Paul Dowman

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Also, feedback vs. commentary, and “commentary generally has few positive impacts”

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“pushing your organization to improve is essential leadership work, but organizations can only absorb so much improvement at a given time before they reject the person providing the feedback” https://lethain.com/constraints-on-giving-feedback/

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AI energy usage might be an issue, but have you seen CI??

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Very nice photo. My daily allowance is a paltry 368 $DEGEN today but it's yours. 🎩 Also here are my tracks down the Vice President. Sadly didn't summit because weather was coming in. 😀

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This is the other real value of the rollup-centric roadmap, besides scaling: it’s the ability to experiment, see what works, and evolve https://x.com/dmihal/status/1783111817608495418?s=46

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based is trying to be valuable instead of trying to be successful

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Yeah the UAE has improved a lot. My comment was more that I thought Canada used to rank much more highly. Maybe I’m wrong

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And 50k is still a hell of a lot for training... I read GPT-4 was 25k, and that's A100s

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It's 2024 and JSON still can't handle comments

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We’re behind the UAE now. Actually I think the UAE should be higher on this list (great in every respect except for personal freedom), but anyway Canada seems to be falling in these rankings generally https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/03/13/which-countries-have-the-best-and-worst-living-standards

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Even crazier but if I could mute all posts with images I’d actually do it. Just because it correlates so highly with spam

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Isn’t this double counting? Shouldn’t it just be the market cap of ETH? If I use 1 ETH to buy 3000 USDC then Ethereum isn’t “securing” an additional $3k of value. Or what am I missing?

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mev-boost prints this log when it tries to get a block: "getHeader request start - xx milliseconds into slot" What are good, normal and bad timings for that?

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but I’d say “The Making of a Manager” and “The Manager’s Path” are more for new managers in a bigger company

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This is a decent list. I’ve read all except “From Worst to First” and “The Ride of a Lifetime”, and I’d recommend any of them https://zaidesanton.substack.com/p/10-must-reads-for-engineering-leaders

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In Canada there’s Shakepay, sort of, not stablecoins though. You can pre-pay a custodied CAD balance from crypto.

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"If Jason and I are not revisiting 10% of the decisions made, we’re not delegating enough, we’re not delegating quickly enough." (Also more on "disagree and commit" since I posted something else about that here recently.) https://37signals.com/podcast/disagree-and-commit/

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“Coprocessor” usually means compute something off-chain (because on-chain is expensive)

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The commonality: they all compute something privately (off-chain) and allow a proof to be verified (maybe on-chain). The difference: A zkVM like RISC Zero lets you run arbitrary code. The other 2 let you query historical data.

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