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He is making multi-year, illiquid, unhedgeable speculative investments in brand-new crypto protocols because he thinks “the market’s going up” and because he hopes that those protocols can hire people and build value. This is a venture capital investment. And he describes it as an *arbitrage* .
Fwd: Money Stuff: Crypto Had a Credit Bubble
Josh Beckman
The way double descent is normally presented, increasing the number of model parameters can make performance worse before it gets better. But there is another even more shocking phenomenon called *data double descent*, where increasing the number of *training samples* can cause performance to get worse before it gets better. These two phenomena are essentially mirror images of each other. That’s because the explosion in test error depends on the ratio of parameters to training samples.
Double Descent in Human Learning
chris-said.io
Influence operations can take many shapes; most such operations are conducted by governments on their own citizens.
Can 'Radioactive Data' Save the Internet From AI's Influence?
Casey Newton
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