I don't think that would work well at all. "The polar opposite to my norms" is stuff like Alex Jones and Breitbart. I won't learn anything from exposing myself to such idiocy. Dishonest clickbait is worthless, even if it comes from a diversity of viewpoints.
No algorithm is (yet) smart enough to judge the quality of journalism. Facebook shouldn't try.
This is exactly why we need to be broken from echo chambers. If you think the polar opposite of whatever you believe is conspiracy and idiocy, you are in an echo chamber. There is rational journalism for whatever is the opposite of your beliefs.
EPYC is already economically viable. If it's not seen as viable, that's for business rather than technical reasons. It has more cores, better IO, and after these patches it's no longer clear that Intel has simply better performance per core.
Just a random rant: Our data team onprem infra is based on EPYC and boy it's wonderful.
We've just placed an order for another 200 EPYC-based servers for our onprem setup that's set to arrive in Q1 but folks already can't wait.
AMD people should be proud, as customers we're really happy. I hope that GCP would have EPYC-based platform at some point too.
I've been toying with the idea of a computation-backed currency. Any computer can obviously pay another computer in computer time. This means that any node in the system can issue currency backed by computer time. This would require trust, but it would be trust between neighbors rather than trust in one central exchange.
The problem is that that's not really a currency. It's zillions of IOUs. I don't know how to make transactions between two nodes that don't trust each other or how to come up with one number for someone's net worth.
Some economists would argue that "zillions of IOUs" is basically the precursor to currency/money. Then you just need a consistent unit, and that ability to trade/transact (which is a solved problem).
> Graeber proposes that money as a unit of account was invented the moment when the unquantifiable obligation "I owe you one" transformed into the quantifiable notion of "I owe you one unit of something". In this view, money emerged first as credit and only later acquired the functions of a medium of exchange and a store of value. [1]
Oh, come on. Their only goal is to make Google money. The fact that they do useful work is a nice side effect, but if they didn't improve Google's security and give good PR there's not a chance in Hell Google would keep them around.
They could get AMD hardware that works today. We don't know when Intel will have working hardware. It will be at least months and possibly years. Processor design is a long process.
Can we stop talking about quadcopters as if they're the only kind of drone on the planet? There are other kinds of drones with far better endurance, e.g. Predator drones which can stay in the air for 24 hours.
No algorithm is (yet) smart enough to judge the quality of journalism. Facebook shouldn't try.