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A continuación, viene un hilo [🧵] sobre la #automatización del trabajo, los #robots y una serie de #ideas💡a tomar en cuenta ➡️... Image
Probablemente, te preguntarás, ¿Por qué la #automatización del #trabajo 🦾ha llamado tu atención?

¿Es acaso debido a las películas de #Terminator, o tal vez, #Robocop, #WALL·E o Nueve de #ShaneAcker? ⬇️
La verdad es que, todo esto se deriva de una muy particular #pasión por no morirme de hambre 😂 en un #mundo 🌎 cada vez más #competitivo, automatizado y #tecnológico. ⬇️ Image
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Introducing BitShelf / SatTag (Open-source).

My plan at the #bitcoin 2021 conference was to approach @jack or @sqcrypto to discuss a low mental-cost denomination and product for lightning.

Alas that meeting wasn’t possible — so I’m open-sourcing it. Build it with or without me.
Dollars & Cents V.S. Bits & Sats💰

100 Pennies in a Dollar.

100 Satoshis in a Bit.

Explaining to newcomers that a bitcoin is made of one hundred million sats always invites confusion and dissonance.

Instead:
1 Million Bits in a #Bitcoin. Image
Anyone who owns a full bitcoin owns a million bits, similar to how it’s rare to be a millionaire in cash.

Many newcomers dislike owning part of a bitcoin and can’t easily grasp sats because of the high mental cost of 100,000,000 per coin… Cheap shitcoins exploit this ignorance. Image
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So let's unpack this.

We hear a lot about "#dashboards"; we were even promised sight of one, back in March* - though we've not seen it yet.

But what are they, in reality?

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*healthtech.blog.gov.uk/2020/03/28/the… ImageImage
Well, for starters, we know quite a bit about @NHSEngland's 'dashboard(s)': back in March, @MattHancock gave it powers to DEMAND confidential patient information from care providers*, for (broadly defined) "#COVID19 purposes"...

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Under the #COPInotices:
gov.uk/government/pub…
...and we know @NHSEngland's hoovering up *at least* 70 different datasets into its #DataStore (the list at data.england.nhs.uk/covid-19/ is no longer comprehensive due to the controversial contents of some of the datasets).

As its "#PrivacyNotice" points out,
england.nhs.uk/contact-us/pri… Image
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El 25 de febrero de 1991, durante la Guerra del Golfo, una batería de misiles #Patriot estadounidenses no logró interceptar un misil #Scud. Murieron 28 soldados.

La causa: un error de 0.000000095 frente al gran error de la #guerra.

📺 latimes.com/archives/la-xp…

¿Qué ocurrió? ⬇️
Los #Patriot eran (son) misiles tierra–aire de largo alcance y carácter defensivo. Cuando el radar de la batería detectaba un ataque con misiles, los Patriot eran lanzados con el propósito de destruir la amenaza antes de que alcanzara su objetivo.

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El proceso era sencillo:

1⃣ El radar detectaba un objeto extraño.
2⃣ Sabiendo la velocidad de un #Scud, el sistema predecía su "posible" futura ubicación y comprobaba si el objeto había seguido dicha trayectoria.
3⃣ Si la amenaza se confirmaba, se lanzaban los #Patriot.
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"If I were to write a textbook on #complexity, it would be structured like this..."
- SFI Pres David Krakauer starts off this morning at #CSSS19 #CSSS at @IAIASantaFe

#error #adaptation #universality #coarsegrained #math #theory
"If you talk about #intelligence and #stupidity, you talk about #communication and #policy. That is the natural place to start."

"If you've ever written a Lokta-Volterra #equation, you've drawn a perpetual motion machine. There's no #dissipation."

- SFI President David Krakauer
"Why #God is a bad #theory: it's not because it's not true; it's because it uses an infinite-dimensional process to explain low-dimensional phenomena."

- SFI President David Krakauer at #CSSS19 on #Ockham's Razor & why #Darwin's animal breeding metaphor backfired on #evolution
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