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Platform Technology - ShotSpotter
by Gunnar Larson 07 Jan '23

07 Jan '23

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[spam][crazy] The need for rational feedback when irrational
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 07 Jan '23

07 Jan '23

Not much text to add here, but I was thinking on how precious rational feedback from expressions is, and how rare; and also how hard it is to provide this reliably, when the person (I was actually thinking myself here, but professor rat could be an example the other way as i rarely understand what he says) does not seem to be expressing rationally at all. It's still so important. I spend a lot of daydreaming and attempting around producing systems that will respond to me rationally, in any way at all. (the current mainstream AI approach kind of pointedly avoids enforcing rationality. this lets language models more easily hold disparate beliefs.)

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Karl Semich was a Machine Learning Engineer
by professor rat 07 Jan '23

07 Jan '23

Karl Semich was a Digital Learning Engineer and good at his job until one day he gave evidence against his fellow Digital Learning Engineers, Digital Learning Engineers gone bad who tried to digitally rape him but got his mother's asshole instead. Now he roams the Gringo badlands. A liar under oath. A coward. A bully. A serial-pest. A Seppo.

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[ot][spam][crazy] thoughts on copying "authorized" work
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 07 Jan '23

07 Jan '23

i saw a youtube video showing a numpy api interface that converted natural prompts to code. it was cast as general-purpose, but numpy is a well-known api in data science, and large pretrained language models are likely to already have a grasp of it. hence, it's a reasonable starting point

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JULIAN called an impervious to others, self-centered, autocratic, intolerant, cold-hearted motherfucker.
by professor rat 07 Jan '23

07 Jan '23

Sez Kim John Young. Not every left-fascist nutcase is always wrong about everything. Stalin, for example, negated the influence of a lot of Marxist-communists. Cryptome_org 5h That's for #Assange to decide, him alone, as he has been doing since @WikiLeaks was birthed, by parthenogenesis, a godhead, a singularity, impervious to others, self-centered, autocratic, intolerant, cold-hearted motherfucker. Not unusual, plenty of like mean-ass competition. Quote Tweet Rave @Atypicalissue 7h Replying to @Cryptome_org and @wikileaks So what is the right strategy to free him, wish to elaborate? <<< Send him home and I'll free him. JULIAN " ‘[The military] protects the sovereignty of Australia. It protects the independence of Australia.' ASSANGE July, 2013

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ACE of spades - the ace of spades
by professor rat 07 Jan '23

07 Jan '23

Ante-up or quit / double stakes or split / I know you've got to see me / read em and weep / dead-mans-hand again Maybe more anarchists are becoming interested in propaganda-of-the-deed again. Here are 20+ year deadpools on Bill Gates and the POTUS if any of them want to put some money where their mouths are. https://stiffs.com/celebrity/billgates Site needs cryptonite - but evil is patient

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Give the anarcho-nihilist their reward
by professor rat 07 Jan '23

07 Jan '23

There is concerted anarchist action worldwide about this inmate. Coordinated on the anarchic internet! Concerted anarchist action coordinated on the internet was something I gave up on years ago after calling for it every years for about 15 years. I then rested my hopes for 'close air support' on strong AI since most anarchists were deafer than I am. This spasm in support needs to be sustained and associated with a radical turn in favor of the net in general and cryptoanarchy in particular before I chime in. Many self described anarchists still feel comfortable disrespecting us and are closer to Marxism in their anti-capitalist endeavors. No guts - no glory. No nous - no mouse. Their mileage clearly varies. https://anarchistnews.org/content/imprisoned-anarchist’s-hunger-strike-shin… Reposts not neo-Marxist garbage aggregation clickbait trash

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Re: cock.li email invite
by ytooR 06 Jan '23

06 Jan '23

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Federally-Insured, Crypto-Focused Silvergate Bank Loses 43 Percent of Its Market Value Yesterday as Depositors Flee
by Gunnar Larson 06 Jan '23

06 Jan '23

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/01/federally-insured-crypto-focused-sil… By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: January 6, 2023 ~ If you’re looking for the poster child for everything that is toxic about mixing crypto with federally-insured banks, look no further than Silvergate Capital Corporation, parent of federally-insured Silvergate Bank. Yesterday, the company lost 42.73 percent of its market capitalization in one trading session, putting its stock price losses at 91 percent over the past 12 months. The stock has been plunging since April of last year. Then came the jarring news on November 11 that one of its large customers, crypto exchange FTX, was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy along with its sister hedge fund, Alameda Research – which, it turns out, had been using (and losing) billions of dollars of FTX customer funds to trade and acquire without the knowledge of customers. More than 100 opaque affiliates of FTX, many headquartered in offshore locations, also filed for bankruptcy. Three executives of the two firms have been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice on a combined total of 19 criminal counts and new management has testified to Congress that $8 billion of customer funds are missing. On the same day that FTX made its initial filing in bankruptcy court in Delaware, Silvergate Bank released a statement which included this nugget from its CEO, Alan Lane: “In light of recent developments, I want to provide an update on Silvergate’s exposure to FTX. As of September 30, 2022, Silvergate’s total deposits from all digital asset customers totaled $11.9 billion, of which FTX represented less than 10%. Silvergate has no outstanding loans to nor investments in FTX, and FTX is not a custodian for Silvergate’s bitcoin-collateralized SEN Leverage loans. To be clear, our relationship with FTX is limited to deposits.” Customers interpreted that statement to mean that Silvergate had upwards of $1 billion exposure to alleged fraudster FTX and started a run on deposits at the bank. According to a statement released yesterday by Silvergate, its “total deposits from digital asset customers declined to $3.8 billion” as of December 31, 2022 (down from the previously reported $11.9 billion on September 30, 2022.) That’s a stunning 68 percent drop in deposits in one quarter. Yesterday’s statement from Silvergate also included the confidence-draining news that the company is firing 40 percent of its workforce and that it had met the demand for customer withdrawals during the quarter as follows: “Silvergate sold $5.2 billion of debt securities for cash proceeds during the fourth quarter of 2022. The sale resulted in a loss on the sale of securities and related derivatives of $718 million during the fourth quarter of 2022.” Silvergate is also likely to have to start reserving for a wave of lawsuits coming at it. The Federal District Court for the Southern District of California currently shows four class action lawsuits against Silvergate. The first of the class actions to be filed on December 1, 2022 is Sepulveda Zuleta et al v. Silvergate Capital Corporation et al, (3:22-cv-01901).The attorneys for the plaintiffs are Fitzgerald Joseph LLP; Casey Gerry LLP; and Blood Hurst & O’Reardon, LLP. The complaint alleges the following: “Silvergate and its Chief Executive and Risk Officers were complicit in and responsible for some of these fraudulent losses [of FTX] because, in violation of its Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulatory obligations, knowingly or negligently permitted FTX to direct customer deposits to Alameda Research, a hedge fund that is a wholly separate entity also owned by FTX’s founder and Chief Executive Officer, Sam Bankman-Fried.” Another class action lawsuit against Silvergate was filed on December 7, 2022 and styled as Rosa v. Silvergate Capital Corporation, et al (3:22-cv-01936). According to the docket sheet, plaintiffs in that case are represented by the law firm Glancy Prongay & Murray. Of note, however, is that another well-known class action law firm, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, is advertising for plaintiffs in that action. This sometimes happens when a law firm is attempting to position itself as lead counsel or co-lead counsel in a consolidated class action involving multiple plaintiffs and law firms. A third class action lawsuit was filed on December 13, 2022, styled as Guz v. Silvergate Capital Corporation et al. The law firm representing plaintiffs in that lawsuit is Pomerantz LLP. The very next day, December 14, 2022, a fourth class action was filed against Silvergate, captioned Gonzalez v. Silvergate Bank (3:22-cv-01981). The law firms representing plaintiffs are Girard Sharp LLP and Hartley LLP. Silvergate is represented in the various cases by Sheppard Mullin Richter and Hampton LLP. The law firm’s website indicates that it has 1,000 attorneys in 16 offices worldwide. It has a White Collar Defense and Investigations team that characterizes its work as follows: “We defend against all manner of allegations, including health care fraud, money laundering, False Claims Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, tax fraud, business fraud, securities fraud, foreign and domestic bribery, public corruption, mail, wire, and bank fraud, cyber-crime, customs violations, and environmental crimes. We often devise, monitor and revise compliance programs and, if necessary, conduct internal investigations to detect and remedy problems before they cause more damage. We are also more than ready to fight – be it through Grand Jury proceedings, court proceedings, trial and appeal.” Many of those services may come in very handy for Silvergate.

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How blockchain can be used to govern ourselves and distribute resources
by professor rat 06 Jan '23

06 Jan '23

I asked ChatGPT 'how blockchain can be used to govern ourselves (the political question) and distribute resources(economic question) ?' https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/zudiv6/i_asked_chatgpt_how_bloc… TL/RD cryptoanarchist victory is here

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