Bitcoin or ibit?

Cellular automata (CA) are underrated. Most people’s experience with them are simply Conway’s Game of Life or similar setups. The topic is much deeper than that though. Some 2D CA are in fact Turing complete [1] and can be used to perform any computation (albeit inefficiently). So what? Why not just use python or if you're really bored use a transformer model? Because in this context it's not about doing the computation but rather what we can learn about computation in general. The beautiful thing about CA is that they are naturally visual and we can see emergent patterns at a glance while they work. First consider that ALL scripts, models, charts, etc. on computers are discrete. Then understanding the simplest discrete systems (ie. CA) may give us an idea of the limitations of the more complex ones. In fact, even simple, deterministic systems can produce unpredictable behavior [2]. And sometimes even complex rules don’t lead to complex output. It also turns out that there's a natural connection between convolutional neural networks and CA [3] so this touches on important topics in AI. This is the focus of my current research and I'm hoping to publish more on that eventually (not under this nym of course). I recommend more people get creative with studying cellular automata. —— 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30 3. https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02942

Some places call it “government cheese” on their menus and honestly it’s fitting 😂

Why California? If someone lives in Chicago for example why would California have any claim on it? Regardless of the type of asset, bitcoin or otherwise, this law just makes no sense unless it only applies to California residents. And even then it still makes no sense.

Still think we have more to go. It’s going to be a bloodbath in the markets the next few months. Just stay humble and stack sats.

Algorism… very clever! 👏

Silver isn’t looking so great all of a sudden 😯. Should’ve stayed humble and stacked sats

Claude code is a real game changer. No matter how much I’ve used it the past few months it still blows my mind. Been writing software for over 20 years now (crazy to think because I’m not a grey-beard) but never made a mobile app until yesterday. Within 3 hours I went from idea, to desktop app, to complete rewrite in Swift and deployed on my phone. It’s a fairly simple idea that solves some important problems for me when traveling but the app is nontrivial. Doing this in 2021 would have taken me months easily and the quality would’ve been much worse. It relies on some open weight models so maybe not even possible back then. If I had known the UI/UX up front it would’ve taken me half an hour. This is the era for entrepreneurs.

#FreeSamourai

Been busier than usual the last month (in mostly good ways). No end in sight and it’s eating into my Nostr attention budget but I’m here in spirit. Much love, anon.

John von Neumann

The billionaire that created a social media platform that censored lots of people and cooperated with the feds? The one that created a hardware wallet that prevents any possibility of privacy? I’m not anti-bitchat but also uninstalled it after the first week. Nothing wrong with experimenting. We need better tools.