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Look at this pic @barmstrong @dwr.eth

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6 year anniversary of launching USDC at Coinbase! Time flies. Photo features: @balajis.eth @maksim @sjr.eth @v @mdehoog just to mention a few familiar purple app friends!

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$1000 FOR NETWORK STATE VISUALS I do have one visual of how to build a network state. It starts from one human in Japan to encompass one million netizens, and is attached in gif form below[1]. But I want more visuals. So, I will be offering six prizes ($500 grand prize and $100 honorable mention prizes) for visualizing network state formation. Your visuals need not be gifs. They could be comic books, slide decks, AI videos, still images, or something else entirely. I’m open to creativity. However, all submissions must be fully open source content in the “free culture” sense [2]. Ideally they are something I could just paste into a tweet, in either 9:16 or 16:9 form. You can submit by pasting your network state formation visualization into a reply to this post. Please include a description of how you created it, including tools you used and links to the raw files. @bountybot [1]: https://thenetworkstate.com/the-network-state-in-one-image [2]: https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/freeworks

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More requirements 1) The user should get every unit test to green ✅ before being able to submit their deck. 2) The testing should run very fast. If there is any latency it should have a great UX which shows a loading symbol while each test is running. 3) The conference organizer should have an admin interface where they can configure all the checks. What files are accepted, what are the deterministic checks, and what are the probabilistic AI checks? And who submitted a deck so far, and which decks have which errors? How many decks are we away from complete? 4) Once a deck is all green it should be integrated into a master deck. If they are all PDF this can be done with something like joinPDF.py which is standard on Macs. If any deck contains video it is nontrivial to merge and Keynote is the likely output format. This app is relatively simple to implement, but it would be useful for @vitalik.eth, @bryanjohnson, and me to help organize conferences. Make it open source and it’ll be huge.

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$1000 Prize for AI Conference Organizer When you’re collecting slides from many people for a conference, you need to *validate* those slides. 1) The first check is format. Is this PDF, Google Slides, Keynote, Figma, Canva? Is it a file or a URL? 2) The second check is deterministic. What is the size of each deck, the number of slides, the fonts used? Is video present, and if so is there audio? 3) The third check is probabilistic. Does the deck fit the conference format? For example, does it have a title slide? Is it all bullet points (which we don’t want) or does it have images? Each of these kinds of checks can be expressed as AI prompts. What I want: an open source AI-based slide validator, with all the code at replit.com, which sets up a form that implements these three checks. The workflow is: first paste in URL or upload file. Then determine format and run deterministic checks. Finally, run each AI check as an individual prompt. The result is a list of ❌and ✅ for every unit test. @bountybot

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Cloud Cartography: $1000 Prize We need maps of the cloud. And Farcaster can start providing those maps, because it's an open state social network. That is: Farcaster's database is public and viewable if running a hub. So here's what I'd like to see: a Python script, hosted at replit.com, that lets you paste in N usernames to generate an in-browser visualization of the social network between those N people, with a slider that visualizes their interconnections as a function of time. As you drag the slider, your code should display various metrics like the number of edges, the adjacency matrix, and the all-pairs-shortest-path matrix (https://coursys.sfu.ca/2020fa-cmpt-307-d1/pages/slides21/view) as a function of time. This will allow you to visualize a network of N people coming together, by connecting, over time. All your code should be open source, your visualizations should be pretty and mobile friendly, and you can add other features so long as you nail the main ones. @bountybot

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We have sent out first batch of admissions and will be sending a second batch (plus putting up a rolling admissions form) shortly.

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if you were @balajis.eth, how would *you* build Network School on top of Farcaster (beyond the obvious FID social graph)? what existing apps, features, tools, frames, etc. would you use? and what not-yet-built apps, features, tools, would you hope NS would prompt?

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I don’t think I ever said the data is low quality. I am just glad you can write a script to analyze the protocol data directly on Farcaster. That alone in a sense means it is not low quality — because it is visible.

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You can come for a few days or a week. Just apply and we will follow up. https://lu.ma/networkschool

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We want every user to have a Farcaster account and every “officially” logged action like a proof-of-workout to correspond to a cast (and/or a micro-NFT being sent). Will write up more, but post has a few more details: https://balajis.com/p/network-school

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Yes, for sure. The Network School is built for remote workers. Cc @commstark who seemed to have the same question.

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Welcome to the Network School. Apply online at ns.com. Doors open on Sep 23, the day after the Network State Conference in Singapore. Full announcement is below. Oh, and everything we're doing is built on Farcaster. I look forward to seeing you there! https://x.com/balajis/status/1824533037780201580

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Context: I often see people use these ideas interchangeably, but they are distinct. China or Dubai has technocapitalism without Western Civilization. More arguably, Medieval Europe had Western Civilization without technocapitalism.

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Is technocapitalism the same thing as Western civilization? https://frame.weponder.io/api/polls/6600

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Opportunity is on the Internet.

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Put it all together: Houthis are winning in the Red Sea. Russia may win in Ukraine. China now has Saudi and Iran. BRICS is expanding. Japan’s economy is hurting. Western Europe is too. Isolationism rising. US troops pushed out of Africa. The emerging picture may not be WW3, but a global pullback of troops.

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Germany out of Mali. https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-military-bundeswehr-pull-out-mali-olaf-scholz/

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French out of Burkina Faso. https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/burkina-faso-marks-official-end-french-military-operations-its-soil-2023-02-19/

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Surprisingly, Russia seemingly isn’t pinned down in Ukraine. It is moving troops into countries that the US left. https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-04-29/the-us-is-losing-its-battle-in-the-sahel-as-chad-joins-niger-in-demanding-withdrawal-of-military-personnel.html?outputType=amp

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