Haven't seen this train of thought discussed. Takes some interesting comments from Karpathy and others to argue that transformers can distill down things well beyond just text and images
This opens the door to many use cases for secure, privacy focused, and scaled asset transfers leveraging taproot, lightning network, and the existing bitcoin protocol. Very exciting news
Yeah no doubt about this. But its also important to remember we've been doing this non stop since 2008 minus a few months in 2018. So this is a multi president, both parties are involved in continuing this train.
I highly doubt the chip shortage a la increased chip demand from a company perspective has to do with gaming/mining GPU demand.
Much of the supply demand can be traced to increased car chip demand (Toyota cutting production by 40%) as well as general device chip demand across many sectors.
Mining bitcoin is exactly what the author mentions a heat sink not a battery.
But mining bitcoin and capturing excess heat produces a provably scarce and globally accessible digital asset.
You are not transferring energy across time or space. Instead you are directly converting cheaply available energy (usually hydro) into monetary value that can be easily transferred through time and space.
Bitcoin is not a battery it is not a valid analogy. It’s more a store of value of the energy produced. It’s a monetary incentive to capture the cheapest (now mostly hydro, solar, wind potentially nuclear) wherever you can cheaply or safely find/capture it at the source (since energy transport is inefficient over long distances)
Bitcoin energy consumption is a brittle argument, our entire monetary system is backed by much more expensive energy usage. Energy usage for security is a trait of sound money.
Little Cinema Digital | Frontend Engineer (React, Typescript) | Remote US, New York, Los Angeles | https://littlecinema.net
Little Cinema is an online shared digital experience platform helping Movie Studios and Show Producers build interactive online live screenings and digital experiences.
We're pioneering the space of live launch event live screenings and after party experiences for the cinema world.
Currently working with some or most of the Top 4-5 streaming platforms out there.
I’m one of the hiring managers so happy to chat more informally before putting you forward in the process to the rest of the team.
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Little Cinema is an online shared digital experience platform helping Movie Studios and Show Producers build interactive online live screenings and digital experiences.
We’re looking for a senior backend engineering lead to help build out our upcoming self service hosted platform in Node, Typescript, backed with Graphql, Postgres and AWS.
If you enjoy leading architectural decisions as well as designing performance oriented backends and want to work I’m pushing the field of live simultaneous events let me know!
I’m one of the hiring managers so happy to chat more informally before putting you forward in the process to the rest of the team.
Building on this. If you have the risk tolerance. Just stating that you have to work remotely (if its legitimate) at-risk health, child care, family care I'm sure there can't be a ton of pushback on an individual level. Otherwise it might be a GREAT signal to leave a company who in the midst of a pandemic is irrational.
Worth reading all chapters that are in here, but chapter 3 gets at the meat of where we're heading. We're at the end of a long credit cycle post WWII, dislocation of the dollar from the gold standard, to bretton woods, to now QE printing of money being loaned to the government by the fed.
Market reflects the cash flow available being printed by the FED to keep the markets up.
This is a primarily large company focused initiative. You’ll need to work with apples partner integration chat providers to build on it. It’s invite only at this point.
Experience working as a team lead on scoping/architectural design decisions as well as an individual contributor on high performing teams. Comfortable within fast-moving environment having founded and worked at early stage startups over the past 6 years.
* Open to freelance or remote-first fulltime roles at this point.
Experience: I've worked within early to mid stage startups for over 5+ years, happy to work in a contract or full-time role to help a team accelerate their development bandwith
Donation to food banks seems to help the highest critical need people otherwise seeing funds that work with homeless shelters may be a good source to focus on as well.