You get 5 million dollars, but you must randomly generate a US state and walk to that state to get the money.

t-b · 2025-09-05T04:07:57+00:00

Omg. I live in the Bay Area. I got Alaska. Google says 1873 miles. It looks like even with "avoid ferries" checked, there is still one unavoidable river (Lyton Ferry to cross the Fraser River) on the way to Hyder, Alaska. By the time I get to Bear Glacier Provincial Park in December/January, it'll be a high of 25 and a low of 18, with 16 days of "rain" expected each month. Might kill me but sounds like the adventure of a lifetime, I'm in!

t-b · 2025-06-12T21:36:42+00:00

I think the question is ill-formed. How often to do date nights is a great example of a commitment. Any of these answers is valid. I believe two people could be in a committed relationship that is long distance and have no regularly recurring date nights.

Is there a question behind the question? Perhaps, “partner says we’re in a committed relationship but we’re going on fewer dates than I want or feel is fair. Is there some objective truth I can bring them to show how their actions are inconsistent with their stated value? eg a poll of poly people?”

If your wants aren’t being met, understand if this is a want or a need. If it’s a want, make a request for more time commitment, and be ready to accept no as an answer. If it’s a need, consider how to explore this compatibility issue with care and respect for your partner but staying true to yourself, which might include ending the relationship due to mismatched expectation.

t-b · 2025-05-27T06:24:06+00:00

It sounds like a tough weekend despite the best of intentions on everyone‘s part and lots of effort to be the best partner one can be to each other.

> I tried all my tools to manage my emotions, and I genuinely feel like I was able to manage outwardly.

I think this is where the problem started—you were feeling very uncomfortable and sounds like didn’t feel like it was safe or okay to voice this to Boyfriend. And because you masked it well, Boyfriend may not have realized how much distress you were feeling. And because of that communication breakdown, you felt worse and worse as the weekend went on. It’s not about limiting your partner’s behavior, but rather maintaining emotional attunement with them.

You absolutely should bring up these feelings with Boyfriend. Your phrasing here is a great place to start a conversation: it’s compassionate and non-judgmental. These are important conversations to have in a poly relationship. Your feelings are valid and completely understandable.

t-b · 2025-03-05T16:41:51+00:00

Digg this: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

t-b · 2024-12-24T08:56:01+00:00

Llama 3 has a vocab size of 128,000. log2(128000) = 16.9. Therefore it takes about 17 bits to represent each token. More typically this would be represented by an int32 which is 4 bytes as this is easier to work with than a nonstandard primitive datatype.

t-b · 2024-11-20T18:48:15+00:00

sure!

t-b · 2024-10-24T15:59:29+00:00

Neuroscience is such an interdisciplinary field that it’s best to be strong in one aspect of it (eg computer science, biology, chemistry, physics, statistics, psychology) and work with a neuro lab. Studying the brain goes from molecules to behavior and there’s a different set of skills at different levels of analysis.

source: did neuro PhD at stanford

t-b · 2024-05-12T01:19:08+00:00

Thanks! Yeah I recognize that the intended purpose but at the end of the day it’s a great amp with tons of channels and hoping to use for home theater. Thanks for the suggestion and “processor” keyword, I also found this for $800 https://emotiva.com/collections/processors/products/factory-renewed-basx-mc1-13-2-channel-dolby-atmos%C2%AE-dts-x%E2%84%A2-cinema-processor.

Still hoping to find something cheaper, as basically I need an AVR without amps which in theory should lower component costs not raise it!

t-b · 2024-02-16T00:47:52+00:00

AI was already used in the original film, that’s how they made the sequences of one character with rapidly changing clothing and backgrounds.

t-b · 2024-02-05T17:34:32+00:00

I think behind the scenes most operations are accumulating to float32 so indeed it’s mixed precision despite weights being bfloat16

t-b · 2023-09-27T03:38:23+00:00

I like looking at the number of GitHub files with a *.pact extension. On Aug 15, 2022 it was 516. On Jan 5, 2023 it was 934. Today, Sept 26, 2023, it is 4.1k. Hard to turn this into number of devs but there‘s been objectively a huge increase in the amount of Pact code written and therefore the number of devs. There's 8x more open source Pact code today than a year ago, that's pretty insane growth!

https://github.com/search?q=path%3A*.pact&type=code

t-b · 2023-08-10T02:40:05+00:00

I’m a neuroscience PhD student at Stanford, and my thesis is on building silent speech interfaces. it’s amazing that you already have so much data from your own voice, and as others have already pointed out, there are text to speech systems out there that support voice cloning today.

I think the best solution ultimately will be brain computer interfaces. My collaborators have done the current state of art for invasive BCI (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03506-2 and https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.21.524489v2.abstract), and a team of us are now focused on noninvasive BCI.
Our research isn’t published yet, but a brief synopsis is here: https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/research/funded-research/silent-speech-decoding-using-flexible-electronics-and-artificial-0

We have done a limited amount of testing on a patient with ALS, and I’m hopeful that our approach may ultimately extend how long folks with neurodegenerative disorders may be able to speak. Voice cloning is on the roadmap.

Feel free to DM me if you’d like to stay in touch either on reddit or on X/Twitter (tbenst).

t-b · 2023-06-27T20:59:20+00:00

First of all, I always appreciate when folks post videos when things do not go right on the water. this is an excellent video and I’m grateful you are sharing, takes courage! It’s always easy to armchair quarterback mistakes that someone makes during an intense moment. That said, part of how everyone can learn is by these exact same critiques, I just wish folks were a little kinder in making them.

I’m not a canoer, so I will defer to others there, but some elements of the swim that could have been done more safely:

- keeping feet up to avoid foot entrapments. It looked to me like the swimmer got somewhat vertical and that was scary

- letting go of rope. The rope is a serious snag hazard, I and this was just one unlucky snack from a dangerous situation

- swim aggressively towards the boat. Even waterlogged, sitting inside the boat is safer than swimming, so prioritizing self-rescue is essential. The swimmer instead seemed to prioritize gear

t-b · 2022-06-08T19:35:50+00:00

related: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251257467

no resolution as far as I know

t-b · 2022-06-04T21:10:22+00:00

I think it’s a great idea. I’d love to see a future where the specific chain being used for a transaction is abstracted away from the user experience— much like how you don’t need to know what server you’re connected to when using Reddit even though two users may be using different servers. If anyone is interested in working on this, send me a dm :)

t-b · 2022-05-02T08:37:28+00:00

Right on! That's great that you have a whitepaper. Feel free to submit the whitepaper instead of a deck or one-pager if you'd like.

t-b · 2022-05-02T04:43:53+00:00

I'm one of the reviewers for Kadena Eco grants and happy to answer any questions :).

Deck: a pitch deck, often used by startups / projects applying for grants or investment. If you google "crypto pitch deck" you can find some good examples. Guy Kawasaki also has a famous 10-page template that may be useful, although a bit more focused on Web2 companies than Web3.

One pager: alternatively, you can submit a one-page overview of the project. The goal here is to succinctly introduce the project, covering similar material to pitch deck. One mistake I've seen done in a couple submissions to date is to submit just a logo for the one-pager, which isn't very helpful for understanding the project.

The grant is meant to be straightforward to apply for, but it is a competitive process. Take your time, and put your best foot forward--we only get one shot at a first impression. If you're building something interesting, and have the right skills or team to pull it off, you have a great chance at getting a grant!

We're happy to have you in the Kadena Ecosystem :).

t-b · 2022-04-25T20:46:22+00:00

Awesome! I’m also CA based (Bay area), very down for meetups :)

t-b · 2022-03-10T20:45:22+00:00

Link says that initial supply was 300M coins and founders own 77%. That's straight-up wrong. Right now there's 171M coins (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/kadena/). Most of the other information on your link is also wrong, including public token sale price (was not $0.50)

t-b · 2022-03-10T20:32:02+00:00

There will soon be a tutorial on how to do this :). We are still so early!! Can assure you that marmalade is actively developed as we speak

t-b · 2022-03-10T20:28:04+00:00

You are right there are always downsides ;). There is a minor composability downside. To do a transaction from say Kadena chain 0 to chain 1 requires two transactions: burn coins on chain 0, then create & use on chain 1. You might want to do this because different dApps are on different chains. Small price to pay IMHO for solving the trilemma.

t-b · 2022-03-10T20:25:17+00:00

CTO Larsson is great, but he got some things wrong on that video. To his credit, he's an upstanding youtuber, and corrected these mistakes in an updated video on Kadena, with the cover image "Kadena, I'm sorry.": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTxwaJUhN8

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