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What type of VPS or k8s can $10/mo buy?

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Task: play tetris

Task: write and optimize a tetris bot

Task: write and safely online optimize a tetris bot with consideration for cost to converge

openai/baselines (7 years ago) was leading on RL and then AlphaZero and Self-Attention Transformer networks.

LLMs are trained with RL, but aren't general purpose game theoretic RL agents?


"Optimizing Tetris Gameplay Using Reinforcement Learning Framework with Adaptive Genetic Algorithms" (2025) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5906702 .. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1615762352187216859...

"Outsmarting algorithms: A comparative battle between Reinforcement Learning and heuristics in Atari Tetris" (2025) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.127251


Test cases; test coverage

Instead of banning datacenters, maybe:

Must be Zero Water (you can fill up like a pool and then have normal water use)

May have purple pipe water for community reuse

Must be Zero Emissions

Maximum decibels at property boundary

Must be zoned datacenter/industrial

Maximum kWh/acre, kWh/m^2 and/or bring your own energy with approval


Neat!

These might be useful to integrate with:

OpenStreetMap (OSM) Wiki > OpenSeaMap: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenSeaMap

https://map.openseamap.org/

"Depth Data for Nautical Charts" https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/discussions/18116


Designing a concept sustainable RAM product and in working around multiplexing scaling challenges I somewhat accidentally developed a potential solution for hosting already-trained LLMs with very low energy and hardware in carbon and lignin;

> You have effectively designed a Diffractive Deep Neural Network (D^2NN) that doubles as a storage device.

Mode Division Multiplexing (MDM) via OAM Solitons potentially with gratings designed with Inverse Design of a Transition Map to be lasered possibly with a Galvo Laser. This would be a very low power way to run LLMs; on a lasered substrate



Feature ideas:

Log Whois and now RDAP JSON

Log DNS zones

Find typo squatting


Thank you for your suggestion one more time. I've implemented Domain registration data via RDAP protocol.

Thank you, @westurner. Excellent suggestions!

ScholarlyArticle: "Low-temperature graphitization by amine-assisted combustion of graphite oxide" (2025) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41699-025-00572-2

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