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@ojas

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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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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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rodeo x farcaster =✨ magic ✨ where / how can we access it ?

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Added more M31 and binary field support to zorch: https://github.com/vbuterin/zorch Now you can write reasonably-performant STARK proving code that runs on your GPU, in python! Below is the full arithmetization of poseidon. I welcome others taking this and running with it.

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FARCASTER LOGIN What is Farcaster good for? It’s good for devs. It’s good for data analysts. And it’s good for social login. The last is the thing I’m most interested in. When you start a new site you can use Google or Apple login. And that’s fine. But it just gives you an email. And maybe Google Drive access in Google’s case. You can also use X/Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn. But those APIs change so quickly and adversarially that you can’t really build features on your site that rely on them. So you end up using them similarly to Google login, where you get a username only. Now arrives Farcaster. The first fairly large scale decentralized crypto social protocol. Where people aren’t in it solely for the money. Now, for all users who log in with Farcaster, suddenly you can provide encrypted messaging between accounts and pull their full social context. And if they’ve connected a wallet and ENS, they have a balance and can spend and receive money in your app. This changes everything.

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Amy Chua's book from 25 years ago is worth rereading. It covers what happens when the group that wins in the market is not the same as the group that wins in politics. Generally, the envious political majority tries to kill the market-dominant minorities. Unless the market minorities exit in time. "Market-dominant minorities — Chinese in Southeast Asia, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America and South Africa, Indians in East Africa, Lebanese in West Africa, Jews in post-communist Russia — became objects of violent hatred." https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385721862

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how do you add GM as an option to like, instead of heart ?

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Update: @0xmert volunteered and I made him the host for /solana

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you're fine mate, manlet, it has arrived to the right host @0xmert

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happy to do so, if @0xmert does not want it

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Yes. Virtue is good because it’s decentralized self-control. The more virtuous the society, the more self-disciplined, the less need for centralized law enforcement, rules, and punishment in general. Virtue is why we can have nice things.

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Will be speaking remote at ETH Denver in 8 hours on the state of network states and all the recent progress. Event link here: https://lu.ma/bio_networkstate

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I am excited about Farcaster frames and everything @dwr.eth and @v have built. I’ve wanted programmable decentralized social media forever. And I have several posts I want to put up and apps I want to put out. But…I’m just pinned down for a while finishing the 2nd edition of The Network State. So, more soon!

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The decentralized version is more valuable. Bitcoin is worth $1T and PayPal is worth $64B. Ethereum is worth $400B and Stripe is worth $65B. So, if Farcaster really takes off as a protocol, and it’s getting there, it could be even more valuable than existing social media companies.

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is it something like *Paper-dot-li* on/for *Farcaster* casts ?!

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Cc @bountybot @bountycaster @linda @dwr.eth @v. Now this is a client I’d like to see. Imagine an AI Farcaster paper in the style of NYT or WSJ, using similar CSS and fonts, but summarizing all the Ethereum news of the day. Or some other channel. This is the real Internet First news.

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Below is a version from 18 months ago. And AI has improved. Remember, if sports articles summarize box scores and financial pieces summarize ticker action, most news these days just summarizes tweets. So: it is time to replace journos with robos via crypto. https://x.com/balajis/status/1601398685106991105?s=46

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THE ROBO JOURNO 🤖✍️ Farcaster is open. So you can download every cast. And organize them by date. Or by channel, or by person. And generate an AI NYT. An automated summary of the feed. With a model that reflects your values. We need this. So: I’m putting up a $1000 bounty to do it. Reply with your submission!

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page-3 looking good

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