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Mike Purvis

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Mike Purvis
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in the past weeks, i've loosened my brain enough to ask, "wait, why is there an equals sign in reality?" i understand in math because it fits the axioms we made up. the ideal gas law is good at illustrating this, where PV = nRT. Importantly, pressure and volume are on one side, temperature on the other. is the equals sign kinda like symmetry? even if it's an imperfect fit, is that a helpful way to think? i cannot ever hope to be "right" about anything with regards to human discovery, but i can hope that i'm wrong in the right way. that is, leading others to discover the next thing. perhaps that is the greatest honor a human mind may achieve. but also remember to play frisbee and laugh until you cry, and cry until you're done and can resume laughing
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saw John Malkovich with the Oregon Symphony last night. it occurs to me that he's straight-up using his notoriety to bolster the arts. the premise is he talks smack about classical music as they play, adding historical tidbits and real talk about the state of art and music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO59zM-Pv2Y
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Nouns DOTA 2 series starting rn https://www.twitch.tv/pgl_dota2
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Alexander Unzicker covers the recent work of a young man named Jonathan Fay. Fay has revitalized work by an Egyptian scientist named Sciama from the 1950s, exploring how inertia fits into relativity. the gravitational constant is dynamic to our universe's conditions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpQ0T7rDWm0&t=1046s
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genuinely curious if anyone knows (or is) founders in web3 who have made revenue from ideas that aren't DeFi-adjacent. liquid staking counts as DeFi-adjacent. as a firsthand failed founder, i don't believe product market fit exists in web3 in 2024, but think we can have a real conversation about what to do.
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if anyone can tutor me on Bell's Inequality, I'm happy to pay I feel close to understanding it, but feel that I'm missing something obvious that has to do with how they experimentally tested this. My favorite video on the subject is by Olivia Lane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OM0jSTeeBg&t=185s
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i did the thing. u can too https://wallet.coinbase.com/nft/mint/smartwallet
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hot off the press in case you're not aware, the entire EVM is a smart contract on NEAR, inside of the Wasm environment (thanks to open source Parity crates, tyty) https://github.com/aurora-is-near/btc-light-client-contract/tree/main/contract
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Ticket to Ride Legacy is super worth it. No spoilies from me.
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Nouns and Shopify Rebellion rn https://www.twitch.tv/ewc_dota2_en5
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started programming in middle school with VB4. strong memory of laying awake, obsessed with HOW a computer could create a random number. obsessed and disturbed. it was a formative strain later my mentor said, "well, the CPU clock is so darn fast, the smallest numbers really are random." quantum probabilities similar?
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physics YouTube has gotten so good i'm 42 years old and finally realize how weird gravity is. there is an ongoing debate about "what it is" and whether it originates from the quantum realm. would be better for society if we taught kids that humans STILL don't understand gravity. life is actually pretty exciting, huh!
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catching up the supported account abstraction Base already has. great DevX! lurking in a Telegram channel where Dan Finlay and Derek Chiang are buttoning up several interoperable AA ideas. just now realized SELFDESTRUCT may be useful when a user wishes to create a transient contract, used for temp access control.
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Incredible work with the Developer Dashboard that was just released. Very inspiring how serious Base is taking account abstraction. It's been a 4-year march for some, and is extremely helpful to massively chip in on implementations like this. 🏆
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