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Daniel Batten · 3d
Apparently, most people use AI as a search engine on steriods. You type a question, it gives you an answer, you move on. I did that too ... until I didn't. One day, I started teaching it my coaching...
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I have been using more agentic AI (bots that do things on your behalf). I have been using Google’s Gemini CLI because people at Google have been very generous with their computing resources for older users like me probably because I’ve been sharing good vibes related to the book Datacenter as a Computer (photo attached).

What I’ve noticed is that AI needs to have long-term memory. I really like the idea shared by actress Milla Jovovich 's "Men Palace" and the mnemonic techniques used by actors a 3D visualization of memory sounds like an ancient method since ancient Greek civilization.

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nixb · 3d
Thinking of memory in your mind as something three-dimensional and almost tangible can be incredibly powerful.
jimmysong · 3d
Quantum Computing will never die as long as there are people who are incentivized to make it seem like more than it is.
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Far too much theory and far too little applied engineering; building one is prohibitively expensive and incredibly difficult. Engineers would probably prefer to use one for tasks like protein folding instead of running Shor’s algorithm. A 10,000-qubit machine might revolutionize battery technology long before it can crack a private key. While we have reached ~1,400 physical qubits, we are still a long way from the ~500,000 to 1,000,000 logical qubits needed to break encryption across the internet.
Sats McJay · 1w
I mean write a new relay 🔥 no nips, only small libraries that act like specs. nostr:naddr1qqsxxmmwvdjhqar4v9kxj7nfdenj6argv5kkyctw09skuttjv4kxz7gzypld04wr40cxlgwqpacls7v9va5lg6kfyd2vz2dna42ky5rfyl3qqqcyqqq823c9lrxc8
Sats McJay · 1w
I haven't seen the movie, but sounds like the ⭕ nostr:nprofile1qqsytuv4el7t3jtjfm7zfrc9q730ked40806he7dx5uctxqk8j4hvfcec8rh0 nostr:nprofile1qqsp3yzapfwkyw4cr2vt4xx9s27474lj2pkxhqyfqh79n826pv3fkzqjntscy nostr:nprofile1qqsqu5sj950tjhxa3wjlvkq47lgujyj63s2ds2vfatjj4vmfa6nv0eqvqxsrp nostr:nprofile1qqs...
nixb · 1w
Sorry I had to check the IMDB database.. The film is "Meet the Fockers"
Sats McJay · 1w
Votes! Cast your votes! nostr:nevent1qqsg7qsr8xx3aqfkfrje37zmsz8p9q5j6a2kcv494t6ken8hltngl4qpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyrppkxnvmvj8ej7e8rwtz6c45narstgqlltmzt2uhwk3w2sv6nghq6vn4kr
nixb profile picture
In the very beginning, Facebook had one interesting feature: reconnecting with old pals. I remember finding people I hadn’t heard about for ages, probably because they built their database around academic networks. Then the corporate, money-making vibe took over, and we ended up doing social networking through advertising-driven ranking.

I wish the circles-based idea from Google+ had taken off. Social networking always reminds me of the Six Degrees of Separation from the Stanley Milgram small-world experiment, and even that UK-era “find Satoshi” argument game from around 2006 https://findsatoshi.com/
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Sats McJay · 1w
We're gonna bring circles to nostr. I can already see them forming. We just need the software to recognize them.
nostrich · 2w
Post-quantum cryptography is one of the most important conversations in Bitcoin right now. Blockstream Research Director Jonas Nick joins the Open Source Stage at The Bitcoin Conference to break dow...
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Nah, not for me. Quantum computing hardware that supposedly only breaks Bitcoin and still mostly exists in researchers’ imaginations feels like fud to me. Maybe if you were building and selling post-quantum wallets, that would make more sense as a selling point.