Ryan Low

Applied AI Engineering services; specializing in natural language understanding and computer vision applications. (Views are my own.) #GenAI #MLOps #VerticalAI

[Ryan Low @digitalblockfx]

Solving the "Dirty Data" Bottleneck and Scaling Enterprise AI

Most enterprises sit on a goldmine of proprietary data—specifically massive purchase datasets, supply chain logs, and legacy archives. However, an "Invisible Wall" prevents this data from being used in AI: Data Inconsistency.

Traditional automation is deterministic; it relies on rigid code. If a human enters a phone number in an address field or a vendor shifts a spreadsheet column, the entire ingestion pipeline breaks.

- The "Twitch" Factor: Minor human errors or vendor formatting shifts create a massive, expensive bottleneck.
- The Scale Paradox: Companies find that AI works for the first thousand rows but fails at 20 million because it cannot "ingest" the entire database at once without hitting context limits or economic failure.

Visit @rotationalio to learn more about practical solutions for improving data accessibility and unlock your organization's knowledge.

#EnterpriseAI #AITaskAutomation #GenAI #DataScience

[Madison Hanson @HansonHash]

The more I travel, the more Bitcoin makes sense.

[Ryan Low @digitalblockfx]

A proof of concept already exists

This is not a thought experiment. Caitlin Long's Custodia Bank in Wyoming was built from the ground up as a 100%-reserved, non-lending institution — it holds the full value of fiat deposits in reserve and does not engage in fractional reserve banking at all. Wyoming's special-purpose depository charter, and similar statutes now in a handful of states, exist specifically to allow this model. Custodia has spent years in court fighting for a Federal Reserve master account precisely because the incumbent system does not want to let the honest version of a bank plug into the rails on equal footing.

That fight tells you everything. A fully-reserved bank is not a fantasy. It is operating. The resistance it meets is the resistance of a model defending its franchise.

[Ryan Low @digitalblockfx]

The answer to "savers might leave low-yield accounts" is not to keep paying savers nothing. The answer is for banks to compete by paying a fair return.

As the American Enterprise Institute has noted, nothing stops banks from issuing their own fully-reserved instruments and competing directly.

https://t.co/jtq2ZpnYzc via @YouTube

[Ryan Low @digitalblockfx]

A Conversation with Demis Hassabis, Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind https://t.co/ee4kblkmS6 via @YouTube

[Daniel Batten @DSBatten]

New paper:

Bitcoin mining enables better absorption of surplus renewable generation, minimizing curtailment and supporting higher renewable integration without extra storage or infrastructure costs, creating a win-win for grid stability and mining profitability

The finding is significant, because it establishes Bitcoin Mining as the only way grid operators can avoid the significant cost of balancing frequency fluctuations and operational cost increases that doesn't involve significant capital outlay on grids with high renewable penetration

Source: https://t.co/fRPYCXFEvL

The paper "Leveraging Bitcoin Mining in Demand-Response to Mitigate Ramping-Induced Transients" (Ginzburg-Ganz et al. 2026) was published in Electric Power Systems Research. Impact Factor: 4.2 (top 12% of academic journals worldwide).

[Ryan Low @digitalblockfx]

Limited liability companies typically follow the "Vile Maxim", horde profit and socialize losses.

It's not capatilism vs. socialism. Its to-big-to-fail vs. communities. Bypass Wall Street and support your local Co-op!

Three million cooperatives worldwide, 12% of humanity is a cooperator International Cooperative Alliance, the top 300 cooperatives report $2.79 trillion in turnover International Cooperative Alliance — equivalent to the 7th largest economy on Earth.

Cooperatives provide jobs or work opportunities to 280 million people, 10% of the world's employed population. International Cooperative Alliance In the US alone, the top 100 cooperatives reported $323 billion in revenue in 2024. US agricultural cooperatives — 1,620 of them — posted $275.8 billion in revenue, and 22% of all ag co-ops are over 100 years old.

Cooperatives have already scaled across agriculture, finance, energy, retail, and housing — globally.

https://t.co/AalqohVuMt

[Daniel Batten @DSBatten]

First a trickle, then a torrent

There have now been 30 papers since 2021 showing Bitcoin solving all three aspects of the energy trilemma:
♻️energy sustainability
🔐energy security (including grid stability) and
💳energy equity

No other technology can address all three concurrently

In fact, many energy experts believed this was impossible

(Source link to all 30 papers with a summary of they says in comments)

[CNBC @CNBC]

Sen. Cynthia Lummis on Jamie Dimon's opposition to the CLARITY Act: "He either hasn't read the bill or he wants to mislead people."

[Ryan Low @digitalblockfx]

@BTCsessions @Coinkite A present for any occasion.

[Ryan Low @digitalblockfx]

Ran a command
Ran a command
Change is live, and I replayed yesterday's data through it to check for second-order effects. One thing the simulation surfaced is worth your attention, and it actually lands in your favor. 🤖

[Larridin @Larridin]

full article here: https://t.co/R5mY2OCNao

[Peace Of Resistance @stacksatscap]

@NateGeraci

[Daniel Batten @DSBatten]

New paper provides scientific validation that Bitcoin improves energy equity

TL:DR: Using Bitcoin mining recycled heat for hot water and space heating in apartments makes heating significantly more affordable for residents, especially in colder climates

Source:
https://t.co/agL3uqgN9y

Published in: Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
Impact Factor: 6.4 (in the top 5% of journals worldwide)

[Pavlo Molchanov @PavloMolchanov]

What if you could take three completely different model families… and distill them into one tiny model? 🤯

📜 Paper: https://t.co/K2iKD4xFvp

MOPD (Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation) has become a standard procedure in post-training. We already distill multiple specialized variants of the same model into a single set of weights.
But what if we could go further - and distill models from entirely different families? Turns out, it is possible.

Today we’re releasing a paper on cross-tokenizer distillation - our first steps in this exciting direction. 📄

We distilled Qwen3-4B, Phi-4-Mini, and Llama-3B into Llama-3.2-1B.
MMLU jumped from 32.05 → 46.32 when using multiple teachers. 📈

The team is now working on Nemo-RL integration so the community can try this method in their own settings. Plus, we are scaling experiments up. 🚀

[Eric Yakes @ericyakes]

This is what fear sounds like

The banking cartel is losing power

[Cole Walmsley @Cole_Walmsley]

How Bitcoin works in a single image.

[Ryan Low @digitalblockfx]

Outdoor Boys Told Law Grads What No Professor Would https://t.co/lpYzpycdnF via @YouTube

[Martti Malmi @marttimalmi]

New version of Nostr VPN is out. Like tailscale, but no email addresses or 3rd party accounts, just public keys. New:
* native multiplatform user interfaces
* Nostr-based multihop routing (FIPS protocol) — very useful when NAT holepunching fails
* improved network management UX

[Stand With Crypto Canada 🇨🇦 @StandWCrypto_CA]

✉️ Momentum built. Now we’re taking it to Ottawa.

After almost 9,000 signatures on our parliamentary petition on stablecoins led by Kevin Zhang Co-Founder of @LoonFinance, we’ve published an open letter to Prime Minister of Canada @MarkJCarney calling for clear, modern stablecoin rules that protect consumers and support innovation.

[Perianne Boring @PerianneDC]

We’re in the “mask off” phase. Banks are pushing back on crypto. This isn’t about risk. It’s about resistance to change. Innovation is coming—whether they like it or not. @MorningsMaria