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Protip: you can come in to Brussels through Amsterdam. Passport control line in AMS is negligible (at least at 5AM, though I'm sure it's not too bad at other times either), and it's only a 2h train ride straight from the AMS airport to Brussels.

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Airvalent CO2 monitors. airvalent.com Exciting to see how small these are getting, similar size to apple airpods case. Looking forward to seeing this tech ~1-3 versions from now, where air quality monitoring can just be part of a smartwatch.

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Poseidon is a super elegant hash function, part 2: Even an optimized STARK arithmetization can fit into a single screenshot

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In regular programming, zero is false and anything else is true. In ZK cryptography, zero is true and anything else is false.

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Epochs and slots all the way down: ways to give Ethereum users faster transaction confirmation times https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/06/30/epochslot.html

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https://x.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1806036301009011054 Seeing so much hate for this diagram that would have been accepted as common wisdom 5 years ago makes me sad, and makes me somewhat more scared for the future of the world. I hope we can snap out of this mode of thinking soon.

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🚨BREAKING🚨 Cosmic team is getting ready for July 🦆🔜 🌕

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In multiple European cities now I see taxis being allowed to use the bus lane (while of course regular cars are not). What's the policy justification for this?

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Interesting thread on UK vs France from the other app. I am curious, do locals of either country agree? https://x.com/bswud/status/1804899087197564950

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On the other app: "Look, here's a really impressive Al dog" "Nonono that's just a really impressive Al video deepfake of an Al dog"

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To me, the most underrated counterargument to the Pascal's Wager is that it ignores that your actions can have consequences on either side of zero. Once you take that into account, many things move from "seeming no-brainer" to "totally undecidable omg what the heck do l do"

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GM We heard that Adidas is coming to Base, so had to make a special COSMIC to welcome them!

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The galaxy brain chain doesn't end there. The next step is realizing that the line "news is propaganda" is itself propaganda to make social media dwellers think they're safe because social media is not "news", and absorb social media propaganda more uncritically. https://x.com/ModernDadSG/status/1803553694723756431

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$COSMIC (Base) A new kind of #memecoin. Hard to explain in just few words but what it does is giving you #NFT by holding their coin and apparently the more you hold the better the NFT. Dumping for few days now, I’m interested. Let’s see where the price lands, right now a little over $900K fdv. Definitely keeping an eye on this one. more you can find on X => https://x.com/InstinctCrypto/status/1803489903885557878

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The first ever MEME404 project. Built on Base. Project by x.com/TheSmarmyBum. CA: 0x7c101a0e141517009d3138743213e3e835a809de. Links: https://linktr.ee/CosmicOnBase

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It's really underrated how 4 years ago the worst ethereum UX problem was that transactions would often take like 10 min to confirm if you get unlucky with the gasprice, and that problem just completely went away with EIP-1559. Today transactions reliably confirm in 5-20 seconds. https://x.com/post_polar_/status/1803406902430236907

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There's a fascinating analogy between coding in python using hyper-optimized vectorized libraries (numpy, cupy, torch…), and living in Singapore. In python, whatever you're not vectorizing takes the longest, even if it's utterly trivial. Literally picking merkle branches out of a pre-built tree is taking me longer than an entire fast fourier transform. In Singapore, whatever you get from international brands (as opposed to eg. hawker centers) is the most expensive, even if it's utterly trivial. I've literally had meals where the starbucks green tea I had right after a hawker center meal cost more than the meal.

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I feel like off-chain ZK applications are really undervaluing the potential of just using STARKs, including for privacy-demanding use cases. These days a STARK is < 100 kB, for off-chainтuse cases that amount of bandwidth is utterly trivial compared to the client-side prover time savings that come from using STARKs.

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New way to encode a profile picture dropped: https://x.com/Ethan_smith_20/status/1801493585155526675 320 bits is basically a hash. Small enough to go on chain for every user.

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