jcorgan
Johnathan Corgan

🎶 Older now, but still running against the wind 🎶

Scientist, engineer, consultant, pilot. Slinger of bits and reducer of gradients.

EN/ES ☸️

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2025-05-02 13:25:07 GMT

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It's an auction, he who pays the most fees gets their valid transactions confirmed.
Bullshit, spammy uses of block space will stop once they are priced out by use cases people are willing to spend higher fees for.

2025-03-02 18:08:23 GMT

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Never put your hopes in politicians. <= FTFY

2025-02-17 01:57:14 GMT

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I see three shitheads, two shitcoins and...bitcoin

2025-02-13 23:38:51 GMT

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I was there briefly a few years ago. Didn't get a chance to see much though, sadly.

2025-02-11 02:24:07 GMT

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You love it, it's great.

2025-02-09 04:05:02 GMT

Fighting corruption the way it is being done right now in the US government is like having a river of gasoline feeding a fire and the fireman are pointing their hoses at one burning agency at a time.
Sure, you're gonna find stuff, and lots of it--but the problem will remain raging out of control.
That river of gasoline is the Fed-printed dollars that allow unrestrained deficit spending.
The normal feedback mechanism of literally running out of money forces normal organizations to prioritize and eliminate waste and fraud. Without this, it's just one big party on a runaway train that can only end in hyperinflation and tears.
Fix the money, fix the world, as they say.

2025-02-08 20:27:56 GMT

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That's a surprising place to see one, for sure. Lived there in ancient times (teenage years). Wasn't a bastion of forward thinking, for sure.

2025-02-05 14:51:48 GMT

I'm old enough to remember a time when all you had to do was turn off the TV to quiet the screeching of politics and outrage. Now it has seeped into every little nook and cranny of daily life.
That cabin in the woods has never looked more enticing.

2025-02-04 19:27:41 GMT

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Here is your LLMs training other models:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18096
"We present MILS: Multimodal Iterative LLM Solver, a surprisingly simple, training-free approach, to imbue multimodal capabilities into your favorite LLM. Leveraging their innate ability to perform multi-step reasoning, MILS prompts the LLM to generate candidate outputs, each of which are scored and fed back iteratively, eventually generating a solution to the task. This enables various applications that typically require training specialized models on task-specific data. In particular, we establish a new state-of-the-art on emergent zero-shot image, video and audio captioning. MILS seamlessly applies to media generation as well, discovering prompt rewrites to improve text-to-image generation… "

2025-02-03 15:21:21 GMT

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It *is* r1, which is the name for the distilled version as you describe. The bigger model is called v3.

2025-01-31 14:36:58 GMT

Politicians, by their very nature, cannot create any value; they can only take what some have created and give it to others.
And in this way they pit man against man, all hoping to pick the pocket of those who have more than them, forgetting the hordes of people who are trying to pick theirs.
The only winning move is not to play.

2025-01-28 12:59:11 GMT

GM ☕
Live long enough for your childhood memories to feel like they happened to someone else. Then realize, they did.

2025-01-24 01:34:43 GMT

Touched grass. Feeling better. Recommended.
https://m.primal.net/NxKF.png

2025-01-23 21:40:02 GMT

I'll say it again for anyone still listening:
Bitcoin does not need politicians to succeed, it just needs them to get out of the fucking way.
Carry on.

2025-01-22 11:29:41 GMT

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Not even really disguised.

2025-01-19 21:54:08 GMT

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Heh, it's just getting started.

2025-01-19 20:56:18 GMT

Looking to politicians for solutions is like shopping for perfume in a cesspool.

2025-01-18 10:59:16 GMT

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Grifter's Law: Grifters gonna grift.

2025-01-17 07:12:40 GMT

Pro tip: rooting for the political gang that promises you the most "number go up" is not a strategy for lessening their power over you, any more than voting for the prison warden will open the gates of freedom.
Bitcoin, and now Nostr, are both technologies for recapturing your sovereignty and making politicians, whatever their craven power fantasies might be, irrelevant.

2025-01-16 17:59:54 GMT

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I suppose if you have already given up actual BTC (if you ever had any) for Coinbase, Inc. IOUs, borrowing against them to get Circle, Inc. IOUs is not much of a stretch.
#nevent1q…yhsd

2025-01-16 14:30:27 GMT

GM ☕
What if the "strategic bitcoin reserve" being fantasized about...is the one we had at home all along?

2025-01-16 06:18:55 GMT

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Finding the signal in the noise has become all but impossible in the last few years. Fortunately, there are still voices like yours or Shinobi's to be found.
I have a hard time following Bitcoin Magazine these days.

2025-01-15 05:07:52 GMT

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Never meet your heroes.

2025-01-13 15:42:50 GMT

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Still got the original edition on my shelf. 😎 👨‍🦳

2025-01-13 12:44:20 GMT

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It's not hard 😋

2025-01-12 17:04:08 GMT

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Plum season is a few months away for us just yet. Looking forward to making some wine and perhaps brandy.

2025-01-01 19:38:13 GMT

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Now there's a blast from the past.

2024-12-31 22:05:21 GMT

A surfer does not control the wave, only his board. The wave controls nothing, its destiny fixed to crash at the shore.
Be the surfer, not the wave.

2024-12-31 14:19:21 GMT

GM ☕
Air still going in and out and blood still going round and round...life is good.

2024-12-29 15:22:04 GMT

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This one was a banger!

2024-12-26 05:27:06 GMT

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👍

2024-12-14 06:10:35 GMT

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https://m.primal.net/MvfF.png

2024-12-12 00:38:34 GMT

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I typo'd the domain name in the post, it should be nostrsync.live, but the image has it correct.

2024-12-12 00:32:42 GMT

Did nostr.live go away? This was a nice backup service to download/upload event data to relays. Just tried visiting it after a couple of months and it throws a really sketchy cert error (then fails HSTS).
https://m.primal.net/MtbC.png

2024-12-11 17:25:33 GMT

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Sure. I think it is still at the point where you need to understand a subject well enough to "fact check" its replies, and it does best at being a savant-like research assistant than an original thinker. I find myself most productive using it for problems that are hard to solve but easy to verify 😆

2024-12-11 16:32:42 GMT

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My own experience has been different. I mostly work with linear algebra, statistics, and differential equations, and it has been pretty good (but not perfect) as an assistant to help work out some some thorny problems in well-established areas.

2024-12-06 17:50:09 GMT

Politicians: Because every complex ecosystem has its parasites.

2024-12-06 17:49:13 GMT

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Bitcoin needs politicians like a person needs cancer.

2024-12-05 03:58:13 GMT

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Only 10x to go, something bitcoin has done many times before.
#note1qks…v0ee

2024-12-05 02:56:35 GMT

Has anyone checked in on Peter Schiff lately?

2024-12-05 02:46:09 GMT

🥃

2024-12-03 03:23:49 GMT

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olvidaste cabeza

2024-11-26 13:58:05 GMT

GM ☕
The best, simple explanation of Nostr I've come up with is, it's a place you can't be cancelled, but nobody has to listen to your bullshit either.

2024-11-23 03:23:58 GMT

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Lol, I can always tell within the first 2-3 sentences that a given take is you shinobi. 😆 Keep em' coming.

2024-11-15 04:22:47 GMT

Nobody said the end of empire would be boring, but goddam I had hoped it would at least be entertaining. This season opener was badly written.

2024-11-12 19:21:46 GMT

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No details on the cryptographic scheme, so right now it's just "trust me bro".

2024-11-11 17:07:20 GMT

GM 🥃
https://image.nostr.build/6835177885ebfd58a016cad47d5d1296fb88953cc0d1b9be6f0f3997793249e6.jpg

2024-11-11 15:34:40 GMT

Hey @npub1az9…m8y8, does blockclock have a 100K problem 😆

2024-11-06 14:42:09 GMT

🎶 Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss 🎶

2024-11-05 20:21:16 GMT

When presented with a choice between cancer of the left lung or cancer of the right lung, choose health instead.

2024-11-04 22:28:31 GMT

Voting is consent to the outcome and the system that produced it.
Don't encourage the fuckers.

2024-11-03 19:51:21 GMT

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All they need to do is change the symbols on the menus!

2024-11-03 19:50:20 GMT

Elections are like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

2024-10-29 04:11:50 GMT

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Grateful I am married 25 years. The idea of dating in the current era is frightening.

2024-10-29 03:39:12 GMT

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Enjoy it. The terrible twos last from two to about 25. 😆

2024-10-28 20:52:45 GMT

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A field of study around the idea of removing all forms of "to be" from the English language fascinates me. This eliminates the passive voice and requires a subject acting on an object for everything. It ends up improving several forms communication and makes certain rhetorical "tricks" impossible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime

2024-10-28 20:39:09 GMT

Close enough.
https://m.primal.net/LlLF.png

2024-10-28 20:17:55 GMT

I'm getting about one Lyn Alden a day following me--she must really like me!

2024-10-28 17:50:21 GMT

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That's been a looooong time coming.

2024-10-28 16:14:19 GMT

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Been a long time! Good to see you.

2024-10-24 16:30:49 GMT

GM ☕
https://m.primal.net/LgpG.png

2024-10-22 13:08:39 GMT

Only the paranoid survive, the rest are ngmi.

2024-10-18 20:50:00 GMT

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Many engineers do this with other endeavors, such as politics and law. Their biggest sin is assuming humans are a "system" to be "optimized", using force if necessary.

2024-10-18 20:40:26 GMT

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This was a great article!

2024-10-18 14:01:07 GMT

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In a lot of ways this has already happened. Much more interest exists now in NGU, political engagement, and "integration" with tradfi services than in censorship resistance, bypassing existing financial structures, and make politicians irrelevant.

2024-10-17 20:45:25 GMT

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I've had good luck, but at my level of Rust development skill, I probably haven't thrown anything really hard at it.

2024-10-17 20:44:28 GMT

My public prediction:
By 2030, the USD will have ceased to be a reserve currency except among some subset of US trading partners, and hyperinflation will then be in full force.
There is no longer anyone running the train, only thugs looting its cargo and jumping off before it derails, leaving everyone else holding the bags.
And there is nobody coming to save you.

2024-10-17 20:33:28 GMT

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Maybe I'm just easily impressed.

2024-10-17 18:00:05 GMT

The ability of MS copilot/GPT to analyze, fix, or write new Rust code is pretty mind blowing.
I'm not a Rust expert, but I'm getting close to being an expert Rust prompt engineer 😆

2024-10-16 18:17:34 GMT

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Ah, I see now the emphasis you were going for in your original note. Polls estimate voter sentiment, prediction markets estimate odds of winning.

2024-10-16 14:47:13 GMT

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Yes, completely agree! Skin in the game generates a quite different signal.

2024-10-16 14:36:19 GMT

GM ☕
https://m.primal.net/LXet.png

2024-10-16 14:29:05 GMT

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Well sure, having skin in the game is a big improvement, and at least in theory converges to an equilibrium one can draw information from.
But the results are still skewed by non-representative participants, and unfortunately, so little volume that they are are easily manipulated.
If these things had 100x the trading volume I might put more stock in them.

2024-10-14 16:36:52 GMT

Hey, it could happen...
https://m.primal.net/LVut.png

2024-10-14 13:58:33 GMT

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Then there is the subgroup of people who *want* to be controlled.

2024-10-12 17:36:25 GMT

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is twitter running in the background

2024-10-11 21:07:36 GMT

We're so back
https://m.primal.net/LSrc.png

2024-10-11 12:49:22 GMT

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Indeed.

2024-10-11 02:18:52 GMT

I've lived in the same place for the last 30 years. And in those decades I have visited dozens of countries both for business and for fun. The comfort and familiarity of home is always nice to return to, yet I constantly seek out opportunities to visit unique destinations.
The most important thing I've learned from interacting with people from cultures different from my own is that sometimes those differences matter, very much so, but most often they do not.
It is the humanity we all have in common that matters the most.

2024-10-10 01:22:45 GMT

Unless it fell out of the sky into your open hands, every good you value in life is the result of the efforts of some other person or group of persons collaborating to produce it from where it did not exist before, and has been offered to you in trade for some other thing of value.
It is this way that people can come together, voluntarily, to produce abundance greater than the sum of their individual abilities.
To claim you are *entitled* to the product of the labor of anyone else is to claim he or she is your slave, and you must act with deception or force to take what is not offered to you.
The difference between wealth and poverty in a society largely depends on the willingness of people to respect these boundaries, to learn how to collaborate and build, and to peacefully go separate ways when this is not possible.

2024-10-08 15:42:24 GMT

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wen Coldcard nostr DM client

2024-10-07 13:24:50 GMT

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I've never seen Greg and Craig in the same room together...

2024-10-05 06:34:39 GMT

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Lol, it took me several seconds to realize you weren't talking about security options, and was wondering wtf a JSON option was 😆

2024-10-04 17:01:30 GMT

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This one seems particularly egregious.

2024-10-04 14:05:09 GMT

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This typo is hilarious!
https://m.primal.net/LLCe.png

2024-10-04 03:24:40 GMT

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Twitter has end stage cancer by algorithm--one that promotes rage and attention seeking. As people who are repelled by such things leave, the dynamic is reinforced by the self-selected people who remain and the bots that game them.
Other social media communities exist that, while differing in details, lack this influence and this outcome.
Personally I've found the Fediverse (usually called Mastodon for its most popular client), and of course Nostr, immensely satisfying for this reason. Very different communities with very different norms, but neither suffer (at least in my corner of each) from this kind of perpetual rage bait and "engagement" seeking.
Yes, there is much objectionable (to me) content on both, but it is much easier to ignore as it is not promoted in your face.

2024-10-03 17:48:20 GMT

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Agree, you'd be able to route between LAN, WiFi, cable modem, and LTE modem, in whatever path makes sense. I'd wipe it and put opnsense or pfsense on it though.

2024-10-02 22:24:42 GMT

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Ok, that makes more sense. It's a tough problem.

2024-10-02 22:18:00 GMT

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But that could make the overlay traffic easily distinguishable from conventional users, which might impact that overlay user, right?

2024-10-01 21:46:17 GMT

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The ability to render latex in notes would be awesome!

2024-09-29 15:45:02 GMT

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It's clear that humans will believe anything that allows them to fit in to their tribe, and spend a lot of effort both signaling tribal affiliation and defending those beliefs from any incursion of facts or reality.
And this is fine, whatever, to each his or her own--until it results in hate and violence.
I don't think we'll overcome tribal divisions anytime soon, but we *can* take steps to draw strict boundaries around aggressive behavior when one group or another decides to impose their beliefs on others.
You can't reason someone out of a belief they didn't reason themselves into--you can only peacefully live and let live, and defend yourself vigorously if they do not.

2024-09-29 05:22:06 GMT

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I often feel this as I cycle through parks and trails, seeing barbecues, family picnics, or young couples sharing a moment under a tree.

2024-09-28 13:30:24 GMT

GM ☕
Never have twelve words been worth so much.

2024-09-27 03:32:37 GMT

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Man will use software that talks to a cloud server or a system in China, over the internet, instead of pressing a button to turn on and off a light instead of going to therapy.
Every time us-east-1 goes tits up half the US households go dark.

2024-09-27 02:28:25 GMT

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Removing cupsd on desktops has long been a part of many orgs security policy, and servers shouldn't have it installed in the first place.
Having packages installed that aren't being actively used is a big attack surface, as this exploit shows.

2024-09-27 01:38:19 GMT

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My newish Ford Explorer has the touch screen for non-driving stuff, and all analog controls and traditional (but electronic) displays for stuff you need to do while paying attention to the road.
No way am I going to drive my car by iPad.

2024-09-26 14:29:05 GMT

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Heh, exactly the same for me. It's at the point where just knowing I *could* buy something is almost as good as actually buying it. 😏

2024-09-26 14:01:00 GMT

GM ☕
It's nice to see old friends and acquaintances popping up here.
As a child of the 70s I grew up when you didn't have a "digital home". But when you moved to a new place, it was almost if you had died in the old neighborhood and were born again in the new, making all new friends.
I ditched Twitter at the acquisition and arrived here not much after, finding a lot of new faces, an exceptionally vibrant energy, and a return to many of the themes (and memes) of the older bitcoin community that got crowded out in the hellscape that Twitter had become.
I had moved to a much better neighborhood!
Oddly, though, so many of the really interesting people I interacted with there seemed content to stay. So it was again like that childhood experience of letting go of the old and embracing the new.
Recently, however, there has been a steady drip of refugees arriving, among them people I had either lost contact with or just old familiar names it was nice to see again.
Anyway, this was a long-winded way of saying hello (and GM) to the newcomers, come on in, the water is fine. 😄

2024-09-26 01:38:17 GMT

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o.O?

2024-09-25 13:41:12 GMT

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Been here, said hello when you got active recently 😆
Really great to see you again.