Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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Starting in 3 minutes, next SIGFPT (Special Interest Group in Formal Protocol Theory). We’ll be discussing multiagent reinforcement learning and something called “autocurricula”. Led by Patrick Nast Readings: deepmind.google/blog/underst... and arxiv.org/pdf/1903.00742 Meeting w...
Understanding Agent Cooperation
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Understanding Agent Cooperation
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Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
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Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
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On Google fiber by @ommalik bit worth reading for the general indictment of Google
’Astound’ed. Google Flips Its Fiber To PE.
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’Astound’ed. Google Flips Its Fiber To PE.
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My self balancing robot has been assembled! I soldered half of it but my husband helped me with the tougher parts because my beginner soldering is a little shoddy lol. Next step is learning how to use Arduino to program it!
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Meanwhile
Quadruple amputee and bean-bag-toss champion Dayton Webber accused in fatal shooting
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Quadruple amputee and bean-bag-toss champion Dayton Webber accused in fatal shooting
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@john saw your @ s on x. I don’t post there. If you repost here or on substack, I’ll be happy to respond.
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Jeez this is another level of assholery. I break it you bought it.
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The next SIGFPT (Special Interest Group in Formal Protocol Theory) call starts in 10 minutes on our Discord. This session, we will be workshopping homework problems for teaching protocol theory.
Join the Summer of Protocols Discord Server!
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Join the Summer of Protocols Discord Server!
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Even Chuck Norris can’t save the world now 🫡
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Polyglot persistence and microservices were popular 10y back. Might the bespokeness “message of the medium” of agentic ai create an evolved renaissance of that model?
Polyglot persistence - Wikipedia
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Polyglot persistence - Wikipedia
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b/acc bespokeness acceleration
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Starting in 12 minutes — SIGFPT (Spevial Interest Group in Formal Protocol Theory) session on vibecoding protocols on our discord.
Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
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Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
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Take: * The private sector AI market will ultimately be far bigger than public sector, just as with the original Internet * Anthropic has gained a real lead in the private sector in the last 2 months * Government models were never going to be as lobotomized as private sector, same as any weapons * OpenAI has stumbled...
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Double-slit time experiment. I don’t know what this means, but I’m going to assume parallel universe portal guns.
Time Is on My Sides: Researchers Show Double-Slit Experiment Also Applies to Time
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Time Is on My Sides: Researchers Show Double-Slit Experiment Also Applies to Time
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Finally watched Dhurandhar. It is quite a remarkable accomplishment. At first glance it seems to be part of the long tradition of pre-political gritty realist crime/terror movies from Bollywood going back to Drohkaal, Tamas, Vastav etc. But just a few subtle touches make it an unmistakably right-coded political movie, ...
Dhurandhar - Wikipedia
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Dhurandhar - Wikipedia
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Comments?
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Justin Bechler #BIP-110
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