In other news

[davv]

Finally!

It only took one and a half months from I ordered it 'till I got it... *mumble mumble curse hash evaluators*



Maybe now I can play with neural nets - once I have slightly more time and I'm not busy doing research all the time. At least setting it to improve Leela Zero shouldn't take much effort on my part.

Comments

[expandranon]

How did that one slip past the miners? Glad you could get it. How much did you have to pay for it?

I bought a new computer last year. It was $500, and within a month, I could have sold the video board for slightly more than I paid for the whole thing.

[davv]

Just over $1000.

I understand they're closer to $1200 if you'd like to buy one right now? It is insane, but at least it's not a Vega 64.

[expandranon]

Also, whatcha been up to? I don't think we've spoke since I quit using Skype. I still poke Skype every so often, but I'm mostly on telegram now.

[lhexa]

Ahhah, now you can start minting virtual coins for your virtual dragon hoard!

...Or not. I'm guessing you're a pickier dragon that that. ;)

[davv]

From when I last checked, most of these virtual tokens' programmers still think deflation is a good idea. I don't :p Now, give me something that is to democracy what these virtual coins are to laissez faire, and I might be interested... it would still waste a lot of power, though.

I'm surprisingly red for a blue-green dragon. But you probably already knew that :)

[lhexa]

But gold is deflationary too, and that's the dragon classic! Are you saying Smaug, Smaug the Golden, didn't understand macroeconomics?!

[davv]

I don't think Smaug much cared about the repercussions of his actions :)

[lhexa]

More seriously, I agree that its deflationary nature is a huge drawback of Bitcoin. Many more people are debtors than creditors, and deflationary money highly favors the latter.

[lhexa]

My emails to your current address (in reply to your recent message about IMs) have been bouncing consistently. So I'm trying a message here.