John Lee Quigley

@jesse_vermeulen Open up a new Claude window

honest question: what do people do during the 5-10 min while Claude is running?

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@mtvmald How did you handle character and voice consistency across the different clips?

@maxxmalist How do you handle character and voice consistency when you're creating multiple shots?

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Here’s more detail on how I think the fuel protestors can be even more strategic and effective. During the fuel protest, it’s important to know the rich and powerful in Ireland can mostly work from home. They don’t need to be physically present in their offices. That’s not the case for a great many people. Shutting major roads is more of an inconvenience to workers like nurses and teachers who need to be physically present in classrooms, hospitals etc. The fuel protestors could be even more effective if they shut key roads in and out of places where the richest and most powerful largely live: D4 and D6, Dalkey, Killiney, and Howth; and then where those people mostly work, D2. With four tractors alone you could all but blockade Sandymount or Ranelagh, Shrewsbury Road or Kildare Street. On another front: Major multinational manufacturing plants and parks are dispersed across the country. They are therefore more easily accessible to fuel protestors. Blocking a small number of huge manufacturing sites would disrupt the profits of the most powerful lobby in the ear of the current government: American MNCs. Again, you just need to be strategic and target the very biggest ones. You could also be a bit French about things and spread slurry on key buildings around Dublin containing lobby groups or organisations most connected to the surge in fuel prices. These might include the American Chamber of Commerce (Wilton Place) and the American Embassy (Ballsbridge) - and of course Shannon Airport which is used for the attacks on Iran by the United States. By strategically targeting the richest and most powerful, who almost exclusively control the government, you are more likely to win more hearts and minds of nurses, teachers and everyone else in the country. You also need fewer tractors and trucks to pull it off. And finally by dispersing across the country, as opposed to largely concentrating in one area, it’s even harder for the government to stop it.

@SineadOS1 That graph is wild. I've always wondered if the GDP of Ireland has been largely propped up by large multinationals like Apple and Google coming in for tax reasons but the benefits of this only being experienced by a small minority. Any thoughts on this Sinéad?

The protests in Ireland are not about just fuel! They are about the distance between Ireland on this graph and every other modern and developed economy. Ireland is second wealthiest but gets waaaaay less than any other country for that wealth. By a golden mile. That visual gap in this graph? That’s what people are protesting. It’s a lack of infrastructure and the everyday enshittification of services, the economy, and the additional difficulty of trying to live, relative to peers in any other country. It also highlights why people don’t get uniformly listened to! - because there is no government architecture to engage meaningfully across this huge gap. That gap is a three hour drive to work in traffic, a 14 month wait for an MRI, buses that don’t arrive, trains that don’t exist, schools that have no places for your kids, houses that are unaffordable, pubs that close before midnight, €12 sandwiches, expensive fuel. People feel this gap, even if they can’t explain it precisely. And that builds into resentment, and ultimately protest. Fuel just happened to be the next thing that could be pointed to, today.

@itsjessyin I've found reading aloud very useful for improving writing. Helps pinpoint parts where the message isn't being properly communicated.

forcing myself to read my writing out loud will make me a better writer because i believe my optimal communication sits somewhere between speech (low lossiness, low refinement) and writing (high lossiness, high refinement, post-editing ofc)

Protesters are calling for Ireland's carbon tax to be completely abolished & reduction in fuel prices generally to be more affordable. Used AI to get a rough idea of where Ireland stand in comparison to other EU countries. Data is AI generated so may not be fully accurate.

Serious ruckus unfolding in Ireland with protesters utilizing their vehicles to create gridlocks countrywide, blocking citizens & even oil imports for the past 4 days in a #fuelprotest Meeting scheduled with the protesters & government today but army & gardai also being deployed

I spent the evening looking into quantum computing timelines as a non-expert in quantum computing. Here is what I’ve learned: We currently have machines with ~1,000–1,500 physical qubits at error rates around 10⁻³, and Google’s algorithm requires ~500,000 physical qubits operating coherently together with surface code error correction, yoked qubit storage, magic state cultivation producing ~500K T states per second, and reaction-limited execution at 10μs cycle times — none of which has been demonstrated beyond small-scale proof-of-concept experiments. Scaling from where we are to where this needs to be isn’t a matter of incremental improvement along a Moore’s Law curve; it requires solving qualitatively new engineering problems in qubit fabrication yield, correlated error suppression across a massive chip (or multi-chip interconnects that don’t exist yet), cryogenic wiring and control electronics for half a million qubits, real-time classical decoding at the required throughput, and sustained coherence of a “primed” quantum state across minutes of wall-clock time — any one of which could prove to be a multi-year bottleneck, and all of which must be solved simultaneously.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Given the above, I just don’t see how we’re going to get to a cryptographically relevant quantum computer by 2030, especially given that we need a ~350× increase in physical qubit count with simultaneously tighter error correlations, an entirely new cryogenic control and wiring architecture to address half a million qubits, real-time decoding infrastructure that doesn’t exist yet, magic state distillation factories operating at industrial throughput, and multi-minute coherent idle times for primed states — and historically, solving even one of these at scale has taken the field the better part of a decade.

Shoutout to @robertocomer. Cool to see an Irishman DIY building a hostel out in El Salvador while speaking Spanish and shilling Bitcoin. 🇸🇻🇮🇪 Check out his journey here. @SalvadorValley" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@SalvadorValley

My attempt to bring a balanced and practical perspective to the quantum computing developments as they relate to Bitcoin. And I only say "qubits" once! adaptiveanalysis.substack.com/p/bitcoins-qua…

@alexdunsdon @nic_carter Yeah pretty juicy odds for the no side

@nic_carter Incredible it’s even 10 percent tbh

I'm not yet fully getting on board with the quantum risk FUD but it definitely would be reassuring to see the major Bitcoin Devs start getting some comprehensive safeguards in place while also getting on the same page for what-if scenarios.

One interesting argument against quantum risk is that Bitcoin is more resilient and adaptable than CeFi. However, CeFi's advantage is it can have safeguards that it will implement quickly whereas Bitcoin has historically been extremely challenging to upgrade.

@lopp It's good to be getting a balanced viewpoint on this. It seems the opinion is getting very polarized at the moment.

It's not FUD to point out that significant advancements are being made in quantum computing. It is FUD to make claims that ECC will be broken in X years. No one can honestly make predictions about the rate of progress we'll see in the future, and many breakthroughs are needed.

The quantum computing risk for Bitcoin sitting in a Segwit address with no transactions has a longer time horizon than Bitcoin sitting in an address which has transacted. Do with that information what you will.

This is the only public comment Satoshi ever made about quantum computing risk to Bitcoin Back in 2010 a user "llama" asked what would happen if signatures were compromised due to quantum computers and whether it would make BTC worthless "True, if it happened suddenly. If it happens gradually, we can still transition to something stronger. When you run the upgraded software for the first time, it would re-sign all your money with the new stronger algorithm." - satoshi

@junglemandan What's your thoughts on approaching study in terms of improving GTO but also adjusting for exploitative play? After 6 months of consistent GTO study, I've realized that it's a great fundamental base but can limit your ability and willingness to adjust to your oppoennt's flaws.

In poker, there are biases that populations follow. You can call these "hive minds," and if you can exploit them you will print money. There is the the recreational hive mind, there is the Chinese pro one, the Western pro one, and even the top pros have one. Real life actually works similarly, and it is difficult to escape group biases and status quo's. A notorious bias is that of Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic (WEIRD) culture. Supposedly an aspect of enlightenment is removal of all mind...

@abrilzucchi Que libro es este?

“the most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster.” this still lives rent free in my head