 4th. It looks like I could order from them today and probably have it in November.
Bitmain itself was then and is now sold out.
Was trying to figure out why "Following" was weirdly only showing me a small selection of what I knew must be written, and found yet another default I didn't ask for. Gotta go back to reading only from "lists".
Congratulations to Ian Goldberg and well deserved. Ian was my introduction to the cypherpunk world. I fell in love with him standing at the blackboard in the Pure Math club office at U Waterloo in Fall 1992, watching him prove theorems. Changed my life.
cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/ian-gol…
