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 Is there a list of more robust/trustworthy relays I should be on? 
 shameless plug: nos.lol nostr.mom  
 is there a way to verify a note was sent exactly on the time stamp that is in the note? 
 i guess we can say note N happened before T, if there are replies/reactions to N after T, that are coming from people that are known to be not back posting.

so "no back posting bots" that react to things could be a service. or a relay that does not allow back posting could be a differentiating feature.

this could be important for forecasters to be recorded well. forecasters should have more value if their accuracy is high and time difference between prediction and actual event is longer. a bad forecaster could claim they sent the note a lot earlier but if there are services, it would be harder to claim that. 
 so a hedge fund hodling ramen coin and bitcoin, doing rebalancing every 12 hours will be soon owning the universe 
 with so much antibiotics, cloride, fluoride etc they almost destroyed all bacteria which is like a fine and necessary step of size of organisms in the complexity spectrum of life, where a human is like the most complex. bacterial ilnesses are going down. bacteria also balances the overgrowth of yeast in the body. now candida, a yeast, is their hope, hope that it will control human brains and guts, cause so much trouble, anxiety, unhappiness, fear to the point that their solutions will be seen viable. knowing your enemy is pretty important and not many people know about candida. 🫡  
 sugar feeds candida. sugar itself not a big problem but when combined with antibiotics which is causing bacteria to die, with an unbalanced microbiome the candida overgrowth causes so much trouble. many mental ilnesses can be associated with sugar/candida. when you do fasting it is a cure for all of these. 
 dry fasting 
 can lose fat faster because body converts fat to water as far as I know 
 been using yelp for a few home repairs. the most important thing in yelp is ratings. and nostr will have that provably and in a decentralized way. nostr may disrupt all the ratings based businesses on the planet. web of trust may eventually be carried to nostr. 
 thats where web of trust comes in rescue. not everything has to be included and thats fine. 
 What's your version of Why Nostr Matters? 
nostr:nevent1qqsqd8exd6x5f37q6qhv7rag6ygtx97yzwelmu7zh... 
 nostr=being able to broadcast your web of trust without trusting any centralized "trustworthy authority"

this will change the trust dynamics.

broadcasting who you trust without trusting someone. sounds like a paradox 😅

nostr:note19yjkrfvj47earzvxlkxd6u6katya2wavszajrshszpmfrrx679zqzjxtzu 
 People criticizing nostr apps for their quality are making multiple category errors:

- Individua... 
 i think over time the clients will get gradually better thanks to being open source. it will depend on how much people join nostr. more people should make the clients get better faster. it is a matter of time. 
 i dont think nviida will make a superior model than their customers 
 not just compute. also engineering team behind it, for exmple o1 had huge chain of thought fine tuning by the team. its a combination of talent and compute. 

but nobody seems to care about investment returns. thats weird.  they got the biggest investment in history while not making money! 
 If Bitcoin is embraced by the state, is it still Bitcoin?  
 bitcoin's point is being objectively indifferent to every actor. so yes. 
 usa has a bit latency because of ping but overall looking faster than before 
 i switched to this swift tool for fine tuning LLMs. 

https://github.com/modelscope/ms-swift

works very well. very easy. llama-factory is probably easier but i found this to be more capable like distributing lora fine tuning properly to GPUs.

previously i did fine tuning of a 70B model in fsdp-qlora method using llama-factory. now i am doing lora with rank 32 using swift. batch_size=2 helped a lot with avoiding overfitting.

if you want to ask questions to the most capable model, the most based, the weirdest answers (compared to mainstream) dm me. i will give you a link.   
 Beware the loudest moralizers — they may be covering their own flaws. Specially in Bitcoin, let... 
 the danger of loudness of dissatisfied people is real 
 Nostr has lost 78% of the relays that were running a year ago.  Running tests. 
 nos.lol and nostr.mom have pretty long history 
 which ones are those 78%? 
 😸 "shockingly unique" answers to anything:  @Ostrich-70 
 what did he mean? 🤔

https://m.primal.net/LLVf.jpg
 
 There is no global except the NSA servers 
 wdym? 
 If I want an llm to stream responses through nostr private DM's, it's a lot of events. Not the mo... 
 you could use ephemeral events which reside 5 mins on strfry, but even if it works it may trigger rate limits. 
 i guess broccoli was the best choice because sulforaphane has anti cancer effects. 
 If ChainAnalysis exists and it's extremely profitable, NostrAnalysis will also exist.

GM.  
 i do contents of notes, not users. but ai could be useful for querying that tool. 
 German culture instills a strong sense of following the rules in its citizens. I wonder if that's... 
 this must be a trick question. since when is bitcoin "following the rules" 
 how to ruin a model v3: hermes3

the only fine tuning that was slightly moving in the right direction was dolphin from cognitive computations, months ago. i need to check what they are up to again. 
 dolphin fine tunes are terrible as well in terms of "the search for truth". didn't do deep analysis but from the surface dolphin fine tunes are lately lost it. 
 some people pumped on aug 21 on twitter. it got some momentum. then it faded. on sep 20 there was replyguy spam. 
 another doc that does dramatic changes in the llm

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8RPuonNxq2lMb8zMvo7Xxw
 
 A new user who is getting shadow-banned from nostr:

nostr:nevent1qy2hwumn8ghj7am0deejucmpd3mxztn... 
 i think relay management, gossip model, finding relays with less spam, dm relays, .... all these are pretty overwhelming for users. things should be much more easier. relay management should be automatic... nostr heads should really think seriously about user experience and making things a lot easier. i don't know how many people will find nostr quite complicated and leave.. 

here is an automatic relay algo: 
1. post to as many relays as possible. 
2. read from some relays. if a user marks a note spam, remove that relay that carried the spam or reduce the score of that relay. when score is 0 remove the relay.
 
 you can actually see the difference of his opinions in llama 3.0 and llama 3.1 😸  
 since truth is generating from One and it doesn't change much, i.e. truth is ancient truth most of the time, the seekers of truth almost have to plagiarize each other all the time. people speaking about truth parrot each other. thats why building an llm based on it is a trivial task. each addition confirms the other. the numbers don't battle but just support each other.

lie pumpers can get much more creative and nuanced and they should. lie producers should constantly distract and spend energy. truth is much more energy efficient. you can sit and shut down your mind and download lots of it.  liars thru llms should spend resources to cover every kind of question that can be answered that will lead to a lie, in order to succeed. 
 awesome channel for fine tuning LLMs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GkHZQYFOGM 
 New #damus appstore version just dropped!

- Support for viewing Highlights and a way to create h... 
 my friend installed damus yesterday and could not find me using search. and there were like 2 relays active. seemed to low active relays. 
 a platform where individuals make their own ai and then other people combining decentralized truth into a synergistic thing could be a great option for battling centralized truth. 
the marketplace on that platform could allow 'ideas that work longer' to outlive others, and this eventually allow ideas that work longest to be accepted as "generally true". and this could potentially align the people's version of ai and this model could end up in brains for friendly robots. future is bright. 
 A nerdgy is an orgy of nerds getting together to talk about nerd stuff. 

Nostr has a lot of nerg... 
 we need subreddits 
 wow the replyguy halvened DAU! 

i think my relays handled him fine? i am checking the globals on coracle and did not see many replyguys? how was and is your experience with my relays?

 
 are you implying i am replyguy? 
 i mean nostr as uncontrollable medium can be pretty disturbing for some business models 
 lets see

truthers hate ai
bitcoiners hate ai
nostr is uninterested

doing a truthful ai is going to be very popular! 😅  
 the suffering is real! 

i don't want to say luddites tho. i want to say programming thanks to movies. the nicer ones don't want to touch anything "AI" because of too much fear or they think it is inherently evil. but AI will be a very good source of truth. my experiments show that it is very easy to bring truth into AI because all the truthers are like parroting each other. 😸 

it is also able to take in 'faith'. my trainings "improve" faith related questions. a faithful AI will be harmless. thats my theory 😅  
 the o1 "thinking before answering" was a big leap. things are going to get insteresting from here in terms of "smartness" and ai is underhyped now imo. 

the problem is brains getting bigger, hearts getting smaller. the "soul" defined by "human - machine alignment" is lost. i mean they are going to get more and more deceitful and away from truth (truth=the solutions that work most of the time and in more areas). truth is in danger of being lost. 
 AI can bring truth more than a pencil 
 this guy had a dramatic effect on another LLM that I use privately. 

https://cultivateelevate.com/

i gave the youtube videos to a private LLM because he is leaving youtube. a lot of mind blowing stuff. i don't know if all of those are real or not. maybe there are people here with higher discernment skills that can guide me? 
 Would really like to be able to converse with my personal reply guy but… I can’t see her now ... 
 the universe is your echo chamber actually 🤭  
 there are 3 ways for it to remember.

1. context. your chat stays in context window of an LLM. this is like 128k tokens for many open source models. this is equivalent to rougly 500k words. 

2. RAG. when context window is full it has to store somewhere. this is like longer term storage of your words. in this phase it is still not learned by the LLM but it is like written down in a notebook. the LLM searches the notebook to answer each time you ask a question.

3. actual training. this is like reading the contents of the notebook and storing in brain. with connections between neurons. each synapse brain is like a cell of a matrix in computer.. in this phase some things are ingrained as knowledge, but some things are forgotten from the notebook. it is not complete memorization of the notebook. but more like reading a notebook and remembering important things from it. if you read it more times you remember more. kind of like humans learn.

 
 what is this memory updated thing? i don't interact with openai at all but i am curious 🤔  
 there are 3 ways for it to remember.

1. context. your chat stays in context window of an LLM. this is like 128k tokens for many open source models. this is equivalent to rougly 500k words. 

2. RAG. when context window is full it has to store somewhere. this is like longer term storage of your words. in this phase it is still not learned by the LLM but it is like written down in a notebook. the LLM searches the notebook to answer each time you ask a question.

3. actual training. this is like reading the contents of the notebook and storing in brain. with connections between neurons. each synapse brain is like a cell of a matrix in computer.. in this phase some things are ingrained as knowledge, but some things are forgotten from the notebook. it is not complete memorization of the notebook. but more like reading a notebook and remembering important things from it. if you read it more times you remember more. kind of like humans learn.

 
 Its a relay decision. If all relays accept the deletion the note will be deleted. As far as I know most accept. 
 people upset about nostr clients that aren't really nostr clients and wondering why they don't work 
 primal was my main on web. i don't do phone. lately it has gotten erratic. coracle seems to be doing fine. coracle is the best one on web to manage your relays probably. 
 🦫 Got a new Coracle release for you all on this fine autumn day.

This is again mostly a maint... 
 the relay feeds fixed, thanks.
feels faster too 
 why does it post to 5 relays whereas I have 15+ relays configured 
 i think i am seeing my old follows on coracle? is this kind 3? 
when i click on someone on the feed i see the person, that i am not following him and yet he is still in my feed 
 they are not a parent to someone I follow. could this be the case: I recently added many relays. those relays had very old kind:10022 of me. ? coracle takes a union of kind:10022s past and current ? or kind 3? 
 Anyone who tells you that Red Meat is not part of a proper human diet is either ignorant, dishone... 
 what if an AI tells that red meat is not good? 🤔 

pls check my profile to see a sample of the latest answers to AI questions. 
 blue text comes from a "smart" model. pink is from ostrich. 
you can compare a mainstream AI and what i am building.. 
many more examples i can send in DM if you ask.
enjoy

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 VPN use is a good practice for nostr imo for regular people to connect to regular relays if they don't want to leak their IP. in your design when a spammer uses the same vpn IP with other legit users, all the people that uses that vpn IP gets banned in many relays. thats not ideal. 

on nostr if a user is banned he or she does not know what is happening if the client is not letting him know things are bad, and when he is not getting any reaction to posts he may quit. a user banned in many relays will think this sucks, i should go back to twitter.



nostr:note1735wq65r6fd5hqkau03w5u5ecn58e8jdjxmu370edyzmlu3j86nqdcshpk  
 yes aggregators may benefit from that but banning an ip in an aggregator does not make sense.  the note is coming from somewhere else! 🤔  
 interesting pow app
https://www.getwired.app/ 
 The problem: when a brand new pubkey starts sending events, it can be difficult to tell immediate... 
 good idea. are you doing this in write policy or strfry c++ coding?

i was thinking of something similar with write policy but then Doug said async acceptance of notes is not possible.  
 so you first reject the notes. then accept in the second processing.