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Raising $100-$1k per person is technically easy enough nowadays with crypto. The hard part is keeping it legal.

Bigger models might get us to AGI alone. I say that because of the graphs in this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165v4.pdf

Quality is increasing with parameters. Even now, interfacing with codex leads to unique and clever solutions to the problems I present it.

I cant talk with your customers but my initial thoughts are that you should focus with laser-like attention to your customer needs. There are a lot of "ands" in your product. Who is your ideal customer? Is it whales tracking multiple cryptocurrencies?

Is your ideal customer dev teams keeping their coin alive with DCA arbitrage across multiple exchanges?

Wish you success, crypto is here to stay.

lbry is a blockchain of assets with an example of odyssey, a youtube competitor. It is a censorship resistant way to share information.

defi is recreating traditional banking. Plenty of ways to stake USD & get loans.

nfts allow artists to monetize their efforts.

bat redefines how internet monetization can work, based on swarm intelligence and micropayments.

audius is enabling musicians to share their creation.

tokenization is a way to represent any divisible effort. Perfect for sharing ownership in a company, home, etc.

There are a bunch more, way more than I'm able to keep track of.

But the biggest use case of blockchain is still, imo, p2p electronic cash.

The biggest argument is the other coin networks that have been running for years in production without proof of work. Nano and EOS have interesting consensus models. Nano manages to remove all inflation and transaction fees and is just a base level currency. EOS has an account fee and you have to rent resources but can do code execution on transactions (smart contracts). They both rely on accounts voting for representatives and have had similar problems with spam. Nano has been running for > 4 years and EOS for > 1 years.

Thank you for your writeup. I understand the idea behind the network partition and I've been doing some digging. It looks like there are numerous commits attempting to address this edge case (they call it frontier cementing).

Here is a writeup I found on reddit that further elaborates this: """ There is a (currently hypothetical) edge-case where this could be reversed (not exactly the same as PoW chain reorganization due to forking, but similar.) In this edge-case:

We imagine the Internet has, right now, been carefully split by a malicious attacker into two exact halves

The Internet halves would be carefully contructed to each hold >60m online Nano votes. (This Internet fracture has never actually happened in Nano's lifetime. There are not 2 x 60m votes currently online.)

The attacker double-spends on a coffee (or house) in two of your stores worldwide just now

They then allow the Internet to heal

One of their transactions will be reversed by majority voting.

So while Nano transactions are fully-confirmed, they are not currently immutable.

Since there are not >120m votes currently online, it has not happened and cannot currently happen either. No previous-to-today Nano transactions will ever be reversed. """ -- throwawayLouisa https://www.reddit.com/r/nanocurrency/comments/bgdshq/what_i...

Can you elaborate on the network partition issue that you found with nano? As far as I know nano has been live for years without a doublespend or downtime and thats pretty impressive.

World computer - Ethereum, NEO, EOS, Waves, many more

Banking the unbankable - Airfox, VVToken, likely others

More efficient advertisement - BAT, AdEx

Paying content creators - Steem

Distributed file storage - FileCoin, MaidSafe, Storj

Uncensorable internet - zencash

BTC gets all the press for first mover advantage, but is really the worst of the bunch.

This is not investment advice. It is quite exciting, however.

GAN improvements that lead towards finding global minima for any given distribution mapping. GANs are versatile but still suffer from mode collapse and instability, drastically reducing their utility.

Deep mind just released a couple of papers about this:

https://deepmind.com/blog/neural-approach-relational-reasoni...

Here is an implementation of "A simple neural network module for relational reasoning" in pytorch: https://github.com/kimhc6028/relational-networks

Capitalism can be thought of as a complex learning system. We, as a society, want people to contribute the most that they can to the overall goals of humanity and capitalism acts as a vehicle for that.

Comparing it to another popular complex learning system, neural networks, might provide insight on failure conditions.

Income taxes can be thought of as gradient regularizers. Basically limit the amount of weights accumulated per training session (wealth per tax year). Estate taxes can be thought of as weight regularizers (that occur once per lifetime). Maybe it would be more palatable as a tax on wealth yearly.

One of the ways that networks fail (and capitalism can fail) is with extreme values on weights (wealth) on small portions of the network. There are ways to counter this on a neural network - some are heavy handed (l1, l2 regularization), but some are just clever without direct analogies (dropout, batch normalization, etc).

I wonder how the conversation would change if we had to calculate our income tax as a percentage of total wealth each tax year.

This is an implementation of generative adversarial neural networks. The aim is to allow developers to use generative and discriminative networks in their applications.

This is exciting because the possible applications of generative content are vast and largely unexplored.

Does this tie in with the cloud.docker.com (formerly tutum)? Will this be a separate offering? Very cool nonetheless

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It's an impressive demo with source code available. There's also a large field of research linked to so others can delve deeper.

Seems like a great HN submission.

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First off, as a Colorado resident with a startup - this is great! There are a few points that make it not so great:

You can only have investors from colorado, to a company formed in colorado and 80% of the investment has to be spent in colorado.

Still this is a move in the right direction, and I hope it helps some of my CO-based peers get off the ground.

source:

http://www.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2015A/csl.nsf/fsbillco...

(A) THE INVESTOR IS A COLORADO RESIDENT OR IS AN ENTITY FORMED PURSUANT TO COLORADO LAWS;

(B) THE ISSUER OF THE SECURITIES IS AN ENTITY FORMED PURSUANT TO COLORADO LAWS AND DOING BUSINESS IN COLORADO; AND

(C) THE ISSUER INTENDS TO USE AND USES AT LEAST EIGHTY PERCENT OF THE PROCEEDS OF THE SALE OF SECURITIES IN COLORADO

http://www.codetriage.com/ lets you view projects by the number of open issues. I'm not sure how to gauge the beginner-friendliness of the projects.

Great idea - I've signed up. Of course filtering out inactive members is going to be important in the future.

I love the barebones landing page + signup form as the MVP.

This looks really cool.

However, my first inclination was to close the tab because I didn't get it.

I love playing board games (Dominions, Pandemic, etc) and have always wanted to try D&D. Am I your target audience?

Then I found your value prop at the bottom of the page:

"Dungeon Masters Delight is a series of books that aims to collect useful hacks and tricks for the discerning dungeon master. It aims to fill in the gaps of literature concerning running and developing tabletop role playing games. "

I've put together some changes here

http://imgur.com/xcI4xn6

I used http://www.webedit.io to do this review.

'The golden rule of CoffeeScript is: "It's just JavaScript". The code compiles one-to-one into the equivalent JS, and there is no interpretation at runtime'

There really is very little magic with coffeescript. Most of it is syntactic sugar which can be learned at a glance of: http://coffeescript.org/ .

Don't mean to come off as pushy but I think it's well worth learning what coffeescript is. Especially if you are familiar with javascript, as it's a straight upgrade in your toolkit.

I love stuff like this - super simple solution to a common pain point.

http://placeit.breezi.com/ is a very similar service with CC images.

Calculating the number of tests needed to reach statistical certainty is not straightforward at all. The equation for simple A/B tests relies on the change of conversion rate from a control. More info here: https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/ab-testing/reference/ab-mat...

That's for simple A/B tests - this is not simple A/B tests, instead it is setting up a search space of possible variations of a page and comparing many to many to find which is best.

Splitting the data based on visitor referral, country, and more make the sample size needed even larger.

TLDR: This solution needs a decent amount of traffic to have reasonable results. The exact numbers are not definite.

Source: I co-created xander.io which is basically this concept but more open source.

Love the feedback that you guys gave last week. AMA as usual.

On commercial qualities, there are business plan competitions that MBAs do a ton - here's a post from someone who thinks they are useless:

http://steveblank.com/2010/05/17/no-one-wins-in-business-pla...

After a decade of development I am still completely off when estimating the work required for any particular task or project. Most timelines are still 2-3x as long as originally estimated.

Choosing ideas seems more art than science right now. I'd love to have a better way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShmtsLhkQg John Cleese of monty python talks about creativity and it's essence. May be relevant and is definitely fun.