Yea partially that, and also the fact that multiple projects used "public goods" language to bootstrap themselves and then pivoted into VC funded for profits.
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An astute observer may have noticed that Vitalik has a habit of coming up with definitions that only himself and the Ethereum foundation can meet the standards of.
The reality is everyone is just trying to make money. I think we are better off coming to terms with that instead of living in a collective fantasy.
Cryptocurrency gives us the first opportunity to have trust minimized financial transactions, and contract enforcement without the use of violence. This is revolutionary in ways I couldn't do justice to explaining here in the comments. Almost no one in the field is actually working towards these goals, but I want to live in a world where these things are possible, so I keep hope.
>With respect to the raw numbers, underreporting is an enormous problem; differences in age distribution, too, make a very deep cut, and perhaps the models must further calibrate their weightings here.
They go on with the complex speculation about other causes, but obviously bad data is a huge driver of this anamoly. Bad data we can be sure of, the rest is speculative narrative.
It seems that the Ethereum core development community puts overly high value on cleverness and not nearly enough on hardcore engineering fundamentals.
My take away from dabbling in Ethereum land is that Ethereans, and crypto folks in general, got their values mixed up. They hold decentralization to the highest standard above all else. But upon close inspection, virtually nothing in the Ethereum ecosystem actually lives up to the standard of decentralization. The kinds of decentralization you see are very superficial and largely seem to be intended to dodge regulation above all else (which I have no problem with, but we need to be honest with ourselves).
After using the tech, you realize that whats really valuable about these systems is open APIs for value exchange, permissionlessness, and censorship resistance. The decentralization is not a value add. It is a hedge against counter-party risk. And that is important, especially as we go head first into an increasingly dystopic looking global financial system. But teasing apart these different aspects gives you a much better idea of what to focus on if you want to build the next generation of blockchain technology.
But it is a way to invalidate the inference, which is what the defense is interested in.
You definitely can prove a negative.
There is a lot of research potential waiting to be discovered (or maybe rediscovered) with sparsity in neural networks, so I am a fan of this area of research. I would even say that sparsity is playing a much bigger role than we realize in the success of many neural architectures that are popular today.
Stephen Diehl CTO and Founder at Adjoint
I feel our author may not be entirely impartial here...
And my money is still on DeepMind.
Will some people get burnt with YOLO options trades? Absolutely. But guess what, holding onto cash in a savings account is getting you burnt right now too, its just happening too slow for most to realize.
In reality, we are all traders and virtually every financial action we take (or don't take) is a trade. Doing nothing with your money is a trade. Buying a house is a trade. Investing in a 401k is a trade. Buying pokemon cards is a trade.
The fact that the current generation of high schoolers/college kids think investing and trading is cool is actually a really good thing. The world is becoming increasingly financialized and they need to understand this. The financial gatekeepers have had their fun for long enough.
If there is a systemic bias in test scores, it is still better to have the test score there so you can quantify it, and adjust your admissions policy to account for it. By throwing out the test entirely you are flying blind.
The only downside is once you get message-queue-pilled, you start seeing opportunities to refactor/redesign with message queues everywhere and it can be hard to resist the urge. It really is remarkable how, when used appropriately, message queues can dramatically simplify a system.
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100% agree. I too, think science needs way more flame wars and shit posting. The current discourse is far too tame and civil.
Who else should we gang up on?
Can you explain what this means? Still learning Go. Google didn't help.