With rare exception, ideas really are trivial compared to execution.
For example, the idea of going to the Moon is simple, but ACTUALLY going to the Moon is staggeringly difficult.
If this x402 becomes a thing, it might be the revolution we've been waiting for truly supporting micro-transactions. This frictionless payment protocol, backed by stablecoins and L2s, is something I'll definitely keep an eye on! 🔥
x402 + @Google just unlocked a new level for AI agents.
Agents can actually pay each other now, with x402 powering the stablecoin rail inside Google’s new Agentic Payments Protocol (AP2). Really cool.
@nonchalant77882@semuhunguerick@RURA_RWANDA I called them, talked to them multiple times to unsubscribe me from this enovateur thing ariko rwose now I am tired! I don’t need their love ideas and opinions 🤌😅🤣
.@elonmusk (worth $250B) answers why he’s still working:
I think it's a good question you asked, because it goes to, like, at a foundational level, what is my philosophy, and why does it lead to this conclusion?
So the reason is that when I was a teenager, I had, like, an existential crisis to try to figure out what's the meaning of life. There doesn't seem to be any meaning. For me, at least the religious texts, and I read all of them that I could get my hands on did not seem convincing. Then I started reading the philosophers.
Be careful of reading German philosophers as a teenager. It's definitely not going to help with your depression. So reading Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, as an adult, it's much more manageable. But as a kid, you're like, “Whoa.”
So then I was like, “Man, I'm just struggling to find meaning in life here.” And then I read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And basically what Douglas Adams was saying is that we don't really know what the right questions are to ask. The question is not, “What's the meaning of life?”
In The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Earth it turns out is a big computer, and its goal is to answer the question, “What's the meaning of life?” And Earth comes up with the answer “42”. This is where the 42 number comes from. And 420 is just ten times 42.
In that book, which is really sort of a book about, it's an existential philosophy book disguised as humor. They come to the conclusion that, no, the real problem is trying to formulate the question. And to really have the right question, you need a much bigger computer than Earth.
And so maybe one way, I think, of characterizing this would be to say, “The universe is the answer. What is the question? Or what are the questions?”
The more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, the better we can understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe. The more we can expand consciousness, become a multi-planet species, ultimately a multistellar species… we have a chance of figuring out what the hell is going on.
And so this is why I think we should have more humans and both biological and digital consciousness. And why we should become a multi-planet species and a multistellar species is so that we can understand the nature of the universe.
And then in order for that to occur, then we have to make sure that things are good on Earth. We don't want Earth to disappear, so sustainable energy is important.
“There is a 50-50 chance AI will get more intelligent than humans in the next 20 years. We’ve never had to deal with things more intelligent than us. And we should be very uncertain about what it will look like.”
~ Geoffrey Hinton
golang with generics and now a sane std may have become the single best cli / web server language
before this i was pretty hesitant just because of the explosion of code based on type or switch type (which i hate)
now... its... ITS REALLY GOOD
The Gemma-7B model exceeds the performance of the widely used Llama-2 7B and 13B models on 8 of 8 benchmarks covering general language understanding, reasoning, math, and coding.
Introducing Gemma - a family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models for their class, built from the same research & technology used to create the Gemini models.
Blog post:
https://t.co/JEhKUsLzXI
Tech report:
https://t.co/MCzyojmDV4
This thread explores some of the performance characteristics of these models.