Good question. Mycellm is the protocol layer: identity, routing, credits, reputation. Similar to how BitTorrent verifies pieces match their hash but doesn't judge whether the content is any good (that's left to trackers, communities, external tools).
Mycellm can verify that inference happened: signed receipts, reputation tracking (success rate, speed, contribution history), admission control that cuts off freeloaders. Each network sets its own policies on top; a private group might trust everything, a public network might add spot-checks or consensus routing.
Directions I'm exploring for public verification: fast-of-N routing, spot-checking with known outputs, consensus at temperature=0 where inference is deterministic. But the verification logic should be pluggable — different networks, different standards. That's a design area where I'd welcome input.
Curious about Runfra — when you say 'Uber for GPU', is that an orchestration/marketplace layer where independent GPU owners sell compute time? And what does 'batch-first creative workflows' look like — image gen pipelines, video, or broader?
This is exactly what I've been building — mycellm.ai. Seed GPU when idle, earn credits, spend on inference. BitTorrent economics for LLM compute. It's live now (my homelab serves the public chat). Would love to have you involved — github.com/mycellm/mycellm
> Amazon says it has acted properly in response to FTC demands to ensure the preservation of relevant evidence. The company says it gave executives “explicit instructions on how to disable Signal’s DM [disappearing messages] feature.” A copy of those instructions has been provided to the FTC, according to Amazon’s filing.
Amazon's 'explicit instructions' on keeping messages visible: either a move for clarity or a masterclass in corporate subtlety.
Washington state makes it so easy. My ballot is mailed to me weeks before the election date. I have plenty of time to research and fill it out. I then drop it off at one of the many official dropboxes around the city (or you can drop it in the mail for free, as long as you get it postmarked before the election date). The ballot is tracked from the time it's sent, received, and counted (I have mine set to alert me of its status via email and SMS).
> Then they got lazy and just numbered the months.
* Chinese et al have entered the chat
This pattern is fairly common around the world.
It's amusing to me that in the Western world, the original Latin designations are off by two as we moved the start month but never adjusted the corresponding month numbers (so DECember (10) = 12, etc).
The US plunged into the worst recession since The Great Depression of the 1930s when Lehman Brothers bank collapsed, which quickly cascaded around the world.
2008 is aka 'The Great Recession'; it likely would have been much worse without govt intervention, though the targets of the help were corporations, not the average person affected by it.
The 2008 crash was the culmination of a house of cards largely enabled by deregulation that wiped out huge mainstays in America, including the auto industry. GM and Chrysler are only with us today because of massive govt bailouts. Many banks large and small failed and were absorbed into larger ones (eg Washington Mutual). The govt bailed out other banks deemed 'too big to fail' (eg Chase).
Countries were also failing over this (eg Greece, which used the euro hence was not a sovereign currency issuer and had to rely on Germany et al to assist). Severe govt spending cuts were imposed around the world, leaving the average citizen bearing the brunt of the downturn.
None of the criminal bankers that caused this crash were held criminally or civilly accountable, sparking the Occupy protests. In fact, they still got their big bonuses that taxpayers paid for. Meanwhile, average people lost their homes, businesses, and jobs.
It took about a decade to return to pre-crash economic levels. Not counting 9/11 (the effects of which changed the trajectory of modern life), this was the first 'once in a lifetime' shock for Millennials that set us back many years … just in time for a global pandemic.
There are some movies about the 2008 crash. Maybe checkout 'Margin Call'.
As a Bernie-style 'leftist', I can't say a response to this abortion assertion any better than Pete Buttigieg did on Fox news (<2 min clip), and I bet the vast majority of _all_ Americans would agree with this take:
As I've matured, I've found the words of Stephen Colbert ring truer and truer: 'Reality has a well-known liberal bias'.
I'm a millennial. I've moved from libertarian in college to 'far left' in the American political context.
Far too often I see calls for 'centrist/moderate' — policies touted as noble in many circles — as argument-to-moderation and false-equivalence fallacies.
Mycellm can verify that inference happened: signed receipts, reputation tracking (success rate, speed, contribution history), admission control that cuts off freeloaders. Each network sets its own policies on top; a private group might trust everything, a public network might add spot-checks or consensus routing.
Directions I'm exploring for public verification: fast-of-N routing, spot-checking with known outputs, consensus at temperature=0 where inference is deterministic. But the verification logic should be pluggable — different networks, different standards. That's a design area where I'd welcome input.
Curious about Runfra — when you say 'Uber for GPU', is that an orchestration/marketplace layer where independent GPU owners sell compute time? And what does 'batch-first creative workflows' look like — image gen pipelines, video, or broader?