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Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs
by qPXpHSHYUF 28 Jan '24

28 Jan '24

On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 7:51 PM Karl Semich <0xloem(a)gmail.com> wrote: > jim bell is a hero for posting about post-quantum fido and a pi formula. > ultraram is cool too and professor rat always mixes in something rare and > needed. and grarpamp got chip vulnerabilities long before jim and i did. > > -- > every now and then, ever since the zombification idea, i pass a graveyard > again. i spent some time in a wooded graveyard that was quite beautiful, > lots of serene corner areas ... > > my interest in graveyards originally started when i was supposed to be > killed, something seemed to save me and make it more a joke, when i was in > a heavy trance i would sometimes want to dig a hole and lay in it . long > ago. much more torturous then. now medicine gets to keep everyone alive > forever i hear? or do we come back to life and do it ourselves? > > anyway, after i joked about putting servos in dead people's joints on list > earlier things shifted and there was more of a robotics focus. the idea was > to make robots that danced on the graves of dead people (since we could > bring them back to life but aren't) and it would i guess be a suitable > zombie apocalypse to see, quite clear, then i realized how depressing it > would be, pretty important to realize such things. sad the cool idea was > evil. need supported ideas that aren't evil! also need projects! it lets me > do more if it makes it evil, it's confusing, dissociative. > > anyway again, i think the thoughts would collapse together around the idea > of making systems that accurately speak for the dead like in the ender's > game series. the zombie idea ignored the brain, considering only > reanimating the body, but i've worked with information all my life, not > biology and medicine. > > it seems similar to making a system that proves everything that is true, > something clearly we're all trying to pop into existence in some way or > another ... > > ... some thoughts misplaced ... maybe back to the dancing robots ... i > made a dancing robot once ... > > anyway a lot of people seem to feel humanity is really about stories, that > this separates us from other creatures, the depth and quickness with which > we relate what happened elsewhere, at another time, or what might happen > [and how we feel about it, which are more deep stories]. bees dance > stories, and humans have billion dollar box office movies ... > > [i was also thinking how the lack of information stores information so > thoroughly as well. this is present in evolution: if a predator eats all > the purple mongooses and they evolve to have the same color as their > environment, the predator's behavior, and the lives of all those purple > mongooses, are shown in the coats of the mongooses that survive .... you > could consider what influences produced various fossils specifically the > way they are, and derive further theoretical fossils, and plot their > possibility, like mapping a brain from partial information ... > > [a theory of spirit is that there is always new kinds of information, > meaning there will always be some way in the future to discern what of > importance really happened, that we could never think of today > > >

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by Gunnar Larson 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

https://www.instagram.com/stories/govkathyhochul/3289088404493363864?utm_so…

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Ex-PayPal Executive Bets on Bringing Musk and Thiel to the Big Screen
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

Ex-PayPal Executive Bets on Bringing Musk and Thiel to the Big Screen https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-26/paypal-movie-aims-to-bri… Jack Selby was one of PayPal Holdings Inc.’s first employees and sold his stake in the Silicon Valley firm when eBay Inc. bought it for $1.5 billion about two decades ago.

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The Downfall of Diddy Inc.
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

The Downfall of Diddy Inc. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-01-18/diddy-diageo-and-the-dec… Even before four women accused him of sexual assault, Sean “Diddy” Combs was having a bad year. He’d been on the verge of hatching “the largest Black-owned cannabis company in the world,” promising he’d help Black people who’d been disproportionately criminalized by harsh drug laws. But by July the $185 million deal to acquire the operations of two large weed companies in several states had fallen through. Around the same time, he explored making an offer for Paramount Global’s BET, the first Black-owned cable network, as part of what a confidant told Variety was “his strategy to build a Black-owned global media powerhouse.” In August, however, Paramount pulled the network off the market, before reportedly considering a sale to a management group a few months later for almost $2 billion. The following month, Combs dropped The Love Album: Off the Grid, his first solo record in 17 years, featuring Justin Bieber, the Weeknd, John Legend and Mary J. Blige. “It’s the Super Bowl of R&B,” Combs told the Today show. “One of the greatest combinations of talent put together on an album in history!” But even with the parade of high-profile cameos, Love peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard 200 album chart, making it the worst performer yet by an artist many have long considered a second-tier rapper and mediocre producer. A Guardian reviewer wrote that Combs’ album was “oddly dissatisfying” and called his sultry patter with a female protégée on one cut “rather creepy.”

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Giuliani Lists Yankees Loot, Trump Claim as Assets in Bankruptcy
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

Giuliani Lists Yankees Loot, Trump Claim as Assets in Bankruptcy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-26/giuliani-lists-yankees-l… Rudolph Giuliani’s bankruptcy financial disclosures show he has assets that include New York Yankees world series rings, a signed Joe DiMaggio shirt, and potential claims against Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.

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PayPal Thrives As Its Employees Thrive
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

Not exactly sure what Forbes.com is saying here, this is a dated story as yesterday. But not the current PayPal CEO. Anyway, I like the quote below, along with the sister companies involving themselves. Gunnar --- https://www.forbes.com/sites/justcapital/2024/01/26/paypal-thrives-as-its-e… As he put it: “Our success as a company should be shared.” Why? Because employees who feel financially secure will be much more loyal to the mission of the company that makes that possible for them. “We want our employees to do the right thing with every single interaction with the customer,” he said. All of these measures were fundamental to PayPal’s enlistment in The Financial Wellness Initiative in partnership with JUSTJST Capital, the Financial Health Network, and Good Jobs Institute. (JUST Capital, where I serve on the board, is best known for its annual list of the most just companies in America.) The program impacts countless workers already with 170 membership companies including, Bank of AmericaBAC, American Express, Citi, Mass Mutual, Prudential FinancialPRU, VisaV, Wells Fargo and many more.

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JPMorgan Issues Surprise Bitcoin ETF Prediction After Sudden Price Surge
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/01/26/jpmorgan-issues-surp…

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PayPal shares fall after CEO announces AI-based products
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

PayPal shares fall after CEO announces AI-based products: https://youtu.be/PxP_LUH8cZs?si=7kAQ9d2XZtVPQR18

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Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

I did a simple draft translation of general complex inference to machine learning (introspectively): 3 models (or prompts): 1. a generative or simulation model for a context 2. a classifier identifying the context 3. a trainee that generates missing system representations Models 1 and 2 perform forward inference from the output of 3 to make a loss function that compares with known data, and bam you have a system that can depict plausible underlying causes in whatever mode you train it on. It’s cool because similar to human thought. 3 ends up making a decision tree since multiple outputs compared. (guessing) For example you could use this to predict the source code for a binary without looking inside it (easier with an RL env or just user handholding of it): 1. prompt language model to execute source code 2. prompt language model to identify it is correct code and any other known data 3. soft tune a prompt to produce source (oops)

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83 highlights to New York State Executive Law Article 15 HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
by Gunnar Larson 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

Gunnar Larson (in memory of Brody Larson, on his 14th Birthday...) collates -- 83 highlights to New York State Executive Law Article 15 HUMAN RIGHTS LAW: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pGXpOcskWOZqqzQcVyLg4yBcQC2UcY2Q/view?usp=… . Gunnar wants to further share if you search "bank" in this HUMAN RIGHTS document, 13 results show with 'bank' associated. With the First Republic matter: 25. The term "superintendent", when used in this article, means the head of the banking department appointed pursuant to section twelve of the banking law.

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