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[ot|[spam][personal] Cheap Permanent Storage
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, Victim & Survivor of 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

- arweave/ardrive advertises permanent storage, looks like maybe $8/GB - web3.storage appears to provide filecoin storage up to 1TB/user with a button to request more I'd like to message web3.storage explaining e.g. that I have psychological disorders where I destroy my own data, and would like to upload hard drive images to preserve them for eventual recovery before reusing them, and ask for more space. I'd also like to use the two services to backup my files in some way, maybe with a little git repository containing data identifiers. note: I think git provides for newhash now, so you can migrate past sha1, not sure.

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Cryptocurrency: Govts Accepting Crypto Defrauding You, NatSec Executive Order
by grarpamp 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

BTC surges 5% on Biden NatSec EO news. https://usdebtclock.org/ "Bob wants to send Alice 1.5 Bitcoins. Bob has a Bitcoin wallet, as does Alice. Alice uses her wallet to generate a receive address, then sends it to Bob. Bob copies and pastes Alice's address into his wallet (and checks it). He enters 1.5 BTC, then clicks "Send". Alice sees the unconfirmed transaction. After several minutes she sees her transaction's first confirmation. The Bitcoins are hers. No online exchange was used. No government was involved." "El Salvador" "A bill introduced in Arizona to make Bitcoin legal tender!" "One of the governor candidates for Texas said he would do the same thing Arizona is proposing here if he wins, making Bitcoin legal tender in Texas that is. This stuff is going to become our legal currency the same way alcohol and weed prohibition ended, State by State" "Bidens executive order, America competes and a history lesson about AmericaExecutive Order 6102" "National Security = Terrorism Against You" "UK is going crypto. If you can't beat it join them" "It's suggested you crush these fucks by beating them to adoption first." "3 years ago, A former CIA covert intelligence officer did an AMA, on being asked what is the biggest national threat to United States,The answer was Blockchain technology!" "US Gov't is about to invest in bitcoin. Putin just "directed the Central Bank of Russia not to neglect the advantages of Bitcoin mining." Biden's executive order of national security is not to regulate bitcoin. It's to buy bitcoin in the name of national security. My source is my ass." "Govts around world moving to accept Bitcoin are fraud. They're taking it in, and on the backend they're keeping some stuffing their coffers with it, printing money and taking debt against you to pay some of what they claim to be accepting it for, and selling whatever's left. After enough cycles through that wash, they end up owning all 21M coins. He who owns the most gold wins. Don't fall for that scam, don't feed them your sovereign wealth, let them eat their own worthless Fiat, and keep that fine Bitcoin Filet for among yourselves." The Dementia Patient is preparing for The Fed’s crypto shitcoin that will be one of the key pieces of the upcoming Social Credit Score “Climate Change” Passport en route to full-blown hell on earth in a perpetual Big Brother Post Human Technofascism. Biden can’t even spell Bitcoin, let alone explain to anyone exactly what the blockchain tech is. Most importantly, there is no real way to stop Bitcoin or any other of the cryptocurrencies, and that’s why this executive action is laughable. Sure, cryptos will sell off briefly, many will yet again celebrate the demise of Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc. The are ignoramus clowns. Let them honk away. People will simply avoid centralized exchanges (i.e. IRS spies) which they should anyway, unless converting fiat into crypto (not the other way round), and the decentralized exchanges will just grow in ever more marketshare, as will the various legit decentralized DeFi coins. The real showdown comes circa 2025 when The Fed finally attempts to launch their spycoin and further rob We the People of what’s left of their dwindling freedoms. We need to see how that develops over the next 3 years, but for now this is a drooling idiot fake POTUS working for his Cult masters. Buy the BTC, ETH, etc. dips. Comply and YOU Die. https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/ Bidens executive order, America competes and a history lesson about AmericaExecutive Order 6102 https://www.barrons.com/articles/white-house-executive-action-regulate-cryp… https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1486805542618251271 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-21/white-house-is-set-to-pu… https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0454 https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-payments-202201… I see a lot of folks talking about Biden's Executive or next month, America Competes Act and the CBDC's being provisioned. If crypto wasn't seen as an issue it wouldn't need an executive order. TLDR The US has a network of Federal Reserves that when in other countries is called World Banks and the IMF. They are losing control of the money supply, they are getting ready to fight back. The Government is whack and President Blunder is about to use an executive order to come after crypto. History tells us that this can be pretty extreme if we reference what Roosevelt did with Executive order 6102; to confiscate gold. With out question this is being sold as a matter of national security https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 ****To be clear I am not saying they are coming to confiscate crypto, I am saying they are coming to regulate the shit out of it. IT compete with banks, it competes with wall street, it competes with the federal reserve, it competes with the IMF*** Here is how screwed up the use economy is (each with definitions and explanations for those who want to learn): Let's be very clear the American and world economy is on the brink of complete collapse. The synthetic CDO's of 2008 were never fixed, they gave banks money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEXTqtH-Oo4 The student loan crisis cant be fixed because of an investment tool like the above called SLABS https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/081815/student-loan-assetba… Covid is causing massive supply chain issues so sales and manufacturing cant recover * if we can sell stuff and there are shortages the price will rise and wages will drop.** https://www.supplychainbrain.com/articles/34435-global-supply-chains-near-m… Inflation is recking the world economy Covid is going to endemic status but may evolve to get worse. Wall street is using the Federal Reserve as a piggy bank and the fed is using the Plunge Team to stop the financial collapse. Repos and reverse repos are at a record high as hedge funds are over-leveraged and in the extreme Red. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9UIumKX7Mw What is the plunge team https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/plunge-protection-team.asp _______________________ Empires don't invade other countries to control people they do it to control economies and resources This includes pillaging their own: Its imperative to remember that the USA gave US citizens 1200 bucks and small businesses a fractured 2-time ppp system that was highly flawed but bailed out major corporations and banks at 120 billion per month. Most relevant (Previous executive orders) Executive Order 6102 ......is an executive order) signed on April 5, 1933, by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt "forbidding the hoarding) of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States." The executive order was made under the authority of the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, as amended by the Emergency Banking Act in March 1933. The limitation on gold ownership in the United States was repealed after President Gerald Ford signed a bill legalizing private ownership of gold coins, bars, and certificates by an Act of Congress, codified in Pub.L.) 93–373,[1] which went into effect December 31, 1974. Executive Order 6102 required all persons to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, all but a small amount of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates owned by them to the Federal Reserve in exchange for $20.67 (equivalent to $413 in 2020)[5] per troy ounce. Under the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, as amended by the recently passed Emergency Banking Act of March 9, 1933, a violation of the order was punishable by fine up to $10,000 (equivalent to $200,000 in 2020),[5] up to ten years in prison, or both. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102#:~:text=Executive%20Orde…. Executive Order 9066 This post-Pearl Harbor order, now infamous, gave the military the ability to mark out areas from which it would be possible to exclude “any and all persons.” The upshot of this move was that more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese immigrants were sent to internment camps. Executive Order 10340 This order directed the Secretary of Commerce to “take possession of” American steel plants. The order put to rest a threatened strike . Steelworkers striking was a "threat" to national security. https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/steel-strike… Executive Order 13228 established the department of homeland security and turned America into a terrorist-fearing hell scape and took tax dollars and gave them to military contractors in mass. China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are all being used as threats to roll out this new executive order to preserve the economy. https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/BILLS-117HR45… I will leave on this final note. There are 2 ways to enforce policy in the USA; Legislation and litigation. If you don't have laws for a situation (legislation) you go to litigate ( go to court) and get a precedent using older or other laws. The SEC is currently losing badly against Ripple in court. ( They wont get a precedent) So they are turning to legislation (create new enforceable laws). Ripple is designer really to send VERY LARGE transactions instantly across the planet. This directly competes with the CBDC and the Fednow Instant payment system coming out. https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_about.htm This is an instant payment service for countries and large businesses (banks, hedge funds, etc) https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_about.htm The IMF and Federal Reserve is looking to replace the ACH and payment systems Crypto and block chain systems make RTGS and ACH old outdated tech https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2021/03/global-cyber-threat-to-f… (RTGS) are funds transfer systems where the transfer of money or securities takes place from one bank to another on a "real-time" and on "gross" basis. Settlement in "real time" means that payment transaction does not require any waiting period. The transactions are settled as soon as they are processed. "Gross settlement" means the transaction is settled on one to one basis without bunching or netting with any other transaction Comparatively, ACHs are typically used for low-value, non-urgent transactions while RTGS systems are typically used for high-value, urgent transactions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_system Think of all those poor clearing houses and companies getting a % cut that will be wiped out. Get ready for craziness and cheap crypto. I am buying up all privacy coins Monero, Dash etc as an investment Learn how to use a VPN, Linux is your friend ( Microsoft snitches), and encryption doesn't hurt. Edit: TO all those upset about politics, when politics comes after my crypto.... I get upset To those attacking my character: I am not a right wing conspiracy theorist. I do not want to be doomed to repeat history. You using an Ad Hominem attack, this is a misdirection and doesn't talk about the subject matter Ad Hominem (Attacking the person): This fallacy occurs when, instead of addressing someone's argument or position, you irrelevantly attack the person or some aspect of the person who is making the argument. The fallacious attack can also be direct to membership in a group or institution. To those saying the Biden Camp may support crypto. Just like he kept his promise to forgive student loans until the issue of SLABS as an investment vehicle came up, he sided with Wall Street and the banks. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/081815/student-loan-assetba…. Perhaps he wont side with investors and banks again. I say you may be right. Its almost possible they would spend 3 months preparing an emergency executive order to regulate a multi trillion dollar industry they adamantly support. The federal reserve and IMF will just sit back and lose control of the money system and allow the world populace decentralize payment protocols and do nothing. They may just relinquish complete control with out a fight and forgo tariffs and sanctions as a punitive system in Geo politics. Read here https://blogs.imf.org/2021/10/01/crypto-boom-poses-new-challenges-to-financ… https://blogs.imf.org/2021/12/09/global-crypto-regulation-should-be-compreh… https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm924 It seems like they are going to do nothing and will just let control of the worlds system. This is Geo politics and its bigger than John Doe not paying taxes. Its about Russia and North Korea buying weapons, and sanctions not working. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cryptocurrency-helping-russia-avoid-us-18000… Its about the US Dollar not being a reserve currency and the Petro dollar breaking down. The US dollar used to be pegged to gold ( Nixon Changed that) and all other world currency was pegged to the US Dollar. This was established in the Brenton Woods Agreement and System of 1944 https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/brettonwoodsagreement.asp EDIT Final update There is a little hopium here in the at FTX.us donated $5m to Biden's election campaign https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/joe-biden/contributors?i… but more than $74m came from Wallstreet tycoons. These guys wouldnt want blockchain tracking stock assets, naked shorting is dead that way White House Wants Crypto Rules as a Matter of National Security By Daren Fonda Jan. 27, 2022 3:00 pm ET Order Reprints Print Article Text size An executive order would aim to bring order to the government's approach to regulating cryptocurrencies. Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images The Biden administration is preparing to release an executive action that will task federal agencies with regulating digital assets such as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a matter of national security, a person familiar with the White House’s plan tells Barron’s. The national security memorandum, expected to come in the next few weeks, would task parts of the government with analyzing digital assets and assembling a regulatory framework that covers cryptos, stablecoins, and NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, this person said. “This is designed to look holistically at digital assets and develop a set of policies that give coherency to what the government is trying to do in this space,” the person said. The State Department, Treasury Department, National Economic Council, and Council of Economic Advisers would be involved in the initiative. The White House National Security Council would also be involved, the person said, since crypto has economic implications for national security. Along those lines, the administration would instruct agencies to work on harmonizing regulations of digital assets between countries. “Because digital assets don’t stay in one country, it’s necessary to work with other countries on synchronization,” the person said. The White House wouldn’t issue recommendations. Agencies would be given three to six months to come up with proposals, and the White House would act as a policy coordinator. White House officials declined to comment. Bloomberg earlier this month reported on the White House’s plan. The White House aims to bring order to the haphazard approach that the government is now using to regulate crypto, the person said. Various agencies oversee the industry, including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. But there’s no consensus on matters such as whether some tokens should be registered as securities, or how to oversee exchanges, stablecoins, and high-yield lending products. Congress has held multiple hearings on cryptos in recent months, exposing partisan divides between Republicans and Democrats on how to regulate the industry. The Biden administration is also urging Congress to draft rules. The White House released a report on stablecoins in November, recommending that Congress act promptly to regulate the industry. The Federal Reserve has also weighed in on digital currencies. The Fed released a report on a central-bank digital currency, or CBDC, earlier in January that laid out the pros and cons of digitizing the dollar. The report said that the Fed could start work on the project with support from the White House and Congress. A Treasury Department spokesman called the report an important step forward in discussions about a CBDC. Other countries are ramping up scrutiny of crypto, seeing it as a matter of national economic security. Russia’s central bank and finance ministry said this week that Bitcoin mining and trading activity should be more tightly regulated. Russian President Vladimir Putin called on regulators to form a unanimous opinion on regulating the space Wednesday.

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Silk encryption
by professor rat 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

REG story reminded me of one of the best stories out of WW2 - " Between Silk and Cyanide ". Silk was eventually decided to store codes as it could easily be burned in an emergency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Silk_and_Cyanide Now isn't it time Semich, Batshit and Dumbell took the Gramps cyanide?

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Cryptocurrency: Seasteading Utopias!?
by grarpamp 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

> A group of anti-vaxxers is reportedly building a community off the coast > of southeastern Africa > > https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-loving-anti-vax-group-seeks-like-mind… https://cryptoland.is/ A crypto paradise where the community can surround themselves with other like-minded individuals. A powerful ecosystem by crypto enthusiasts for crypto enthusiasts. Cryptoland is the world's first private crypto island designed to enjoy a first-class crypto lifestyle. An international hub to live, work and relax. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cryptoland

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The Register: Silk could tie up all-but-unbreakable encryption, say South Korean boffins
by jim bell 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

The Register: Silk could tie up all-but-unbreakable encryption, say South Korean boffins. https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2022/01/28/silken_secur…

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STX Wire Fraud - Stacks CEO Discusses MIA Coin and NYCCoin
by Gunnar Larson 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

The Wire Fraud statute makes it illegal for anyone to use, or cause the use of “wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce” for the purposes of executing a scheme to defraud or to obtain money by false or fraudulent pretenses. It is punishable by *up to 20 years in prison: * https://www.new-york-lawyers.org/wire-fraud.html#:~:text=The%20Wire%20Fraud… . -------- Stacks Founder and CEO careless wire fraud in a new CityCoin's promotion: https://www.citycoins.co/post/stacks-founder-muneeb-ali-shares-his-thoughts… Muneeb Ali <https://twitter.com/muneeb>, the founder of Stacks <https://www.stacks.co/> and CEO of Hiro Systems <https://www.hiro.so/>, shares his thoughts on CityCoins and the project’s potential to accelerate meaningful change. CityCoins is built on the Stacks Protocol — a layer-1 blockchain that recycles Bitcoin’s PoW in a way that is both secure and resource-efficient <https://www.citycoins.co/post/citycoins-are-environmentally-friendly>. Muneeb has been following the project’s development since inception and had a lot to say about CityCoins. What excites you the most about the CityCoins project? I feel like crypto networks could actually be a very unique and new way of facilitating public-private partnerships. Take MiamiCoin for example. If you live in Miami, you're from there, you're interested in the city, or just want to be a part of the Miami economy — there’s now a way for you to get involved. There is a crypto asset that represents the community of Miami that could spread globally. And there are so many interesting things you can build on top of CityCoins. It opens up a new design space for government services and other types of community activity. What types of applications are you most excited to see the CityCoins community build using MiamiCoin, NYCCoin, and other future city-specific tokens? Interfaces to government services. Government software has historically been painful to use. You can theoretically get really good engineers to build modern apps for government services by incentivizing them and letting them integrate CityCoins like Miami’s and New York City’s in the apps. -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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Duesberg
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

" O’Brien pulled a manuscript from the inside pocket of his tuxedo. Headlined “HIV Causes AIDS: Koch’s Postulates Fulfilled,” it had three very incongruous names at the bottom: Stephen O’Brien, William Blattner, and Peter Duesberg. Nature editor John Maddox had commissioned this apologia as inducement. If Duesberg would only sign the mea culpa, O’Brien implored, he could have everything back. He would be back at the top again, back in the safe bastion of Dr. Fauci’s medical and science establishment. Duesberg refused the bribe" Compare Duesberg to the covaids technonazi turds on this list, who pose as technonazi 'anarchists'.

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Certificates
by razorleaker 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

https://www.securitylab.ru/certificates/crt_fsb/

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The Bank of London vs. The Bank of London and the Middle East
by Gunnar Larson 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

Goldman Sachs' Deferred Prosecution Agreement <https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/goldman-sachs-resolves-foreign-bribery…> with the United States of America is in potential breach, with ethical enforcement being concerned. The Department of Justice has yet to respond to Memo #1 with our recent inquiry <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OsxfjN3TUepftKklopkQDSMwFWstWozuku4IPPu…> to the 1Malaysia Development Berhad Deferred Agreement. *What (if anything), does The Bank of London have to do with all of this?* - November 30, 2021 two New York based firms lead investment in The Bank of London based in the United Kingdom. - July 1, 2007 The Bank of London and the Middle East opened in the United Kingdom. - The Bank of London and the Middle East confirms they have no association with The Bank of London (below). The Bank of London seemingly has been funded from New York to irritate the Middle East. Recently, we made 91 highlights of research <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O2piNMJ3CI0wbfaFW33to3KhgOgZ8-dl/view?usp=…> associated with The Bank of London and the Middle East's recent sale to a firm in Kuwait. Harvey Schwartz is the Chairperson at The Bank of London, after spending over 20 years at Goldman Sachs Group, where he oversaw sales and trading, finance, technology, and operations. He completed his tenure as the firm’s President and Co-Chief Operating Officer. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1997 and subsequently held numerous senior leadership positions including Chief Financial Officer, Global Co-Head of the Securities Division, amongst other positions. He additionally served as a member of the firm’s Management Committee and co-headed its Risk Committee, Steering Committee on Regulatory Reform and Finance Committee. Mr. Schwartz established the firm’s Investment Policy Committee on which he also served as a member. It would appear that Mr. Schwartz has no friendly diplomatic agenda in London banking, potentially looking to profit off of The Bank of London and the Middle East. Furthermore, Goldman Sachs seemingly has a part in the scheme from New York. Bank of London and the Middle East is listed on the NASDAQ, Dubai. ------- On Tue, Dec 7, 2021, 6:06 AM Info Reply <Info.Reply(a)blme.com> wrote: > Hi Gunnar – we have no affiliation with TBOL. > > > > Thank you. > > > > *From:* Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> > *Sent:* 01 December 2021 08:57 > *To:* shareholders <Shareholders(a)BLME.com> > *Cc:* Info <info(a)BLME.com> > *Subject:* Investor Relations - The Bank of London > > > > *CAUTION:* This email originated from outside of the organisation. > *DO NOT *click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender > and know the content is safe. > ------------------------------ > > Dear Madam or Sir: > > > > The Bank of London and the Middle East notes that the department > of Investor Relations provides the public with information about BLME > including information that is of specific interest to our Shareholders > including announcements, financial statements and details of our corporate > governance. > > > > Keeping this aforementioned in mind, we were kindly inquiring if BLME and > newly announced The Bank of London > <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-bank-of-london-launches-today-…> (TBOL) > have any official affiliation? > > > > Looking forward to learning your feedback on BLME and any TBOL > affiliation. > > > > Sending you the very best regards. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Gunnar > -- > > *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xny.io/> | Bank.org <http://bank.org/>* > > MSc > <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - > Digital Currency > > MBA > <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship > and Innovation (ip) > > > > G(a)xNY.io > > +1-646-454-9107 > > New York, New York 10001 >

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[spam] [personal] perceiver model notes
by k 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

- perceiver was made by google; it's a specific attention tweak to encoder/decoder transformer, i think - perceiver is now in huggingface in src/transformers/models/perceiver some of the classes, for the second half of the pipeline, also preprocessors PerceiverAbstractDecoder: decoder base class PerceiverMultimodalDecoder: decodes model results into many forms of simultaneous results PerceiverBasicVideoAutoencodingDecoder: for models that produce video PerceiverOpticalFlowDecoder: for models that produce optical flow information PerceiverClassificationDecoder: for models that produce labels from a fixed set PerceiverBasicDecoder: a basic decoder for producing data, using cross attention PerceiverProjectionDecoder: a decoder that does not use cross attention Conv2DDownsample: downsamples data 4x using torch.nn.Conv2d and padding PerceiverAbstractPositionEncoding: base class for position encoding PerceiverTrainablePositonEncoding: position encoding that is trained PerceiverFourierPositionEncoding: position encoding that produces normal (fourier sinusoid) position embeddings based on channel people say that without position embeddings, the channel on which data is received is not used as information AbstractPreprocessor: preprocessor base class PerceiverTextPreprocessor: an embedding encoder for perceiver PerceiverEmbeddingDecoder: an embedding decoder for perceiver embeddings are matrices that convert between integer ids (words) and n-dimensional vectors (points in meaning space) PerceiverMultimodalPreprocessor: converts many kinds of data to a single group of input PerceiverAudioPreprocessor: converts audio to transformer input PerceiverOneHotPreprocessor: adds dummy index dimension to input PerceiverImagePreprocessor: convert image to transformer input, performs significant transformation PerceiverMultimodalPostprocessor: unconverts data into different kinds of postprocessed data PerceiverProjectionPostprocessor: uses linear combination to downsample data [training prevents information loss] PerceiverAudioPostprocessor: downsampling for audio features PerceiverClassificationPostprocessor: downsampling for classification log probs to a set of labels

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