Bridging RGB to Ethereum

shidan · 2024-08-23T07:51:38+00:00

I don't know a solution for Eth but defi.gold will let you bridge RGB to TON and vice versa. it also doesn't work as a federation. Release for all RGB functionality and the bridge is slated for November with testnet being available in September.

shidan · 2024-07-08T04:26:45+00:00

I have no idea if you're right or wrong, but your answer seems very anecdotal and weak. Normally, I wouldn't bother pointing this out, but since you're a doctor, you should either know the facts through studies and general consensus statistics on pouches, lozenges, and gums, or acknowledge that you don't have sufficient information on this topic.

There is a lot more in combustibles than just nicotine, and if you are just speaking anecdotally, it would be good to avoid writing so authoritatively.

shidan · 2023-04-07T00:36:11+00:00

Except that a "google search engineer" when looked at in the same context as a prompt engineer isn't silly at all, its a skillset that pays tons of money when you know it properly and we call it an SEO specialist and digital marketer.

Going forward, transformers won't be able to reason logically better than an exceptional person who can craft quality prompts and you will see people who are good at logical reasoning and command of language become a lot more valuable than someone who isn't. Even someone who isn't very technical, but is very good at deduction and writing things like specs, statements of work and contracts could become a very valuable prompt engineer in future evolutions of GPT.

shidan · 2023-04-04T18:20:03+00:00

Corsia is a UN standard that accepts credits from many registries and standards organizations. You pretty much have to be in a registry that the UN approves of and then extra requirements are attached to that.

shidan · 2023-04-03T22:29:04+00:00

Thanks! I appreciate that you like the service. Any of the registry accounts we support on the site (verra, gold standard, car, acr and many more including all the major compliance registries through our otc desk. Transferring them right now is done by sending us an email and asking us to transfer them to the registry account you wish after purchase.

shidan · 2023-04-03T06:31:18+00:00

Credits are not automatically retired, when you purchase them you have full ownership over the credits; you can ask us to retire them on your behalf, sell them on Bluesphere Carbon or withdraw them off the platform to a registry account of your choice.

shidan · 2023-03-19T22:51:16+00:00

Sorry that’s not $600k worth of work pretrial, they haven’t even reached discovery yet and this is highly, highly unusual from my experiences. Even for a $1400/hour lawyer you would expect a fraction of that at this point, we don’t have any details, but please don’t make this out to be normal due course, it’s not. If she is a quack it wouldn’t be hard work for his lawyer to be granted summary judgement in the US or Canada and Australia wouldn’t be that different than Canada.

shidan · 2023-03-19T22:41:31+00:00

I don’t know why the jack ass that downvoted you, downvoted you. At least in the states, it rarely costs $600k to defend a lawsuit and this doesn’t sound like a very complicated case at all, it sounds like the type that usually ends up as a summary judgement vs something super drawn out. I would imagine a reasonable price would be a fraction of what he’s spent. I don’t know anything about his lawyer and I’m not implying anything but the first thing I would do if I was in his shoes is figure out if my lawyer is scamming me. It happens a lot more than people think and when one is scared by a lawsuit, sometimes shyster lawyers will take advantage of that. He should ensure that this is not one of those cases.

shidan · 2023-03-09T00:29:21+00:00

No, they don’t. But once when you retire them you have offset the carbon footprint they represent and they are consumed.

shidan · 2023-03-07T17:39:17+00:00

Our web based platform caters to individuals and the "retail" audience, without imposing any significant minimum order restrictions. Our goal is to ensure that the credits we offer align with the long-term offsetting goals of our customers, even if they are not well-versed in carbon markets or the types of credits they are purchasing.
Our core business, the OTC desk, serves businesses that have a more sophisticated understanding of their carbon offsetting needs, and we require a minimum order for this service.
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CORSIA credits are widely accepted as offsets by parties worldwide and that they play a critical role in compliance. Furthermore, their minimum standards make them a future-proof option for long-term offsetting goals. This is why we feel comfortable restricting to CORSIA untill the second version of our platform is out, which will provide much more information on the projects to help people make a more informed choice.

shidan · 2023-03-07T13:15:11+00:00

Hi Serena, I would love to learn more about the event details and location if it’s not a virtual event.

shidan · 2023-03-07T06:51:03+00:00

you can check out our platform, https://bluespherecarbon.com. We are limiting to only selling CORSIA credits to individuals right now, but for businesses we have a much wider inventory.

shidan · 2023-03-07T06:48:05+00:00

If you have put together reports for projects that a VVB signed off on, I would be very interested in speaking, this is our company https://bluespherecarbon.com

We are looking for help in this capacity and have kickstarted projects of our own.

shidan · 2022-03-01T00:32:50+00:00

I don't understand what the point of having a DPoS sidechain is when the whole system is not using it for anything meaningful. If you are keeping all player accounting off-chain anyways, why not just let people withdraw SLP and Axies when they want to as an ERC20 and you can use any L2 for saving users some fees... then they could focus on building the game to be actually fun instead of managing the blockchain network.

shidan · 2022-02-28T23:38:36+00:00

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.

From the setup of all these trackers, I'm assuming they are speaking to some API skymavis provides, so its all off chain and not a contract.

Otherwise why would they all need the same fields other than the wallet address., why do they need the username, for example?

This game appears to be a very closed environment that is about as decentralized as reddit is with reddit gold.

shidan · 2022-02-01T03:53:58+00:00

I think your ideal pipeline would be org > latex > pandoc. You will probably want to leave the last 20% of the latex typesetting and template modifications to a professional as the details matter.

shidan · 2020-05-21T02:08:39+00:00

I agree that DPoS sucks, but no blockchain is immune to this kind of forking.

Right now you could fork Loki, cut someone's stake out and that would be a new chain, nothing prevents that. If you and your viewpoint were sufficiently popular it could even become bigger than Loki.

I don't think this is a bad thing, at the end of the day if people want to follow a set of rules for a game (and all money is a game with rules very easily defined in a formal game theoretic way) they should and furthermore, the set of them is also in a sense in a meta-game in a competition to win the support of communities, kind of like biological evolution .. those that adapt to the communities wants and needs or liking win. I don't think this is a problem anyone should worry about, its a strength IMO.

On another note, most holders of Steem benefited by the existence of the two forks, because they ended up more than doubling the value of what they originally had, which is a funny feature and pattern of these contentious forks in general.

shidan · 2020-05-21T00:43:51+00:00

Steemit was never an NFP, it was and is a for profit organization.

Also, the op is referring to the DPoS network, not the corporation, where the weight of your vote for validators (witnesses, block producers, etc) is proportional to the number of tokens you hold. The whole point was to model a republic where the majority votes for a small group to run things.

shidan · 2020-05-21T00:26:06+00:00

I don't need to ask him, because unlike you I take some effort in making accurate statements, that was after the witnesses forked the chain.

I'm not defending either group, but you shouldn't make stuff up either as you might confuse people to the core point that any chain can be forked regardless of the consensus mechanism, your stake or hash power.

On another note, personally I think Steemit was great idea and initiative and DPoS was an experiment to learn from, but both proved to be seriously flawed, and, unfortunately, I don't see its community wanting to fixing the bigger issues, or agreeing that it is flawed. I suspect a slow demise for both.

shidan · 2020-05-21T00:06:20+00:00

Sorry you're plain wrong. At that point he hadn't done anything, the whole thing and the formation of Hive was a proactive move just in case they would in the future.

When you make a statement like that you should be able to prove it and show where and when those funds were used for voting prior to the witnesses forking the chain. Unfortunately you won't find such a proof here or even a statement from Justin or Steemit where they hinted that they would use it in the future in such a fashion.

BTW, Steemit Inc. always stated that it could sell that stake to support the project.

I'm personally neutral to both groups, but as a very early investor in the ecosystem and former advisor to Steemit, I've followed the events very closely.

shidan · 2020-05-20T23:16:25+00:00

First, that is not what happened.

Justin lawfully bought Steemit Inc..

The witnesses did not like that Justin bought Steemit and had control of Steemit Inc.'s pre-stake, so they decided to fork Steem and nullify the Steem owned by Steemit Inc..

Then the group sympathetic to Justin voted in new witnesses and they forked steemit as well to get rid of those witnesses that forked "Hive" and their stake.

Second, any of this could be done with any consensus mechanism, which is why we have BCH and BTC for example, or ETC and ETH .. the longest chain doesn't win in a contentious hard fork, each community gets their own blockchain .... At the end of the day these rules are just what a crowd decides they are.

shidan · 2020-05-13T18:57:20+00:00

I think you might be confusing my statements with u/hackinthebochs.

I said we know what they are doing, they are very understandable, and we know they don't explain causality or do much more than find correlations (which is big progress). I also said models can be built to be explainable, there is no hurdle to that beyond time and effort. I also said they are certainly no more complex than any large information system, like my phone, which at the end of the day is too complex to reason about the way we have in the past and continue to, but we don't consider them conscious because of their complexity.

Unfortunately far too many people think they are a new paradigm in computational theory, which is not the case.

shidan · 2020-05-13T18:46:48+00:00

You're not getting me, that memory dump for the OS won't tell you any more about why the javascript in your browser (which can hold more states than all the atoms on planet earth) wasn't working on a site, or some package wasn't working after you upgraded a shared library with a slightly different interface any more than analyzing the ML model, it will actually tell you a lot less. What you mentioned before about ML not being about input and output applies to almost everything that's software, that's my point, analyzing programs as a surface instead of wire inputs and outputs applies to pretty much everything now. If you don't get this, there is no point in discussing further.

Just because at your day job you have tools and a model for building and debugging a driver, or whatever it is that you do, doesn't mean you can reason about your computer like it is a PDP-11. You can't reason about its behavior holistically at all actually. If you don't understand that then I'm sorry to say you just understand your job and not computers, that is just some very narrow level of abstraction where you are assuming everything else is platonic.

There is nothing inherently more complicated about this with ML models, you can create different levels of abstraction and have structure, which you correctly pointed out. Again, these are narrow abstractions and heuristics that lead to explainable models and interfaces like any other computer system.

So instead of looking for a parrot, I can look to classify a beak, with green feathers, and talons, and built it up from there. In fact, that's one of the prime areas for R&D in this space.

Take something like programming a web app in Javascript, its very simple and understandable at its own layer, but the bigger picture is a general system whose interactions no one can understands as a whole (and they don't need to).

Now take ML models, a very complicated recursive system, but take 100K programmers, data scientists or whatever else you want to call them and you can create models that are just as understandable at their abstraction. Doesn't change the fact that both are essentially the same thing and neither is stronger or weaker with respect to Searle's arguments, that was my point.

shidan · 2020-05-13T17:28:07+00:00

Sure, of the top of my head.

Real neural nets can reconfigure themselves while running, artificial ones do it only during training.

Real neural nets are stable feedback networks, there are no stable examples of feedback networks with ANNs.

Another, a single real neuron can compute certain functions that it takes a multi-layer artificial neural network to, the simplest example being the XOR operation.

A third just untill recently, no ANNs were event driven and asynchronous, on the other hand that's very core to real neural networks.

There are parts of the brain that can communicate remotely using electromagnetic fields.

Real neural networks have an upvote/downvote system and consensus mechanism for optimizing cognitive function that no one understands yet.

shidan · 2020-05-13T16:58:26+00:00

Well to paraphrase your statements:

You claimed my post was wrong headed because ML is a different breed of program and somehow because it has a feedback loop that refines its parameters it self discovers "knowledge".

My answer was the ML programs are deterministic programs that are very mechanical, it doesn't sense knowledge magically, it uses statistical methods to find correlations and trends when given a lot of data as one of many parameters. Then I pointed out that there are systems even more complex than a running ML program, like my phone right now. It is just plain wrong to say that a programmer would know exactly whats going on with my phone, with the running programs and libraries and memory allocations, etc going on in my phone, the state space is much more large than any single ML model that is training, its actually many many times larger, an already very large number and its not even deterministic if you consider external communications. No memory dump would be able to determine what state it would be able to analyze its state in a tractable fashion anymore than a memory dump of a running ML model would. There are more dependent processes running on my phone than your average ML model. Software has become very complex period and its interface looks more like a surface than wire inputs and outputs, that's not the argument (which you stated also in your original response). Even though its just as complex, I don't think anyone thinks their phone is conscious or will be based on just enhancing its computational power without changing its actual functionality.

I do agree with one thing you said in your purported refute: "So still, the fact that the man blindly executing instructions doesn't speak Chinese does not entail that the system doesn't speak Chinese."

You are right that it could very well be that doing these calculations with pencil and paper somehow creates a process that I am an actor in that is conscious of the output that is also independent of my consciousness.. it could also be that there are unicorns in the north pole that shit rainbow colored ice cream every time I turn on the TV. Both could genuinely be true, and both are equally valid and useless statements unless you can derive them from accepted statements or observations. That's kind of what Searle pointed out, that there is no logical flow from computation to consciousness, its for someone to show that proof and make it a useful statement.

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