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So true! when you’re used to tenderly quality tooling for EVM and instead all you have is… localnet?

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Picked up this finished emerald/sakura piece from the workshop 🌸 Gotta be one of my favourite colour combos in the collection

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These are Dubai’s (and possibly the world’s) best nachos 🥑 The queso has a hint of Levantine toum, a legit match made in heaven 🧀🤝🏽🧄 Maiz Tacos, Dubai Hills

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“Pho rolls” - Chôm Chôm, Hong Kong Central Probably the single most creative dish I tried on my trip, packs a punch of salt, acid and umami flavours 🍜

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Wearing the first FlowZed silk bomber. 1 of 1 🍂

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Importance of aligning a high quality silk satin with the direction of the weave 🧶 These two pieces of fabric are the exact same colour! One is correctly aligned with the warp yarn, the other with the weft instead 🌈 A fabric with a brilliant sheen like this silk exaggerates the mistake, scattering light so differently that the hues don’t visibly match

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Put some of my silk under an electron microscope 🔬 At 2000x magnification the fibres remind me of banyan trees I saw on a recent trip to Hong Kong

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I’ll be documenting more visuals on IG, join the ride! https://www.instagram.com/flowzed.eth

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👀 Loading in 2025… a capsule collection of token-backed, 1-of-1 silk outerwear pieces 🍂 Introducing FlowZed 1.0: The Merkle Tree

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Hi! Would love to start showcasing some of my design work on this platform 🍂

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Used it for several years as a lead of technical teams, always found it to be clunkier and in some cases less capable than the more modern alternatives now available. For example, something as simple as being able to make a subtask of a subtask (as eg Asana allows) means I can plan stories more flexibly and modularly

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Definitely not in Dubai anymore ⛈️

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"Mathematicians have long studied how shapes can fit together to cover surfaces without gaps. However, their typical approach – using shapes with sharp corners and flat faces – is rarely seen in the natural world. Instead, living organisms use a dazzling array of patterns to form and grow, for instance in muscle tissues. Most strikingly these patterns are characterised by shapes with curved edges, non-flat faces, and few, if any, sharp corners. Up to now, how nature achieves geometrical complexity using these ’soft shapes’ has eluded mathematical explanation. The answer... is a new class of mathematical shapes called soft cells. These shapes have a minimal number of sharp corners, and cover space without gaps." https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-09-12-mathematicians-discover-new-universal-class-shapes-explain-complex-biological-forms#:~:text=A%20team%20of%20mathematicians%20from,sea%20shells%20to%20muscle%20cells.

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Biggest blockchain conference in the world but I still have to look after a badge AND wristband for a week 😂 “Don't lose your badge or wristband. Treat these with the same level of care as you would a passport.” 🤦🏽‍♂️ Proof of registration in a mobile wallet wen?

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Can you give a bit more background on what you did? Learning new crypto business models is a good kind of learning 😎

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Overall, it’s just a really well-written paper. Easy to read and very open about shortcomings. These are discussed in insightful detail. Well worth a read if feeling inspired, otherwise there is a blog post version along with fully open-sourced code too 👌🏽 https://sakana.ai/ai-scientist/

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The AI Scientist works by providing a set of specified topics, and providing some starter code for each. For example, you might give “language modelling” as a general research topic, and provide Karpathy’s NanoGPT as starter code. It then uses an existing LLM to generate research ideas on the topic, pick one it deems novel, and edits the starter code to implement its idea and run experiments. Afterwards, the same existing LLM writes up the results in a paper using LaTeX and Python for plotting charts. If you wanted to provide a custom topic, you’d need to provide that starter template code too. Naturally, it really only lends itself to software-based research atm.

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As background, I spent six years working in generative AI before becoming disillusioned with the resource requirements for the next generation of breakthroughs. I moved to crypto in part because I thought it’s still possible for a small team to do really meaningful work here. But research into agent-based AI application could be a really fruitful new frontier for science. I didn’t really appreciate this until reading this paper

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Rather than train a new massive model, the team creates an “agent” that uses and instructs existing LLMs and coding tools to do the work. Think of it as a command line AI “app”, in the same way that Perplexity is a web app which uses existing models like Claude and GPT4 as a core part of the workflow

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Just got round to reading “The AI Scientist” paper by Sakana AI, along with teams in Oxford and Canada What I found most exciting about this work is that, unlike most recent AI breakthroughs in the current “scaling war” era, this one really could come from a team with modest resources. https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06292

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