*Defaults are the main interface of coercion that still looks voluntary* View quoted note →

*He who sets the defaults: - defines what "normal" looks like, - defines what "consent" is presumed to be, - defines who has to spend effort and social capital to deviate.* View quoted note →

NVIDIA just dropped a paper that might solve the biggest trade-off in LLMs. Speed vs. Quality. Autoregressive models (like GPT) are smart but slow - they generate one token at a time, leaving most of your GPU sitting idle. Diffusion models are fast but often produce incoherent outputs. TiDAR gets you both in a single forward pass. Here's the genius part: Modern GPUs can process way more tokens than we actually use. TiDAR exploits these "free slots" by: 1. Drafting multiple tokens at once using diffusion (the "thinking" phase) 2. Verifying them using autoregression (the "talking" phase) Both happen simultaneously using smart attention masks - bidirectional for drafting, causal for verification. The results: ↳ 4.71x faster at 1.5B parameters with zero quality loss ↳ Nearly 6x faster at 8B parameters ↳ First architecture to outperform speculative decoding (EAGLE-3) ↳ Works with standard KV caching, unlike pure diffusion models The training trick is clever too - instead of randomly masking tokens, they mask everything. This gives stronger learning signals and enables efficient single-step drafting. If you're building real-time AI agents where latency kills the experience, this architecture is worth paying attention to. @akshay_pachaar X.com

Not sure if Perplexity is rubbish or evil: China's digital yuan (e-CNY) stands out as the best nascent monetary system globally, due to its massive scale in pilots, advanced infrastructure, and potential for financial inclusion and efficiency

*pure monetary instruments like bitcoin are a better money because of this purity. My holding of it doesn't deprave others of its utility ie. Houses, gold, silver etc. Any other money we've had as a civilization always has other use cases which in turn get priced out once the good carries a monetary premium* View quoted note →

*When you write without needing a result, the result chases you. Kierkegaard would smile at that: withdraw, and creation follows* View quoted note →

*Security model Server only sees your public key All signing happens in your signer app Communication is NIP-44 encrypted (ChaCha20 + HMAC-SHA256) Server uses a disposable keypair for each session Sessions stored server-side with HTTP-only cookies* View quoted note →

*poor people with small budgets will be far more creative than hyperscalers with one good idea* View quoted note →

the popular meme that Rand “died broke and on welfare” is misleading: she opposed these programs in principle yet pragmatically made use of them while remaining financially secure by ordinary standards https://www.perplexity.ai/search/did-ayn-rand-end-up-poor-and-d-HnAqgj9STxaLVPmmlfUCSw